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Early Days on the Western Slope of Colorado choose

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[US] (con. 1871) Jocknick Early Days on the Western Slope of Colorado 22: Calling the agent by opprobious names, such as ‘Old Stiff,’ ‘Cabbage Head,’ ‘Horse’s Ass,’ etc.
at horse’s ass, n.
[US] (con. 1875) Jocknick Early Days on the Western Slope of Colorado 90: That demijohn of ‘Old Budge!’ that booze! which makes all our troubles so light!
at budge, n.2
[US] (con. 1875) Jocknick Early Days on the Western Slope of Colorado 84: None too willingly did our cow-ponies submit to be thus used as ‘packers’ [...] We had the time of our lives to get the ‘bulls’ to pull even the empty schooner to the top.
at bull, n.1
[US] (con. 1871) Jocknick Early Days on the Western Slope of Colorado 33: Mr. Trask did not at first grasp the idea that I was ‘it,’ — ‘the hashee;’ not until I had appropriated an apron.
at hasher, n.
[US] (con. 1870) Jocknick Early Days on the Western Slope of Colorado 10: An impecunious ‘Jack Mormon’ possessing but one wife.
at jack Mormon, n.
[US] (con. 1871) Jocknick Early Days on the Western Slope of Colorado 31: They promptly ‘skidooed’.
at skidoo, v.
[US] (con. 1875) Jocknick Early Days on the Western Slope of Colorado 89: A big snifter of ‘the Gukenheimer’.
at snifter, n.2
[US] (con. 1875) Jocknick Early Days on the Western Slope of Colorado 91: It was miles to tall timber.
at tall timber, n.
[US] H.P. Howard Early Days Ch.1 🌐 Our house had two small bedrooms, mam and dad in the front one and all of us in the back one in two beds: four girls in one and us three boys in the other, with a pot under each bed which we called a ‘guzunder’.
at guzunder, n.
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