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Times (Wash., DC) 8 Dec. 4/3: This is the most chowder-headed Administration of history.at chowder-headed (adj.) under chowder-head, n.
Times (Wash., DC) 8 Dec. 4/3: This is the most chowder-headed Administration of history. Times (Wash., DC) 22 Aug. 15/6: I meets a boy in blue. I told him how it wuz, and got a wallop with the bat. He drove me over to the Irish clubhouse.at Irish clubhouse (n.) under Irish, adj.
Times (Wash., DC) 22 Aug. 15/6: I meets a boy in blue. I told him how it wuz, and got a wallop with the bat. He drove me over to the Irish clubhouse, and the whole thing fixed me up fer a month in the summer cottage. I couldn’t dig up, so I had to do my whirl.at do one’s whirl (v.) under whirl, n.
Times (Wash., DC) 22 Aug. 3/3: A spcial dance [...] wa given in one of the worst of these honkytonks.at honkytonk, n.1
Times (Washington, DC) 24 July 8/4: The main street [...] known as ‘Bedbug Row‘, will be purchased and the buildings burned.at bedbug alley, n.
Times (Wash., DC) 29 Oct. n.p.: [from London Globe] ‘Dutch metal’ [...] was largely manufactured at Birmingham [...] the term is employed as a kind of synonym for ‘base metal’.at Dutch foil (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
Times (Wash., DC) 29 Oct. n.p.: [from London Globe] ‘Dutch comfort’ is understood to be the equivalent of the expression ‘thank my stars it is no worse,’ of which ‘Dutch consolation’ is a variant, implying that, whatever our misfortunes, there is somebody worse off than ourselves.at Dutch comfort (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
Times (Wash., DC) 29 Oct. n.p.: [from London Globe] ‘Dutch comfort’ is understood to be the equivalent of the expression ‘thank my stars it is no worse,’ of which ‘Dutch consolation’ is a variant, implying that, whatever our misfortunes, there is somebody worse off than ourselves.at Dutch consolation (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
Times (Wash., DC) 29 Oct. n.p.: [from London Globe] A ‘Dutch feast’ [...] signifies a feast at which the host becomes intoxicated.at Dutch feast (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
Times (Wash., DC) 4 June 14/5: His [theatrical] tour embraced nothing but one-nighters.at one-nighter, n.
Times (Wash., DC) 12 Aug. 4/6: If that isn’t enough to overturn any theory of interest [...] I’ll eat my head.at eat one’s head (v.) under eat, v.
Times (Wash., DC) 28 Apr. 4/6: Soft boiled eggs: ‘Adam and Eve coming out of a well, easy.’ Hard boiled eggs: ‘Adam and Eve coming out of a well hard.’ Hard scrambled eggs: ‘Adam and Eve in a shipwreck’.at Adam and Eve, n.1
Times (Washington, DC) 5 June 4/1: It is plain that the Administration has received a court fiat to do as it adjectively pleases with the colonies.at adjective, adj.
Times (Wash., DC) 28 Apr. 4/6: Eggs, both sides: ‘One pair sleeve buttons, right and left’; or, ‘one pair sleeve buttons, slapped in the face’. Eggs, one side: ‘One pair sleeve buttons showing the moon’.at sleeve button, n.1
Times (Wash., DC) 28 Apr. 4/6: Pork chops: ‘Hebrew funeral, Irish pall-bearers and Chinese mourners’.at Hebrew funeral, n.
Times (Wash., DC) 28 Apr. 4/6: Ham and eggs: ‘Two chicks and a grunt’.at grunt, n.
Times (Wash., DC) 28 Apr. 4/6: Coffee: ‘A midnight alarm’.at midnight alarm (n.) under midnight, adj.
Times (Wash., DC) 28 Apr. 4/6: Hamburger steak: ‘A mixed mystery’.at mixed mystery (n.) under mystery, n.
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