Word: saunt
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...assemblies at plays in London," wrote Stephen Gosson in 1579, "you shall see such heaving, and shoving, such itching and shouldering to sit by women . . . such masking in their ears . . . such giving them pippins to pass the time: such playing at foot-saunt without cards: such tickling, such toying, such smiling, such winking, and such manning them home"-that a Puritan preacher, Thomas White, was moved to reason how "The cause of plagues is sin, if you look to it well: and the cause of sin are plays: therefore the cause of plagues are plays...
...really fond of lice. Last week the Lancet, British medical weekly, put in its two-pennyworth-a diatribe against the louse which rivaled Robert Burns's "ugly, creepin', blastit wonner, detested, shunn'd by saunt an' sinner...
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