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[US] J.R. Lowell Fireside Travels 185: Cappen, this ’ere ’s the allfiredest, powfullest moon ’t ever you did see.
at all-fired, adj.
[US] J.R. Lowell Fireside Travels 117: He shook the water out of his wide-awake.
at wide-awake, n.
[US] J.R. Lowell Fireside Travels 8: There too, are John Bull, Jean Crapaud, Hans Sauerkraut, Pat Murphy, and the rest.
at crappo, n.
[US] J.R. Lowell Fireside Travels 148: We all go to the slop-shop and come out uniformed, every mother’s son.
at every mother’s son, n.
[US] J.R. Lowell Fireside Travels 68: So, Mr. Porter, the young gentlemen come to drink your flip, do they?
at flip, n.1
[US] J.R. Lowell Fireside Travels 148: We all go to the slop-shop and come out uniformed, every mother’s son.
at slops, n.1
[US] J.R. Lowell Fireside Travels 177: I like folks who like an honest bit of steel, and take no interest whatever in ‘your Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff’.
at and stuff under stuff, n.
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