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[US] M.M. Pomeroy Nonsense 22: Every mosquito was drunk as a blind fiddler.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] M.M. Pomeroy Nonsense 116: I used to help her weed onions. That was her strong game. She’d snatch an onion bed bald-headed in four minutes.
at snatch bald-headed (v.) under bald-headed, adv.
[US] M.M. Pomeroy Nonsense 25: A worse behaved set of bummers we never saw.
at bummer, n.3
[US] M.M. Pomeroy Nonsense 25: One of the party got clean busted by making a fifty-dollar blind good on a four-flush, which didn’t fill.
at busted (out), adj.
[US] M.M. Pomeroy Nonsense 34: Miranda’s father had passed in his checks. He grew tired of life, and after a fit of family happiness took the poison the rats refused.
at pass in one’s checks (v.) under check, n.1
[US] M.M. Pomeroy Nonsense 33: I said in my puny wrath, ‘Dog-gone that ancient female’.
at doggone, v.
[US] M.M. Pomeroy Nonsense 48: Luria was a husky Seraphim, descended all O.K. front ancient Bulkins.
at OK, adv.
[US] M.M. Pomeroy Nonsense 41: My waterfall had got under my left ear, making me look as if some ugly man of sin had lifted me one with brass knuckles.
at one, n.1
[US] M.M. Pomeroy Nonsense 24: He was a sick-looking skeeter, and died in three minutes after we saw him, her, or it, as the case maybe.
at skeeter, n.1
[US] M.M. Pomeroy Nonsense 58: Very fine rain in Bridgeport. Lots of holes in the cerulean skimmer.
at skimmer, n.1
[US] M.M. Pomeroy Nonsense 78: I never had kissed her before, for it is wrong to kiss girls – before you kiss them! But that night, how I went for kisses. We smacked and smacked, till the owls hooted in fear.
at smack, v.
[US] M.M. Pomeroy Nonsense 53: One night I felt a little thick, and went to the buttery for the gin bottle!
at thick, adj.
[US] M.M. Pomeroy Nonsense 41: My waterfall had got under my left ear, making me look as if some ugly man of sin had lifted me one with brass knuckles.
at waterfall (n.) under water, n.1
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