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[US] ‘Oliver Optic’ Fighting Joe (1911) 75: Bah! You know what I mean.
at bah!, excl.
[US] ‘Oliver Optic’ Fighting Joe (1911) 121: If yer don’t give me a civ’l answer, dog scotch me if I don’t give yer pineapple soup for supper.
at dog, n.1
[US] ‘Oliver Optic’ Fighting Joe (1911) 120: I’ll be dog-on’d ef we don’t git captered ourselves.
at I’ll be doggoned! (excl.) under doggone, v.
[US] ‘Oliver Optic’ Fighting Joe (1911) 65: The young staff officer [...] filled his haversack with ‘hard-tack,’ and leaped into the saddle.
at hard tack (n.) under hard, adj.
[US] ‘Oliver Optic’ Fighting Joe (1911) 102: That’s the way a Texican settles yer hash!
at settle the hash (v.) under hash, n.1
[US] ‘Oliver Optic’ Fighting Joe (1911) 58: You are an old head at this business, and I am as green at it as a two months’ baby.
at old head, n.
[US] ‘Oliver Optic’ Fighting Joe (1911) 13: You are a stunning good fellow.
at stunning, adj.
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