1953 J.L. Herlihy ‘Sleep of Baby Filbertson’ Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 16: I’m not hurt for Chrissake, lea’ me alone.at for Christ’s sake!, excl.
1953 J.L. Herlihy ‘Sleep of Baby Filbertson’ Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 14: In Santa Fe there’d been too much cotton-pickin’ sunshine.at cotton-picking, adj.
1953 J.L. Herlihy ‘Sleep of Baby Filbertson’ in Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 12: It was like that quick and sensuous falling into sleep on a night when he’d stolen one of the magic pheenies.at phennie, n.
1953 J.L. Herlihy ‘Sleep of Baby Filbertson’ in Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 21: He wanted desperately to get away from it, perhaps into a pheeny sleep.at phennie, n.
1953 J.L. Herlihy ‘Sleep of Baby Filbertson’ in Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 10: She could give up nursing and sit on her fat tail for life.at tail, n.
1955 J.L. Herlihy ‘A Summer for the Dead’ Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 61: You make a girl feel like about thirty cents. Honestly!at like thirty cents (adj.) under thirty cents, n.
1955 J.L. Herlihy ‘A Summer for the Dead’ Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 60: Not very damn many, honey, excuse my French.at excuse my French under French, n.
1955 J.L. Herlihy ‘A Summer for the Dead’ in Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 48: What’d he think his tacky little drugstore was, the Mocombo night club?at tacky, adj.1
1958 J.L. Herlihy ‘Pretty on the Bus at Night-time’ in Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 112: A real whammy comes along, a pet goldfish dies in the bowl, or somebody forgets to smile.at whammy, n.