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[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 31 May 1/4: It won’t do to talk of cabbage when the tailors are standing by, nor of wooden nutmegs [...] when there are any Connecticut Yankees about.
at cabbage, n.1
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 19 Sept. 1/6: I let fly at the she bar [i.e. bear] [...] Over she rolled as dead as a mackerel.
at dead as..., adj.
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 19 Sept. 1/6: The bar [i.e. bear] began to roar enough like blue murder.
at like blue murder (adv.) under blue murder, n.
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 10 Oct. 2/6: Bebb is a money money shaver.
at shaver, n.2
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 6 July 2/4: Whoop! I’m just nat’ally spilin’ for a fight! [...] I’m the big dog of the tanyard — the gray wolf of the prairie, so I am!
at big dog of the tanyard, n.
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 25 July 4/1: Synonyms [for drunk] [...] drenched, soaked, mellow, having steam up, oblivious, addled.
at addled, adj.
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 25 July 4/1: Synonyms [for drunk] [...] slewed, fuzzled, [...] swamped, raddled, nappy, [...] having a brick in one’s hat, limber, tired [...] toddled, slung-shot.
at nappy (ale), n.
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 25 July 4/1: Synonyms [for drunk] [...] slewed, fuzzled, [...] swamped, raddled, nappy, [...] having a brick in one’s hat, limber, tired [...] toddled, slung-shot.
at have a brick in one’s hat (v.) under brick, n.
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 25 July 4/1: Synonyms [for drunk] [...] drenched, soaked, mellow, having steam up, oblivious, addled.
at drenched, adj.
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 25 July 4/1: Synonyms [for drunk] [...] slewed, fuzzled, [...] swamped, raddled, nappy, [...] having a brick in one’s hat, limber, tired [...] toddled, slung-shot.
at foozled, adj.
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 25 July 4/1: Those brands of whiskey known as [...] Minnie rifle, stone-fence, kill-brain, etc.
at kill-brain (n.) under kill, v.
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 25 July 4/1: Synonyms [for drunk] [...] slewed, fuzzled, [...] swamped, raddled, nappy, [...] having a brick in one’s hat, limber, tired [...] toddled, slung-shot.
at limber, adj.
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 25 July 4/1: Those brands of whiskey known as [...] Minnie rifle, stone-fence, kill-brain, etc.
at Minié rifle, n.
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 25 July 4/1: Synonyms [for drunk] [...] slewed, fuzzled, [...] swamped, raddled, nappy, [...] having a brick in one’s hat, limber, tired [...] toddled, slung-shot.
at slung-shot, adj.
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 25 July 4/1: Synonyms [for drunk] [...] drenched, soaked, mellow, having steam up, oblivious, addled.
at soaked, adj.
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 25 July 4/1: Synonyms [for drunk] [...] drenched, soaked, mellow, having steam up, oblivious, addled.
at steamed (up), adj.
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 25 July 4/1: Those brands of whiskey known as [...] Minnie rifle, stone-fence, kill-brain, etc.
at stone fence (n.) under stone, adj.
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 25 July 4/1: Synonyms [for drunk] [...] slewed, fuzzled, [...] swamped, raddled, nappy, [...] having a brick in one’s hat, limber, tired [...] toddled, slung-shot.
at swamped, adj.
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 25 July 4/1: Synonyms [for drunk] [...] slewed, fuzzled, [...] swamped, raddled, nappy, [...] having a brick in one’s hat, limber, tired [...] toddled, slung-shot.
at toddled, adj.
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 30 Oct. 2/3: Mr Webster once told a disitnguished enator that he ‘must ski his own skunk’.
at skin one’s own skunk (v.) under skin, v.1
[US] Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 30 Nov. 1/6: Come back here you infernal clod-buster, and pay for that melon.
at clod-buster (n.) under clod, n.1
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