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[US] Miss Mitford Village Ser. I. (1863) 136: He turned his clowns into gentlemen, and their brother clod-hoppers laughed at them, and they were ashamed.
at clodhopper, n.
[US] R. McAlmon Village 57: His mother was [...] supposed to be half dotty in her German upper storey.
at dotty, adj.
[US] R. McAlmon Village 124: Ike [...] wasn’t good enough a customer with his periodic drunk-ons, on cheap liquor, to make it worth pampering him.
at drunk-on (n.) under drunk, n.
[US] R. McAlmon Village 233: We’ll have to stage some intimate drunk-on parties when we get back to the city.
at drunk-on (n.) under drunk, n.
[US] R. McAlmon Village 224: Ah dry up, Pete, you always were an anarchist.
at dry up, v.
[US] R. McAlmon Village 145: Walter was a dumbhead.
at dumbhead (n.) under dumb, adj.1
[US] R. McAlmon Village 136: I’m a good girl now. Like hell! But I know how to use the gimme’s with you men at any rate.
at gimmies, the, n.
[US] R. McAlmon Village 136: I’m a good girl now. Like hell!
at like hell (adv.) under hell, n.
[US] R. McAlmon Village 131: Ike [...] had climbed into his wagon and driven towards his farm hell-kapluting.
at ker-, pfx
[US] R. McAlmon Village 137: Her quickness at discovering pupils who used ponies to help them translate their Latin.
at pony, n.
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