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Holy Old Mackinaw choose

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[US] S.H. Holbrook Holy Old Mackinaw 130: More blown-in-the-bottle logger ballads seem to stem from Michigan and Wisconsin.
at blown-in-the-glass, adj.
[US] (con. c.1910) S.H. Holbrook Holy Old Mackinaw 7: Vulgar and shopworn phrases like ‘blue-eyed, bandy-legged, jumped-up ol’ whistlin’ Jesus H. Mackinaw Christ.’.
at blue-eyed, adj.2
[US] (con. c.1910) S.H. Holbrook Holy Old Mackinaw 192: A cookee is here a flunkey.
at flunky, n.2
[US] (con. c.1920) S.H. Holbrook Holy Old Mackinaw 218: Gyppo was any sort of work done by contract and was much frowned upon.
at gyppo, n.1
[US] (con. c.1920) S.H. Holbrook Holy Old Mackinaw 227: High-Pockets made away with a bit batch of boom chains.
at highpockets (n.) under high, adj.1
[US] (con. c.1910s) S.H. Holbrook Holy Old Mackinaw 198: He came face to face with the mountainous Jumbo. ‘Holy Old Mackinaw!’ exclaimed Halfpint. ‘Are you the bouncer in every jeasley saloon in this town?’.
at jeezly, adj.
[US] (con. c.1910s) S.H. Holbrook Holy Old Mackinaw 198: He came face to face with the mountainous Jumbo.
at jumbo, n.
[US] (con. c.1910) S.H. Holbrook Holy Old Mackinaw 119: He was a moose of a man.
at moose, n.1
[US] (con. c.1910) S.H. Holbrook Holy Old Mackinaw 192: A nosebag show is one where midday lunch is eaten not at camp but out of dinner buckets.
at nosebag, n.
[US] (con. c.1910) S.H. Holbrook Holy Old Mackinaw 192: Blankets are sougans.
at sugan, n.
[US] (con. c.1910s) S.H. Holbrook Holy Old Mackinaw 212: The Wob press gloated.
at wob, n.
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