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[US] N.Y. Aurora 27 Apr. n.p.: Pat Kelly, a broth of a boy, with cheeks like thumping red potatoes.
at broth of a boy, n.
[US] N.Y. Aurora 27 Apr. n.p.: [headline] Curns, the ‘Absquatulator’.
at absquatulate, v.
[US] N.Y. Aurora 7 Sept. n.p.: Will not our brother chips here be jealous — savage!
at brother chip (n.) under brother, n.
[US] N.Y. Aurora 7 Sept. n.p.: [I]n the nightly habit of meeting several moral, steady, and pious old jokers.
at joker, n.1
[US] N.Y. Aurora 27 Apr. n.p.: Lorks a daisy!
at lawks-a-mussy! (excl.) under lawks!, excl.
[US] N.Y. Aurora 7 Sept. n.p.: There were only seventeen ‘smouchers’ present, and i didn’t see them take anything.
at smoucher (n.) under smooch, v.2
[US] N.Y. Aurora 8 Apr. n.p.: They [i.e. waitresses] always draws the spooneys in, / Who stare and grin upon ’em.
at spoony, n.
[US] N.Y. Aurora 18 Aug. n.p.: Drawing the Badger — Rather a singular badger was drawn last evening [...] An elderly man [...] encountered in his promenade a female named Melinda Hogue who invited him to accompany her to her residence [etc].
at badger game (n.) under badger, n.1
[US] N.Y. Aurora 18 Aug. n.p.: He found to his consternation that his pocket-book [...] had been abducted [...] On going up to the room door in which he had been badgered, the door was found to be fast.
at badger, v.
[US] N.Y. Aurora 21 Aug. n.p.: Andrew Ryan, an old penitentiary bird, was discharged.
at bird, n.1
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