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Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 16 Apr. 434/2: The ‘sympathy of an audience’ might be used to influence these wild and untutored young Arabs.at arab, n.
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 16 Apr. 434/2: The ‘sympathy of an audience’ might be used to influence these wild and untutored young Arabs. Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 30 Apr. 497/1: It could be no worse than ‘bumming,’ i.e., sleeping out.at bumming, n.
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 16 Apr. 434/2: They are also restless, soon tired of long exhortations, and somewhat given to chaff.at chaff, n.1
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 19 Feb. 212/1: They are far more brutal than the peasantry from whom they descend, and they are much banded together in associations, such as ‘Dead-Rabbit,’ [and] ‘Plug-ugly’.at dead rabbit (n.) under dead, adj.
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 29 Jan. 133: Longfellow has given us the exact meaning here by translating the words ben vinto, ‘dead beat’.at deadbeat, adj.
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 3 Dec. 667/2: What the devil are you looking at me in that way for?at what the devil...?, phr.
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 30 Apr. 497/1: My eyes! what soft beds these is!at my eye(s)!, excl.
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 19 Feb. 212/2: They form the ‘Nineteenth-Street Gangs,’ the young burglars and murderers, the garroters and rioters, the thieves and flash-men, the ‘repeaters’ and ruffians, so well known to all who know this metropolis.at flashman, n.
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 16 Apr. 434/2: One pungent criticism we remember — on a pious and somewhat sentimental Sunday-school brother, who [...] had been pouring forth vague and declamatory religious exhortation — in the words ‘Gas! gas!’ whispered with infinite contempt from one hard faced young disciple to another.at gas, n.1
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 29 Jan. 133: Anything that is admirable is nowadays said in slang phrase to be ‘dusty,’ that same as it might be ‘gay,’ or ‘bully,’ or ‘jolly’.at gay, adj.
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 30 Apr. 497/1: It’s ’most as good as steam-gratin’, and there ain’t no M.P.’s to poke neither!at m.p., n.
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 22 Oct. 490/2: A little ‘revolver’ who hopes to get quarters for nothing in a lodging-house.at revolver, n.
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 3 Dec. 667/2: Our friends the ‘roughs’ had thought best to have a little bit of a ‘shindy’.at shindy, n.
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 30 Apr. 497/2: The ‘Golden Rule’ struck them as an altogether impossible kind of precept [...] especially when one was ‘stuck and short’.at short, adj.1
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 9 Dec. 669: There is another class of similes scarcely as pertinent; as, for instance: [...] odd as Dick’s hatband; happy as a clam at high water; quicker than you can say jack Robinson; like all possessed; like fury.at ...Dick’s hatband under queer as..., adj.
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 9 Dec. 669: There is another class of similes scarcely as pertinent; as, for instance: [...] talk to him like a Dutch uncle; smiling as a basket of chips; odd as Dick’s hatband; happy as a clam at high water.at ...a clam under happy as..., adj.
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 9 Dec. 669: There is another class of similes scarcely as pertinent; as, for instance: [...] talk to him like a Dutch uncle; smiling as a basket of chips; odd as Dick’s hatband; happy as a clam at high water; quicker than you can say Jack Robinson; like all possessed; like fury; like all natur’; like all sixty; as quick as anything; mad as hops; mad as Halifax; sleep like a top; run like thunder; deader than a door-nail.at basket of chips (n.) under basket, n.1
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 9 Dec. 671: The strongest propensity in a woman’s nature [...] is to want to know what is going on, and the next is to boss the job.at boss, v.
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 7 Jan. 18/2: He returns to his tenement-house after a hard day’s work, ‘dragged out,’ and craving excitement.at dragged (out), adj.
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 9 Dec. 669: There is another class of similes scarcely as pertinent; as, for instance: [...] talk to him like a Dutch uncle; smiling as a basket of chips; odd as Dick’s hatband; happy as a clam at high water; quicker than you can say Jack Robinson; like all possessed; like fury; like all natur’; like all sixty; as quick as anything; mad as hops; mad as Halifax; sleep like a top; run like thunder; deader than a door-nail.at like sixty, adv.
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 9 Dec. 671: A learned naturalist says that all the snakes of new England are harmless except rattlesnakes. He probably does not include snakes in boots.at snake, n.1
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 16 Dec. 692/2: Why is the right hand the andiest? Is it so from instinct or education? for, anti-dexters and ‘south-paws,’ or left-handed persons, are rare exceptions to the rule.at southpaw, n.
‘Vagrants and Vagrancy’ in Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 6 Sept. 308/1: Respectin’ your note, cheap literater be blowed!at blowed, adj.1
Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 6 Sept. 307/2: To limp as if lame means ‘Don’t go in that direction;’ to wipe the brow, ‘Have a care of Bobby’ (policeman).at bobby, n.1
‘Vagrants and Vagrancy’ in Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 6 Sept. 307: Mayhew remarks truly that English cant is formed on the same basis as French Argot and German Rothsprache.at cant, n.1
‘Vagrants & Vagrancy’ in Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 6 Sept. 308: [ballad title] Bet, the Coaley’s Daughter.at coalie, n.
‘Vagrants and Vagrancy’ in Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 6 Sept. 308: Go, for a drink, is cant; inexpressibles, for trousers, is slang; a clergyman’s seals (converts) is cant; but [...] to tool a dwag down to the Derby, is cant; which was coming it strong (like Ah Sin), is slang.at come it strong (v.) under come it, v.1
‘Vagrants and Vagrancy’ in Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 6 Sept 308: Cool the esclop (look for police) is almost the only vagrant phrase with which any of the constabulary force become familiar.at cool, v.1
‘The Street Arabs of New York’ in Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 4 Jan. 47: And then as to the cops — they can’t catch the brats.at cop, n.1
‘Vagrants & Vagrancy’ Appleton’s Journal (N.Y.) 6 Sept. 308: When a vagrant uses the word cow for woman, and heifer for girl, Mullingar heifer for a strong young maiden, as he and his tribe have done these hundred years, that is cant.at cow, n.1
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