1858 O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 73: The Provincial blue-noses are in the habit of beating the ‘metropolitan’ boat-clubs.at bluenose, n.1
1858 O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 206: The last effort of decayed fortune is expended in smoothing its dilapidated castor. The hat is the ultimum morieus of ‘respectability’ .at castor, n.
1858 O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 52: The prisoner sniffed, and with a crashing sneeze, / Off his head tumbled.at crashing, adj.
1858 O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 300: The young fellow called John [...] said it was ‘rum’ to hear me ‘pitchin’ into fellers’ for ‘goin’ it in the slang line,’ when I used all the flash words myself.at flash, n.1
1858 O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 143: Boston State-House is the hub of the solar system. You couldn’t pry that out of a Boston man, if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar.at Hub, the, n.
1858 O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 339: A cheaply got-up youth [...] laughed at by the girls in his village [...] ‘got the mitten’.at get the mitten (v.) under mitten, n.
1858 O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 337: The Rat-bag has stolen your piece, after carefully scratching your name out.at ratbag, n.
1858 O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 300: The young fellow called John [...] said it was ‘rum’ to hear me ‘pitchin’ into fellers’ for ‘goin’ it in the slang line,’ when I used all the flash words myself.at rum, adj.
1858 O.W. Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table 206: When the Danish pirates made descents upon the English coast, they caught a few tartars occasionally, in the shape of Saxons.at catch a tartar (v.) under tartar, n.