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[US] (con. c.1910) J. Stevens Big Jim Turner 104: The unweaned blubber-gut bawled and took on about how I’d broken a rib for him.
at blubber-gut (n.) under blubber, n.2
[US] (con. c.1910s) J. Stevens Big Jim Turner 12: I had bull luck a-running. By midnight I was a hundred and seventeen dollars to the good.
at bull luck (n.) under bull, adj.1
[US] (con. c.1910s) J. Stevens Big Jim Turner 19: There’s nothin’ to be done with Wiley, the more I try the more of a bullhead it makes him.
at bull-head, n.1
[US] (con. c.1910s) J. Stevens Big Jim Turner 37: Doggone it all, the pore young’n, dad gum it anyhow, the pore boy.
at dad-burn, v.
[US] (con. c.1910) J. Stevens Big Jim Turner 89: Last winter she had wound up there, after a year of catting around and leaving her brats on Aunt Sue Hurd’s hands.
at cat, v.1
[US] (con. c.1910s) J. Stevens Big Jim Turner 58: Well, by doggy! That’s news to me.
at dog!, excl.
[US] (con. c.1910s) J. Stevens Big Jim Turner 49: I’ll give you five double-eagles for her as she stands. Five twenty-dollar gold pieces.
at eagle, n.2
[US] (con. c.1910s) J. Stevens Big Jim Turner 21: Oh, foof! Don’t talk like a fool, Wiley.
at foof, n.
[US] (con. c.1910s) J. Stevens Big Jim Turner 50: It rips hell out of my nerves, Jim.
at rip (the) hell out of (v.) under hell, the, phr.
[US] J. Stevens Big Jim Turner 151: You did your level best [...] to fill the wage slaves full of holy hop [...] holy hop, I said, to make them forget they were wage slaves.
at hop, n.3
[US] (con. c.1910) J. Stevens Big Jim Turner 158: We aim no trouble for any man who is good work stock and no john .
at john, n.2
[US] (con. c.1910s) J. Stevens Big Jim Turner 59: They were so thick nowadays as to be smirking and lallygagging around.
at lallygag, v.
[US] (con. 1910s) J. Stevens Big Jim Turner 118: Their talk was mainly lying brags on all the vile items of life in cities they called Chi, Cincy, K.C., Los and Frisco.
at Los, n.
[US] (con. c.1910s) J. Stevens Big Jim Turner 37: They’d rawhide me to the end of my days if they learnt I took you into a saloon hell.
at rawhide, v.
[US] J. Stevens Big Jim Turner 204: Every new ‘squarehead Swede’ story that came along was hung on Shot Gunderson.
at squarehead, adj.1
[US] J. Stevens Big Jim Turner 117: The belly burglar, as the crew called the cook, got up at four, and the three flunkies at five.
at belly burglar (n.) under belly, n.
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