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Jeffersonian 15 Sept. 244/1: We shall have [...] Lumbermen’s bills, and Wild-cat Bills, that nobody knows who the father or the maker is [DA].at wildcat, adj.
Jeffersonian 15 Sept. 244/1: We shall have [...] Lumbermen’s bills, and Wild-cat Bills, that nobody knows who the father or the maker is [DA]. Jeffersonian Republican (PA) 29 Feb. 4/1: If there ere celestial nation, Jim / Should keep up this ere miff / [...] / Vot a hawful time there’ll be.at celestial, adj.2
Jeffersonian Republican (PA) 29 Feb. 4/1: Ven mortals try to stop our grog, Jim / [...] / And celestials stop our tea.at celestial, n.
Jeffersonian Republican (PA) 29 Feb. 4/1: Vot vill them ladies do, Jim, / Vot like their dish of chat.at dish of chat (n.) under dish, n.1
Jeffersonian Republican (Stroudsburg, PA) 20 Nov. 1/1: I swanny we’ll see what he’s after.at I swan, phr.
Jeffersonian Republican (Stroudsburg, PA) 6 Apr. 1/3: The church called on aunt Lizzy [...] to come out and make acknowledgment for violating a bible oath!at bible, n.
Jeffersonian Republican (Stroudsburg, PA) 7 June 1/1: Did you ever go up to thanksgiving? I swaggers! what oceans of cakes.at I swan, phr.
Jeffersonian Republican (Stroudsburg, PA) 25 Jan. 1/5: Tomato or Love Apple. this plan or vegetable, sometimes called Jerusalem Apple [...] was first found in South America.at Jerusalem apple (n.) under Jerusalem, adj.
Jeffersonian Republican (Stroudsburg, PA) 12 Oct. 3/1: Sez I, if I kicks up a muss, I’ll have to tortle out of the town.at raise a muss (v.) under muss, n.
Jeffersonian Republican (Stroudsburg, PA) 12 Oct. 3/1: O, Marm! if you’d only bin there. They had a kupple of nigger doll-babies.at nigger, adj.
Jeffersonian Republican (Stroudsburg, PA) 12 Oct. 3/1: My hoss had his pluck so riz by the flour barls I guved him, and was so oil-fired spunky, that I thought I’d stop to this town [...] to kepe his dandir down.at spunky, adj.
Jeffersonian Republican (PA) 18 June 1/3: Haywood, a gallant man of the tar burners of North Carolina.at tarheel, n.
Jeffersonian Republican (Stroudsburg, PA) 5 Aug. 1/4: Our muscian packed up his duds, his purchases and his dollars.at duds, n.1
Jeffersonian Republican (Stroudsburg, PA) 5 Aug. 1/4: That breast-pin thar, with the korneelion stone and the gold chicken fixins — I must have that.at fixings, n.1
Jeffersonian Repub. (Stroudsburg, PA) 2 Mar. 1/4: ‘Have you a captain at the head of your company?’ [...] ‘Well, we hev, boss, and he’s some punkins too’.at some pumpkins (n.) under pumpkin, n.
Jeffersonian Republican (Stroudsburg, PA) 2 Sept. 1/2: He was, however, repulsed with a ‘go to h—ll’.at go to hell! (excl.) under hell, n.
Jeffersonian Republican (Stroudsberg, PA) 27 Jan. 1/5: If the Minister chance to be a pulpit-thumper, as so many do, you mioght be suddenly aroused by the fall of [...] the Bible upon your cranium.at pulpit-banger (n.) under pulpit, n.
Jeffersonian (Stroudsburg PA) 4 Mar. 1/3: ‘Go to thunder, every darned one of yeou,’ replied the pedlar. [...] ‘Durn it to darnation [etc.]’.at darn, v.
Jeffersonian (Stroudsburg PA) 4 Mar. 1/3: I’ve got one of the darnedest black caps you ever seed.at darnedest (adj.) under darned, adj.
Jeffersonian (Stroudsburg, PA) 25 Nov. 1/3: ‘Get on, Limpy!’ said he, as he passed the lame, carelessly dressed man.at limpy, n.
Jeffersonian (Stroudsburg PA) 4 Mar. 1/3: ‘Go to thunder, every darned one of yeou,’ replied the pedlar.at thunder, n.
Jeffersonian (Stroudsburg, PA) 24 Mar. 3/1: He was a resurrectionist [...] hired to procure a dead body for a physician for fifteen dollars.at resurrectionist (n.) under resurrection, n.
Jeffersonian May in H. Howe Times of the Rebellion in the West (1867) 45: Should old Lincoln grow so insane as to send 100,000 of his box-ankled Yankees up through this part of Virginia, our mountain boys will give them a warm reception.at box-ankled (adj.) under box, n.1
Jeffersonian (Stroudsburg, PA) 13 Oct. 2/3: A scholar of reputation [...] needs defense at our ahnds against the slang and slander of the [...] bogus, squirtish Clio.at squirtish (adj.) under squirt, n.
Jeffersonian (Stroudsburg, PA) 14 Sept. 1/4: Alabama Lizards.at lizard, n.
Jeffersonian (Stroudsburg, PA) 28 May 2/2: There was in it neither the flippancy of the brass-faced school-boy, nor the pomposity of a senatorial effort.at brass-face (n.) under brass, adj.1
Jeffersonian (Stroudsburg, PA) 30 Oct, 1/5: ‘That beats the Jews’ is a very common expression, but we do not know its origin.at beat the Jews (v.) under beat, v.
Jeffersonian (Stroudburg, PA) 12 Nov. 2/2: he was shouting [...] and playing ‘Big Ingin‘ generally.at big Injun (n.) under big, adj.
Jeffersonian (Stroudsberg, PA) 8 Jan. n.p.: Instid uv payin cash for their likker I heard [...] the disgustin words ‘Chalk it down’.at liquor, n.
Jeffersonian (Stroudsburg, PA) 20 Oct. 1/1: ‘You goot corned beef, hey?’ says Dutchy [...] ‘You got sourkrout, too, hey?’ Our honest Mynheer ordered up his dinner.at Dutchy, n.
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