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[US] F.H. Sheppard Love Afloat 104: ‘I don’t care to be anybody’s fool for nothing.’ ‘Right you are.’.
at right you are!, excl.
[US] F.H. Sheppard Love Afloat 182: They come off about two bells, purty dirty with the powder and grease.
at bell, n.1
[US] F.H. Sheppard Love Afloat 180: So he’s in the brig.
at brig, n.
[US] F.H. Sheppard Love Afloat 271: He was too big a bug to spend his time learnin’ niggers.
at bug, n.1
[US] F.H. Sheppard Love Afloat 209: The bullet-headed, dark-woolled youth of African descent who was his body-servant, appeared [...] bearing a cup of ‘Navy mud,’ alias coffee.
at bullet-headed, adj.
[US] F.H. Sheppard Love Afloat 271: He had occasion to go to New York, and like a darn fool – beg your pardon, ladies – he took Cato along with him.
at Cato, n.
[US] F.H. Sheppard Love Afloat 180: Smiley . — ‘So he’s in the brig.’ Ap Jones. — ‘Yes ; He languishes in choky.’.
at chokey, n.
[US] F.H. Sheppard Love Afloat 186: D--n my eyes, you ought to be squeezed!
at damn (someone’s) eyes! (excl.) under damn, v.
[US] F.H. Sheppard Love Afloat 271: He had occasion to go to New York, and like a darn fool – beg your pardon, ladies – he took Cato along with him.
at darn, adj.
[US] F.H. Sheppard Love Afloat 151: Men a-crawlin’ up [...] tryin’ to get up and droppin’ back, ker splush!
at ker-, pfx
[US] F.H. Sheppard Love Afloat 209: The bullet-headed, dark-woolled youth of African descent who was his body-servant, appeared [...] bearing a cup of ‘Navy mud,’ alias coffee.
at mud, n.
[US] F.H. Sheppard Love Afloat 233: I leave it to you if I’m likely to come across as pretty a piece, and as rich, too, as Mary.
at piece, n.
[US] F.H. Sheppard Love Afloat 9: Queer craft and queer party.
at queer, adj.
[US] F.H. Sheppard Love Afloat 55: I shouldn’t care to be shown off as a queer fish.
at queer fish (n.) under queer, adj.
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