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[US] Tomahawk Nov. n.p.: Here he could fizzles mark, without a sigh, And see orations unregarded die [F&H].
at fizzle, n.2
[US] Tomahawk 19 Dec. 269/2: The Pall Mall Gazette, for the want of something better to discuss, has been moralizing over the agony column of The Times.
at agony column (n.) under agony, n.
[US] Tomahawk (Becker Co., MN.) 19 Oct. 3/5: God Almighty! You braced the . .
at brace, v.
[US] Tomahawk (White Earth, Becker Co., MN) 19 Oct. 3/5: Supposin’ I hadn’t showed down a cool hand to him? You’d be swingin’ somewheres now.
at cool hand (n.) under cool, adj.
[US] Tomahawk (White Earth, Becker Co., MN) 19 Oct. 3/5: Who in all-fired hell are you talkin’ about?
at who in hell...?, phr.
[US] Tomahawk (White Earth, Becker Co., MN) 19 Oct. 3/5: Sure, he’s the king-pin rustler.
at kingpin, adj.
[US] Tomahawk (White Earth, MN) 9 Mar. 3/4: The newspaper lobster-shift man, whose work takes him to the almost deserted skyscraper district of lower Manhattan at three or four o’clock in the morning.
at lobster shift (n.) under lobster, n.1
[US] Tomahawk (White Earth, Becker Co., MN) 19 Oct. 3/4: It was a slick job, done by no ordinary sneak.
at sneak, n.1
[US] Tomahawk (White Earth, Becker Co., MN) 19 Oct. 3/3: Wal, if them tourists ain’t too durned snooky the hoss ’ll be safe in the ’dobe-shack.
at snooky, adj.
[US] Tomahawk (White Earth, Becker Co., MN) 19 Oct. 3/5: I split my pile. If thet doesn’t make us pards, good turns an’ money ain’t no use.
at split, v.
[US] Tomahawk (Becker Co., MN.) 19 Oct. 3/6: Poggy’s been square, if not friendly.
at square, adj.
[US] Tomahawk Border Co., MN) 4 Dec. 7/1: [advt] Brazil Nuts for Christmas [...] Everybody Calls Them Nigger Toes.
at nigger toe (n.) under nigger, n.1
[US] Tomahawk (Becker Co., Minn.) 23 Dec. 3/3: Santa Claus would [...] kick a lever and down would drop a doll, ker-plop.
at kerplop! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Tomahawk (Becker Co., MN) 24 Aug. 3/5: What the blue heck was that?
at heck, n.
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