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Conquering Our Great American Plains choose

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[US] S. Henry Conquering Our Great Amer. Plains 221: These voluble doubters are commonly called old croakers, backbiters, ‘bellyachers.’.
at belly-acher (n.) under bellyache, v.
[US] (con. 1870s) S. Henry Conquering Our Great Amer. Plains 149: I swear! Look at that! No bungin’ up of my daguerre’type, you bet!
at bung up, v.
[US] S. Henry Conquering Our Great Amer. Plains 221: These voluble doubters are commonly called old croakers, backbiters, ‘bellyachers.’.
at croaker, n.1
[US] S. Henry Conquering Our Great Amer. Plains 152: He swept his antagonists with his pistol from right to left. No one could then get the ‘drop’ on him.
at get the drop(s) (on) (v.) under drop, n.1
[US] S. Henry Conquering Our Great Amer. Plains 74: The wind began to blow an’ rain began to fall; An’ it looked, by grab, like we was goin’ ter lose ’em all [DA].
at by grab! (excl.) under grab, n.2
[US] (con. 1870s) in S. Henry Conquering Our Great Amer. Plains 185: It almost makes a hard-shell Baptis’ like me (a wink) sniffle to see these loony aggerculturalists.
at hard-shell, adj.
[US] (con. 1870s) in S. Henry Conquering Our Great Amer. Plains 326: Folks calls ’em honest farmers ’cause if they didn’t call ’em that, they couldn’t call ’em anything. All Jayhawkers!
at jayhawker, n.
[US] S. Henry Conquering Our Great Amer. Plains 182: This wouldn’t result in much, yet small the cost in ‘spondulics’ or ‘elbow grease’.
at spondulics, n.
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