Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

East Oregonian choose

Quotation Text

[US] Oregonian 25 Dec. 2/3: The aborigine [...] ‘put’ for the settlement with a sort of legs-do-your-duty-for-the-body-is-in-danger resolution for his muckamuck [DA].
at muck-a-muck, n.
[US] Oregonian 27 Jan. 1/4: Come, clear out, you trunken loafer! Ve don’t vant no bummers here! [DA].
at bummer, n.3
[US] Oregonian 17 Feb. 2/2: [This] is another reason for special complaint with the sore-headed gentry of the Salem ‘clique’ [DA].
at soreheaded, adj.
[US] Oregonian 14 Oct. 3/1: If Dasher gets a dozen or more customers with his own appetite for hitting the booze he will have no trouble making it go [DA].
at hit the booze (v.) under booze, n.
[US] Oregonian 19 July n.p.: The applicants were eager to go as prospectors, or to ally themselves with what might even be ‘grubstake’ concerns.
at grubstake, n.
[US] Oregonian 13 Oct. n.p.: He was a swamper in a saloon [DA].
at swamper, n.
[US] East Oregonian (Pendleton, OR) 13 Dec. 5/5: A woman’s ‘good cry’ makes a whole lot better safety valve than a man’s soakful souse!
at soaked, adj.
[US] East Oregonian 17 Mar. 2/6: Bill Bailey, one of the darkeytown merrymakers, started [...] ‘All Aboard for Monkey Town’.
at darktown (n.) under dark, n.
[US] East Oregonian (Pendleton, OR) 23 Aug. 3/5: ‘Slabsides’ Kalem. A story of a good-hearted Indian.
at slab-sides (n.) under slab, n.
[US] Oregonian 30 Aug. n.p.: John M. Johnson [...] was employed as a ‘swamper’ in a San Francisco saloon [DA].
at swamper, n.
[US] East Oregonian (Pendleton, OR) 16 Aug. 4/1: Perkins is [...] going to see taht the bull moose bridgade has ‘Any God’s quanitty of money’.
at any God’s quantity, n.
[US] East Oregonian 24 Sept. 13/1: You ride that yere cayuse to Athena.
at cayuse, n.
[US] East Oregonian (Pendleton, OR) 7 Dec. 8/3: Dat guy kin spiel out de funny chin goods.
at chin goods (n.) under chin, n.2
[US] East Oregonian (Pendleton, OR) 7 May 1/2: To protect themselves against unfair competitioon [...] ‘above board’ publishers join the Audit Bureau of Circulation.
at above board, adj.
[US] Oregonian 22 July II 1/4: Ferriss’ fine job was his fifth whitewash trick of the season and his fifteenth victory [DA].
at whitewash, n.
[US] Oregonian 23 Sept. Sec A1: ‘Fish-head’ (a worker in a fish cannery) [DARE].
at fish-head, n.1
no more results