![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States")
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 19 Jan. 4/1: Policeman Byrne [...] on the streets again, ready to shake the disorderly ones out of their boots if they don’t come along with him.at out of one’s boots (adv.) under boot, n.2
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 19 Jan. 4/1: Policeman Byrne [...] on the streets again, ready to shake the disorderly ones out of their boots if they don’t come along with him. Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 28 Aug. 4/3: A number of Scandinavians [...] were bulldozed into voting at the U.P. polls.at bulldose, v.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 28 Aug. 4/2: [headline] Bulldozers and Spotters Intimidate Respectable Voters.at bulldoser, n.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 5 May 3/4: It was a tellinng hit [...] you might have heard the hayrooing a couple of streets off.at hurrah, v.
Omaha Dly Bee 11 Dec. 1/4: I’ve strapped razors for nigh twenty year and haven’t more’n half got ’quainted with their orneriness.at orneriness (n.) under ornery, adj.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 7 Feb. 7/6: ‘Well, what in thunder have you got in the way of literatoor?’ ‘A pack of cards.’ ‘Ah! That’s just what I wanted [...] Bring on your railroad bible, and get me a congregation of three’.at railroad bible (n.) under railroad, adj.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 15 June 2/2: Let’s beer. I’m hoarse.at beer, v.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 5 Sept. 7/3: Kin any o’ you salaried liars put me onto the trail of a Gospel sharp that’s out of a job? I’m [...] on the lookout for a Bible thumper to touch us up occasionally on the Jerusalem racket.at bible-thumper (n.) under bible, n.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 15 June 2/2: Jack Richards was keeping cases, and he proposed three cheers for the stiff.at keep cases (on) (v.) under case, v.1
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 12 Aug. 6/2: He saw a ‘counter-jumper’ as he was pleased to call him, roughly a catch a little girl [...] by the shoulder and solicit her attention.at counter-jumper, n.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 15 June 2/2: I watched this yere racket to-day, but I wasn’t satisfied [...] The parson cut it fat, but the whole thing was tame business.at cut it fat (v.) under cut it, v.3
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 15 June 2/2: ‘Let’s beer. I’m hoarse.’ And they liquidated.at liquidate, v.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 29 Jan. 2/2: Better to be defeated with such men, than victorious with putty-heads.at putty-head (n.) under putty, n.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 15 June 2/2: I watched this yere racket to-day, but I wasn’t satisfied [...] The parson cut it fat, but the whole thing was tame business.at racket, n.1
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 2 Nov. 6/2: We’ll all drink stone blind, Vaughan, fill up the bowl.at stone-blind (adj.) under stone, adv.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 15 June 2/2: McLean read a poem about a boy on ship that wouldn’t go home for fear his dad would warm him.at warm, v.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 12 July 7/2: My friend [...] said, ‘You are a fool. Didn’t I tell you to back Morgan? He is booked to win, sure.’ This bluffed me off. It took the pluck out of me.at bluff, v.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 3 Apr. 2/3: There is just about as much sense in appointing ‘Chaw-Moth’ Cornell United States Commissioner as there would be in maling ‘Whiskey jack’ police judge of Omaha.at chaw-mouth, n.
Omaha Daily Bee (NE) 10 Apr. 7/4: She’d tumble kerplump and stop the show dead.at kerplump! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 8 Mar. 8/3: The ex-council man responded, ‘I sling dishes’.at sling dishes (v.) under sling, v.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 17 July 7/3: We had gone to Boston to make something, and so we went to bucking the tiger.at buck the tiger (v.) under tiger, n.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 10 Jan. 4/3: Such a measure would not meet with more opposition from the chair-warmers.at chair-warmer (n.) under chair, n.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 24 Mar. 7/4: His lungs became diseased, a hacking, churchyard cough racked him almost to pieces.at churchyard cough (n.) under churchyard, n.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 14 Apr. 4/4: Sometimes the purchase of a ticket from a scalper places a person in an embrassing position.at scalper (n.) under scalp, v.1
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 3 May 2/4: A North Carolina tar burner, whose cabin was literally demolished in [...] heavy winds.at tarheel, n.
Omaha Daily Bee (NE) 17 Apr. 8/4: Why don’t the police go ahead and close up the hop joints (opium dens)?at hop joint (n.) under hop, n.3
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 10 June 7/4: On Wednesday last the hoppers began to attack the region [...] three to ten of the insects could be counted on each stick of grain.at hopper, n.2
Omaha Dly Bee 26 Sept. 11/2: Ye Bostonese Lassie [...] she’s a dazzler.at dazzler, n.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 19 June 4/3: Omaha will soon be the American hogopolis. the omahog is looking up.at Porkopolis, n.
Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 8 June 2/4: Here we were shown the instruments whereby bamboo chow-chow is given to ther nadal callosities of the wicked.at bamboo chow-chow (n.) under bamboo, n.
load more results