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Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 27 June 1/4: A colored individual, who appeared to be the center of an admiring crowd of beer-punishers. He was picking a glass of the amber fluid from between his massive lips.at amber fluid (n.) under amber, adj.
Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 27 June 1/4: A colored individual, who appeared to be the center of an admiring crowd of beer-punishers. He was picking a glass of the amber fluid from between his massive lips. Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 27 June 1/4: A colored individual, who appeared to be the center of an admiring crowd of beer-punishers. He was picking a glass of the amber fluid from between his massive lips.at beer-punisher (n.) under beer, n.
Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 5 Aug. 1/4: A journal the size of the Times or the Tribune could be filled every night with good matter which the editors of those papers strike out of copy with their blue pencils.at blue-pencil, v.
Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 24 Nov. 1/2: I want to bring tbis young man to time. he’s either got to come up to the rack, or jump the fence.at come up to the rack (or jump the fence) (v.) under come up, v.1
Eve. Bull. (Maysville, KY) 20 June 1/3: Long-headed men are always on the alert to get possession of real estate after every period of depression.at long-headed, adj.
Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 10 Nov. n.p.: His coat — by jockies, it wasn’t hardly long enough to cover his suspenders it wasn’t, I swanny.at I swan, phr.
Eve. Bull. (Maysville, KY) 30 Oct. 3/1: And don’t forget your laughing gear / For fun will be red hot.at laughing gear (n.) under laughing, adj.
Eve. Bull. (Maysville, KY) 13 Dec. 2/2: Judge Barr read the riot act to the moonshiners yesterday [...] The law gives power to the judge to inflict a fine [...] and sentence them to the pentitentiary unless [etc].at read the riot act (v.) under read, v.
Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 6 June 4/1: ‘My dear boy, I’ve been there,’ said the seedy party, as he lit the stump of a cigar.at seedy, adj.
Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 27 Aug. 1/5: John, alias ‘Nosey’ O’Brien, one of the most noted hotel sneaks and pickpockets in the country [...] was arrested.at hotel sneak (n.) under hotel, n.
Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 29 Nov. 2/2: The hoodlum wagon is summoned, and the limp form is carried to the calaboose and hustled into a cell.at hoodlum wagon, n.
Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 7 May 4/2: Mary Ann is a nuisance, as is her saloon. Gallagher [...] is notified that he will let ’er go on peril of paying for all the damage she does with her booze factory.at booze factory (n.) under booze, n.
Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 24 Aug. 2/1: The tax on cigars outght not to be repealed, because the people ought not to be forced to use inferior, ratshop, coolie, prison or filthy tenement house mad cigars.at coolie, adj.
Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 12 Nov. 2/1: The Republicans [...] will please cast their optics on that 40,000 Democratic majority.at cast an optic (v.) under optic, n.
Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 24 Aug. 2/1: The tax on cigars ought not to be repealed, because the people ought not to be forced to use inferior, ratshop, coolie, prison or filthy tenement house made cigars.at rat shop (n.) under rat, n.1
Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 31 Dec. 3/2: The toughs along the road know him as ‘Big Bad Medicine’.at bad medicine (n.) under bad, adj.
Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 6 Mar. 2/2: Hence our modern phrase [...] ‘As fat as a match’.at fat as a match (adj.) under fat, adj.
Eve. Bull. (Maysville, KY) 4 Sept. 1/3: [dealine] Editors Get the Razoo.at get the (grand) razz (v.) under razz, n.
Eve. Bull. (Maysville, KY) 22 Feb. 3/3: Maysville deserves something better than the old barn-like rattletrap of a structure.at rattletrap, n.
Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 2 Oct. 4/3: The bleu chips all came their way. It was simply a case of bullheaded luck.at bullhead luck, n.
Eve. Bull. (Maysville, KY) 27 Apr. 2/2: There is nothing known about ‘rank’ in Coxey’s army [of tramps] excepting it may be a rank smell .at rank, adj.1
Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 12 Nov. 4/3: I started out in tragedy, but it’s played out. Such hamfatters as Booth [...] and men of that ilk have ruined that line of business.at hamfatter, n.
Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 6 Nov. 3/1: He was suddenly assaulted [...] at the corner of ‘Pigtail alley’.at pigtail alley (n.) under pigtail, n.
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