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Peck’s Sunshine 99: The average Chicago young man [...] is full of practical jokes, and is a bad egg on general principles.at bad egg (n.) under bad, adj.
Peck’s Sunshine 99: The average Chicago young man [...] is full of practical jokes, and is a bad egg on general principles. Peck’s Sunshine 42: The Boston lady held up her hands in holy horror, and was going to explain to the speaker how she was off her base.at off one’s base (adj.) under base, n.2
Peck’s Sunshine 283: ‘You bet your boots,’ says Collingbourne.at bet one’s boots (v.) under bet, v.
Peck’s Sunshine 156: To have a female confidence game played on a man would leave less of a sting than to be bilked by a male.at bilk, v.
Peck’s Sunshine 229: When they palm off twelve grown persons onto a granger, in a sweat box like this, I had rather go to camp.at sweat-box, n.
Peck’s Sunshine 287: Reading the Chicago Times article on Oleomargerine, [sic], or Bull Butter.at bull butter (n.) under bull, n.1
Peck’s Sunshine 18: The smallpox flag was hung in front of his house and he was riding in a butcher wagon to the pest house.at butcher wagon (n.) under butcher, n.1
Peck’s Sunshine 256: He chipped in an occasional remark.at chip in, v.
Peck’s Sunshine 99: Whether the young Mr. Darling told the boys that Mr. Hoyt was ‘fresh’ or not, perhaps, will never be known.at fresh, adj.1
Peck’s Sunshine 229: When they palm off twelve grown persons onto a granger, in a sweat box like this, I had rather go to camp.at granger, n.
Peck’s Sunshine 228: I will turn in on the floor. I ain’t no hog.at hog, n.
Peck’s Sunshine 43: She, for one, was going for the whole hog or none.at go the whole hog (v.) under whole hog, n.
Peck’s Sunshine 228: I will turn in on the floor.at turn in, v.1
Peck’s Sunshine 271: The infidel rakes in a cool million.at rake (it) in, v.
Peck’s Sunshine 97: He is not [...] pulled to nearest saloon by a forty horse power devil, as is the man who has the jim jams.at jim-jams, n.
Peck’s Sunshine 156: As burglars, the idea seems revolting. To think of a woman going about nights with a jimmy [...] and sneaking into rooms, is degrading.at jimmy, n.2
Peck’s Sunshine 227: The boy took the Knight’s keister and went to the elevator.at keister, n.
Peck’s Sunshine 48: Millions of Bibles were shipped to this country by the firm that was ‘long’ on Bibles.at long on (adj.) under long, adj.
Peck’s Sunshine 130: There has got to be two parties to a mashing match, and one must be a woman.at mashing (n.) under mash, v.
Peck’s Sunshine 130: There has been a great deal of talk in the papers about arresting ‘mashers,’ that is, young men who stand on corners and pulverize women.at masher, n.
Peck’s Sunshine 19: The man said he had always tried to lead a different life [...] but that he might have made a misdeal some way.at misdeal, n.
Peck’s Sunshine 131: A couple of sirens met them and one said to the other, ‘Look at his nibs’.at his nibs (n.) under nibs, n.
Peck’s Sunshine 203: Suppose all the men that have been robbed in the past year by cowardly sandbaggers, could have ‘put up their hands’.at sandbagger, n.
Peck’s Sunshine 295: We were mad, and sassy, and full of fight.at sassy, adj.
Peck’s Sunshine 240: Hold on, squire!at squire, n.
Peck’s Sunshine 248: Candidate for office so Full of Bug Juice that His Back Teeth are Afloat.at have one’s back teeth afloat (v.) under teeth, n.
Peck’s Sunshine 289: A wounded duck [...] being only ‘winged’ had fluttered into the church.at winged, adj.2
Peck’s Sunshine 85: You want to pick out a thoroughbred, that is, all wool, a yard wide – that is, understand me, I don’t want the girl to be a yard wide, but just right.at all wool and a yard wide (adj.) under wool, n.1
Peck’s Sunshine 108: He [a cockroach] walks all over the cake [...] stands on his head and seems to say, ‘Yum, yum.’.at yum!, excl.
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