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[US] Dickens letter 7 June in Sel. Letters (2012) 120: Yor’ne too cheekish by half Governor. [...] You’d better take it out of yourself by a month and labour, on the Mill.
at cheekish (adj.) under cheek, n.2
[US] F. Remington letter in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 12: We’ve got a staving old Latin lesson today.
at staving, adj.
[US] F. Remington letter 13 Nov. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 16: He demands these articles and interests the Gov. to put on the ‘mitts’ with him [...] When he get [sic] old enough I’ll learn him to ‘box’.
at mitt, n.
[US] F. Remington letter in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 14: I can spoil an immense amount of good grub at any time.
at spoil, v.
[US] F. Remington letter in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 27: If any son-of-a-gun says they are not the ‘daisy thing’ he never breathed the fumes.
at sonofagun, n.
[US] F. Remington letter in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 48: He owned a red snot-rag.
at snotrag, n.
[US] F. Remington letter 31 Oct. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 109: So you are a ‘bloomin’ artillery man – a red leg.
at redleg (n.) under red, adj.
[US] F. Remington letter 2 Nov. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 124: I like Tommy Atkins but he won’t be in it.
at Tommy Atkins, n.
[US] F. Remington letter 27 June in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 140: D--- those stinking Russians.
at stinking, adj.1
[US] F. Remington letter 14 Oct. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 150: It makes a man look like a grizzly bear and feel like one but its the stuff.
at stuff, the, n.
[US] F. Remington letter 26 July in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 147: America is much maligned and I ‘tie right up to her.’.
at tie up, v.3
[US] F. Remington letter 22 Apr. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 168: I took the old lady to a quiet visit to the jug.
at old lady, n.
[US] F. Remington letter May in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 171: Very interesting and dead right – make all the Moxies crazy and red in the face.
at mockie, n.
[US] F. Remington letter 13 Nov. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 167: He’s good for soldiers but he would make life hell for poops & doods.
at poop, n.3
[US] F. Remington letter 29 Apr. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 168: The stinking Russian Jews [...] such loathsome coin loving puds.
at pud, n.1
[US] F. Remington letter 29 Apr. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 169: Not if your ‘Uncle Samuel’ is ‘on’ at the time.
at Uncle Sam, n.1
[US] F. Remington Sel. Letters Jan–Feb. (1988) 206: Apaches charged gallantly – infantry got a Foot – shot em up to beat hell.
at beat hell (v.) under hell, the, phr.
[US] F. Remington letter in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 249: The great house of Harper [...] play on the credulity of the pencil-pusher like a state legislator does on his followers.
at pencil-pusher, n.
[US] F. Remington letter 19 Mar. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 128: You are a sad dog.
at sad dog (n.) under sad, adj.
[US] F. Remington letter 13 Nov. in Splete Sel. Letters (1988) 73: I am in a sweat of a hurry.
at sweat, n.
[US] E.E. Cummings in Dupee & Stade Sel. Letters (1972) 4 June 26: By failing to get up at the hour of 5.45 AM I escaped departing with the bums mutts and jeffs (not to say ginks, slobs, and punks) who came over with us.
at slob, n.1
[US] E.E. Cummings letter 2 July Dupee & Stade Sel. Letters (1972) 27: He’s a tight-fisted [...] turd, about 5 feet high.
at turd, n.
[US] E. O’Neill letter Apr. Sel. Letters 242: I owe it to myself — and you owe it to me — to have comparative peace of mind or I shall go bugs entirely.
at go bugs (v.) under bugs, adj.
[US] W.C. Williams letter 11 Aug. in Sel. Letters (1957) 103: Marianne gets little credit for her fight in New York but stands aces high with me for what she is doing.
at stand ace-high (v.) under ace-high, adj.
[US] D. Thomas letter Oct. Sel. Letters (1966) 31: This method of letter writing, this selection of odd notes, is very satisfying, but it’s a swine in some ways.
at swine, n.
[UK] D. Thomas letter Nov. in Sel. Letters (1966) 53: Farmers’ boys pressed amorously upon the udders of their dairymaids .
at udders, n.
[US] D. Thomas letter 11 May Sel. Letters (1966) 128: Wee on the sun that he bloody well shines not. Soon I see you .
at wee, v.
[US] Kerouac letter 6 Dec. in Charters Sel. Letters II (1999) 227: Dammit, I was passed out (my ma too) after drinking waiting for you and others.
at damn it!, excl.
[US] M. Laurence Sel. Letters 277: Jocelyn thinks Perm is Endsville, which indeed it is, but at the same time it gives her a place to escape from and also to return to, sometimes.
at Endsville, n.
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