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The Wreck choose

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[US] W.H. Williams Wreck II i: You pauper-fed, ass-headed, bull-faced beadle.
at assheaded, adj.
[US] W.H. Williams Wreck I iii: You bacon-fed four-foot-and-a half of farmhouse stupidity.
at bacon-fed (adj.) under bacon, n.1
[US] W.H. Williams Wreck II ii: Depend upon it, miss, the men are all bad ’uns.
at bad ’un (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] W.H. Williams Wreck I iii: I don’t consider myself paid till I ha’ gotten the brass in my pocket.
at brass, n.1
[US] W.H. Williams Wreck II i: You pauper-fed, ass-headed, bull-faced beadle, by what right or title do you and your gang of clodpoles intrude yourselves here?
at clodpoll, n.
[US] W.H. Williams Wreck I iii: Come along, Mr. Gogmagog [...] you’ll have the collywabbleums in your throttle.
at collywobbles, n.
[US] W.H. Williams Wreck II ii: Cut your cables.
at cut one’s cable (v.) under cut, v.2
[US] W.H. Williams Wreck II ii: Here’s a fleet of petticoats, and a fire-ship running down a loblolly-boy!
at loblolly boy (n.) under loblolly, n.
[US] W.H. Williams Wreck I i: Won’t it? but it will, you ninnyhammer.
at ninnyhammer, n.
[US] W.H. Williams Wreck II ii: Have you seen anything of my rantipole husband, Mr. Amos, this afternoon?
at rantipole, n.
[US] W.H. Williams Wreck II ii: amos: Why don’t ’ee take ’em up? gog: There’s too many of them. But I’ll read the Riot Act [...] Here, here! I say, this won’t do; this is an unlawful assembly.
at read the riot act (v.) under read, v.
[US] W.H. Williams Wreck II ii: You must excuse their salt-water manners.
at salt water, n.
[US] W.H. Williams Wreck II ii: amos.: Why don’t ’ee take ’em up? gog.: There’s too many of them. But I’ll read the Riot Act.
at take up, v.
[US] W.H. Williams Wreck I iii: Come along, Mr. Gogmagog [...] you’ll have the colelywabbleums in your throttle.
at throttle, n.
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