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Hist. of N.Y. (1821) VI 235: The back-wood-men of Kentucky are styled half man, half horse, and half alligator by the settlers in Mississippi, and held accordingly in great respect and abhorrence.at half-horse, half-alligator, adj.
Hist. of N.Y. (1821) VI 235: The back-wood-men of Kentucky are styled half man, half horse, and half alligator by the settlers in Mississippi, and held accordingly in great respect and abhorrence. Hist. of N.Y. (1826) 212: They grew up a long sided, raw boned, hardy race of whoreson whalers [...] and strapping corn-fed wenches .at cornfed, adj.
Hist. N.Y. (1927) III iii 138: The tea table was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored with slices of fat pork, fried brown, cut up into mouthfuls, and swimming in doup or gravy .at dope, n.1
Hist. N.Y. in Irving Works (1864) 291: Beside each pumpkin-head peered the end of a rusty musket .at pumpkin head, n.
Hist. of N.Y. (1821) I 5: One of those vagrant genuises who seem sent into the world merely to annoy worthy men of the puddinghead order.at pudding-headed, adj.
Hist. of N.Y. (1821) VI 255: He [...] thrust a prodigious quid of negro head tobacco into his left cheek.at niggerhead, n.1
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