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[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) V ii: So, Mister Whack, you’re in a pretty sort of a botheration.
at botheration, n.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) III ii: I think I had her there, my bully!
at bully, n.1
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) III ii: You’ll be cut by all the fashionable Corinthians, for preferring ladies to the bottle.
at corinthian, n.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) II ii: I’ll be darned but I guess I’ve lost my way.
at I’ll be darned! (excl.) under darn, v.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) II ii: Name? Why darnation how should I know?
at darnation, n.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) V ii: A little space of health, and then slap-dash comes the quaver again.
at slap-dash, adv.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) III i: The dickons it don’t!
at dickens, the, phr.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) I i: I’m right down home-sick.
at right down, adv.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) III ii: Egad, admiral, this beats the Labors of Hercules put together.
at egad!, excl.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) III ii: Enter [...] The admiral fuddledthe rest somewhat gay.
at fuddled, adj.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) III ii: Enter [...]The admiral fuddledthe rest somewhat gay.
at gay, adj.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) II ii: By gum, that’s jist what I want you to tell me, I swow. [Ibid.] IV iii: Did you now, by gum – marry?
at by gum! (excl.) under gum, n.2
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) III ii: What sayest thou, my bully Hector?
at hector, n.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) V ii: I’m half horse, half alligator, and a little of the Ingen, I guess.
at Injun, n.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) V vii: What a Judy you are, governor.
at judy, n.2
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) II ii: What! you don’t know where you live? What a pretty kiddy you must be.
at kiddy, n.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) I ii: What care I for news, marry?
at marry!, excl.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) V vii: Och! murder – m – murder.
at murder!, excl.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) V ii: If my master misuses her, I’ll be into his mutton.
at mutton, n.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) II iii: Pooh, pooh, brother – ’tis nothing but the old English hospitality.
at pooh-pooh, phr.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) IV iii: I’ll pump Paddy Whack the next time we meet – I will, by gum.
at pump, v.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) V ii: He’s right good-natur’d.
at right, adv.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) I ii: Pray, was it on an action of debt, assault and battery, or Scan-mag?
at scanmag, n.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) I ii: Why, she don’t care a fig about her neice [...] As for me – ’sfoot! I am become perfectly indifferent to her.
at ’sfoot!, excl.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) II i: The sly boots laughed heartily.
at slyboots (n.) under sly, adj.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) III ii: Divine lady [...] shall we be spliced?
at splice, v.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) IV iii: I reckon he wants to be sweet upon her.
at sweet on (adj.) under sweet, adj.1
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) IV iv: Silence, you old Tabby – d’ye see this? (Holds a pistol).
at tabby, n.
[US] J.K. Paulding Bucktails (1847) II ii: Run as if heaven and earth were coming together, for he’s in a tarnashun haste.
at tarnation, adj.
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