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[US] S. Judd Margaret (1851) II 76: You are good, Margaret, if you do banter me.
at banter, v.
[US] S. Judd Margaret 283: Take it by and large [...] and she is the beater of all .
at beater, n.2
[US] S. Judd Margaret (1851) I 74: I guess you know as much about him as any body, old Cackletub!
at cackle tub (n.) under cackle, v.
[US] S. Judd Margaret (1851) I 19: [He] made shoes, a trade he prosecuted in an itinerating manner from house to house, ‘whipping the cat,’ as it was termed.
at whip the cat, v.
[US] S. Judd Margaret (1851) I 189: ‘Gummy!’ retorted the woman. ‘He has been a talkin’ about me, and a runnin’ of me down.’.
at run down, v.
[US] S. Judd Margaret (1851) I 64: Molly I’ve known ever since she was dropt.
at drop, v.5
[US] S. Judd Margaret (1851) I 182: He’ll have to lose his oxen if the money is’nt paid dum soon.
at dum, adv.
[US] S. Judd Margaret (1851) I 189: ‘Gummy!’ retorted the woman. ‘He has been a talkin’ about me.’.
at gummy!, excl.1
[US] S. Judd Margaret (1851) II 63: Fair or foul, hot and cold, mud and dust, I stick it through.
at stick it, v.
[US] S. Judd Margaret (1851) I 189: You never heard of the Knights of the Forked Order. There is an old song,—‘Why my good father, what should you do with a wife? / Would you be crested?’.
at ...the forked order under knight of the..., n.
[US] S. Judd Margaret (1851) I 37: ‘Stultiloquent yarb-monger!’ he broke out.
at -monger, sfx
[US] S. Judd Margaret (1851) II 291: Have you read ‘Cynthia?’ [...] It is a charming novel [...] I mean it is a delightful thing to toss off a dull hour with.
at toss (off), v.
[US] S. Judd Margaret (1851) II 277: The old man is still mercurial; but his pot-valiantry is gone.
at pot-valiant (adj.) under pot, n.1
[US] S. Judd Margaret in Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (1848) 288: I dont want to be scrumptious, judge; but I do want to be a man .
at scrumptious, adj.
[US] S. Judd Margaret (1851) I 40: ‘This is none of your snow-broth, Peggy,’ said the mother; ‘it’s warming.’.
at snow broth (n.) under snow, n.1
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