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[US] Nat. Tribune (Wash., DC) 11 Aug. 5/4: Every counter-skipper and errand-boy wants a flower to to make him look fine for the theatre or music-hall.
at counter-jumper, n.
[US] Nat. Tribune (WA) 29 Sept. 1/2: There, you Yankee nigger lover, do you hear that?
at nigger-lover, n.
[US] Nat. Trib. (Wash., DC) 6 Sept. 3/6: Goddammit No!
at god-damn it!, excl.
[US] Nat. Tribune (DC) 12 Apr. 8/1: Let’s shake. Get on your duds quick.
at shake, v.
[US] Nat. Tribune (DC) 12 Apr. 8/1: Then, making straight coat-tails for the sutlers by way of the gang-plank, we [etc.].
at make a straight coat-tail (v.) under straight, adj.1
[US] Nat. Tribune (Wash., DC) 24 Nov. 12/5: ‘Give me two poached eggs on toast and have the yolks of the eggs broken.’ Waiter [...] yells down to the kitchen: ‘Adam and Eve on a raft —wreck ’em’.
at Adam and Eve, n.1
[US] Nat. Trib. (DC) 22 June 7/1: Yis, move out with your lallygagging.
at lallygag, v.
[US] Nat. Tribune (Wash., DC) 22 Oct. 8/3: Don’t get hump-backed and red-eyed and go hog-wild about the election.
at hog-wild (adj.) under hog, n.
[US] Nat. Trib. (Wash., DC) 21 Dec. 5/4: ‘I’d like awfully well t’ bust a cap at that brash young Lieutenant, afore he gets clean away’.
at bust a cap (v.) under cap, n.2
[US] Nat. Trib. (DC) 24 Nov. 1/7: [of an escape from Cuba] I suspected the poor devil would have been given a chance to take a moonlight flit long ago.
at moonlight flit, n.
[US] Nat. Trib. (DC) 24 Nov. 1/7: [He] enjoyed the privileges of a prisoner-at-large, or ‘trustee’ as a Yankee jailer would say.
at trusty, n.2
[US] Nat. Trib. (DEC) 15 May 4/4: I luv u heaps and slathers bettern he does that carrot-head.
at carrothead (n.) under carrot, n.
[US] Nat. Trib. (DC) 7 May 4/5: The Lord made potatoes to grow in the ground [...] and to be boiled, baked or fried, but never to be mummicked over that way.
at mummick, v.
[US] Nat. Tribune (DC) 13 Apr. 7/3: He came down kerplump on an old rotten-joisted handstand.
at kerplump! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
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