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[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 74: Hortense has saved up dose sums, and dey make $65 more, which we adds t’ de ante.
at ante, n.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 25: She does biff me in de jaw, dough, and dat’s what sets me crazy.
at biff, v.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 83: De clerk had mistook her for one of dem forn queens what was going t’ Chicago, where dey is having a big blowout for Columbus.
at blow-out, n.1
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 39: Say, I’m feeling up t’ de limit dis week. See? I had, what’s dat you calls dose tings? Blue devils? Dat’s right.
at blue devils, n.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 3: Den I give him de heel, and over he went in de mud.
at give someone the boot (v.) under boot, the, n.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 7: Say, if I didn’t come near getting de grand bounce, de straight turn out, me name’s not Chimmie Fadden.
at get the bounce (v.) under bounce, n.1
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 4: Say, I was all broken up, and couldn’t say notting.
at broke up, adj.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 26: I goes t’ de club what de Duchess tells me and rings de bell, and a Buttons opens de door.
at buttons, n.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 23: Don’t you know what a plunk is? Why it’s a case, a dollar.
at case, n.4
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 36: Dere is a little chip [...] what dusts rooms, and tings like dat.
at chip, n.1
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 32: He says, chipper as a four-time winner, says he: ‘Go home and order me a carriage down here’.
at chipper, adj.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 67: Down where I uster live I was de boss jollier wid de chippies.
at chippie, n.1
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 10: De whole gang of us, his Whiskers, Miss Fannie, coachy, and me, goes t’ de stable.
at coachy, n.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 35: I [...] pegged de coachman’s kid in de jaw for stringing me on being cooked.
at cooked, adj.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 22: I was dead crazy cause I couldn’t get onto his curves. [Ibid.] 24: Dose women folk has curves in dere brains a mug never can tumble to.
at curve, n.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 59: ‘Chimmie, would you like a invite t’ de Roseleaf dance?’ he says. See? ‘Why, sure, I says, ‘sure. What’s de damage?’.
at damage, n.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 3: ‘Is dis Chimmie Fadden?’ says he. ‘You’re dead on,’ says I.
at dead on, adj.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 4: Say, I could have give him a string bout me being a hard-working boy, but I knowed de lady was dead on t’ me.
at dead on, adj.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 67: I taut de mug would slug me an’ drag me jeans fer de boodle.
at drag, v.1
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 35: Well, I had me buttons off, and was rigged up in me new dude harness.
at dude, adj.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 36: You’re off your feed, Chimmie,’ he says, ‘what’s ailing you?’.
at off one’s feed (adj.) under feed, n.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 70: I never taut dere was so much flim-flam about getting ready t’ be married.
at flim-flam, n.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 23: Say, you ain’t as fly as I taut.
at fly, adj.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 26: Say, don’t youse get funny wid me. See?
at get funny with (v.) under funny, adj.2
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 3: Say, I knowed you’d be paralyzed when you seed me in dis harness. It’s up in G, ain’t it?
at up in G, phr.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 55: ‘Gents don’t tell ladies dey is dago igits like you told me,’ she says.
at gent, n.1
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 1: I seed a lady I know crossing de Bow’ry. See? Say, she’s a torrowbred, and dat goes.
at go, v.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 3: Say, I knowed you’d be paralyzed when you seed me in dis harness.
at harness, n.
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 48: De Duchesse she does a heap of tinking.
at heap, n.1
[US] E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 11: He took me in de harness-room, and he just everlasting lambasted de hide off me.
at hide, n.
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