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(con. late 19C) Wilder Shore 216: It was also called the Old Rale, Big Charlie.at big Charlie (n.) under big, adj.
(con. late 19C) Wilder Shore 216: It was also called the Old Rale, Big Charlie. Wilder Shore 216: Seldom, before the age of penicillin, was a sailor [...] left uninfected by Big Casino or Little Casino, the major and minor diseases of Venus.at big casino, n.
(con. late 19C) Wilder Shore 74: [Quote from R.J. wine merchant in San Francisco 1859–1910] ‘Mr. Crocker is a bit of a blue-nose even about social drinking.’.at bluenose, n.1
(con. mid–late 19C) Wilder Shore 216: Assorted wogs, wops, dagos, bohunks, burr-heads, Fuzzy-Wuzzies, gooks, spiks.at bohunk, n.
(con. mid-late 19C) Wilder Shore 216: As for the can houses, [...] the husbands are staying so close to their wives like they were first maried.at can house (n.) under can, n.1
Wilder Shore 216: Seldom, before the age of penicillin, was a sailor [...] left uninfected by Big Casino or Little Casino, the major and minor diseases of Venus.at little casino, n.
(con. mid–late 19C) Wilder Shore 216: Various desires for perverted debauchery could be satisfied in the stalls, cribs or in alleys [...] copping a cherry.at cop a cherry (v.) under cherry, n.1
(con. mid–late 19C) Wilder Shore 38: Pockets loaded with what he calls ‘chicken feed’; pint of small coins.at chickenfeed, n.
(con. late 19C) Wilder Shore 147: John Chinaman As A Pioneer.at John Chinaman, n.
(con. late 19C) Wilder Shore 69: Turner saw beyond the flapdoodle of frontier rapscallions acting like chuckleheads or merely working off high spirits in horseplay.at chucklehead, n.
(con. late 19C) Wilder Shore 137: The Plaisance in its reinterpretations exposed the best of the coochers. Little Egypt showed her smooth round belly there.at cooch, n.
(con. mid–late 19C) Wilder Shore 34: Coppering your bet (a six-sided black chip on top) is a no bet.at copper, v.1
(con. mid–late19C) Wilder Shore 216: Death on land was labeled the Deep Six.at deep six, n.
(con. late 19C) Wilder Shore 189: But oh, the cruel, faithless queen, / She left her King and spread her dicky.at dicky, n.1
(con. mid-late19C) Wilder Shore 40: Some who tried were murdered up a lonely trail, or shot from ambush in sinister games called dry gulching and bushwacking.at dry gulch (v.) under dry, adj.1
(con. mid-19C) Wilder Shore 74: A jug of forty rod sure rousted Old Scratch out of a man.at forty-rod (lightning) (n.) under forty, adj.1
(con. mid-19C) Wilder Shore 111: Dance halls, brothels, pawnshops, groggeries, saloon made up the coast.at groggery, n.
(con. mid–late 19C) Wilder Shore 35: Lookouts have killed players who pulled a hogleg.at hogleg, n.
(con. late 19C) Wilder Shore 137: The Plaisance besides playing some of the earliest New Orleans jass (later spelled jazz) with its usual ragtime, became the headquarters of the hoochy-koochy, a dance of shakers and twitchers.at hootchy-kootchy, n.
(con. mid-19C) Wilder Shore 72: A mob of loafers, miners in for a spree, wheelrights, horseleeches and others.at horse leech (n.) under horse, n.
(con. mid-late 19C) Wilder Shore 14: Underneath this colander-like portion of the Long Tom is placed another trough [...] The spadesmen throw in large quantities of the precious dirt, which is washed down to the riddle.at long tom, n.
(con. mid–late 19C) Wilder Shore 216: Various desires for perverted debauchery could be satisfied in the stalls, cribs or in alleys [...] getting one’s ashes hauled, changing one’s luck.at change one’s luck (v.) under luck, n.
(con. late 19C) Wilder Shore 216: Mister Peters (Negroes, so called because of the legend of the size of their genitalia).at Mr Peter (n.) under Mr, n.
(con. mid–late 19C) Wilder Shore 216: It was also called the Old Rale.at old rale (n.) under old, adj.
(con. 1900s) Wilder Shore 112: Their citizens and guides who often led victims to a cul de sac for plucking.at plucking (n.) under pluck, v.
(con. mid–late 19C) Wilder Shore 53: A fusillade of lead plunked a half dozen slugs into him.at plunk, v.
(con. mid–late 19C) Wilder Shore 216: Various desires for perverted debauchery could be satisfied in the stalls, cribs or in alleys [...] Frenching, seafood mama, wick dipping.at seafood (n.) under sea, n.
(con. late 19C) Wilder Shore 214: The Chinatown Shanghai Smoke – a cigar made by a Chinese tobacconist that contained a heavy mixture of opium.at Shanghai smoke (n.) under shanghai, n.1
(con. mid-19C) Wilder Shore 189: Her grandmother most likely was shivareed by the banging of crude miners on tin pans while honeymooining in a tent.at shivoo, v.
(con. mid-19C) Wilder Shore 73: The defrocked Mormon, was suspected of printing and circulating a sockdolager of an inflammatory handbill.at sockdolager, n.
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