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Forty Liars (1888) 23: They hungered for war, and ached for a grand knock-down-and-drag-out every two weeks.at knock-down (and) drag-out, n.
Forty Liars (1888) 23: They hungered for war, and ached for a grand knock-down-and-drag-out every two weeks. Forty Liars (1888) 24: Every pork-and-beans pilgrim [...] has said that the miner slings more unnecessary professional racket than anybody else.at pork-and-beans, adj.
Forty Liars (1888) 125: These bald-headed pill makers who are willing to shield the assassin in order to pat their own inordinate vanity on the back.at bald-headed, adj.
Forty Liars (1888) 31: The old man’ll give you a time check and the Oriental Grand Bounce. You hear the mellow trill of my bazoo?at bazoo, n.1
Forty Liars (1888) 31: The old man’ll give you a time check and the Oriental Grand Bounce. You hear the mellow trill of my bazoo?at give someone the bounce (v.) under bounce, n.1
Forty Liars (1888) 32: For professional melody of the chin, you certainly take the cake.at chin, n.2
Forty Liars 16: We gather about the camp fire [...] with the inspiration of six fingers of agency coffin varnish.at coffin varnish (n.) under coffin, n.1
Forty Liars (1888) 32: I don’t know the first ding busted thing you have said to me.at dingbusted, adj.
Forty Liars (1888) 31: Hulo, Fatty, is that you?at fatty, n.1
Forty Liars (1888) 155: Jewhillikins, how he pawed the gravel!at gee whillikins!, excl.
Forty Liars (1888) 141: Followed by the most jewhillikin gosh-all-hemlock exposition of camels with twisted tails, wappy-jawed giraffes and speckled hyenas.at gosh all hemlock! (excl.) under gosh, n.
Forty Liars (1888) 113: Well, a grubstake is a stake that the boys hang their grub on.at grubstake, n.
Forty Liars (1888) 45: Last week she got hornswoggled into buying some Japanese tidies of a leading bric-a-bracker.at hornswoggle, v.
Forty Liars (1888) 99: I ask you, as the representative of the all civilizing, all levelling, all powerful and all jewhillikin press. [Ibid.] 141: Followed by the most jewhillikin gosh-all-hemlock exposition of camels with twisted tails, wappy-jawed giraffes and speckled hyenas.at jewhillikin, adj.
Forty Liars (1888) 260: Vinegar Hill Sheep Dip [...] was way billed over the Union Pacific as ‘Liquid Crime’.at liquid crime (n.) under liquid, adj.
Forty Liars (1888) 184: Now, put that in your pipe and smoke it.at put that in your pipe (and smoke it)! (excl.) under pipe, n.1
Forty Liars (1888) 184: Perhaps you’d like to trade your old rattle-trap semi-annual for a library of 50,000 volumes.at rattletrap, adj.
Forty Liars (1888) 141: The wild-eyed lunatic [...] in his scrumptious swoop from the top of a flour barrel.at scrumptious, adj.
Forty Liars (1888) 260: He had been down to Sam Wood’s and hoisted in about six fingers of what was known [...] as Vinegar Hill Sheep Dip.at sheep dip (n.) under sheep, n.
Forty Liars (1888) 113: If people turn up their noses at your [mining] claim then, and say it is a snide [...] you can tell them that they are clear off, and that you have salted your claim.at snide, n.
Forty Liars (1888) 25: I be teetotally dodbuttered if I don’t think we’ve cornered the sugar at last.at teetotally, adv.
Forty Liars (1888) 49: Wappyjawed Chris tried it with no better success, and so did Polygot Pete and myself. [Ibid.] 141: Followed by the most jewhillikin gosh-all-hemlock exposition of camels with twisted tails, wappy-jawed giraffes and speckled hyenas.at wappy, adj.
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