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[US] Galveston Dly News (TX) 14 Feb. 3/4: The editor of the Nativbe Virfginian doesnt seem to be smitten with [...] the Virginia Convention. He says: ‘Very little space in these columns has been [...] devoted to the doings of the assemblage of [...] yaller-jackets, black gnats, tobacco-worms, wood-lice, back-snappers [...] and pismires, which now defile out ancient capitol’.
at tobacco worm, n.
[US] Galveston News 4 May in Schele de Vere Americanisms (1872) 581: The crowd then gave a specimen of calumny broke loose, And said I’d snatched him bald-headed, and likewise cooked his goose.
at snatch bald-headed (v.) under bald-headed, adv.
[US] Galveston News cited in Schele de Vere (1872) 581: The crowd then gave a specimen of calumny broke loose, / And said I’d snatched him baldheaded, and likewise cooked his goose.
at cook someone’s goose, v.
[US] Galveston News 4 May n.p.: As I left the cars, an imp with smutty face, / Said: Shine? – Nay, I’ll not shine, I said, except with inward grace. / Is inward grace a liquid or a paste? asked this young Turk, / Hi, Daddy! What is inward grace? How does the old thing work?
at turk, n.1
[US] Galveston Dly News (TX) 7 Nov. 4/4: The weather-sharp is an alleged prophet, who tries to make people believe he is more intimate with the climate than anybody else.
at weather sharp (n.) under sharp, n.1
[US] Galveston Dly News (TX) 8 Nov. 9/5: Kerflip! I stuck him in de eye.
at kerflip! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Galveston Dly News (TX) 26 Feb. 15/5: Recorder’s Court [...] Maggie Stevens, abusing and insulting; continued. Lou Campbell, abusing and insulting; $10 and cost. Joe, alas Chicken Chaser, burglary; dismissed.
at chicken-chaser (n.) under chicken, n.
[US] Galveston Dly News (TX) 4 Jan. 5/1: Drugs of every name and description are used to ‘dope’ horses so that they may win stakes. The poor animals are stuffed with all sorts of stimulants from sherry to to strychnine.
at dope, v.1
[US] Galveston Dly News (TX) 23 Feb. 7/1: He is particularly anxious to get hold of the tamale eaters. After the next game with them he says crepe will appear [on] their door.
at tamale-eater (n.) under tamale, n.
[US] Galveston Dly News (TX) 23 Aug. 9/1: [as nickname] Marsene’s bunch appeared at the Auditorium Park [...] ready to take a fall out of the Tamale Eaters.
at take a fall out of (v.) under fall, n.
[US] Galveston Dly News (TX) 23 Aug. 9/1: Marsene’s bunch appeared at the Auditorium Park [...] ready to take a fall out of the Tamale Eaters.
at tamale-eater (n.) under tamale, n.
[US] Galveston Dly News (TX) 24 May 1/8: The characters of the ‘coyotes’ at the border are the lowest [...] ‘It is much easier to murder and rob, they believe, than to barter with a foreigner over the tribute for safe delivery on the American side’.
at coyote, n.
[US] Galveston Dly News (TX) 4 Nov. 4/6: Kennerly [said] that he was going to ‘clean house’ as an aftermath of the [...] investigation of his office.
at clean house (v.) under clean, v.
[US] Galveston (TX) News 15 Aug. 22/5: Betty Jean Bird of the Pirate Club has what she claims is the smallest French poodle in the nation ... It’s no bigger than a New York minute and that’s only thirty seconds.
at New York minute (n.) under New York, n.
[US] Galveston Dly News (TX) 20 Nov. 11/2: ‘We are just not hitting on all cylinders,’ said linebacker D.D. Lewis.
at hit on all cylinders (v.) under hit, v.
[US] Galveston Dly News (TX) 10 Feb. 2A/3: ‘Nigger, I done told you to shut your ass up’.
at shut one’s arse/ass (up) under arse, n.
[US] Galveston Dly News (TX) 10 Feb. 2A/3: ‘I don’t know nothing about no [...] weed, no chalk (prison-made liquor)’.
at chalk, n.5
[US] Galveston Dly News (TX) 10 Feb. 2A/2: ‘That nigger, Brown, is runnin’ his head [...] He talked to the convicts about what you and I did’.
at run one’s head (v.) under head, n.
[US] Galveston Dly News (TX) 20 May 14/2: Great Caesar’s armpit! Sweet suffering catfish! Holy gamoley! [...] I have have seen the cathedrals of commerce.
at great Caesar! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[US] Galveston Dly News (TX) 20 May 14/2: Great Caesar’s armpit! Sweet suffering catfish! Holy gamoley! [...] I have have seen the cathedrals of commerce.
at holy guacamole! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[US] Galveston Dly News (TX) 20 May 14/2: Great Caesar’s armpit! Sweet suffering catfish! Holy gamoley! [...] I have have seen the cathedrals of commerce.
at suffering —!, excl.
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