1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 139: He found that the silence of the empty Dorm disturbed him more than the schoolroom buzz.at buzz, n.
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 180: Wasn’t it pretty cheesey in spots?at cheesy, adj.2
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 238: Gossip had it that Max was crazy about Zilpha O’Malley, the cosey-looking little waitress.at cosey, adj.1
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 314: He hadn’t crabbed the act.at crab someone’s act (v.) under crab, v.
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 154: The whole point is there won’t be any cribbers if we’re on our honor.at cribber, n.1
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 204: It made Ethelbert furious, sometimes, to watch them [...] using old Herakles as a sort of punching bag in their kid-fests.at -fest, sfx
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 8: Footy. You know. Different from soccer. Lot rougher game. I call it footy when I mean not-soccer-football, see? [Ibid.] 11: He started playing footy [...] making touchdowns and sending the ole pigskin sailing between the uprights for goals.at footie, n.
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 217: All that pat-a-cake stuff [...] and footie-footie—under the robe!at footsie-footsie, n.
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 26: Boys with gimp are those for whom studies are not easy, yet who manage, by their gimp, to attain high rank.at gimp, n.1
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 28: He was the guy that started the Ikey Hunts. [...] ‘Jew Hunt! Get that Jew!’.at ikey, n.
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 318: Dirdy little mick! Never home. Keeps joy-girls – ’partment in town.at joy girl (n.) under joy, n.
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 36: Some fellas [...] didn’t mind being lemons [...] They got a kick out of the dirty cracks and Katzenjammer antics that made them lemons.at katzenjammer, adj.
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 189: I’ve got an idea that’s a lollapaloosa!at lallapaloosa, n.
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 36: Some fellas [...] didn’t mind being lemons [...] They got a kick out of the dirty cracks and Katzenjammer antics that made them lemons.at lemon, n.
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 11: His pa was something pretty nobby in the Penn Railroad.at nobby, adj.
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 110: Well, Chuck old socks, you’re rooming with an owl.at old socks (n.) under old, adj.
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 31: He spat a big oyster of spittle on Max’s trousers.at oyster, n.
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 285: To think: old Tony [...] the finest person he knew! turned down by a goddam girl for the sake of a... a ... parlor python!at parlor snake (n.) under parlor, n.
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 22: He looks like a first-former. Sickly, anaemic-looking pee-wee. The new kids call him Ethel!at pee-wee, n.2
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 8: You just take the ole pigskin and tuck it in your belly like this.at pigskin, n.
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 24: He’d be a prune in School [...] always grinning—taking it from everybody. God! his brother a prune!at prune, n.
1931 Philip Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 213: All you have to do to sk-k-kunk an Atheist is to point to the stars and say, ‘Who m-m-made those?’.at skunk, v.
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 315: ‘Me? I got a snootful.’ He grinned.at have a snootful (v.) under snootful, n.
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 201: ‘Aw dry up!’ ‘To the can, stinkbomb!’ ‘Go soak your head!’.at go soak your head! (excl.) under soak, v.1
1931 P. Stevenson Gospel According to St Luke’s 200: Well you dirty sarcastic stink-bomb, you—.at stink bomb (n.) under stink, n.