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The Down-Trodden, or, Black Blood and White choose

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[US] W. Sketch & ‘Nelse’ The Down-Trodden 34/1: A green vest, a ‘sugar loaf beaver,’ and a ‘stand up collar’.
at beaver, n.1
[US] W. Sketch & ‘Nelse’ The Down-Trodden 172/1: Spare de nigga dis time and he’ll nebber run off any more. I’se a fraid ob de ‘cat’.
at cat, n.3
[US] W. Sketch & ‘Nelse’ The Down-Trodden 29/2: You shall have the shiners – by jiminey cripes, you shall.
at jiminy cricket!, excl.
[US] W. Sketch & ‘Nelse’ The Down-Trodden 29/2: You shall have the shiners – by jiminey cripes, you shall.
at cripes!, excl.
[US] W. Sketch & ‘Nelse’ The Down-Trodden 19/2: Mr. Tinkey suddenly mis-quoted a Latin phrase. This was a ‘knock-down argument’; a death-blow from which the gentleman could not recover, so [...] he took his cane and hat, and left.
at knock-down, n.
[US] W. Sketch & ‘Nelse’ The Down-Trodden 34/2: By gosh, if it taint tew bad.
at by gosh! (excl.) under gosh!, excl.
[US] W. Sketch & ‘Nelse’ The Down-Trodden 64/2: You can kerwallop me if you don’ have one of the worst flamby gusters that ’as come keslap agin’ the old ’ganies.
at kerwhallop, v.
[US] W. Sketch & ‘Nelse’ The Down-Trodden 67/2: O, la! a massy sakes!
at mercy!, excl.
[US] W. Sketch & ‘Nelse’ The Down-Trodden 18/1: Little pop-gun newspaper editors demanded the execution of the laws.
at popgun, n.
[US] W. Sketch & ‘Nelse’ The Down-Trodden 43/1: The result was, that a ‘stump orator’ who had been ‘stumping’ it around the circuit, became the duly elected candidate.
at stump-knocker (n.) under stump, n.
[US] Black and White XIII 123/2: ‘A three spot in the boobie patch for the guy with the bum skate,’ said the court calmly.
at booby-hatch, n.
[US] S.A. Williams Tell Martha Not to Moan in Chametzky Black and White 267: If Time got to give a hard way to go it ain’t gon be for no scaggy fay babe.
at scaggy (adj.) under scag, n.3
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