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Scribner’s Mag. ‘Dadgum ye! [...] by grabs, hit’s a human critter! [F&H].at dad-burn, v.
Scribner’s Mag. ‘Dadgum ye! [...] by grabs, hit’s a human critter! [F&H]. Scribner’s Mag. 2.512: It is said that the audacious among ‘bullwhackers’ dance from this elevation [i.e. in high-heeled boots], but only he can believe it who has seen them egging around in a doleful bolero [DARE].at egg, v.1
Scribner’s Mag. n.p.: Dadgum ye! [...] by grabs, hit’s a human critter! [F&H].at by grab! (excl.) under grab, n.2
Scribner’s Mag. Oct. 481/1: She displayed a flimsy red silk handkerchief and a child’s harp .at harp, n.2
Scribner’s Mag. I 329/2: He stood with his back to the fire, pulling at his whiskers, which formed what
was earlier known as a Newgate collar, with his right thumb and forefinger.at Newgate collar (n.) under Newgate, n.
Scribner’s Mag. ‘The Everyday Life of Railroad Men’ IV Jul.–Dec. 546: The fireman’s prosaic labors are lightened by being poetically mentioned as the handling of black diamonds.at black diamonds (n.) under black, adj.
Scribner’s Mag. ‘The Everyday Life of Railroad Men’ IV Jul.–Dec. 546: The mortification of being called into the superintendent’s office to explain some dereliction of duty is disguised by referring to the episode as ‘dancing on the carpet’.at on the carpet under carpet, n.1
Scribner’s Mag. Aug. 159: [He] wears gloves, and takes his meals private in his room and all that sort of ruck [DA].at ruck, n.1
Scribner’s Mag. July 8/1: ‘The Bad Lands’ is a quarter more repellent because more pretentious than ‘The Dive,’ but being the abode of vice and crime rather than of poverty, it can properly be omitted here [DA].at bad land (n.) under bad, adj.
Scribner’s Mag. July-Dec. 249/1: Aw shucks! you done made me fo’git it!at aw shucks! (excl.) under shucks!, excl.
Scribner’s XVII 635/1: Mac was dead leary of himself for awhile, an’ then began to booze up, an’ bimeby got fightin’ drunk.at booze up, v.
Scribner’s Mag. XXIII 440/1: And just then I felt something crawling on my neck. It was a crumb [DA].at crum, n.
Scribner’s Mag. XXIII 453/2: I swear I hate to lay down to such a nincompoop [DA].at lay down, v.
Scribner’s Mag. XXIII 443/2: Standing at the curb [...] are a few ‘night hawks’ [DA].at nighthawk, n.
Scribner’s Mag. Oct. 489/1: A. J. Packer [...] had begun to ponder doubts of his wisdom in agreeing to the second ‘raise’ [DA].at raise, n.
Scribner’s Mag. Oct. 445/2: I won’t scab any man’s job [DA].at scab, v.
Scribner’s Mag. XXIX 498/2: Let Martin and me mug up and get over near the fire to dry out [DA].at mug (up), v.1
Scribner’s Mag. Apr. 418/1: There were horses of every kind—except the right kind. Each one had his own peculiar ‘out’ [DA].at out, n.
Scribner’s Mag. XLIII 714/1: ‘I think he’s a Pink!’ ‘What nonsense,’ exclaimed Gaylor in alarm. ‘No detective would force his way into this house.’.at Pink, n.
Scribner’s Mag. LXI 150/2: You coldblooded shark, you swivel-eyed, skinflint son of Belial!at swivel-eyed, adj.
Scribner’s Mag. LXV 436/1: Ye fair disgoosted me with the way ye cavorted round with that Irish buggy.at Irish buggy (n.) under Irish, adj.
Scribner’s Mag. LXVI 655/2: Pink Tea Ambassadors [...] Of course most places at embassies and legations are pink tea slaves.at pinktea, adj.
Scribner’s Mag. Aug. 247: If she would only spudge around, get her work done [etc.].at spudge around, v.
Scribner’s Mag. Mar. 269/2: It was found that most of the State’s witnesses who could identify them [...] had been ‘seen,’ which means being bought off [DA].at see, v.
Scribner’s Mag. IC 21: Murdoch stepped out of his bush and shook a fist after the Hoover cart and the [...] Hoover cart went on, jog-jogging.at hoover buggy (n.) under hoover, adj.
Scribner’s Mag. C 27/2: Jim’s daddy owned the General Store and a nigger jook and a row of shanties in the Quarters.at nigger juke (n.) under nigger, n.1
Scribner’s Mag. 122 22: Gambrell is rotted, and that batbrain is rotted, and I just as soon rot under ground as to rot in here.at batbrain (n.) under bat, n.2
Scribner’s Mag. 430: [...] and thus be-tween them could be constructed a man wholly sober and another as drunk as Chloe.at drunk as Chloe, adj.
in Scribner’s Mag. 260: [...] the ancient hokum of ‘Abie’s Irish Rose’.at hokum, n.
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