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[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 18 Nov. n.p.: He wears a tom jerry [sic], with a collar faced with gray squirrel skins.
at tom and jerry, n.1
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 1 July n.p.: He thought himelf to be chief cook and bottle washer, and put himself so far beyond common men.
at chief cook and bottle-washer, n.
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 12 Aug. n.p.: If you are so foolish as to think that being an officer in an old slambang Company will cover your moral defects [etc].
at slam-bang, adj.
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 18 Nov. n.p.: So let us take a little of the O be joyful [...] some of your best Brandy.
at o-be-joyful, n.
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 18 Mar. n.p.: That foot race was run well. I.B. and F.N. go it Beans.
at beans, adv.
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 29 Apr. n.p.: [On] your visit to Wilmington the berries were fit for pulucking [sic] but the berry you wished to pick with Miss C., was not the berry for thee .
at berry, n.1
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 13 May n.p.: It would be [...] a real kindness to the audience if he would not blart till he got home.
at blart, v.
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 15 Apr. n.p.: His brother [...] a real blow-breeches [...] was appointed to do the reading [...] When the time arrived [...] up rose Pompous.
at blow-breeches (n.) under blow, v.1
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 12 Aug. n.p.: Look out Put or you will catch some [i.e. negative criticism].
at catch, v.1
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 11 Mar. n.p.: I believe that ten people could not be found [...] foolish enough to pay one copper to have this canine cockroach read copyings from old books.
at cockroach, n.1
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 10 June n.p.: An old married man had better let the girls alone [...] Some will leave and others will stay [...] but friend Peavy can’t come it on them all, no mistake.
at come it, v.1
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 26 Aug. n.p.: The leading coons are trying every measure [...] to break down the Gleaner.
at coon, n.
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 2 Dec. n.p.: Tha great sandy-haired, wall-eyed, crocked legged, plupper-choped, cat-headed, gander-gutted puke .
at crocked, adj.
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 16 Sept. n.p.: Marm ‘buttoned her dickey up’ and issued forth.
at dicky, n.1
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 2 Dec. n.p.: The man that blows the fish-horn.
at fish-horn (n.) under fish, n.1
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 4 Nov. n.p.: What say you [...] don’t this look foggy?
at foggy, adj.
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 9 Dec. n.p.: Now be it known for the ‘forty-eleventh’ time that we never do any such thing [i.e. name names].
at forty-eleven (adj.) under forty, adj.1
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 29 Apr. n.p.: I advise you as a friend to hold your gab.
at stop your gab! (excl.) under gab, n.1
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 1 July n.p.: Lowell Wants to Know If J.P. Mc’L had’nt better be at home nights than scouring the dark back streets for game.
at game, n.
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 30 Dec. n.p.: That long-legged, gander-gutted, sap-head.
at gander-gutted (adj.) under gander, n.1
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 23 Dec. n.p.: The sixteenth commandment is, ‘fret not thy gizzard’.
at gizzard, n.
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 16 Sept. n.p.: I shall calculate on getting tnere [...] and giving you a full and accurate account of his lecture, so go it boots.
at go it, boots! (excl.) under go it!, excl.
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 29 July n.p.: He can beat Davy Crockett all hollow on a grin.
at on a grin (adv.) under grin, n.3
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 18 Nov. n.p.: He lives on pinch gut hill.
at pinch-gut, adj.
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 9 Dec. n.p.: [The] cosmopolite, comical, catechumen, rattleheaded, hairbraided, and spasmodic.
at rattle-head, n.
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 27 May n.p.: Modern chronicles. The fulsome effusions of the pumpkin heads of pumpkinville.
at pumpkin head, n.
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 30 Dec. n.p.: New-Market Wants to Know [...] If the employment he is in now, suits him and what port he will steer for when he gets through? Will he go with the honey cart.
at honey-cart (n.) under honey, n.1
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 1 July n.p.: This covey in company with another horn [...] says let me cross over [...] the street and kiss that woman.
at horn, n.2
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 2 Dec. n.p.: Let Chase progress in the art of humbuggery.
at humbuggery, n.
[US] Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 20 May n.p.: Had’nt you better go to Captain Smoothee an[d] take an injection.
at injection, n.
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