1848 Democratic Banner (Bowling Green, MO) 23 Nov. 2/3: ‘A few of the pin-feathered, slick-haired, soap-locked Tittlebates of that place’.at soap-locked (n.) under soap lock, n.
1848 Democratic Banner (Bowling Green, MO) 23 Nov. 2/3: This representative of the sore-heads of St Louis charges the Banner with inconsistency.at sorehead, n.
1850 Democratic Banner (Bowling Green, MO) 16 Sept. 1/1: Without hope, happiness were as dead as mutton.at dead as mutton (adj.) under mutton, n.