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Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 123: And old laws are ‘all my eye.’.at all my eye, phr.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 123: And old laws are ‘all my eye.’. Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 68: I’m the big wheel, and you are the smasher.at big wheel (n.) under big, adj.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 45: Blast their impudence.at blast, v.1
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 35: Arter dinner I tell’d the Ginral about that are blasted rascal, Enoch Bissel.at blasted, adj.1
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 73: The change might give a few persons some cream, all the rest would git nothin but skim milk and bonny clabber.at bonny-clapper, n.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 31: Afore I had mixed a second glass of switchel, up they came, and the General looked as chirk and lively as a skipper.at chirk, adj.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 32: He was clippin it across the orchard.at clip, v.2
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 81: He’s afraid they’ll git him in a tangle — consarn ’em.at consarn, v.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 33: The wind kinder shook ’em all together so you couldn’t tell a checked shirt from an old Continental.at continental, n.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 45: They tell me it [i.e. a bank-note] ain’t worth a copper.at copper, n.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 167: Now just see about the Bank [...] with its hundred cord of specie, and its cart load of books.at cord, n.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 28: If you don’t hear of cracking work down there, that will make ’em stare, I’m mistaken.at cracking, adj.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 130: The tailor [...] was plagily cut down when he come to find it was only a button off.at cut-down, adj.1
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 44: ‘Why, darn it,’ says I, ‘Mr. Van Buren, I’m glad to hear that.’.at darn!, excl.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 66: It’s a nasty mean action—and a darnation rascally one too.at darnation, adv.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 46: ‘Gineral, do you want another report?’ ‘Not by a darn’d sight,’ says he.at darned, adj.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 68: I am eny most fag’d out myself, and I begin to think [...] I have done enuff for the country.at fagged (out), adj.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 49: In the first go off, you know, the General’s friends were all above matters of so little importance as Banks and banking.at go-off, n.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 50: ‘None of your rags,’ says I, ‘but the real grit [i.e. gold].’.at real grit (n.) under grit, n.1
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 20: It [i.e. a signature] is as much like the original handwritin of Major Downing, as old John Hancock’s is of hisn to the Declaration of Independence.at John Hancock, n.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 123: And the public good is now a-days ‘a hum’.at hum, n.2
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 95: I hit one of the Editors of the Globe, and knocked him about into the middle of next week.at knock into the middle of next week (v.) under knock into, v.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 34: Zekil is a knowin cretur.at knowing, adj.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 194: ‘For the land’s sake,’ says I, ‘jist look at it.’.at landsakes! (excl.) under land, n.1
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 76: The crowd was so great, I was eny most mashed to a slab.at mash, v.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 77: I never sich a mess of fellers as they have here.at mess, n.1
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 26: I don’t believe any one was drowned; but some did get a mortal ducking.at mortal, adj.1
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 201: The crittur waent on and talk’ right up to the gineral—and there warn’t a lump of sugar, or a drop of ile in the hull on’t.at oil, n.
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 63: That ’ere Josslin is a real peeler in the way of bringing folks up!at peeler, n.1
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 38: We had all been drinkin putty considerable of switchel, and cider, and egg-pop.at pop, n.1
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