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The Melodeon choose

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[US] G. Swarthout Melodeon 86: ‘What about the meaning of Christmas?’ ‘Banana oil!’.
at banana oil (n.) under banana, n.
[US] G. Swarthout Melodeon 41: Here’s to the end of the blamed storm, and a Merry Christmas tomorrow.
at blame, adj.
[US] G. Swarthout Melodeon 98: I wanted a doll, and you gave me darn old galoshes.
at darn, adj.
[US] G. Swarthout Melodeon 96: I’ll be dogged. It is.
at I’ll be doggoned! (excl.) under doggone, v.
[US] G. Swarthout Melodeon 4: I gathered, washed, and crated hen fruit till I couldn’t face it boiled, fried, or scrambled.
at hen fruit (n.) under hen, n.
[US] G. Swarthout Melodeon 38: That would be a corker, though. Oh, yes, this would be a humdinger.
at humdinger, n.
[US] G. Swarthout Melodeon 34: I went weak. ‘Oh jeepers no,’ I blurted.
at jeepers!, excl.
[US] G. Swarthout Melodeon 109: I had to figure out PDQ how to get Will to play the melodeon.
at p.d.q., phr.
[US] G. Swarthout Melodeon 25: ‘Oh, we spat,’ he said [...] ‘Don’t your ma and pa go at it now and again?’.
at spat, v.
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