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[US] Outing 6 701: If there’s anybody here don’t like the grub, I’ll kick a lung out of him!
at kick a lung out (v.) under kick, v.1
[US] Outing (N.Y.) IX 198/1: He’d nothing ter do but ter lick it like blazes [DAE].
at lick, v.1
[US] Outing (N.Y.) Dec. 198/2: Dick had a big tepé, [...] not ter speak uv a considerable lot of possibles ter make things comfortable [DA].
at possible, n.
[US] Outing (N.Y.) X 7/1: You won’t be able to do nuthin’ with ’em, sir; they’ll go plumb loco, that’s what they will .
at loco/loca, adj.
[US] Outing (N.Y.) May 108/1: I tried [...] the very mildest [words] first [...] After which I advanced to ‘Great Caesar!’ ‘Jemima!’ ‘Jerusalem!’ (prolonging the je in both cases) [DA].
at jemima!, excl.
[US] Outing (N.Y.) Nov. 129/2: Besides a few snipe killed at a swamp called by Shorthorns ‘cineky,’ from the Spanish sienica, we still depended upon Uncle Sam’s subsistence stores for our daily bread [DA].
at shorthorn (n.) under short, adj.1
[US] Outing (N.Y.) May 124/1: It is a good thing to have a bag twelve by eighteen inches for a ‘possible’ sack [DA].
at possible sack (n.) under possible, n.
[US] Outing (N.Y.) Nov. 138/2: I would plunk the big gobbler I could distinguish from where I lay .
at plunk, v.
[US] in Outing (N.Y.) July 263: From the many times millionaire in the members’ stand to the coatless, penniless ‘hustler’ in the infield [etc.] [HDAS].
at hustler, n.
[US] Outing (N.Y.) June 216/2: I’se got two sawbucks lef’, an’ up dey goes on de ole hoss [DA].
at sawbuck, n.
[US] Outing (N.Y.) Oct. 37/2: A great crowd of graduates from New York and Hartford and from everywhere were out at Hamilton Park to see Harvard ‘waxed’ [DA].
at wax, v.2
[US] Outing (N.Y.) Sept. 465/2: The ‘canalers’ were found to be a good-natured and kind-hearted set of men [DA].
at canaller, n.
[US] Outing (N.Y.) XXII. 139/1: We began the juiciest ride on record. How it rained!
at juicy, adj.
[US] Outing (N.Y.) Feb. 366/2: When we came up to our husky, his face beamed joyously as he pointed with great pride to his game [DA].
at Husky, n.
[US] Outing (N.Y.) XXIV 355/1: These [cigarettes] are made of native grown tobacco or the rank cheap stuff called nigger-head twist [DA].
at niggerhead, n.1
[US] Outing (N.Y.) XXIV 417/1: The dog [...] [will] never ‘pile onto’ any more bears [DA].
at pile in (v.) under pile, v.
[US] Outing (N.Y.) XXIV 443/1: Piled on a little table were four as dirty and badly-stained ‘pillows’ as I had ever set eyes on [DA].
at pillow, n.
[US] Outing (N.Y.) XXVI 428/2: John’s ‘whoopee’ had caused a little ebon [...] to set open the gates [DA].
at ebony, n.
[US] Outing (N.Y.) XXVII 74/2: Some years ago [...] a Suffolk gal kicked me [DA].
at kick, v.1
[US] Outing (N.Y.) XXVI 428/2: John’s ‘whoopee’ had caused a little ebon [...] to set open the gates [DA].
at whoopee!, excl.
[US] Outing (N.Y.) XXX 374/2: We have [...] the holiday camp, in which a restful loaf is the principal object [DA].
at loaf, n.1
[US] Outing (N.Y.) XXIX 421/2: He’s about played [DA].
at played (out), adj.
[US] Outing (N.Y.) XXIX 483/1: He is with a man who is firmly kind, but who will stand no shinanigan [DA].
at shenanigan, n.
[US] Outing 33 205: The University of Georgia team is again in the field, despite the attempt by the Georgia Legislature to abolish the game in the Cracker State.
at Cracker State (n.) under cracker, n.3
[US] Outing (N.Y.) June 345/1: [They] have hardly sustained their reputation on either side of the big pond [DA].
at big pond (n.) under pond, the, n.
[US] Outing (N.Y.) Feb. 484/2: Collies and ‘poms’ in America have hardly maintained their status because of this coat trouble.
at pom, n.
[US] Outing (N.Y.) XLVI 443: In the phraseology of the turf he is a ‘quick breaker;’ the sulky one, a ‘bad actor;’ the flat-footed one a ‘slow beginner.’.
at bad actor (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] Outing 41 226/2: THE DESERT CANARY What they call the ‘Desert Canary’ down in Arizona bears not the slightest resemblance to a canary, is not a bird even, but a little long-eared donkey.
at desert canary (n.) under desert, n.
[US] Outing 58 34: Followed a jump, a squawk, a great confloption of feathers, and the grouse came back to things earthly with a jerk.
at confloption, n.
[US] Outing 62 526: Martin, who had busied himself in the galley, brought in a pan of ‘dandy funk,’ a baked mess of broken hardtack and molasses.
at dandyfunk, n.
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