1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 174: Myrtle Courtland saw him coming across lots.at across lots, phr.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 64: I’ll shove it [i.e. a pitchfork] so far up his butt he can smoke it for a cigar.at shove it up your arse!, excl.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 13: A man of his word, he scrupulously kicked back a full third of the money he received.at kick back, v.1
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 4: She could have, to use one of her favorite expressions, snatched the trainman bald-headed.at snatch bald-headed (v.) under bald-headed, adv.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 1104: ‘Give me five cents’ worth of cheese, Sim.’ ‘Kind of blowin’ yourself, ain’t ye?’ said Simon.at blow, v.2
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 41: All those bohunks and Poles and Rooshans are acting under direct orders from the Pope.at bohunk, n.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 135: This old booger was about the funniest he’d run up against.at booger, n.2
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 145: Yes, sir, boss. Now you want something cold?at boss, n.2
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 278: Josephine hollered at her not to bust a blood vessel.at bust a blood-vessel (v.) under bust, v.1
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 145: The news butch was in on the green-goods racket. He was a peddler of brass watches and glass diamonds. He sold marked cards and crooked dice. And almost always he sold whisky.at butcher, n.2
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 249: ‘I ain’t takin’ advantage of him.’ Gus said, ‘Crap!’.at crap!, excl.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 243: Take your dadgummed trade somewheres else, and see if I care.at dad-gum, adj.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 25: Well, I’ll be goddamned!at I’ll be goddamned! (excl.) under god-damn, v.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 234: You don’t have to pay for it all, gosh-darn it.at gosh-darn, v.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 12: And wasn’t it likely that he would have dug out or that the neighbor would have relented, anyway, in time?at dig out, v.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 44: ‘Well, that doggone ornery kid!’ he said warmly.at doggone, adj.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 189: The drummers ought to start coming through pretty soon now that the roads are clear.at drummer, n.3
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 27: Even ol’ Dude Grant looked ready to fight at the drop of a hat today.at dude, adj.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 72: Where do you go when you have to take a dump at night?at take a dump (v.) under dump, n.4
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 113: Ritten strained a hiccough through his chest-length beard, fumigating the hall with the aroma of forty-rod.at forty-rod (lightning) (n.) under forty, adj.1
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 224: That’s right, by gadfrey! So he did.at Godfrey, n.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 145: The news butch was in on the green-goods racket. He was a peddler of brass watches and glass diamonds. He sold marked cards and crooked dice. And almost always he sold whisky.at green goods, n.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 226: There was no way he could lie out of it. They had the goods on him.at have the goods on someone (v.) under goods, n.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 103: He wished to gosh that someone would get murdered or something.at gosh, n.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 224: Sour as billy-hell, ain’t it?at billy hell (n.) under hell, n.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 34: If they [i.e. children] got out of line, you tanned their hides with a bit of harness.at tan someone’s hide (v.) under hide, n.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 257: They came down three hours late this morning [and] the foreman hopped them about it.at hop, v.1
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 71: She’s a humdinger, too, ain’t, she Gus?at humdinger, n.
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 40: There’s a couple of hunky brothers up the Calamus that own a thresher.at hunky, adj.2
1946 (con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 47: He’s bamboozled and bulldozed a lot of these light-wits into signing over their property to him.at lightwit (n.) under light, adj.