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[US] Hawaiian Gaz. 30 Sept. 4/3: No sportsman need be ashamed of a chase after a good ‘boomer’.
at boomer, n.1
[US] Hawaiian Gaz. (Honolulu) 16 Feb. 4/3: His parents, seein’ that he hadn’t sense enough for a sailorman, concluded to make a ‘Holy Joe’ out of him.
at holy Joe, n.
[US] Hawaian Gaz. (Honolulu) 15 June 4/2: The Rooski Courier, which we lately received from Moscow, publishes the following intelligence.
at Russki, n.
[US] Hawaiian Gaz. (Honolulu, HI) 15 July 3/1: Our new grog mill don’t seem to be a very paying concern.
at grog mill (n.) under grog, n.1
[US] Hawaiian Gaz. (Honolulu, HI) 17 Apr. 1/6: At present Hilo is wel supplied with sky juice.
at sky-juice (n.) under sky, n.1
[US] Hawaiian Gaz. 3 Aug. 6/1: The question whether under out statutes a person non compos may [...] maintain a libel for divorce.
at non compos, adj.
[US] Hawaiian Gaz. 28 Dec. 2/3: He was employed as a cook [...]He became a kitchen mechanic by profession.
at kitchen mechanic (n.) under kitchen, n.1
[US] Hawaiian Gaz. (Honolulu) 22 Oct. 1/5: George martin, about whose various capabilities in the pedal-pushing line there has been so much said.
at pedal-pusher (n.) under pedal, n.
[US] Hawaiian Gaz. (Honolulu, HI) 31 Jan. 7/2: Hickey [...] was arrested o the charge of ‘opium in possession’ [...] One hundred half-pound tins of ‘Rooster’ brand opium was seized.
at rooster brand, n.
[US] Hawaiian Gaz. (HI) 5 Apr. 5/1: They were off in a corner by themselves making banjo eyes and telling each other [etc].
at banjo eyes, n.
[US] Hawaiian Gaz. (HI) 5 Apr. 5/1: The coffee-colored negro had his razor all ready [...] ‘If don’ cyarve him to de heart, I’m a gone coon, head me a-talkin’, niggers?’.
at gone coon (n.) under gone, adj.1
[US] Hawaiian Gaz. (Honolulu) 19 July 6/1: He dusted a spot off the bottom of his brand-new, all-wool pepper-and-salt trousers.
at pepper and salt, n.1
[US] Hawaiian Gaz. (Honolulu, HI) 1 Nov. 6/2: If the soapbox artist could talk Chinese as well as rolls out English.
at soapbox artist, n.
[US] Hawaiian Gaz. (HI) 1 July 4/2: The manufacture and exploitation of what is commonly kniown in the South as ‘nigger gin’.
at nigger gin (n.) under nigger, n.1
[US] Hawaiian Gaz. (Honolulu, HI) 26 Nov. 4/5: Levy retorted that Bohnstein was a cradle robber and a number of other uncomplimentary things.
at cradle-robber (n.) under cradle, n.
[US] Hawaiian Gaz. (Honolulu, HI) 26 Nov. 4/5: Frank Levy, the well-known clothier, and Jakie Bohnstein, the local pawnbroker, became mixed up in King Street last night, and for a time fur flew with a vengeance.
at mix in (v.) under mix, v.
[US] Hawaiian Gaz. (Honolulu) 23 Jan. 4/1: The Country Dead-Fall. The saloon has no place in the country districts, and the sooner all such are abolished, the better.
at dead fall (n.) under dead, adj.
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