Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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N.Y. City Subterranean 22 July n.p.: Ignorant blackguards, illiterate blockheads, besotted drunkards, drivelling simpletons, ci devant mountebanks, vagabonds, swindlers and thieves make up, with but few exceptions, the disgraceful gang of pettifoggers [R].at blackguard, n.
Subterranean (N.Y.) 9 Dec. 1–2: These fellows, that is, as many of them as we detected in the act [of protesting], we pulled out of the bunks in which they lay, and taking them by each leg, ran them up and down the cabin floor, according to the manner termed ‘rail roading,’ until the seats were entirely worn out of their pantaloons.at railroad, v.
Subterranean (N.Y.) 28 June 2/3: People can not be too cautious how they even touch sausages – even when made properly [...] but as they are now made, by hoeboys, and out of putrid dogs and rats, they are truly horrifying. The sale of them ought to be interdicted by law.at ho-boy, n.
Subterranean 13 Sept. 3/1: [A drunkard] had been propelling to such an extent that he was incapable of leaving the crib where he got pulverized.at crib, n.1
Subterranean 27 Sept. 2/1: [Loafers] were laying on the beach, surrounded with empty bottles, and demi-johns of swordfish — these chaps were completely Goughed. [Ibid.] 2/2: We found a fat hunker so completely pulverized that he was perfectly Goughed.at Goughed, adj.
Subterranean 13 Sept. 3/1: [A drunkard] had been propelling to such an extent that he was incapable of leaving the crib where he got pulverized.at propel, v.
Subterranean 13 Sept. 3/1: [A drunkard] had been propelling to such an extent that he was incapable of leaving the crib where he got pulverized.at pulverized, adj.
Subterranean 9 Aug. 2/4: The very worst species of three-cornered, grappling-iron swordfish. [Ibid.] 6 Sept. 3/2: This sword-fish den. [...] The deleterious character of the grappling-iron liquor which is dealt out to its besotted and depraved visitors.at swordfish, n.
Subterranean 25 May 2/4: A parcel of lazy, moneyless, shiftless porter house ‘tads’ and loungers, who occupy the chairs of customers, and watch each man as he enters to catch an invitation to drink.at tad, n.1
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