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[US] Nashville Union & American (TN) 18 May 2/3: Thunder and lightning! everybody come here with shot-guns, six-shooters and butcher-knives!
at thunder and lightning!, excl.
[US] Nashville Union & American (TN) 18 May 2/3: I tell you I was ashy.
at ashy, adj.
[US] Nashville Union & American (TN) 18 May 2/3: I’ll be cussed [...] if I will see the wimmin’ folks impos’d on!
at cussed, adj.
[US] Nashville Union & American (TN) 18 May 2/3: Sure enough cawhallop they came together, and slap-dash the whole on ’em fell flat [...] on the floor.
at kerswallop! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Nashville Union & American (TN) 18 May 2/3: ‘Oh, Lordy!’ says I.
at lawdy!, excl.
[US] Nashville Union & American (TN) 18 May 2/3: IThe following ‘side splitter’ [...] should be read by every one afflicted with the ‘blues’.
at side-splitter, n.
[US] Nashville Union Amer. 17 Nov. 3/1: A Tennesseean Swindled [...] he took passage on one of the fiver boats at Cairo, and was followed by a pigeon-dropper.
at pigeon dropper (n.) under pigeon drop, n.
[US] Nashville union & American (TN) 19 Dec. 2/3: This is characteristic of Hogopolis.
at Porkopolis, n.
[US] Nashville union (TN) 31 July 3/1: I feel inclined to laugh, but the fear of being taken by Dr Kelly for an ‘owl in an ivy bush’ restrains me.
at like an owl in an ivy-bush under owl, n.
[US] Nashville Union & American (TN) 22 May 1/4: I asked myself can this be the fearful ring-rail snorter of the Senate.
at ringtailed snorter, n.
[US] Nashville Union & American (TN) 18 Nov. 1/6: Fellows who have committed murders [...] ‘road agents’ (i.e. highway robbers) [...] and desperados.
at road-agent (n.) under road, n.
[US] Nashville Union & American (TN) 30 Apr. 3/2: Two widows, both of whom know how many beans make five, if ever women did.
at know how many (blue) beans make five (v.) under beans, n.3
[US] Nashville Union & American (TN) 7 Dec. 1/2: Porkopolitan, Cincinnati, Dec. 6. — The total hogs slaughtered here for the week were 77,000.
at Porkopolitan (n.) under Porkopolis, n.
[US] Nashville Union (TN) 14 June 2/1: It was a bran-fire new business to me.
at brand-fire new, adj.
[US] Nashville Union (TN) 22 July 3/1: Sal, dog gone my hide if you ain’t the sweetest, littlest mite of humanity.
at doggone, v.
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