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[US] New Ulm Wkly (MN) 25 Sept. 6/2: He cussed ’em and told ’em to dry up.
at dry up, v.
[US] New Ulm Wkly Rev. (MN) 15 May 1/5: The podunk boys say that he is a figment of the imagination.
at podunk, n.
[US] New Ulm Wkly (MN) 25 Sept. 6/1: He used to be a dandy [...] he wore a plug, an’ flashed a spark in his biled shirt-front as big as a peanut.
at spark, n.1
[US] New Ulm Wkly (MN) 25 Sept. 6/2: That’s the ticket [...] You’re a trump.
at that’s the ticket! (excl.) under ticket, n.1
[US] New Ulm Wkly Rev. 19 June 6/3: Don’t you let daddy hear such talk as that; he’ll tune ye, ef he does, and no mistake.
at tune, v.
[US] New Ulm Wkly Rev. 19 June 6/3: Don’t you let daddy hear such talk as that; he’ll tune ye, ef he does, and no mistake. He did give Dan and me one whalin’, but he’d oughten hev, that’s a fact.
at whaling, n.
[US] New Ulm Rev. (MN) 19 Nov. 1/5: The game was to be bagged without delay, or the game would bag me.
at bag, v.
[US] New Ulm Rev. (MN) 19 Nov. 1/5: ‘This jig’s played, then’.
at jig, n.2
[US] New Ulm Rev. (MN) 19 Nov. 1/5: ‘Take the “soft” to the hotel, with the usual story’.
at soft money, n.
[US] New Ulm Wkly Rev. (MN) 17 Dec. 1/8: Say, sis [...] those numb-heads [...] tore that pooty muslin thing of yours all to bits.
at sis, n.
[US] New Ulm Rev. (MN) 19 Nov. 1/5: I left my valuables in the hotel safe, and supplied myself with an imposing amount of ‘snide’.
at snide, n.
[US] New Ulm Wkly Rev. 8 Sept. 1/4: He talks of turning cat in pan.
at cat in (the) pan (n.) under cat, n.1
[US] New Ulm Wkly (MN) 23 Feb. 3/2: The owner of the hay was madder than a wet hen.
at ...a wet hen under mad as..., adj.
[US] New Ulm Wkly Rev. (MN) 12 Aug. 6/1: Cranky, that’s all. She always was as odd as Dick’s hatband.
at odd as Dick’s hatband (adj.) under Dick’s hatband, n.
[US] New Ulm Wkly Rev. (MN) 2 June 6/4: Then whisky got the better of him and he went to the dogs [and] he got his blue envelope.
at blue envelope (v.) under blue, adj.1
[US] New Ulm Wkly Rev. (MN) 3 Feb. 6/2: ‘Now bottle that,’ angrily interrupted the other with a fierce oath.
at bottle up, v.
[US] New Ulm Wkly Rev. (MN) 3 Feb. 6/2: If I’d supposed you’d ever turn out such a chicken-livered coward, I’d seen you starve before [etc.].
at chicken-livered, adj.
[US] New Ulm Wkly Rev. (MN) 2 Sept. 4/1: Second prize at Illinois State fair [...] first at French Government Show at St Loo.
at St Loo, n.
[US] New Ulm Rev. (MN) 22 Nov. 4/5: He [...] found it to be a white shirt with a highly glossed front. ‘A boiled shirt!’ he exclaimed.
at boiled shirt (n.) under boiled, adj.
[US] New Ulm Rev. 21 Mar. 7/3: Never mind [...] Another week or two, an we’ll be doin’ the toff around lime-us, dressed up to the knocker.
at dressed up to the knocker under knocker, n.1
[US] New Ulm Rev. 21 Mar. 7/3: Never mind [...] Another week or two, an we’ll be doin’ the toff around lime-us, dressed up to the knocker.
at do the toff (v.) under toff, n.
[US] H.B. Marriott-Watson in New Rev. 8 July n.p.: But if a gentleman of the road must be hindered by the impudent accidents of the weather, he had best ... settle down with empty pockets afore a mercer’s counter [F&H].
at gentleman of the road (n.) under gentleman of..., n.
[US] H.B. Marriott-Watson in New Rev. July 7: You muck-worm, you – I’ll slit your gizzard, you —.
at muck-worm, n.
[US] H.B. Marriott-Watson in New Rev. July 6: But what’s gone is gone, and to curl up with the mullygrubs because the milk is a trifle sour, is neither to your credit nor to mine [F&H].
at mulligrubs, n.
[US] H.B. Marriott-Watson in New Rev. 7 July n.p.: There’s a moon out [...] What – Oliver? damn Oliver! [F&H].
at oliver, n.
[US] H.B. Marriott-Watson in New Rev. 8 July n.p.: We ain’t to do nothing, [...] but to set down upon our prats [F&H].
at prat, n.1
[US] H.B. Marriott-Watson in New Rev. 2 July n.p.: ‘Rip me,’ he says, starting up [F&H].
at rip me! (excl.) under rip, v.
[US] New Ulm Rev. (MN) 11 Mar. 4/2: Dick Stebbins [...] was the durnedest critter that ever lived.
at darned, adj.
[US] New Ulm Rev. (MN) 17 Nov. 6/3: When we asked [...] what hr reason was, she boohooed, ‘Me and my man had some troubles [...] but my man and me have made up’.
at boohoo, v.
[US] New ulm Rev. (MN) 8 Aug. 1: A fashionable gathering of notable young people took possession of the house [...] My better half says it was a ‘rush party’.
at rush, adj.
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