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Richmond (VA) Enquirer 22 Aug. 4/1: She calls it ‘slicking up the room’ [DA].at slick (oneself) up (v.) under slick, v.
Richmond (VA) Enquirer 22 Aug. 4/1: She calls it ‘slicking up the room’ [DA]. Richmond (VA) Enquirer 3 June 3: Mr. HENRY BANKS of Virginia has ‘jump’d Jim Crow’ – gone over to the opposition.at jump Jim Crow (v.) under Jim Crow, n.
Richmond (VA) Enquirer 17 June n.p.: It is said [...] that all the members of the Randolph family have been more or less kinky.at kinky, adj.
Richmond Enquirer (VA) 6 Oct. 3/4: It is such ‘swelled head’ notions that has, and ever will, keep Virginia poor.at swellhead, n.2
letter in Richmond (VA) Enquirer 30 Nov. 2/4: He let drop from the canvas an unmistakable small, nappy-headed buck negro.at buck nigger (n.) under buck, adj.1
Richmond (VA) Enquirer 30 Nov. 4/5: It is in this respect that the South has ‘the bulge’ on the North, and will always have it.at have the bulge on (v.) under bulge, n.
Richmond (VA) Enquirer 27 July 4/3: Instead of [...] facing the music, the Whig coons thought it best to make as few tracks as possible.at face the music (v.) under music, n.
Richmond Enquirer (VA) 1 Apr. 4/8: We’ll show him that Kentucky boys / Are ‘alligator horses’.at alligator (horse) (n.) under alligator, n.
Richmond Enquirer (VA) 17 Oct. n.p.: Blanche Martin, nymph du pave, who appeared in Court, in the exquisite language of a Western poet, ‘as smiling as a basket of chips’.at basket of chips (n.) under basket, n.1
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