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[US] Highland Wkly News (Hillsboro, OH) 21 June 1/4: Mr D.W. Voorhees [...] does, by no manner of means, think small beer of himself.
at think small beer of (v.) under small beer, n.
[US] Highland Wkly News (Hillsboro, OH) 30 Apr. 2/7: He swore that John Hayseed might die in the furrow / Before he would sell him a plow.
at hayseed, n.
[US] Highland Wkly News (Hillsboro, OH) 28 Jan. 3/2: Bill was kerryin’ a bucket of dirt to the crick, an’ just ez he got there his foot slipped in, an’ he went kerslosh.
at kerslosh! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Highland Wkly News (Hillsboro, OH) 30 Aug. 1/7: Roll that fact around in your noggin.
at noggin, n.1
[US] Highland Wkly News (Hillsboro, OH) 4 Nov. 2/2: Girls, Don’t Hurry up the Cakes [...] Young women, protract this Courtship as long as you can.
at hurry up the cakes (v.) under cake, n.1
[US] Highland Wkly News (Hillsboro, OH) 23 Sept. 3/5: The days of ‘wild-cat’ banks, when the laborer went to bed with fifty dollars [...] not having any assurance whether it would buy his breakfast in the morning.
at wildcat, adj.
[US] Highland Wkly News (Hillsboro, OH) 18 Apr. 2/3: If you want Bright’s disease, drink fusil oil whiskey.
at fusil oil, n.
[US] Highland Wkly News (Hillsboro, OH) 18 Apr. 2/3: If you want Bright’s disease, drink fusil oil whisky [...] if you want softening of the brain drink lightning whisky.
at lightning, n.
[US] Highland Wkly News (Hillsboro, OH) 19 Nov. 4/3: This vote has made Prohibition a National issue, which will not go out of National politics till the beer shop and the drunkery have gone.
at drunkery, n.
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