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Wash. Post 11 Nov. 4: Colonel Watterson said, ‘It is a Democratic cyclone from Cape Cod to Kalamazoo; from Alpha to Omega; from hell to breakfast’.at from hell to breakfast under hell, n.
Wash. Post 11 Nov. 4: Colonel Watterson said, ‘It is a Democratic cyclone from Cape Cod to Kalamazoo; from Alpha to Omega; from hell to breakfast’. Wash. Post 5 Dec. n.p.: The Kutcha-Kutcha dance, which was put on [...] at Kernan’s Theater, Monday night, was stopped yesterday by Mr. Kernan, who was much displeased with it. Yesterday morning Lieut. Amiss went to the theater and said the dance would have to stop.at hootchy-kootchy, n.
Wash. Post 9 May 27: ‘I’m from Missouri, and they’ll have to show me.’ That is what John Duffer, of Pike County, Missouri, remarked as he was being patched up in the office of Dr. Creighton at Manitou [...] ‘When the train went into that hole I thought we’d never see daylight again, and my only chance was to jump, and so I jumped. I’m from Missouri, and you’ll have to show me!’.at I’m from Missouri, phr.
Wash. Post 9 May 27: The next thing I knowed the engine give a screech like she was most scared to death, and [...] the whole business was going plunk into a hole in the ground.at plunk, adv.
Wash. Post 9 May 27: There was a bruise over one eye where his head has struck against a fragment of Pike’s Peak, one elbow felt ‘like a tarnation wildcat had clawed it’, and there was a general feeling of soreness.at tarnation, adj.
in Wash. Post 16 Apr. 24: After the show I walks down t’ th’ Dirty Spoon restaurant.at greasy spoon, n.1
Wash. Post 16 Apr. 24: Who went kiting’ [sic] out t’ th’ track last Saturday [...] Why, you, you mutt-head, an’ the likes of you [sic].at kite, v.
Wash. Post 16 Apr. 24: Who went kiting’ [sic] out t’ th’ track last Saturday [...] Why, you, you mutt-head, an’ the likes of you [sic].at mutthead (n.) under mutt, n.
Wash. Post 25 Dec. 12/5: ‘In this country,’ said an old ‘alkali’ [...] ‘you kin see farther and see less than in any other country in the world.’.at alkali, n.
Wash. Post 24 July 17/3: And, at the end, the score stood at 14 to 4, in favour of whom? yes, the ‘Bugs!’.at bug, n.4
Wash. Post (DC) 14 Aug. 4/3: He was going to come pretty close to toting home the coonskins.at coonskin, n.
Wash. Post (DC) 14 Aug. 4/1: He had an old land crab of a chaser that hadn’t won a race [...] for a couple of years.at crab, n.3
Wash. Post 27 Nov. 2/4: ‘Played it well,’ said she. ‘Why, he simply ate it up.’ I found out later that eating a thing up means simply doing it extremely well.at eat up, v.
Wash. Post (DC) 14 Aug. 4/2: The operator of ringer No. 1 didn’t know anything about the scheme. The charterer of ringer No. 2 knew only about he frame-up of the man who was going to run ringer No. 1. But the fellow with ringer No. 3 knew all about the fix-it of both the others.at fix, n.2
Wash. Post 17 Sept. 11/6: An instance of the rapidity with which a new piece of slang travels across the country is shown by the term ‘Fusser.’ [...] A fusser, it seems, is an habitual beau or lady’s man.at fusser, n.
Wash. Post 26 July 5/6: In the perpetual rush to ‘get there’, we are in very great danger of losing our equilibrium.at get there, v.
Wash. Post (DC) 14 Aug. 4/1: The charge of participating in the ringing of a horse [...] ‘They’ll ring ’em as long as they race ’em,’ remarked a grizzled veteran of the [...] gee-gees.at ring, v.
Wash. Post (DC) 14 Aug. 4/2: The operator of ringer No. 1 didn’t know anything about the scheme. The charterer of ringer No. 2 knew only about he frame-up of the man who was going to run ringer No. 1. But the fellow with ringer No. 3 knew all about the fix-it of both the others.at ringer, n.
Wash. Post (DC) 14 Aug. 4/1: Ringers are getting by all the time [...] the bookmakers bleat over these ringer killings.at ringer, n.
Wash. Post 4 Sept. 12/6: Never doubting but that he had, in his pure white kite [...] a ‘three-time winner.’.at three-time winner (n.) under three, adj.
Wash. Post (DC) 14 Aug. 4/3: All that I had to wait for then was th word that Rappahammock [a racehorse] had waltzed.at waltz, v.
Wash. Post 15 Jan. 4/3: One bright, beautiful girl [...] uses the word ‘fiendish’ to express the superlative degree of everything.at fiendish(-back), adj.
Wash. Post 15 Jan. 4/5: He finds the same crowd of Keenes, Belmonts and Whitneys here. They are known by the police as the ‘boosters.’.at booster, n.1
Wash. Post 15 Jan. 4/3: The young man of tender years [...] has a vocabulary which would put Webster to shame. Home is ‘the coop’ [...].at coop, n.1
Wash. Post 15 Jan. 4/3: The young man of tender years [...] has a vocabulary which would put Webster to shame [...] Sis is ‘dotty’ over her beau.at dotty, adj.
Wash. Post 15 Jan. 4/3: Hully gee! De tief turned on de cop and hit him a fierce poke in de slats!at fierce, adj.
Wash. Post 15 Jan. 4/3: The application of the term ‘gold brick’ to every girl who can neither talk, dance, nor look pretty.at goldbrick, n.
Wash. Post 26 Feb. 7/6: Don’ts to Boys [...] Don’t speak of your father as the ‘governor.’.at governor, n.
Wash. Post (DC) 6 Aug. 12/6: ‘This is like gunning a souse,’ I thought.at gun, v.2
Wash. Post 15 Jan. 4/3: The young man of tender years [...] has a vocabulary which would put Webster to shame [...] father is ‘guv.’.at Guv, n.
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