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[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 24 June 1/1: ‘Johnny,’ called a Seventh street mother out of the window to her hopeful, ‘do stop playing with that Willie Bricktop. It’s too warm today to play with a red headed boy’.
at bricktop (n.) under brick, n.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 7 Aug. 1/2: He floored her again and proceded to pound her [...] She gathered a rock and went for her punisher.
at punisher, n.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 1 July 1/1: Why does a man, when he gets a five dollar raw-boned plug and a ten dollar cart, have to rein the poor crowbait [...] so that it can’t see the ground in front of it?
at crow-bait, n.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 4 Dec. 3/1: Sweet milk, always fresh at the Hole in the Wall.
at hole in the wall, n.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 21 Jan. 1/4: Marconi Gets the Mitten [...] Mrs M.E. Holman announced this morning the breaking of the engagement of Miss J. Holman to Marconi.
at get the mitten (v.) under mitten, n.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 7 May 3/4: Pittman’s Praties. Mr J.A. Pittman has an Irish potato patch which has supplied him and his family with all the bog oranges they could eat.
at bog oranges (n.) under bog, n.3
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 7 May 3/4: Pittman’s Praties. Mr J.A. Pittman has an Irish potato patch which has supplied him and his family with all the bog oranges they could eat. Mr Pittman was showing one of the murphies yesterday.
at murphy, n.1
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 7 May 3/4: Pittman’s Praties. Mr J.A. Pittman has an Irish potato patch which has supplied him and his family with all the bog oranges they could eat.
at pratie, n.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 27 Oct. 4/2: He came in on the ankle express.
at ankle express (n.) under ankle, n.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 10 Feb. 7/5: The bible buster, the pulpit smasher.
at bible-buster (n.) under bible, n.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 29 Jan. 4/2: Sum sinners is bodacious an’ fir ‘ligeon da don’t care.
at bodacious, adj.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 27 Feb. 2/2: W.H. Hart, a negro attorney [...] arived here yesterday [...] to enjoin the Oklahoma railroads from enforcing the ‘Jim Crow’ law.
at Jim Crow, adj.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 26 June 2/1: Editor Lightfoot [...] is evidently off his ‘kazip’ when he says Genweral Gilchrist was niminated [...] because he opposed prohibition.
at off one’s kazip (adj.) under ka-zip, n.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 28 Aug. 3/4: The negro is a short, plump, round-faced, bullet-headed cuss.
at bullet-headed, adj.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 20 June 1/5: ‘Two fried eggs; don’t fry ’em too hard,’ says a customer. ‘Adam and Eve in the garden! Leave their eyes open’, shouts the waiter.
at Adam and Eve, n.1
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 20 June 1/5: ‘Poached eggs on toast,’ says a customer. ‘Bride and groom on a raft in the middle of the ocean,’ shouts the waiter.
at bride and groom, n.2
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 20 June 1/5: ‘Mutton broth in a hurry,’ says a customer. ‘Baa-baa in the rain! Make him run!’ shouts the waiter.
at baa-baa, n.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 20 June 1/5: ‘Chicken croquettes,’ saysa customer. ‘Fowl ball!’ shouts the waiter.
at fowl ball, n.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 17 Sept. 3/4: There are quite a few men [...] who need to Kalsomine their bugles quite often to tone down the toddy blossoms thereon.
at toddy blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 24 May 3/5: Mr Channing [...] coming home at 3 a.m., with a brick in his hat [...] tried to lie himself into good standing, but [etc].
at have a brick in one’s hat (v.) under brick, n.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 20 June 1/5: ‘Beefsteak and onions,’ says a customer. ‘John Bull! Make him ginny!’ shouts the waiter.
at John Bull, n.1
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 20 June 1/5: ‘Hash,’ says a customer. ‘Gentleman wants to take a chance!’.
at gentleman wants to take a chance (n.) under gentleman, n.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 20 June 1/5: ‘Where’s my baked potatoes?’ asks a customer. ‘Mrs Murphy in a sealskin coat!’ shouts the waiter.
at murphy, n.1
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 20 June 1/5: ‘Glass of milk,’ says a customer. ‘Ket it rain!’ shouts the waiter.
at let it rain (v.) under rain, v.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 19 Apr. 2/3: Squillions of young fish in the water from Silver Springs to the sea.
at squillion, n.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 4 Nov. 2/1: Ben is mighty optimistic, but not even he would ‘stretch the blanket that way.
at stretch a/the blanket (v.) under blanket, n.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 23 Dec. 2/2: I could mortgage the Ford [...] or not buy the baby new shoes [...] But I absodamlutely refuse.
at absogoddamlutely, adv.
[US] Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 5 Dec. 2/2: I found E.T. Helvenston counting up the result of his day’s sales. He had kale enough to choke an elephant.
at big enough to choke a bull (adj.) under big, adj.
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