Green’s Dictionary of Slang
(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.
(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
(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
(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.
(con. 1870) Jocknick Early Days on the Western Slope of Colorado 10: An impecunious ‘Jack Mormon’ possessing but one wife.at jack Mormon, n.
(con. 1871) Jocknick Early Days on the Western Slope of Colorado 31: They promptly ‘skidooed’.at skidoo, v.
(con. 1875) Jocknick Early Days on the Western Slope of Colorado 89: A big snifter of ‘the Gukenheimer’.at snifter, n.2
(con. 1875) Jocknick Early Days on the Western Slope of Colorado 91: It was miles to tall timber.at tall timber, n.
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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