1930 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.
1930 (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.
1930 S. Henry Conquering Our Great Amer. Plains 221: These voluble doubters are commonly called old croakers, backbiters, ‘bellyachers.’.at croaker, n.1
1930 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
1930 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
1930 (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.
1930 (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.
1930 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.