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Cultivator and Country Gentleman (US) 10 Dec. 799/1: ‘Awful’ is considered a better word than very, and we are awful cold, or hot, or sick, or jolly, as the case may be.at awful, adv.
Cultivator and Country Gentleman (US) 10 Dec. 799/1: ‘Awful’ is considered a better word than very, and we are awful cold, or hot, or sick, or jolly, as the case may be. Cultivator and Country Gentleman (US) 10 Dec. 799/1: A man is not cheated, but ‘done brown,’ or ‘bamboozled’.at bamboozled (adj.) under bamboozle, v.
Cultivator and Country Gentleman (US) 10 Dec. 799/1: Everything that annoys us is ‘infernal’ or ‘beastly’.at beastly, adj.
Cultivator and Country Gentleman (US) 10 Dec. 799/1: It is finer to say ‘you bet,’ than to answer a simple yes.at you bet! (excl.) under bet, v.
Cultivator and Country Gentleman (US) 10 Dec. 799/1: We rack our brain to invent slang words for various drinks, and bring out such names as ‘forty-rod,’ ‘tangle-foot,’ ‘rot-gut,’ ‘blue ruin’ and ‘Jersey lightning,’ words that would puzzle a foreigner.at blue ruin (n.) under blue, adj.1
Cultivator and Country Gentleman (US) 10 Dec. 799/1: We allow ourselves to say [...] of the drunken man that he is ‘tight,’ or ‘boozy’.at boozy, adj.
Cultivator and Country Gentleman (US) 10 Dec. 799/1: A man is not cheated, but ‘done brown,’ or ‘bamboozled’.at do brown (v.) under brown, adj.2
Cultivator and Country Gentleman (US) 10 Dec. 799/2: A party of rowdies ‘clean out’ a drinking-saloon.at clean out, v.
Cultivator and Country Gentleman (US) 10 Dec. 799/2: We ‘take the shine out of’ a rival, and ‘fix his flint’ for him.at fix someone’s flint (v.) under fix, v.1
Cultivator and Country Gentleman (US) 10 Dec. 799/1: We hear of a house being ‘burgled,’ and that two foot-pads ‘went through’ a belated traveler.at go through, v.
Cultivator and Country Gentleman (US) 10 Dec. 799/1: We hear invitations given, not to take a drink, but to ‘hoist in some poison’.at hoist, v.
Cultivator and Country Gentleman (US) 10 Dec. 799/2: A big man threatens to ‘wipe out’ a little one.at wipe out, v.
Cultivator and Country Gentleman (US) 10 Dec. 799/1: We rack our brain to invent slang words for various drinks, and bring out such names as ‘forty-rod,’ ‘tangle-foot,’ ‘rot-gut,’ ‘blue ruin’ and ‘Jersey lightning,’ words that would puzzle a foreigner.at rotgut, n.
Cultivator and Country Gentleman (US) 10 Dec. 799/1: We allow ourselves to say of a rich man that he has got ‘stamps’.at stamps, n.2
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