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[US] Pulaski Citizen (TN) 27 July 1/4: You may call us a dog [...] And they say we have ben a ‘dirty dog’ ever since the war begun.
at dirty dog (n.) under dirty, adj.
[US] Pulaski Citizen (TN) 27 Aug. 3/2: Nestling our ear close to his smiling clam-trap we caught the echo — ‘Sour grapes, by jings!’.
at clamtrap (n.) under clam, n.1
[US] Pulaski Citizen (TN) 15 Jan. 3/4: The array of battle came nearer [...] from the great mud mortars of the enemy came squashing and zizzing and splattering right at our head.
at zizz, v.
[US] Pulaski Citizen (TN) 2 Mar. 4/4: Many a man is sent to the Legislature who [...] ‘is not fit to carry guts to a bar.
at carry guts to a bear (v.) under gut, n.
[US] Pulaski Citizen (TN) 3 Apr. 3/8: They think no more of asking a young Miss to indulge ina dish of chat than an old maid would.
at dish of chat (n.) under dish, n.1
[US] Pulaski Citizen (TN) 28 Apr. 2/4: Be quiet Scibbler, and button up your lips.
at button one’s lip, v.
[US] Pulaski Citizen (TN) 23 Nov. 2/3: The man is a cocoanut-headed ninny.
at coconut-headed (adj.) under coconut, n.1
[US] Pulaski Citizen (TN) 19 July 4/5: Every man [...] loves [...] newspaper notoriety [...] They not only love to see their names in the paper, but they want an editor to stretch the blanket for them on every opportunity.
at stretch a/the blanket (v.) under blanket, n.
[US] Pulaski Citizen (TN) 10 Nov. 2/2: Perhaps the colonel intended that his penciled javelin should [...] run smack in the Tennessee printing offices.
at smack, adv.
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