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Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 11 Aug. 2/3: These nappy-headed natives are eveidently more insolent than they were before the April riots.at nappy-headed (adj.) under nappy head, n.
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 11 Aug. 2/3: These nappy-headed natives are eveidently more insolent than they were before the April riots. Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 10 Aug. 4/4: This den on Poplar Street [...] has been broken up. It was a regular ‘bowsing ken’ for rowdys and cracksmen.at bowsing-ken, n.
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 12 Mar. 3/3: A victim is styled a ‘bloke’ [...] ‘the bloke cried beef’ signifies [...] ‘the victim cried police’.at cry (hot) beef (v.) under hot beef!, excl.
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 12 Mar. 3/3: A victim is styled a ‘bloke’ [...] ‘the bloke cried beef’ signifies [...] ‘the victim cried police’.at bloke, n.
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 12 Mar. 3/3: ‘I slung my hook’ and ‘collared his poke’.at collar, v.
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 12 Mar. 3/3: Passing down Jefferson street last night we heard a couple of the fancy [...] talking’.at Fancy, the, n.
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 12 Mar. 3/3: The police are generally known as ‘flatty cops’.at flatty-cop (n.) under flattie, n.1
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 12 Mar. 3/3: A pickpocket is known as a ‘gonneff’.at gonnof, n.
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 12 Mar. 3/3: ‘Grafting a spark-fawney’ is [...] stealing a diamond ring.at graft, v.3
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 12 Mar. 3/3: A skillful thief is styled a ‘gun’.at gun, n.5
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 12 Mar. 3/3: ‘I slung my hook’ and ‘collared his poke’.at sling one’s hook, v.
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 12 Mar. 3/3: If a thief sees an officer [...] to his companions he ‘sings the office’.at give (someone) the office (v.) under office, n.
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 12 Mar. 3/3: ‘I slung my hook’ and ‘collared his poke’.at poke, n.2
Memphis Daily Appeal (TN) 22 Jan. 3/4: A Porkopolitan Victim. A young man hailing from Cincinnati [etc.].at Porkopolitan (n.) under Porkopolis, n.
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 12 Mar. 3/3: A breastpin is styled a ‘prop’, a diamond breastpin a ‘spark-prop’.at prop, n.3
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 12 Mar. 3/3: ‘Where’s Mr Niles?’ asked one. ‘He’s snared,’ said another’.at snare, v.
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 12 Mar. 3/3: A breastpin is styled a ‘prop’, a diamond breastpin a ‘spark-prop’.at spark prop (n.) under spark, n.1
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 12 Mar. 3/3: The phrase ‘tumble to’ signifies to understand.at tumble to (v.) under tumble, v.2
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 2 Sept. 4/1: A little mackeral, not bigger than a minute, tapped the till of Mr Fitchner [...] and got $11.at no bigger than a minute (adj.) under big, adj.
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 9 Aug. 1/8: A party of ten men, armed with shotguns, entered Nigger-town on the suburbs of Lexington.at niggertown, n.
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 7 Sept. 4/1: Lizzie Rossell, beer-slinger by profession.at beer-slinger (n.) under beer, n.
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 23 mar. 1/1: It was readily granted by the ninnny-hammers who comprise the majority.at ninnyhammer, n.
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 17 Apr. 4/4: Tomorrow night the great calico ball will come off at the Peabody hotel.at calico ball (n.) under calico, adj.
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 23 Jan. 1/3: ‘Old Probs’ at Washington prognosticates the weather as follows [etc].at Old Probabilities (n.) under old, adj.
Memphis Daily Appeal (TN) 14 Apr. 4/6: There are twenty-five or thirty stores, groceries and juiceries in Humboldt.at juicery, n.
Memphis Daily Appeal (TN) 21 Sept. 3/2: A few more jerks of the weather machine and big Muddy will freeze as tight as Dick’s hatband.at tight as Dick’s hatband (adj.) under Dick’s hatband, n.
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 28 July 3/3: The boys [...] see ther banks cave in, and hear the chunks of levee ho in, ker-chug!at kerchug! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 16 Mar. 2/2: The legislature should be made up of gentlemen of extended experience [...] not of musheaded weaklings.at mush-headed (adj.) under mush-head, n.
Memphis Daily Appeal (TN) 9 Dec. 2/4: But’s de banjo dat you wants to hear, sah, / [...] / Jis set yourself sdown in dat cheer, sah, / And I’ll make her jes come up to chalk.at come up to (the chalk) (v.) under come up, v.1
Memphis Dly Appeal (TN) 13 June 4/5: ’Twould cause the eyes of Rutherford to stick out a mile and a half.at stick out like a sore thumb, v.
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