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[US] Sun (London) 1 Dec. 4/1: They usually asked him [i.e. a print-seller] next if he had any game? upon which he produced some game birds, such as pheasants ; And then, if they said that was not the sort, he at length exhibited these representations of the most obscene sensuality.
at game, n.
[US] Sun (Baltimore) Sept. n.p.: ‘Do you know that our particular friend J— kicked the bucket last night?’ ‘You don’t say so! Will you take an anti-fogmatic?’ ‘Don’t care if I do.’.
at antifogmatic, n.
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 20 June 2/2: Off.—I heard you used to be a good Backsman. — Have you ‘Ogled a Dummy’ any where? Con.—Yes! a first rate one for a ‘smash,’ and pretty good on a ‘burst’.
at backsman (n.) under back, adj.2
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 2 Jan. 2/2: Pris.[oner] -- [We heard] several curious kind of expressions made bags of fun for us.
at bags (of), n.
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 20 June 2/2: The black fellow ‘blow’d,’ by telling him that the person with whom he had been conversing was one of the ‘Pigs’.
at blow, v.1
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 20 June 2/2: Off.—I heard you used to be a good Backsman. — Have you ‘Ogled a Dummy’ any where? Con.—Yes! a first rate one for a ‘smash,’ and pretty good on a ‘burst.’.
at burst, n.1
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 14 Apr. 2/2: The prisoner was what some people would call a ‘hard colt’ [DA].
at hard colt (n.) under colt, n.1
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 20 June 2/2: Off. — Well, what’s going on? Con. — Oh, nothing of consequence since I came out — only a little ‘knuckling’ just to keep my hand in. I can’t find a ‘Pal,’ and you know nobody can do a ‘Crack’ without one.
at do a crack (v.) under crack, n.4
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 21 Mar. 2/3: I’ll tell you what, if you’ll just throw down them are clubs — and come, one to time, may be some of you don’t get discombobracated [DA].
at discombobberate, v.
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 20 June 2/2: Off. — I heard you used to be a good Backsman. — Have you ‘Ogled a Dummy’ any where? Con. — Yes! a first rate one for a ‘smash,’ and pretty good on a ‘burst.’.
at dummy, n.2
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 20 June 2/2: Con.—Meet me to night at the ‘Pigeon House’ next to the new ‘fence,’ and I’ll go and show you.
at fence, n.1
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 14 Apr. 2/2: The prisoner was what some people would call a ‘hard colt’ [DA].
at hard, adj.
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 14 Apr. 2/2: The prisoner was what some people would call a ‘hard colt.’ [DA].
at hard horse (n.) under hard, adj.
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 20 June 2/2: Off. — Well, what’s going on? Con. — Oh, nothing of consequence since I came out—only a little ‘knuckling’ just to keep my hand in. I can’t find a ‘Pal,’ and you know nobody can do a ‘Crack’ without one.
at knuckle, v.2
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 5 June 2/3: The Colonel on the result becoming known swore ‘he’d be te-to-natiously obfusticated if he would take the office on any condition’ [DA].
at obfusticated, adj.
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 20 June 2/2: The officer observing a ‘Snow Ball’ approaching, who would be likely to ‘spot’ him with the convict, ‘sherried’.
at sherry (off), v.
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 3 Jan. 2/3: You don’t come paddy over me after that sort.
at come (the) Paddy (over) (v.) under Paddy, n.
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 20 June 2/2: The black fellow ‘blow’d,’ by telling him that the person with whom he had been conversing was one of the ‘Pigs’.
at pig, n.
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 20 June 2/2: Off.—Don’t you remember me in ‘quay’ up there? Con.—Oh, were you there? I don’t recollect you—how long were you there? Off.—Six ‘spots.’ Con.—Was you indeed! I was there seven!
at quay, n.
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 14 May 2/3: There is, at the present time, in this city, a rum-hole, a house of prostitution, an apothecary shop, and a coffin-ware-house, all under one roof [DA].
at rum-hole (n.) under rum, n.2
[US] Sun (NY) 20 June 2/2: Off.—I heard you used to be a good Backsman. — Have you ‘Ogled a Dummy’ any where? Con.—Yes! a first rate one for a ‘smash,’ and pretty good on a ‘burst.’.
at smash, n.1
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 15 Feb. 3/1: I mean if she don’t behave herself she’ll get a socdolager in the face.
at sockdolager, n.
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 20 June 2/2: Off.—Don’t you remember me in ‘quay’ up there? Con.—Oh, were you there? I don’t recollect you—how long were you there? Off.—Six ‘spots.’ Con.—Was you indeed! I was there seven!
at spot, n.2
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 20 June 2/2: The officer observing a ‘Snow Ball’ approaching, who would be likely to ‘spot’ him with the convict, ‘sherried’.
at spot, v.1
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 20 June 2/2: The officer supposing that by keeping himself ‘Sweet,’ he would be able to learn from the convict, in the evening, the whole of his plans.
at sweet, adj.1
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 13 May 2/3: Why, I mean that, after church was out, I went into a porter house and took a swifter [DA].
at swift one (n.) under swift, adj.
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 20 Mar. 2/2: A huge looking ‘yaller gall’ was hammering away at the eyes of a small white man in Anthony st., because he called her a snow ball [DA].
at yellow girl (n.) under yellow, adj.
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 26 Feb. n.p.: [Justice Wyman gave] an appropriate lecture on the white gentleman’s perversity of taste and his penchant for ‘woolly headed quails’.
at quail, n.
[US] Sun (N.Y.) Sept. 11 2/4: Recovery of more of Johnson & Co.’s property, and additional arrests. — Officers Davis, of the Star Police, and Relyea and Beaman, of the Independent Police.
at star, n.1
[US] Sun (N.Y.) 5 Dec. 2/2: [outrageous behavior] was resented by a young fellow, named Jenkins, who dealt a blow on Maxfield’s head with a weapon called a ‘colt,’ that is a leaden ball enclosed in a strip of cloth.
at colt, n.2
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