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Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 6 May 2/3: He is head flunkey and dirt-eater to every despicable titled thing.at dirt-eater (n.) under dirt, n.
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 6 May 2/3: He is head flunkey and dirt-eater to every despicable titled thing. Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 6 May 2/3: He is head flunkey and dirt-eater to every despicable titled thing.at flunky, n.2
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 6 May 2/3: He is head flunkey and dirt-eater to every despicable titled thing [...] a fierce howler.at howler, n.
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 6 May 2/3: The St Louis election [...] resulted in [...] lilliputian back-woods newspaperial snoot-rags inflaming head lines of mis-spelled jackassery.at snotrag, n.
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 10 Apr. 4/2: You don’t understand it, and neither does any one in the hotel from the proprietor down to the bell hopper.at bellhop (n.) under bell, n.1
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 8 Aug. 5/2: The leaders bunched, when suddenly Snap went up in the air and fell to third place.at go up in the air (v.) under air, n.
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 9 Sept. 5/2: I think he is going to the dogs just as fast as he can. He [...] might take a brace [...] but he will go around with tramps and suckers.at take a brace (v.) under brace, n.1
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 29 Dec. 5/8: The bell boys also receive but comparatively small wages, but the tips that result from ‘hopping bells’ are frequent.at hop bells (v.) under bell, n.1
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 2 Mar. 5/4: A hotelkeeper [...] has blazoned upon his envelopes ‘Booze House [...] The resort of the Profession’.at booze house (n.) under booze, n.
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 12 Dec. 7/2: Many people now [...] are as thoroughly shut in — some by sickness, some by old age. [...] Today I address the shut-in.at shut-in (n.) under shut, v.
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 4 Feb. 19 Apr. : ‘You furnish the bread, and I’ll skirmish around after the water’.at skirmish, v.
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 7 Oct. 13/6: [headline] Life of the Cattle Stiff Hard and dangerous.at cattle stiff (n.) under stiff, n.1
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 6 July 19/3: Prevented a Suicide [...] Seaman attempted to do a ‘Brodie’ off Vincent street bridge [...] but was seized going over the rail by Policeman Ireland.at do a Brodie (v.) under brodie, n.1
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 29 May 25/3: ‘You know I xcan never stay in room where things are skew-jawed around’.at skew-jawed, adj.
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 4 Feb. 1/3: The mercury there was 30 below, which is chracterized by the cheerful weather sharp there as ‘balmy’.at weather sharp (n.) under sharp, n.1
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 21 July 21/2: [T]he evidence which was to send the shebeener to Cape Town.at shebeener (n.) under shebeen, n.
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 29 Sept. 10/4: The now familiar cigarette was dignified on occasion of its first intrudctrion into Enland by the appellation ‘three draws and a spit’.at three draws and a spit (n.) under three, adj.
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 2 Nov. 14/2: Almost anything can happen nowadays. One food and then another goes sky-hooting for a season.at sky hoot (v.) under sky, n.1
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 1 July 134/4: I wonder if it might not be a blessing [...] if more people had what might be called ‘cat sense’.at cat sense (n.) under cat, n.1
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 11 July 6/4: [cartoon caption] ‘Well, Emmy, th’ pawbroker anted up a hunnert and sixty coconuts’.at ante (up), v.
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 28 May 13: [cartoon caption] Wal, I swan!at I swan, phr.
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 13 Jan. 1/4: Women Don Skivvies [...] There used to be a day when the ‘T’ or ‘skivvy’ shirt was purely a male proposition.at skivvies, n.
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 24 Dec. 2/2: ‘We were half-shot (drunk)’.at shot, adj.
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 6 Feb. 11/1: A cold spell snappy enough to freeze the toes of a marble lion.at cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, phr.
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 27 Dec. 36/3: The so-called Brass Ankles of South Carolina.at brass ankle (n.) under brass, adj.1
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 22 June 15/5: A point of view that belongs strictly in the Giggle House.at giggle house (n.) under giggle, adj.
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 7 Aug. 8D/2: Smooching in a car [...] has it all over smooching in a movie house.at smooching, n.
(ref. to 1813) Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 19 Nov. 16/5: In 1813, an anti-Federalist write, ‘We here, choose to let Mr Madison “skin his own skunks”’.at skin one’s own skunk (v.) under skin, v.1
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 29 Aug. 36/3: The street in front of my house is in pretty good shape, but as sure as eggs are eggs potholes will eventually appear.at sure as hogs are made of bacon under sure as..., phr.
Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 22 Feb. 7A/2: ‘I’ve only been here a matter of weeks and I’m going butt crazy’.at butt-crazy (adj.) under butt, adv.
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