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Gay. Hear me, good Landlady. Land. Then I've past my word at the George Tavern, for forty Shillings for you, ten Shillings at my Neighbour Squabs for Ale, besides seven Shillings to Mother Suds for Washing; and do you fob me off with my Husband? Gay. Here, Rag, run and fetch her a Pint of Sack there's no other way of quenching the Fire in her flabber Chops.
Many batchylers, who have nothink to do with lor, have here their loginx; and many sham barrysters, who never put on a wig and gownd twise in their lives, kip apartments in the Temple, instead of Bon Street, Pickledilly, or other fashnabble places. These was bottom floar, Screwson, Hewson, and Jewson, attorneys; fust floar, Mr. Sergeant Flabber opsite, Mr. Counslor Bruffy; and secknd pair, Mr.
The Chances, i, IX. p. 211 Judas. cf. I, p. 457. p. 211 flabber. Fat; puffed out. A very rare adjective, perhaps only here. The N.E.D. quotes this passage with a reference to the adjective 'flaberkin' = puffed out, puffy, and a suggestion that it is akin to the substantive 'flab' = something thick, broad, fat. p. 212 this old Sir Guy of Warwick.
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