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[US] J. Mitchell ‘Professor Sea Gull’ in Joe Gould’s Secret (1996) 13: The Oral History is a great hodgepodge [...] an omnium gatherum of bushwa, gab, palaver, hogwash, flapdoodle, and malarkey.
at bushwa, n.
[US] J. Mitchell ‘Professor Sea Gull’ in Joe Gould’s Secret (1996) 4: Cowboy coffee, he says, is strong coffee drunk black without sugar.
at cowboy coffee (n.) under cowboy, n.
[US] J. Mitchell ‘Professor Sea Gull’ in Joe Gould’s Secret (1996) 13: William Shakespeare didn’t sit around pecking on a dirty, damned, ninety-five-dollar doohickey.
at dohickey, n.1
[US] J. Mitchell ‘Professor Sea Gull’ in Joe Gould’s Secret (1996) 18: A fuddy-duddy old maid’s game.
at fuddy-duddy, adj.
[US] J. Mitchell ‘Professor Sea Gull’ in Joe Gould’s Secret (1996) 13: The Oral History is a great hodgepodge of [...] gab, palaver, hogwash, flapdoodle, and malarkey.
at flapdoodle, n.2
[US] J. Mitchell ‘Professor Sea Gull’ in Joe Gould’s Secret (1996) 13: The Oral History is a great hodgepodge of [...] gab, palaver, hogwash, flapdoodle, and malarkey.
at gab, n.2
[US] J. Mitchell ‘Professor Sea Gull’ in Joe Gould’s Secret (1996) 13: Gould haunted the all-night greasy spoons.
at greasy spoon, n.1
[US] J. Mitchell ‘Professor Sea Gull’ in Joe Gould’s Secret (1996) 4: It’s the only grub I know of that’s free of charge.
at grub, n.2
[US] J. Mitchell ‘Professor Sea Gull’ in Joe Gould’s Secret (1996) 21: I can walk up and down in front of a gin mill for ten minutes, breathing real deep, and get a jag on.
at get a jag on (v.) under jag, n.1
[US] J. Mitchell ‘Professor Sea Gull’ in Joe Gould’s Secret (1996) 21: A couple of beers or a single jigger of gin will untie his tongue.
at jigger, n.3
[US] J. Mitchell ‘Professor Sea Gull’ in Joe Gould’s Secret (1996) 12: A couple of generations after I’m dead and gone [...] the Ph.D’s will start lousing through my work.
at louse, v.
[US] J. Mitchell ‘Professor Sea Gull’ Joe Gould’s Secret (1996) 13: The Oral History is a great hodgepodge of [...] gab, palaver, hogwash, flapdoodle, and malarkey.
at palaver, n.
[US] J. Mitchell Joe Gould’s Secret (1996) 90: The old cook got it all balled up.
at balled-up, adj.
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