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[US] R.H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. I 496: Into the L....rs hands [full] many a Jo / Was slily put.
at joe, n.2
[US] B. Young Journal of Discourses in Thornton Amer. Gloss. 1912: I 61: Were I to use a western term, I would say they were troubled with a big head.
at big head, n.1
[US] Letters of Major Jack Downing 8 June in R.H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) II 930: He will think that you’ll be sure to give him his walking papers.
at walking papers (n.) under walking, n.
[US] Letters of Major Jack Downing 26 May in R.H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) I 448/1: Linkin says he warn’t skeered a hooter, but was only rarin mad.
at hooter, n.1
[US] R.H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. I 75: Blow in. To waste one’s cash riotously.
at blow in, v.1
[US] R.H. Thornton Amer. Gloss.
at faker, n.
[US] R.H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. 427: Hell-kicking, Hell-roaring, &c. Adjectives indicating depravity and fury [...] These words are not genteel.
at hell-roaring (adj.) under hell, n.
[US] R.H. Thornton Amer. Gloss.
at biggest toad in the puddle (n.) under toad, n.
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