[Ads-l] An early _chops_ "face"? Evidence for _boody_ < "body"?

[Wilson Gray]

John Webb, alias, Hop-bodee-boody's last Will and Testament...
https://books.google.com/books?id=JzpoAAAAcAAJ1674 - ‎Read - Page 3-4... a
charitable Gentleman comisserating his deplorable simplicity gave him a
groat, which he being overjoyed at, [for fools are generally fond of money,
and indeed 'tis a shreud sign of one to be so] runs with it home and shows
it to his Nurse, who thinking it too much for any body to give him, fancyed
he had stoln it, and in that conceit would needs go to whip him, who having
eat very liberally that morning of pease-porridge, and thereby got a
serious loosenesse, no sooner had she got up his coats, and made his Breech
smart, but fear opening his postern-gate, discharged a whole shovelful of
Marmalade into the old Womans _chops_, half an hours respite she was forced
to take to wipe her mouth, and clear her eyes, but then she came upon him
more fierce than before, and now it seems his ammunition was spent, so that
being wholly at her mercy, she whipt him beyond all measure.
            _The cruel Hagg so flogg'd his Buttocks Brawny_
            _She mixt the purple Gore with Squitter'd* Tawny_
.........

     When he was about eighteen years of Age, in a very hard frost, seeing
great numbers of boys sliding and hopping upon the Ice at the sides of the
Thames, honest silly _Jack_ would needs make one, but as he was hopping
very pleasantly to the great divertisement of the spectators, The Ice on a
sudden broke, and in dropt Peel-garlick all but the head, where he lookt
like a Monkey, doing penance, or a Prickear'd fool holding forth in a
Bucking-Tub, but roar'd so loud one might have heard him beyond High-gate,
till at last he was taken out, and because he seemed new Christned after
the dippers mode, a new name was bestowed upon him, for since this disaster
was occasyoned by hopping, and that none of his _body_, but his head could
be seen, an Arch Pickled Rogue that stood by, calls him _Hopodeeboody_, a
Word whose strange sound took extreamly amongst the Boys and rabble:
insomuch that he came generally to be cal'd so all his life time ...

*_to squitter_, in the UD from '03. Poster prolly be really surprised to
discover that the word goes back to the 1600's at least.
-- 
-Wilson
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