1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum XXI n.p.: The queen of Minnie Street became a bride, And that bad actor, Murphy, by her side.at bad actor (n.) under bad, adj.
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum XIII n.p.: If I were smooth as eels and slick as soap, A baked-wind expert, jolly with my clack.at baked wind, n.
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum XIX n.p.: The more my sourballed murmur, since I’ve seen [...] Mame and Murphy, diked to suit the part, And clinching fins in public, heart-to-heart.at sour-balled, adj.
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum XI n.p.: Can you not see that Murphy’s handy spiel is cheap balloon juice of a Blarney brew.at balloon juice (n.) under balloon, n.
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum XX n.p.: ’Twas there before the Rainbow Club that Mame Bawled herself out as Murphy’s finansy.at bawl out, v.1
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum V n.p.: Last night – ah! yesternight – I flagged my queen [...] I up and braced her, breezy as a gale.at brace, v.
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum VI n.p.: That brick-topped Murphy, fourteen dollar jay.at bricktop (n.) under brick, n.
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum VIII n.p.: But spite of bug-wheels in my cocoa tree, The trade in lager beer is still a-humming.at have bugs (in the head) (v.) under bug, n.4
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum Introd. n.p.: The better known modern synonym for brain, ‘bug-house’.at bughouse, n.
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum XI n.p.: Love has put your optics on the bum.at on the bum (adj.) under bum, adj.
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum XVIII n.p.: Sleep, like a bunco artist, rubbed it in, Sold me his ten-cent oil stocks, though he knew It was a Kosher trick to take the tin.at bunco artist (n.) under bunco, n.
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum XVI n.p.: Gum Drop: Your tanglefoot has got my game, I’m stuck so tight you cannot shake your catch [...] So wont you join me in a tie-up match? If you’ll talk business, I’m your lemon pie.at talk business (v.) under business, n.
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum VIII: I sometimes think that I am not so good [...] That Fate has given me the calm go-by.at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum VI n.p.: See how that Murphy cake-walks in his pride.at cakewalk, v.
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum X n.p.: So am I now small change in Mamie’s scorn.at small change, n.
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum III n.p.: Then I shall strive and be the great main squeeze, The warm gazook, the only on the bunch, The Oklahoma wonder, the whole cheese.at whole cheese, n.
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum XIII n.p.: If I were smooth as eels and slick as soap, A baked-wind expert, jolly with my clack.at clack, n.
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum V 19: Brick Murphy butted in between, Rushing my funny song-and-dance to jail, My syncopated con-talk no avail.at con talk (n.) under con, n.1
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum XX n.p.: All the chronic glad hand-claspers came To copper invites for the wedding day.at copper, v.1
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum XIX n.p.: The more my sourballed murmur, since I’ve seen [...] Mame and Murphy, diked to suit the part, And clinching fins in public, heart-to-heart.at diked up, adj.1
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum VI n.p.: Rubber, thou scab! Don’t throw on so much spaniel!at put on (the) dog (v.) under dog, n.2
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum XIII n.p.: Still might I throw a duck-fit in my hope [...] To get my Mamie in my private sack.at throw a duck fit (v.) under duck fit, n.
1901 W. Irwin ‘Prologue’ in Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum n.p.: Brain-fag wrecks who want to keep it dark Just why their crop of thinks is running small.at brain fag (n.) under fag, n.2
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum V n.p.: Last night – ah! yesternight – I flagged my queen [...] I up and braced her, breezy as a gale.at flag, v.1
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum XIII n.p.: She could flag some Handsome Hank and slope.at flag, v.1
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum VIII n.p.: I sometimes think I am not so good, That there are foxier, warmer babes than I.at foxy, adj.1
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum XIX n.p.: My soul is quite a worn and frazzled rag.at frazzled, adj.
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum II n.p.: On the deal level I am sore of heart, For nifty Mame has frosted me complete.at frost, v.
1901 W. Irwin Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum III n.p.: Then I shall strive and be the great main squeeze, The warm gazook, the only on the bunch.at gazook, n.