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McCook Wkly Trib. (NE) 27 Dec. 6/4: Uncle Joshua drew away his hand, and Aunt Sally, in her corner, frowned over her knitting.at Aunt Sally, n.
McCook Wkly Trib. (NE) 27 Dec. 6/4: Uncle Joshua drew away his hand, and Aunt Sally, in her corner, frowned over her knitting. McCook Wkly Trib. (NE) 27 Nov. 6/1: Aunt Dinah was a washerwoman by profession and a right good one too.at aunt, n.
McCook Wkly Tribune (NE) 10 July 1/4: Commend us to the Milwaukee beer slinger.at beer-slinger (n.) under beer, n.
McCook Wkly Trib. (NE) 24 Apr. 8/2: The coming Easter belle [...] is making trips to her [...] bonnet-builder.at bonnet-builder (n.) under bonnet, n.2
McCook Wkly Trib. (NE) 5 June 8/2: The truly good men in the Senate concluded to abolish [...] the dispensing of ‘cold tea’ in the basement of the capitol. Frye declared that the whole capitol had become a veritable gin-mill.at cold tea (n.) under cold, adj.
McCook Wkly Trib. (NE) 1 May 5/5: he would sooner be home crimping boots than punching cows.at punch cows, v.
McCook Wkly Tribune (NE) 10 Jan. 1/4: [He] gets ‘a pass’ for a year, rides $25 worth, and then is looked upon as a deadhead, or a half-blown deadbeat.at deadbeat, n.
McCook Wkly Tribune (NE) 10 Jan. 1/4: One of the beauties and charms of an editor’s life is his dead-heading it on all occasions.at deadhead, v.
McCook Wkly Trib. (NE) 10 July 3/4: She says she don’t want to [...] work for a savage lazyboots.at lazyboots (n.) under lazy, adj.
McCook Wkly Trib. (NE) 27 Nov. 6/1: ‘A nasty, lazy, trifflin’, pot-licker nigger,’ said Aunt Dinah.at pot-licker, n.
McCook Wkly Trib. (NE) 6 Nov. 7/2: The previousness of the reporter was neither gratefully acknowledged nor adequately rewarded.at previousness, n.
McCook Wkly Trib. (NE) 27 Nov. 6/1: So fat was she [...] that the hot weather did not bring from her sooty individuality water by way of perspiration, but [...] a smell of frying grease.at sooty, adj.
McCook Trib. (NE) 8 Oct. 2/1: He [an Italian] also claimed to be a stranger in the city [...] and had plenty ‘o’ de mon’.at mon, n.1
McCook Trib. (NE) 8 Oct. 2/1: The old man [...] returned and ‘flashed up’ his roll.at flash (up) a/one’s roll (v.) under roll, n.
McCook Trib. (NE) 8 Oct. 2/1: Motta replied that his dad had swags of moneyl.at swag, n.1
McCook Wkly Tribune (NE) 28 May 7/2: May the devil [...] make celery-sauce of your rotten limbs, you mealy-mouthed tub of guts.at tub of guts (n.) under tub, n.1
McCook Trib. (NE) 26 Aug. 3/1: I do not believe in all this bloviating about Mexico.at bloviate, v.
McCook Tribune (Neb.) 13 May 1/3: He stood still, and looking up asked the workmen what in Sam Hill they were driving at.at Sam Hill, n.
McCook Tribune (NE) 3 Mar. 1/3: Knock downs and drag outs were recherche in their legitimate halls.at knock-down (and) drag-out, n.
McCook Trib. (NE) 22 Feb. 2/1: At this moment our faithful Ylang Ylang came in with eyes sticking out like a sore thumb.at stick out like a sore thumb, v.
McCook Trib. (NE) 13 Feb. 1/3: The commotion, arising from a reduction in forces and several Irish promotions, has about subsided.at Irish promotion (n.) under Irish, adj.
McCook Trib. (NE) 24 June 5/6: The people who used to cuss him [...] will [...] lament together that this good man [etc.].at cuss, v.
McCook Tribune (NE) 30 Aug. n.p.: No engineer or condictor has a full complement of tools, etc. upon his engine or caboose without the tribune. It is as important as a ‘Pie-card,’ boys.at pie-card (n.) under pie, n.
McCook Trib. (NE) 12 Mar. 4/4: Bob Johns hereby has our unqualified permission to pitch in at a lickety-brindle gait.at lickety-brindle, adv.
McCook Trib. (NE) 3 June 5/3: Hurrah! Hurrah! we’ll whack it to old Spain.at whack it to (v.) under whack, v.1
McCook Trib. (NE) 6 Apr. 6/4: Our leading attorney had business of the law in the big burg on the west.at big burg (n.) under burg, n.1
McCook Tribune (NE) 8 Aug. 7/2: We’ll let no red nigger o’ the north woods get the drop on us.at red nigger (n.) under nigger, n.1
McCook Trib. (NE) 8 Jan. 8/1: The boys had to quit shelling [...] because their lallygag duplicator would not work.at lallygag, adj.
McCook Trib. (NE) 31 Aug. 6/4: He will [...] set down figures in a book whe his fingers may be so cold that the figures he makes look like chicken tracks.at chicken tracks (n.) under chicken, n.
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