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[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 37: Miss Fannie sent for me and I gives her a great song and dance bout how de gents was only wantin t’ do de slums, and never meant to see no scrappin.
at give someone a song and dance (v.) under song and dance, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 96: Just get tick as two tieves and spoon a little.
at ...thieves under thick as..., adj.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 10: Dat’s de way wid women; if you try t’ find out what dey do or don’t do tings for, you’re worse off your base dan before.
at off one’s base (adj.) under base, n.2
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 42: Mr. Paul painted his Whiskers’s beak, and you could see it a mile tru a fog!
at beak, n.2
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 93: I never put up a bean; never showed de color of de long green onct.
at bean, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 76: Shure, whin our daily work is o’er, / Bedad, our bones is tired and sore.
at bedad!, excl.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 122: Dey is wonders, blind, staggerin wonders, in dere wheel make-up!
at blind, adj.2
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 84: His Whiskers had blowed off de mug at his house here, and his club [...] but in England de mug never blowed off his Whiskers, but only just called on him and Miss Fannie onct.
at blow off, v.2
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 17: Say, I made all kinds of bluffs bout de room, like I was gettin busy wid doin tings.
at bluff, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 93: De clerks gives me de glad hand like I’d trun boodle all over de stores.
at boodle, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 56: I wouldn’t tink I was earnin me wages if it wasn’t for Mr. Paul sayin what was de matter wid me openin a small bot for him [...] pretty often.
at bot, n.2
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 67: ’E says dat I was er pretty fly boy, an’ otter be in polytics.
at fly-boy, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 7: Say, honest, dat broke me all up.
at break up, v.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 20: De dude has money t’ burn a wet dog wid.
at to burn (adv.) under burn, v.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 12: De Duchess she calls me down hard.
at call down, v.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 203: He abused her terrible, and the chair is too good for him.* (footnote: The electrical execution chair).
at chair, the, n.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 122: De Duchess and dat chip Maggie! say, dey’d put your eyes out in a minute if ever you’d see em unexpected.
at chip, n.3
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 25: I mean dose pieces what says what mug has de dead cinch on bein de dandiest dresser on de avenoo.
at cinch, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 101: She’d yell murder when she’d jolt her conk. Eh? Don’t you cop dat: ‘jolt her conk?’ Why, dat’s bump her head.
at conk, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 182: Dey bote jumped up, real saucy, and flew de coop widout so much as saying ‘s’long’.
at fly the coop (v.) under coop, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 92: I was comin in t’ town for some errants for Miss Fannie, when de widdy cops me.
at cop, v.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 37: De Duchess never let up on me till I had coughed up dose twenty-five plunks.
at cough up, v.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 42: De first crack his Whiskers makes to get down a present he near knocks over de dinky tree.
at crack, n.1
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 49: Say, de whole house is daffey, only cept Miss Fannie and me. [Ibid.] 121: From his Whiskers t’ de Duchess dey is all bicycle daffy.
at daffy, adj.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 8: She says ‘ze’ and ‘zink,’ and gets near crazy cause I tell her dat’s dago and worse dan me. [Ibid.] 23: De kind er dago dat French folks talk.
at dago, n.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 50: De Duchess had her first scrap wid de nurse. Say, dat was a daisy.
at daisy, n.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 106: She’s a doisy, and just seventeen.
at daisy, n.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 8: It was bout Miss Fannie’s weddin I was goin t’tell you. Say, it was a Chim dandy.
at jim dandy, n.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 85: Say, I never knowed de Duchess was such a dead game sport.
at dead, adv.
[US] E. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 41: Miss Fannie was dead set on havin all de folks bring dere kids and dere presents to our tree.
at dead set on (adj.) under dead set, adj.
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