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[US] Donaldsville Chief (LA) 7 Sept. 1/2: The names of the drinks most in vogue [...] yard of flannel, locomotive, corpse reviver [...].
at corpse reviver (n.) under corpse, n.
[US] Donaldsville Chief (LA) 7 Sept. 1/2: The names of the drinks most in vogue [...] yard of flannel, locomotive, corpse reviver [...].
at flannel, n.1
[US] Donaldsville Chief (LA) 7 Sept. 1/2: The names of the drinks most in vogue [...] yard of flannel, locomotive, corpse reviver [...].
at locomotive, n.
[US] Donaldsville Chief (LA) 29 May 1/6: Bejabbers, we shall have to take the weather as it comes.
at bejabers!, excl.
[US] Donaldsville Chief (LA) 29 May 1/6: Story, the sculptor, is making a sensation in Florence, Italy, by his impersonation of Shylock, was also a chiseler.
at chiseler, n.
[US] Donaldson Chief (LA) 23 Mar. 1/2: Well then, by Jimminy Pelt, by dad, by hokey, by the long-armed soon, by jocks.
at by the great horn spoon! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[US] Donaldson Chief (LA) 23 Mar. 1/2: Well then, by Jimminy Pelt, by dad, by hokey, by the long-armed spoon, by jocks.
at by hokey! (excl.) under hokey, n.1
[US] Donaldson Chief (LA) 23 Mar. 1/2: Well then, by Jimminy Pelt, by dad, by hokey, by the long-armed spoon, by jocks.
at jiminy!, excl.
[US] Donaldson Chief (LA) 23 Mar. 1/2: Well then, by Jimminy Pelt, by dad, by hokey, by the long-armed soon, by jocks.
at jocks, n.
[US] Donaldson Chief (LA) 23 Mar. 1/2: May I be teetotally cow kicked over by a bull rush.
at teetotally, adv.
[US] Donaldson Chief (LA) 27 Sept. 2/6: Let’s have a pleasant chat up on things in general.
at chat-up, n.
[US] Donaldson Chief (LA) 27 Sept. 2/3: The corn-juicy cowboy.
at corn juice (n.) under corn, n.1
[US] Donaldsville Chief (LA) 26 Sept. 1/5: We had the pleasure of seeing him stuck for seven big cart-wheels by a street fakir.
at cartwheel, n.1
[US] Donaldsville Chief (LA) 26 Sept. 1/6: If they’d see us all coming out of a palace car, with linen dusters on, we’d have ’em so dead to rights that they’d throw up their hands and go to pieces before a ball was pitched.
at dead to rights, phr.
[US] Donaldsville Chief (LA) 26 Sept. 1/5: Great Caesar’s North Amiercan Ghost! did you see him dash that ball down here?
at great Caesar! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
[US] Donaldsville Chief (LA) 26 Sept. 1/6: We were the acknowledged champions of the country [...] We made up our minds to mop the earth up with them.
at mop (up), v.
[US] Donaldsville Chief (LA) 26 Sept. 1/6: Aw you’re enough to give any one the nancys. Do you know what I think of you Bunion? I think that you’re a reasl live dude, now there!
at nancy, n.
[US] Donaldsville Chief (LA) 26 Sept. 1/5: Idle capital to the amount of twenty-eight plunkers was not floating around as promiscuously as before.
at plunk, n.
[US] Donaldsville Chief (LA) 26 Sept. 1/6: McGinty couldn’t find any shoes to fit him, and came down in his old ratsy looking brogans.
at ratty, adj.
[US] Donaldsville Chief (LA) 26 Sept. 1/6: Hustle around [...] and take along a nigger or a Chinaman to mind the bats. Paralyze the sod-busters!
at sod-buster (n.) under sod, n.4
[US] Donaldsville Chief (LA) 26 Sept. 1/5: We had the pleasure of seeing him stuck for seven big cart-wheels by a street fakir.
at stick, v.
[US] Donaldsville Chief (LA) 26 Sept. 1/6: He embellished his elegant flow of language [...] with bright gems from the slang of the profesh and talked about ‘tin-horn’ players.
at tinhorn, adj.
[US] Donaldsville Chief (LA) 26 Sept. 1/3: That’s the way to give it to them yaps out there.
at yap, n.1
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