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[US] Forest Republican (Tionesta, PA) 31 Jan. 1/3: The good director takes a special delight in the mirthful prittle-prattle of the dear children.
at prittle-prattle, n.
[US] Forest Republican (PA) 17 Dec. 1/6: Let her slide, P.M., she’s all hunk.
at all hunk, adj.
[US] Forest Republican (Tionesta, PA) 29 Sept. 1/5: I got some orders, buy shimmy, und you gome de little end dat horn oud.
at little end of the horn (n.) under little, adj.
[US] Forest Republican (Tionesta, PA) 20 Oct. 3/3: The way they sell the boots and shoes / I do declare it beats the Jews.
at beat the Jews (v.) under beat, v.
[US] Forest Republican (Tionesta, PA) 24 Aug. 4/2: Among the swindles that have been very successful [are] the bogus counterfeit money manufacturing shops. The principal victims [...] are country people to whom communcations are sent by bogus firms.
at bogus, adj.
[US] Forest Republican (Tionesta, PA) 24 Aug. 4/2: The ‘sawdust game’ is also used in this bogus counterfeiting scheme.
at sawdust game (n.) under sawdust, n.2
[US] Forest Republican (Tionesta, PA) 7 Apr. 4/3: They both returned with a dried herring on a string. Any man that can catch a ‘blind robin’ in the Allegheny river is a good fisherman.
at blind robin (n.) under blind, adj.1
[US] Forest Republican (Tionesta, PA) 28 June 2/1: A lot of pigeon-livered, bald-headed [...] cranky old editors.
at pigeon-livered (adj.) under pigeon, n.1
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