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[US] A. Kahn Brownstone 78: An American’s out of place. Jew talk and guinea, that’s all you hear at the yard.
at guinea, n.1
[US] A. Kahn Brownstone 10: He had relished a sense of power in distributing largesse of sticky nickel candy bars to the scrawny ‘kraut’ kids.
at kraut, adj.
[US] A. Kahn Brownstone 158: The more lackadaisical men and women in the club mumbled at her as a ‘nudnick’ because in her devotion she never forgot when someone made a pledge.
at nudnik, n.
[US] A. Kahn Brownstone 292: It’ll be so much fun, simply peachie, Betty.
at peachy, adj.
[US] A. Kahn Brownstone 74: They’d sneer that he’s tied himself to a yankee petticoat and wasn’t man enough ...
at petticoat, n.
[US] A. Kahn Brownstone 131: ‘Don’t let that pie-card pick on you, Joe?’ advised the ex-seaman.
at pie-card (n.) under pie, n.
[US] A. Kahn Brownstone 180: Maybe they’ll get bolixed up in Army snafu and forget about me.
at s.n.a.f.u., n.
[US] A. Kahn Brownstone 52: Whew, scrubbing and scratching this scabby house all these years.
at scabby, adj.1
[US] A. Kahn Brownstone 203: She refused to sit like a schlemeel and bemoan the fact that the door was jammed.
at schlemiel, n.
[US] A. Kahn Brownstone 58: Sometimes the biggest windbags’re the first to throw in the sponge.
at windbag, n.
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