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The London Jilt, or, the Politick Whore...shewing all the artifices and stratagems which the ladies of pleasure make use of for the intreaguing and decoying of men interwoven with several pleasant stories of the misses ingenious performances choose

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[UK] London Jilt pt 1 A3: A Whore is [...] like a Barber’s Chair, no sooner one’s out, but t’other’s in.
at barber’s chair (n.) under barber, n.1
[UK] London Jilt pt 2 38: I ought to have considered on your Bitchery before I married you.
at bitchery (n.) under bitch, n.1
[UK] London Jilt pt 2 102: A Chamber-Pot, wherein I had cacked seven or eight times [...] to purge my Body.
at cack, v.1
[UK] London Jilt pt 2 87: My Maid was too wise and secret to go cackle abroad what she ought to keep in Silence.
at cackle, v.
[UK] London Jilt pt 1 109: Perhaps that my Face was not disagreeable to him; for he cooled me at a distance, and indeed I could not forbear looking at him .
at cool, v.1
[UK] London Jilt pt 1 21: My Mother [...] wished a thousand times rather to have had the Covent-Garden Gout: for she fancied she should be sooner freed from it than these villainous Swellings [i.e. ssmallpox] .
at Covent Garden gout (n.) under Covent Garden, adj.
[UK] London Jilt pt 1 A3: An other has liken’d them [i.e. whores] to Sampson’s Foxes, who carry fire in their Tails to burn the standing Corn.
at fire, n.
[UK] London Jilt pt 2 116: I heard the German several times make water, for tho’ he had so swingingly skinned the Fox there was still in his Body humidity enough remaining.
at skin the fox (v.) under fox, n.1
[UK] London Jilt pt 1 82: There were four more besides himself, who sometimes made use of occasion to come and cultivate my Garden of Love .
at garden, n.
[UK] London Jilt pt 1 52: Limberham, though Impotent, caressed and embraced me so passionately [...] that I would have given all I had in the World that his Gimcrack had been in better condition.
at gimcrack, n.
[UK] London Jilt pt 1 72: First of all my Maid [...] was to be greased in the Fist.
at grease, v.1
[UK] London Jilt pt 2 107: Those Nymphs, who like Hackney Horses are ready to serve every one.
at hackney, n.
[UK] London Jilt pt 1 18: Wretched then are those Widdowers who are not able to give those old toothless Creatures their belly full, for those old Holes must be satisfied] .
at hole, n.1
[UK] London Jilt pt 1 6: [of an tightrope walker] He also desired of this Hop Merchant [...] that he would teach him to Vault a little] .
at hop merchant (n.) under hop, n.1
[UK] London Jilt pt 1 62: About five Months after [...] my Maidenhead was sold for the first time. Be not amazed, O Reader, that I say the first time, for I have lost it several times after the manner of Italy.
at Italian, adj.
[UK] London Jilt pt 1 24: The Rumour ran abroad amongst the Lovers of Gallantry that I was ready for the Sport, which made several of them come to our House, to see if they could attain a Leap with me.
at leap, v.
[UK] London Jilt pt 1 79: I fell into Labour [...] with such dreadful Pains [...] which made me curse the Hourse and Day that I suffer’d that unruly Member to rummage my belly .
at unruly member (n.) under member, n.1
[UK] London Jilt pt 1 A3: The many Discoveries that have been made [...] of the Subtilties and Cheats that the Misses of this Town put upon Men.
at miss, n.1
[UK] London Jilt pt 2 42: A certain Tavern in Covent Garden which had the reputation of a [...] great Nursery of Gallantry.
at nursery, n.
[UK] London Jilt pt 2 20: As for the other [money] that I had pinched from him from time to time [...] I locked them up.
at pinch, v.
[UK] London Jilt pt 1 4: A young Man, very handsome and spruce, came to our House to drink a Pot of Purle .
at purl, n.1
[UK] London Jilt pt 2 104: Maximus [...] went out of the House, his Cloaths all covered with a Sirreverence.
at sir-reverence, n.
[UK] London Jilt pt 1 24: She [...] continually preached to me that those old Rusty blades who did it only once in four and twenty hours were the best and gave most Money.
at rusty, adj.2
[UK] London Jilt pt 1 75: You young Sprouts, who will undoubtedly read my Life with more diligence than you have for a Godly Book [etc].
at sprout, n.1
[UK] London Jilt pt 2 18: There had never been any dabling in our Water-Pots, without my Husband’s knowing it.
at water-pot (n.) under water, n.1
[UK] London Jilt pt 1 19: She found it more advantageous to return to Town, for to be the nearer to her Customers, and not to make poor young men run so far with their troublesome Weapons .
at weapon, n.1
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