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[US] Semi-wkly Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 21 July 3/3: Especially was it amusing to see Dan E. O’Sullivan, diked up as a fair maiden.
at diked up, adj.1
[US] Semi-Wkly Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 23 Jan. 3/2: Looking very much as if her had been to an Irish wedding [...] the horses [...] became frightened [...] and ran off, throwing him out and cutting his head and face.
at Irish wedding (n.) under Irish, adj.
[US] Semi-weekly Interior Journal (Stanford, KY) 12 June 2/4: Dr Baker dishes out the devil’s eye-water to the boys.
at eyewater (n.) under eye, n.
[US] Semi-wkly Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 23 Dec. 3/2: A majority of the visting members were ‘diked up’ in their handsome uniform rank suits.
at diked up, adj.1
[US] Semi-Wkly Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 18 Apr. 6/2: The pussy-gutted ‘Pap’ Ansley.
at pus-gutted (adj.) under pus-gut, n.
[US] Semi-Weekly Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 16 June 2/1: The republican hosts from Cape Cod to Kalamazoo and from hell to breakfast have captured St Louis, lock, stock and barrel.
at from hell to breakfast under hell, n.
[US] Semi-Weekly Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 15 Nov. 1/4: She made an effort to remove it, but it was as tight as Dick’s hatband and growing tighter.
at tight as Dick’s hatband (adj.) under Dick’s hatband, n.
[US] Semi-wkly Interior Jrnl (Stanford, KY) 9 Nov. 2/4: ‘I feel like stopping here and going on a regular bender’ — Theodore Roosevelt in an address at the beer city of Milwaukee.
at Beer City (n.) under beer, n.
[US] Smi-wkly Interior Jrnl (Standford, KY) 9 Nov. 2/4: ‘I feel like stopping here and going on a regular bender’ — Theodore Roosevelt in an address at the beer city of Milwaukee.
at bender, n.2
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