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[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 121: He’s a man, but he’s nothing but pasteboard. He sort of stands round, and spreads and lets off all the big talk he hears.
at big talk, n.
[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 212: He disliked a ‘blue,’ and not only disliked her, but was afraid of her.
at blue, n.1
[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 29: I’ll [...] try legs with that little Kanuck of his.
at Canuck, n.
[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 262: I tell you we feel pretty crank about having a book-writer in Crampton.
at crank, adj.2
[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 150: ‘Mr. Arthur Blague,’ said old Ruggles [...] ‘this is Mr. Dan Buck, of New York.’ ‘Plague, how are you? How’s your ma’am?’ ‘Buck, how are you? How’s your doe?’.
at doe, n.1
[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 153: Now, tell a feller, is there any chance to knock down?
at knock down, v.
[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 154: He had succeeded in establishing the most cordial relations between himself and the portion of the family which he had collectively designated as the ‘dry-goods’.
at dry goods, n.2
[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 146: Have you hitched on anywhere yet? [...] I mean have you got a girl?
at hitch (up), v.
[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 239: If you’ll take thunder and lightning and a steamboat and a buzz-saw and mix ’em up and put ’em into a woman, that’s jasm.
at jasm, n.
[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 239: Oh, she’s just full of jasm! [sic].
at jism, n.
[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career 386: When that little wife of mine says, ‘Tom, you’re a good feller, God bless you,’ it goes right in where I live [DA].
at where one lives under live, v.
[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 153: ‘Who is that fat old lollypop in the door yonder?’ ‘That is Mrs. Ruggles, your landlady.’.
at lollipop, n.1
[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 121: He sort o’ stands round, and spreads, and lets off all the big talk he hears. Ain’t he rather numerous, though?
at numerous, adj.
[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 238: He’s punkins, ain’t he?
at pumpkin, n.
[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 239: Now what’s the use of running a feller?
at run, v.
[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 239: ‘Got a smart mother, has she?’ ‘Yes sir. No mistake about that.’.
at yes sir!, excl.
[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 152: ‘You’ll find him a hard customer,’ said Arthur. ‘Soap’s the word, my boy [...] Lord! I can stuff his old carcass so full he won’t know his head from a bushel-basket.’.
at soap, n.1
[US] J.G. Holland Miss Gilbert’s Career (1870) 262: I like it first-rate. It’s a tall thing – it’s a trump.
at tall, adj.
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