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[US] Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart, OK) 1 Apr. 15/1: Tho’ every shamrock has with blood been wet, / There’s life, thank God, within the old sod yet.
at Old Sod, n.
[US] Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart, OK) 1 July 78/2: Bub, I’m looking for a youth about two heads taller than you.
at bub, n.3
[US] Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart, OK) 1 Dec. 30: ‘Is there a blithering idiot at the end of this phone?’ [...] ‘Not at this end, sir’.
at blithering, adj.
[US] Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart, OK) 1 Apr. 99: We speak of them wih the air of superiority with which smart city folks usually speak of rural jayhawkers and hayseeds.
at jayhawker, n.
[US] Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart, OK) 1 Apr. 99: The divorce courts are so busy that they are generally referred to as ‘mills’.
at mill, n.1
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