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Richmond Dispatch (VA) 9 Mar. 1/6: Pot hooks and hangers have taken into their heads to ‘kick upa shine’ in the china shop.at kick up a shine (v.) under shine, n.2
Richmond Dispatch (VA) 9 Mar. 1/6: Pot hooks and hangers have taken into their heads to ‘kick upa shine’ in the china shop. Richmond Dispatch (VA) 1 June 4/1: A baggage-man [...] handling a trunk in the usual slam-bang manner [...] threw it down with such a force as to explode a pistol within.at slam-bang, adj.
Richmond Dispatch (VA) 21 Nov. 1/6: His hide filled with bad whiskey, and his eyes resembling burnt holes in a blanket.at eyes like pissholes in the snow (n.) under eye, n.
Richmond (VA) Dispatch 3 Jan. n.p.: Most of the owners of these names had been tempted by the festivities of the day to go on a regular bender, and had to pay the penalty for their New Year’s frolic by appearing this morning in the police-court.at on a bender (adj.) under bender, n.2
Richmond Dispatch (VA) 13 Feb. 1/5: Mr Acker, the eminent hornswaggler, thrilled the House [...] with one of his most majestic efforts.at hornswoggle, v.
Richmond Dispatch (VA) 19 Sept. 2/5: Colonel Goode speaks at Sandy Point [...] and the ‘Brass Ankles’ are going to give him an old-fashioned reception.at brass ankle (n.) under brass, adj.1
Richmond Dispatch (VA) 10 Jan. 4/3: The old game of the bank robbery ‘drop trick’ was operated successfully here today [...] A young man tapped him on the shoulder and said, ‘Excuse me, but you dropped a bill.’ Wright stooped to pick up a two-dollar bill [and] the young man grabbed the $794 and darted out of the bank.at drop trick (n.) under drop, v.1
Richmond Dispatch (VA) 25 Oct. 4/3: The very day the Cincinnati Committee proclaimed a new order [...] ‘one little Pigopolis boy killed another little Pigopolis boy with a toy pistol’.at Porkopolis, n.
Richmond Dispatch (VA) 11 Feb. 4/2: He was dressed in [...] pepper-and-salt trousers.at pepper and salt, n.1
Richmond Dispatch (VA) 13 Oct. 6/4: The goats meetin’ em at the fut [of a slide] an’ buttin’ ’em over until a shtate of igshthrame dishybilly, it’d med ye laugh.at dishybilly, n.
Richmond Dispatch (VA) 7 June 6/5: Before the drunk had simmered away to the subsequent katzenjammer the vacant desk was offered to [...] another young man who keeps sober.at katzenjammer, n.
Richmond Dispatch (VA) 4 Mar. 6/5: You darned, black, kinky-headed rascal!at kinky-headed, adj.
Richmond Dispatch (VA) 12 Oct. 13/3: I turned to a big clodpoll who wore a celluloid pictuire of his girl on his coat-lapel.at clodpoll, n.
Richmond Dispatch (VA) 12 Oct. 13/2: I guess some hayseed had sprung a good one, for everybody was there with the ha-ha.at ha-ha, n.1
Richmond Dispatch (VA) 12 Oct. 13/2: I guess he got sore but I had everybody else on the tee-hee.at on the tee-hee (adj.) under tee-hee, n.
Richmond Dispatch (VA) 12 Oct. 13/2: I got into one of those line-ups recently in a kinky little town in North Carolina.at kinky, adj.
Richmond Dispatch (VA) 6 Aug. 8/4: Alice Scott had just been paid off for a week of scouring and slinging dishes.at sling dishes (v.) under sling, v.
Richmond Dispatch (VA) 6 Apr. 19/2: Copeland [...] is catcher and plays a fast, snappy game.at snappy, adj.
Richmond Dispatch (VA) 25 Jan. 22/5: ‘Do you want another paddywhacking?’ demanded the boy.at paddywhack, n.
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