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[US] Staunton Spectator (VA) 5 Nov. 4/1: ‘What looks the most like half a cheese?’ [...] ‘Why, you infernal chowder-heads, it’s the other half’.
at chowder-head, n.
[US] Staunton Spectator (VA) 22 Apr. 1/8: Old Aunt Susan Taylor, as she was called by all who knew her, died last night at her residence in Darkytown.
at darktown (n.) under dark, n.
[US] Staunton Spectator (VA) 31 Oct. 2/3: He must eat boiled crow and acknowledge that he is [an] unprincipled rascal.
at eat boiled crow (v.) under eat, v.
[US] Staunton Spectator (VA) 24 June 4/1: ‘Bring me a dish of Marblehead tukey and look alive,’ repeated the customer.
at Marblehead turkey, n.
[US] Staunton Spectator (VA) 18 Oct. 2/6: Some officials cannot transact business unless they are ‘tanked up’ on panther blood liquor.
at panther piss, n.
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