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N.Y. Journal 24 July 3/2: It was really laughable to see the variety of phizzes on this occasion.at phiz, n.1
N.Y. Journal 24 July 3/2: It was really laughable to see the variety of phizzes on this occasion. N.-Y. American 21 Nov. 2/6: They had seen him ‘merry,’ ‘well to live,’ ‘pretty well cock’d,’ &c but they had not seen him so drunk that he could not stand up.at cocked, adj.
N.-Y. American 21 Nov. 2/6: They had seen him ‘merry,’ ‘well to live,’ ‘pretty well cock’d,’ &c but they had not seen him so drunk that he could not stand up.at well to live (adj.) under live, v.
N.Y. American 10 Jan. 2/6: Come, come, said the watch, none of your play acting airs — into the black hole with you.at black hole (n.) under black, adj.
N.-Y. American 12 Aug. 2/6: It is said the fellows employed in setting up the pins [in a crooked ten-pins alley], by means of lines attached to them, could pull them down at their pleasure, and thus enable their masters to ‘jockey the natives’.at jockey, v.
N.-Y. American 1 Nov. 2/5: One of these lawless intruders, who, probably excited by an over dose of blue ruin, was disposed to be troublesome and impertinent, received from one of the drivers of the hunt his pay down, in undepreciated Kentucky currency, producing a total obscurity of his day-lights and a most copious effusion of claret.at Kentucky, adj.
N.Y. American 11 July 2/3: I struck him, and we had five or six rounds in the street [...] Soon after, he came up to me in his shirt sleeves, and we had three or four rounds more, when I bung’d him, and they took me away to the police office.at bung, v.1
N.-Y. American 10 Jan. 2/2: Michael Higgins was convicted of an assault and battery on Caleb Crane, a peace officer. It appears that Crane was in a squabble with some person, and that Higgins coming along collared Crane and took him to the watch house.at collar, v.
N.-Y. American 2 Mar. 2/4–5: When near the [police] office, [he] gave his keepers the slip, and as the saying is, ‘cut dirt,’ or [...] gave them leg-bail.at cut dirt (v.) under cut, v.2
N.-Y. American 2 Mar. 2/4: When near the [police] office, [he] gave his keepers the slip, and as the saying is, ‘cut dirt,’ or [...] gave them leg-bail.at leg bail (n.) under leg, n.
N.-Y. American 9 Dec. 2/3: Oh! says he, I’ll keep this money; you’ll find no difficulty in putting ours off; I’ve just shoved off two of them; they’ll go anywhere.at put off (v.) under put, v.1
N.-Y. American 9 Dec. 2/3: Oh! says he, I’ll keep this money; you’ll find no difficulty in putting ours off; I’ve just shoved off two of them; they’ll go anywhere.at shove, v.
N.-Y. American 25 Mar. 2/3: [headline] tom and jerryism. milling the charlies.at tom-and-jerryism (n.) under tom and jerry, n.1
N.-Y. American 25 Apr. 2/3: It is said that the little man in the brown coat belongs to one of the numerous fancy-companies, organized in various quarters of the city; that he is a very forward scholar in the manly art.at fancy, adj.
N.-Y. American 13 Jan. 2/2: By this time, to use the words of witness, he from the quantity of gin and whiskey punch they had drunk, was quite fine, and prisoner was very blue; as blue as a razor.at fine, adj.
N.Y. American 25 Apr. 2/3: This new performer was a tight-built sprig, and such as from the manner of using his fives, is sometimes known amongst the American fancy as a weaver.at fives, n.
N.Y. American 1/6–2/1: [The alibi] refused to come and [gave] as her reasons for refusing, that she was sick, had no shoes to her feet, and all she knew of Green was that he was a highbinder* [note] *This word seems to be, with a certain class of people, sinonymous [sic] with a blackguard or low fellow.at highbinder, n.
N.-Y. American 23 Feb. 2/4: And then big Celia told Mary that if she did not knock Eliza down, she would lick her for being a coward, and then Mary up fist, and knocked Eliza down, and then they fit it out.at lick, v.1
N.-Y. American 15 Feb. 2/6: Mr. Wheeler. No wonder he made such a statement in his first fright. Would not a man say any thing when under the screws?at under the screws under screw, n.1
N.-Y. American 6 Mar. 2/5: Let him be Morganized, and his work suppressed by burning.at morganize, v.
in N.Y. Journal 25 Oct. in Stallman (1966) 164: If youse gits gay, I’ll knock yer block off.at knock someone’s block off (v.) under block, n.1
in N.Y. Journal 25 Oct. in Stallman (1966) 164: Youse go chase yerself.at go chase yourself! (excl.) under chase, v.
in N.Y. Journal 25 Oct. in Stallman (1966) 165: I jest cracked ’im under d’ ear [...] An it laid ’im flat out, too.at crack, v.1
in N.Y. Journal 1 Nov. in Stallman (1966) 169: He’s crushed on Dollie Bangle.at crushed on, adj.
in N.Y. Journal 17 Oct. in Stallman (1966) 244: Really, he made it seem probable [...] that Crane’s mind was stupified by opium that night at the Broadway Garden [...] ‘Dopey,’ said the policeman.at dopey, adj.1
in N.Y. Journal 25 Oct. in Stallman (1966) 164: I’m spieling wit’ dis loidy when I likes.at spiel, v.1
N.Y. Journal 18 Oct. in (1966) 256: The trial of Officer Nightstick of the police force took place yesterday before Commissioners Guff and Stuff.at stuff, n.
N.Y. Journal 5 Sept. 41/4: Captain Garret Cochran will marshal a small army of gridiron warriors on the ‘varsity athletic ground’ [DA].at gridiron, n.
‘A Reply to the New York Clergy’ N.Y. Journal n.p.: According to Mr. Campbell, the devil is the bunco steerer of the universe – king of the green goods men.at green goods, n.
N.Y. Journal 16 Sept. 4/2: Evening dress and khaki talked much sport and a little war over ‘high balls’ or chicken livers [DA].at highball, n.1
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