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[US] Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 4 Aug. 1/5: She may be as ugly as a mud fence jeweled with hop-toads, clumsy as a cork-leg or a club-foot, and stupid as a boiled owl.
at ugly as..., adj.
[US] Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 4 Aug. 1/5: Stop puffing ignoramus pulpit stampers, bible-maulers and ranters, with neither pity [...] nor common sense.
at bible-mauler (n.) under bible, n.
[US] Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 4 Aug. 1/5: Stop puffing ignoramus pulpit stampers, bible-maulers and ranters, with neither pity [...] nor common sense.
at bible-ranter (n.) under bible, n.
[US] Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 4 Aug. 1/5: Wear no perpetual dog-collar [...] Support no scoundrelism.
at dog-collar (n.) under dog, n.2
[US] Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 4 Aug. 1/5: Stop puffing ignoramus pulpit stampers, bible-maulers and ranters, with neither pity [...] nor common sense.
at pulpit-banger (n.) under pulpit, n.
[US] Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 1 Nov. 1/3: A spendthrift lets go the bridle, grabs his steed by the mane and yells, ’Whoa Emma!’.
at whoa, Emma, phr.
[US] Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 4 Feb. 1/4: Curious Kentucky town nomenclature [...] ‘Devil’s Den’ and ‘Hell’s Halfacre’ in Spencer.
at devil’s half-acre (n.) under devil, n.
[US] Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 4 Feb. 1/4: Curious Kentucky town nomenclature [...] ‘Devil’s Den’ and ‘Hell’s Halfacre’ in Spencer.
at hell’s half acre (n.) under hell, n.
[US] Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 30 Dec. 4/1: The three of us sat in a shebang in the prison stockade [...] shebang was the prison word for a dwelling constructed in this way.
at shebang, n.
[US] Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 1 Dec. 3/2: The banks were closed yesterday as tight as Dick’s hatband.
at tight as Dick’s hatband (adj.) under Dick’s hatband, n.
[US] Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 4 Dec. 2/1: Hard tack and Cincinnati chicken are tough on molars.
at Cincinnati chicken (n.) under Cincinnati, n.
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