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[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 26 Oct. n.p.: [B]elonging to the class A. No. 1.
at A-1, n.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 24 Aug. n.p.: Cherrybounce and ‘Adam’s Ale’ of my recollection.
at Adam’s ale (n.) under Adam, n.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 5 Oct. n.p.: [T]he free rory, tory life of a ‘Bach’.
at bach, n.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 21 Sept. n.p.: ‘Jake Bruel’s biddy keep a sticken her elbows clean inter my ribs’ .
at biddy, n.2
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 21 Sept. n.p.: Jake [...] struck Bob cobim right under the smellin’ organs.
at co-bim!, excl.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 2 Nov. n.p.: ‘Now, don’t let a drop of it up, blackee’.
at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 21 Sept. n.p.: Bob told him he could go to blazes if he liked.
at go to blazes (v.) under blazes, n.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 5 Oct. n.p.: Paddy, attending a ‘broad-brim’ convention for the first time [etc]’.
at broadbrim (n.) under broad, adj.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 21 Sept. n.p.: She loved the bed-bug poison a blue streak.
at bug juice (n.) under bug, n.4
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 21 Sept. n.p.: [of a turtle] ‘The bull bed-bug, sure, that has been atein’ the children for the past two months’.
at bull, adj.1
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 21 Sept. n.p.: The way he was put was a caution to mules.
at caution, n.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 21 Sept. n.p.: When it comes to fun, jest give me a reg’lar turkey trot dance — that is with the pretty ‘chicks’ [...] come to my arms. thou cherub!
at chick, n.1
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 21 Sept. n.p.: Ned Shory [...] left his chick-a-dee out side.
at chickadee, n.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 12 Oct. n.p.: They [i.e. ‘several communications’] are all Greek to ever one connected with our office [...] apparrently written in Choctaw, or some other uncivilized gibberish [sic].
at choctaw, n.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 5 Oct. n.p.: Spank goes a fist side of his face — the claret starts.
at claret, n.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 5 Oct. n.p.: A chamber of the hotel, where we had something Cooper-ed up in tall shape.
at cooper, v.1
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 5 Oct. n.p.: This was formerly the ‘crack’ company of the state.
at crack, adj.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 7 Sept. n.p.: He must be ‘cabined, cribbed, confined’.
at crib, v.4
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 5 Oct. n.p.: Boarders without high dickies are not expected to eat as much.
at dicky, n.1
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 21 Sept. n.p.: Ned would [...] fling in awful diffs with them windin’ blades.
at diff, n.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 2 Nov. n.p.: ‘How these tramps rouges [rogues] put the leek [lick] into you dons’.
at don, n.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 5 Oct. n.p.: There were not many flats present [...] willing to be ‘shook down’.
at shake down, v.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 26 Oct. n.p.: My eyes! wasn’t he though?
at my eye(s)!, excl.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 21 Sept. n.p.: The gals felt kinder fodderish [...] an’ they began to hide the vittals.
at fodderish (adj.) under fodder, n.1
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 2 Nov. n.p.: ‘Footer, Major, I kalkilate I can navigate the entrails of a watch, as well as I can shoe a hoss’’.
at footer, n.1
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 5 Oct. n.p.: The Gof-fes-town Light infantry, a ‘gallus’ looking country company.
at gallows, adv.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 7 Sept. n.p.: The communication signed shooting stick is too gassy for our columns.
at gassy, adj.1
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 14 Sept. n.p.: THe is of the opinion that there are some strange girls who board in the long block on Hanover street.
at girl, n.1
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 21 Sept. n.p.: Je-hu — an’ cod liver oil! how he went in. He gave Ned Shory one poke ’tween the eyes.
at go in (on) (v.) under go, v.
[US] Manchester Spy (NH) 12 Oct. n.p.: They [i.e. ‘several communications’] are all Greek to ever one connected with our office [...] apparrently written in Choctaw, or some other uncivilized gibberish [sic].
at Greek, n.
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