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Salmagundi (1860) 232: The fact was – nor did he make any secret of it – he was determined to ‘astonish the natives a few!’.at few, a, adv.
Salmagundi (1860) 232: The fact was – nor did he make any secret of it – he was determined to ‘astonish the natives a few!’. Salmagundi (1860) 242: Those who shave notes of hand [...] are the most respectable, because, in the course of a year, they make more money.at shave a note, v.
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(1860) 214: These little, beardless, bread-and-butter politicians, who, on this occasion, escape from the jurisdiction of their mammas to attend to the affairs of the nation.at bread-and-butter, adj.
Salmagundi (1860) 216: These beer-barrels, indeed, seem to be most able logicians.at beer barrel (n.) under beer, n.
Salmagundi (1860) 215: They worry from committee to committee, and buzz, and fume, and talk big, and do nothing.at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
Salmagundi (1860) 126: Everybody knows how provoking it is to be cut short in a fit of the blues, by an impertinent question about ‘what is the matter?’.at blues, n.1
Salmagundi (1860 ) 229: The city of Birmingham, or rather, as the most learned English would call it, Brummagem.at Brummagem, n.
Salmagundi (1860) 378: Presently one of them exclaimed triumphantly, ‘Two bullets and a bragger!’ and swept all the money into his pocket.at bullet, n.2
Salmagundi (1860 215: The buzzards of the party scamper from poll to poll, on foot or on horseback; and they worry from committee to committee, and buzz, and fume, and talk big, and do nothing.at buzzard, n.
Salmagundi (1860) 241: City Hall, famous place for catch-poles, deputy sheriffs, and young lawyers.at catchpole, n.
Salmagundi (1860) 393: A glass of cherry-bounce, or raspberry-brandy.at cherry-bounce (n.) under cherry, n.1
Salmagundi (1860) 387: In harmless chit-chat an acquaintance they roast, And serve up a friend, as they serve up a toast.at chitchat, n.1
Salmagundi (1860) 163: Out he sallied from his nest like a spider, flourished his formidable horse-whip, and dispersed the whole crew in the twinkling of a lamp.at crew, n.
Salmagundi (1860) 411: Tricking me out with claret coats, tight breeches, and silver-sprigged dickeys.at dicky, n.1
Salmagundi (1860) 215: They [...] not being able to make each other clearly understood, resorted to what is called knock-down arguments.at knock-down, adj.
Salmagundi (1860) 366: Faugh! Allah preserve me from such beauties.at faugh!, excl.
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409: Filched from the Spectator, who confessedly filched her from Otway’s ‘wrinkled hag with age grown double’.at filch, v.1
Salmagundi (1860) 233: A host of guzzling friends.at guzzle, v.1
Salmagundi (1860) 284: A few noisy patriots, on the other side, who have been kicked out.at kick out, v.1
Salmagundi (1860) 292: Prime port, claret, or London particular.at London particular (n.) under London, n.
Salmagundi (1860) 259: You remind me of a lubberly Chinese who was flogged by an honest captain of my acquaintance.at lubberly, adj.
Salmagundi (1860) 393: Our worthy old Dutch families are out-dazzled by modern upstarts and mushroom cockneys.at mushroom, n.
Salmagundi (1860) 310: I give them all up for most absolute nincoms.at nincom, n.
Salmagundi (1860) 387: In harmless chit-chat an acquaintance they roast, And serve up a friend, as they serve up a toast.at roast, v.
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374: ‘’Sblood, man,’ cried he, ‘these are some of our greatest people, our fashionables, who are merely dancing here for amusement’.at ’sblood!, excl.
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163: He was a perfect scare-crow to the small-fry of the day, and inherited the hatred of all these unlucky little shavers: for never could we assemble about his door of an evening to play, and make a little hubbub, but out he sallied from his nest like a spider, flourished his formidable horse-whip, and dispersed the whole crew in the twinkling of a lamp.at shaver, n.1
Salmagundi (1860) 167: It is a melancholy truth that this same New York, though the most charming, pleasant, polished and praiseworthy city under the sun, and in a word the bonne bouche of the universe, is most shockingly ill-natured and sarcastic, and wickedly given to all manner of backslidings.at shockingly, adv.
Salmagundi (1860) 247: They complain of that empty sarcastical slang.at slang, n.1
Salmagundi (1860) 141: The people, in fact, seem to be somewhat conscious of this propensity to talk, by which they are characterized, and have a favorite proverb on the subject, viz. ‘all talk and no cider.’.at all talk and no cider under talk, v.
Salmagundi (1860) 397: One circumstance, in particular, has tickled us mightily.at tickle, v.
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