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Sure 43: You’ll hear wise bazoonuses pass it along dat dere is so much trouble in de woild you’ll get more dan you can take care of .at bazoo, n.2
Sure 43: You’ll hear wise bazoonuses pass it along dat dere is so much trouble in de woild you’ll get more dan you can take care of . Sure 132: ‘I likes a
spill as well — as well as I like a glass of de boy’.at boy, n.2
Sure 27: [D]at coachy will toin to de right, all right, after dis, all right, sure.at coachy, n.
Sure 48: ‘Do not be led astray by boys what [...] dig tings out of books. Dey [...] cooks deir college standing by such weakness’.at cook, v.1
Sure 64: [of a Frenchwoman] ‘Your dago wife has insulted me loidy fren’.at dago, adj.1
Sure 65: ‘If I'd remembered dat your wife was a dago, and not onto our ways, I'd not been insulted’.at dago, n.
Sure 147: Whiskers holds out his hat about five
feet up. Say, she let go, and de toe of
her shoe runs tru de top of de silk
dicer.at dicer, n.1
Sure 19: ‘On you way, woman!’ I says. ‘Do you ’spose dat I could see Boston if I got dere on dis dinky ting?’.at dinky, adj.2
Sure 100: Ain't you de leader of a gang dat has done up more men dan any odder gang from Cherry Hill to Foist Street? Didn't de police inspector say [...] you was de hardest proposition on de East Side?at do up, v.1
Sure 62: [D]e gang give us de gaff for fair, when dey pipes us in de carriage.at give the gaff (v.) under gaff, n.2
Sure 17: [The] shuffer tries gaily-
gaily wit Duchess, and I was willing for him to have a nice easy job like dat.at gaily-gaily, n.
Sure 60: De Roseleafers is a good lot of boys and goils, but deir notion of gaily-gaily always takes in a scrap.at gaily-gaily, n.
Sure 107: We was soon gassing gaily-gaily.at gaily-gaily, n.
Sure 59: ‘Cut de gammon [...] and get to de evidence’.at gammon, n.2
Sure 107: Some goo-goo stuff dat Duchess calls patty.at goo-goo, adj.
Sure 6: ‘[M]ost of our big banks is run by men who came here from de provinces.’ ‘Dat’s dude langwudge for long grass’.at long grass (n.) under grass, n.1
Sure 146: ‘I’m in me place here, and no shame to be found out. It’s dose high rollers dat isn’t in deir place’.at high roller, n.
Sure 21: I was
followed by most of de bikes, mobes and
fast horses of Westchester County.at mobe, n.
Sure 66: ‘Did you tink he needed a mouse under his eye to make Maggie see what a good looker he is?’.at mouse, n.
Sure 46: Before a ‘mug’ meant a man, it meant de kind of strangle holt dat foot-pads give from behind, or de elbow in de neck, from in front.at mug, n.1
Sure 61: Duchess was ragged out in
some close Miss Fannie passed on to her,
and Maggie was ragged out in some
Duchess had passed on to her.at rag out, v.2
Sure 30: [W]hen Duchess says dat he’ll be a President, or Alderman, it don’t sound so much like a pipe talk as you’d tink.at pipe talk (n.) under pipe, n.1
Sure 53: [D]e fine-haired end of de woild has got it bad only since de time I began to pipe it off.at pipe off (v.) under pipe, v.3
Sure 177: [D]e McGraft push skates in wit him, smiling like de bull pup when little Miss Fannie asks him does he like a lamb chop.at push, n.
Sure 96: What bodders me is dat Duchess never
got no roast nor notting; and has a
smile like she is stuck on herself.at roast, n.1
Sure 73: ‘I’m told dat all dat is needed den is [...] a cheerful temper not likely to get running rusty when de stage manager knocks everyting but de title out of me manuscript’.at rusty, adj.1
Sure 84: [Y]acht sailors’ orphans, what dere ain’t any of em nearer dan Scandehoovia, where de yacht sailors come from[Ibid] 94: I wished I had a home as far off as
Scandehoovia to go to all de time.at Scandahoovian, n.
Sure 24: [A] man in a mobe pull out a flask and he says, ‘Here, young man, sniff dat.’ I sniffs about tree fingers of it, and it puts me to de good, for fair.at sniff, v.
Sure 11: [of NYC] The Tenderloin — where every man has a watch and no woman cares what time it is.at tenderloin, n.
Sure 128: So I make a light touch on Duchess in
de cause of education.at touch, n.1
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