On Conversation (1756) [ Concepts ]
… paper; but the Half-swearers, who split, and mince, and fritter their oaths into gad’s bud, ad’s fish, and demmee, the Gothic Humbuggers, and those who ‘nick-name God’s creatures,’ and call a man a cabbage, a crab, a queer cub, an odd fish, …
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