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Knickerbocker (N.Y.) 48: A tender virgin, accidentally and unaccountably enriched with a bantling.at bantling, n.
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) 48: A tender virgin, accidentally and unaccountably enriched with a bantling. Knickerbocker (N.Y.) VI v (1849) 342: They were gallant bush-whackers and hunters of racoons by moon-light.at bushwhacker, n.1
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) VI iv: They were the men who vegetated in the mud [...] being of the race of genuine copperheads.at copperhead, n.
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) 241: Those recondite beverages, cock-tail, stone-fence, and sherry-cobbler.at stone fence (n.) under stone, adj.
Knickerbocker Mag. May 303: I thought I mought reach it with greater safety by dressing myself up in disguise, which I now look upon as a blamed foolish notion.at blame, adj.
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) III 301: Nick was made a cantab at Harvard [DA].at Cantab., n.
Knickerbocker (NY) June 439: Undoubtedly, the point to which all eyes are turned [...] is the city of Washington. The big guns of the nation are there .at big gun (n.) under gun, n.1
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) III 37: [note] ‘Sling a nasty foot,’ means to dance exceedingly well.at nasty, adj.
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) III 37: ‘She is a nasty-looking gal,’ implies she is a splendid woman .at nasty, adj.
Knickerbocker Mag. Sept. 227: There was, about forty years since, in Dublin, a low Newgate solicitor, of the name of Timothy Brecknock.at Newgate solicitor (n.) under Newgate, n.
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) III 36: They seemed to me to fall just as fast as if I was shakin’ down ’simmons [DA].at simmon, n.
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) V:5 May 436: When a person is eccentric, he is pronounced ‘as odd as Dick’s hat band.’ The origin of this native apophthegm is buried in obscurity. In vain does curiosity inquire who was the mysterious Richard, with taste unique, and hat-band odd? Was it Richard the III? or Coeur de Lion? Probably not the former.at ...Dick’s hatband under queer as..., adj.
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) V:5 May 436: When one is good humored, it is apt to be remarked that ‘He is as smiling as a basket of chips.’ Now reader, is there anything so very humorous in a basket of chips? Does it wear a smile? I never could perceive that it did.at basket of chips (n.) under basket, n.1
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) VI 12: He discovered that he was in the midst of a large encampment of savages, hideously painted, and ‘hell-bent’ on carnage [DA].at hellbent, adj.
Knickerbocker Aug. 166: ‘Clap a stopper on your jaw-tackle, youngster,’ says he.at jaw-tackle (n.) under jaw, v.1
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) VI 293: All the friends called her sister,—which, as the half was easier to be bandied about than the whole,—soon dwindled into ‘sis’ [DA].at sis, n.
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) V 146: [I] desired to know what the swindle would be for a new set of buttons [DA].at swindle, n.
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) VII 19: ‘Ain’t she [i.e. a boat] the raal bunkum?’ exclaimed Hal [DAE].at bunkum, adj.
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) viii Sept. 285: The ‘cracker’ soon discovered that he had caught a Tartar.at cracker, n.3
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) VII 17: That blamed line gale has kept me in bilboes such a dog’s age.at dog’s age (n.) under dog, n.2
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) viii (Sept.) 285: The ‘cracker’ soon discovered that he had caught a Tartar.at catch a tartar (v.) under tartar, n.
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) X 379: He was remarkable for his independence and fearlessness; for his up-and-down dealing, and for the originality of his figures [DA].at up-and-down, adj.
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) ix Mar. 259: The letter was addressed to a merchant, — one of the ‘big bugs,’ as they are called in the West.at big bug (n.) under bug, n.1
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) X 170: I’ve hear’n tell since that he was a busted man [DA].at busted (out), adj.
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) IX 123: The next week came Greek. I knew nothing of the Grammar—I took dead set after dead set, that is, I was set down [DA].at dead set, n.
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) ix Jan. 68: You’re all a pack of poor or’ nary common people.at ornery, adj.
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) ix Mar. 261: Mass Captain Ross was engaged at a scrub-ball, given in honor of ‘de fair sec.’.at scrub, n.1
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) ix (Feb.) 201: Night is the time for those / Who, when they take their wine, / By redness of the nose / [...] / Give evidence, whence we conclude / That they’re unquestionably slew’d.at slewed, adj.
Knickerbocker (N.Y.) ix (Mar.) 288: How could he see about procuring himself a pair of unwhisperables?at unmentionables, n.
Knickerbocker Mag. Sept. 282: I’ll keep dark about it, you may depend, says I. I’m not a man that can’t keep nothin’ in my gizzard, but go right off and blart out all I hear.at blart, v.
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