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tear-mouth
noun 2adj 1
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2ADJ.
twopenny
VERB + TEAR-MOUTH
purchase
Definitions
noun
1
A blustering, boisterous person.
2
An overactor.
You grow rich, do you, and purchase, you twopenny tear-mouth?
How would you, or how do you think I should, relish being the object of such a letter as Kean wrote t'other day to a poor author, who, though a pedantic blockhead, had at least the right to be treated as a gentleman by a copper-laced two-penny tearmouth, rendered mad by conceit and success?
adj
1
Vociferous.
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You grow rich, do you, and purchase, you twopenny tear-mouth?
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How would you, or how do you think I should, relish being the object of such a letter as Kean wrote t'other day to a poor author, who, though a pedantic blockhead, had at least the right to be treated
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