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Yankee Notions 12: Me no like dis white country, no like the buckrah.at backra, n.
Yankee Notions 12: Me no like dis white country, no like the buckrah. Yankee Notions 56: He, he, he! a rotten good ’un, by gum! darned ’f it don’t beet the old Nick and all nater!at beat (the) old Nick (v.) under beat, v.
Yankee Notions 57: Damn me, but I am glad old Blowhard has come to his senses.at blowhard, n.1
Yankee Notions 33: Pass the grog brother blue skin.at blueskin, n.
Yankee Notions 37: Tarnation seize me, but I’ll cabbage his bottle.at cabbage, v.1
Yankee Notions 10: Cuss you! cuss you Jonathan!at cuss, v.
Yankee Notions 9: ‘I am a brother yankee too [...] though I suppose you don’t like me any the better for that, eh! brother Jonathan?’ ‘No darn’d if I dewe.’.at darn, v.
Yankee Notions 10: ’E’s proper stuff; clear grit, I swow!at grit, n.1
Yankee Notions 37: ’E’ll be tarnation mad ’f ’e finds out I ony ben ashore a while, and kick up hell and leetle Tomy.at hell and (little) tommy (n.) under hell, n.
Yankee Notions 27: It’s apt to introduce its authors and abettors to hempen neck cloths. [Ibid.] 53: Oh, there’s no doubt we shall get the hempen cravats by and bye.at hempen cravat (n.) under hempen, adj.
Yankee Notions 9: I am a brother yankee too [...] though I suppose you don’t like me any the better for that, eh! brother Jonathan?at Jonathan, n.
Yankee Notions 44: They are towing him to the stone jug.at stone jug, n.1
Yankee Notions 8: We stopt at New York, and took in a few barrels of old Newark ’ticular.at particular, n.
Yankee Notions 33: I spose the tarnation hole [...] is so rotten big I couldn’t fill it.at rotten, adv.
Yankee Notions 37: Tarnation seize me, but I’ll cabbage his bottle.at tarnation, n.
Yankee Notions 10: Why, capun Horner, you walk so tarnation faste.at tarnation, adv.
Yankee Notions Feb. 64/2: l’ll bet my hat they’ll every one be gone smack smooth before Valentine's day.at bet one’s buttons (v.) under bet, v.
Yankee Notions Jan. 2/2: Ez. put the ‘bones’ in his pocket [...] but, somehow or other, out came the dice again.at bones, n.1
Yankee Notions Dec. 370/2: Doctor.— Why, Mr. Milkwhite, what’s the matter? Milkwhite. — Oh, Doctor! I’ve got the yailer jarnders, or the cobbler’s marbles, or some of them pesky disorders.at cobbler’s marbles, n.
Yankee Notions July 214/1: Seeing these dashing young fellows sporting their double X’s in careless profusion, [...] one of them bantered B. for a game of poker [DA].at double-X, n.2
Yankee Notions Jan. 1: [pic. caption] I’ll wait on our Jemimer to kinder riz my dander a leetle. Then if I don’t walk into them are fellers, dang my carcass.at walk into, v.
Yankee Notions Oct. 290/1: The Knight of the Yardstick sold a thousand and one of those articles the wife of the smith so much coveted.at ...the yardstick (and scissors) under knight of the..., n.
Yankee Notions Oct. 289: [caption to illus of dancing couple and violinist] Keep it up, Betsy! Down with them are hoofs of your’n! Go it, old Rawzin Scraper!at rosin, n.
Yankee Notions Dec. 351/2: Yeu don't spose a feller’s goin teu Bosting and not cut a shine, nor nuthin.at cut a shine (v.) under shine, n.2
Yankee Notions May 140/1: There is a certain locality in Cincinnati. inhabited entirely by negroes, which has acquired the sobriquct of Bucktown, and in which, as may well be imagined, some curious scenes occur.at bucktown (n.) under buck, n.1
Yankee Notions 2 227: [I]t will afford me inexpressible pleasure to chalk your hat, sir, by which you will [...] escape the payment of fare.at chalk one’s hat (v.) under chalk, v.1
Yankee Notions 4 362: I want your assistance to get ' hunk' on one of the handsomest pieces of horse flesh ever buckled to a sulky.at get hunk (with) (v.) under hunk, adj.
Yankee Notions Sept. 260/2: Our advice is to let [...] the Free Soilers and the Fusionlsts, and Adamantines and the whole kit and boodle of the wire-pulling vagabonds alone.at whole kit and caboodle (n.) under whole kit, n.
Yankee Notions 6-7 362: ‘Busthead’ whisky is Phelim's especial failing. He will try it, buy it, lie by it, lie for it, but have it he will.at busthead (n.) under bust, v.1
Yankee Notions 12 300: ‘Feast ov reson, and flo ov soal;’ I've seen this afore now, at a tea squall ov wimmin folks.at tea squall (n.) under tea, n.
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