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[US] Guthrie Dly Leader (OK) 14 Nov. 2/4: I was so discomfuddled that i justblurted out ‘Well, I’ll be d—d’.
at discombobulated, adj.
[US] Guthrie Dly Leader (OK) 14 Dec. 3/3: A man should not break himself of deep breathing in order to avoid ‘sawing gourds’.
at saw gourds (v.) under saw, v.
[US] Guthrie Dly Leader (OK) 25 Sept. 4/1: The pupils enjoyed the sport and gave the two professors the ‘merry ha-ha’.
at merry ha-ha (n.) under ha-ha, n.1
[US] Gurhrie Dly Leader (OK) 1 Feb. 1/1: He had been detained by lending ear to one of ex-Governor Seay’s balloon-juice stories.
at balloon juice (n.) under balloon, n.
[US] Guthrie Dly Leader (OK) 31 July 2/4: To be read out of a party by 16 mullet-heads [...] is not significant, unless those 16 clowns compose the Populist party in Logan county.
at mullethead, n.
[US] Guthrie Dly Leader (OK) 24 Oct. 2/1: The county commissioners will shortly be purged of rascality and thievery. The count has been boodled and slugged unmercifully during the past two years.
at boodle, v.1
[US] Guthrie Dly Leader (OK) 24 Oct. 2/1: The colored man’s eye is opened, and he cannot be bull-conned any longer by lily whites.
at bull con (n.) under bull, n.6
[US] Guthrie Dly Leader (OK) 26 June 4/2: More plums have been falling. But none to Aunt Hagar’s children.
at Aunt Hagar(’s children), n.
[US] Guthrie Dly Leader (OK) 1 Aug. 4/3: ‘Babe’ McNeal attempted to stick his oar into the procedings.
at shove one’s oar in (v.) under shove, v.
[US] Guthrie Dly Leader (OK) 18 June 4/4: The police are after the festive small boy with his bean shooter [...] He does nothing but kill little birds and injure property.
at bean-shooter, n.1
[US] Guthrie Dly Leader (OK) 7 Aug. 1/3: [headline] Republican Frere Homes Celebration a Very Punky Failure.
at punky, adj.
[US] Guthrie Dly Leader (OK) 8 Apr. 8/3: Have a good time at the calico ball at the Legislature hall tonight.
at calico ball (n.) under calico, adj.
[US] Guthrie Daily Leader (OK) 17 May 3/1: [headline] Hoosiers to Meet. Indiana People in Oklahoma Prepare for Annual Talk.
at hoosier, n.
[US] Guthrie Dly Leader (OK) 8 July 1/6: Jessie Morrison Gets Rough Deal [...] her sentence is increased to 25 years.
at raw deal (n.) under raw, adj.
[US] Guthrie Daily Leader (OK) 28 Dec. 6/3: Chapman had enough of the juniper juice in him to be evil.
at juniper (juice), n.
[US] Guthrie Daily Leader (OK) 21 Feb. 1/1: This town has gone absolutely hog wild in its antagonism to Guthrie and everything emanating from there.
at hog-wild (adj.) under hog, n.
[US] Guthrie Dly Leader (OK) 8 Aug. 6/6: A deputy United States marshal confiscated a cargo of ‘white mule’ whisky.
at white mule (n.) under white, adj.
[US] Guthrie Dly Leader (OK) 11 Sept. 1/5: [headline] Corcob Aristocracy Can Afford Automobiles.
at corncob aristocracy under corncob, n.
[US] Guthrie Dly Leader (OK) 26 Jan. 2/3: They had eaten and drunken to the full [...] One said, ‘I see three moons,’ and another said, ‘I see two moons’.
at see two moons (v.) under see, v.
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