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[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 339: His lordship was by way of being a bit of a dog.
at bit of (a), n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 320: The four began to be as thick as thieves.
at ...thieves under thick as..., adj.
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 99: Looked like it would help a lot for them to [...] get a few shots of hooch under their belts.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap 288: He apparently resolved to brass it out, for he glanced full at me with a terrific assumption of bravado.
at brass it out (v.) under brass, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 362: I had put a buffalo on him!
at put a buffalo on (v.) under buffalo, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 230: Mrs. Effie she butters me up with soft words every day.
at butter up (v.) under butter, v.
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 288: Louts for waiters, cloddish louts!
at cloddish (adj.) under clod, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 347: There will be a crush, of course.
at crush, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 284: Everybody laughing and gassing back and forth and cutting up and having a good time all around.
at cut up, v.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 241: I quite forgot the Jackson chap till it was time for him to drive me back to these diggings.
at diggings, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 97: I’ve been a month in this dinky hole.
at dinky, adj.2
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 339: His lordship was by way of being a bit of a dog.
at dog, n.2
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 230: He’s the human flivver. Put him in a car of dressed beef and he’d freeze it between here and Spokane.
at flivver, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 263: He flunked a meeting of the Onwards and Upwards Society.
at flunk, v.
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 27: We’d better report to her before she does a hot-foot over here.
at hot foot, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 98: Calls her ‘Maw’ all right now [...] but when that begoshed husband of hers is around the house she calls her ‘Mater’.
at gosh, adj.
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 352: ‘Great!’ she exclaimed in a hearty American manner.
at great!, excl.
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 321: You’re having me on. My word you are – spoofing.
at have someone on, v.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 93: ‘Hell begins to pop!’ said he.
at hell’s a popping under hell, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 99: Looked like it would help a lot for them to [...] get a few shots of hooch under their belts.
at hooch, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 254: He watches this poor kloof wave his flag.
at kloof, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 284: My lands! that’s a funny thing.
at my land! (excl.) under land, n.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 282: Feeling a mite off this morning.
at off, adv.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 351: Rather pigged it a bit, I fancy.
at pig out (v.) under pig, v.1
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 76: It seemed probable that I should be shopped by Mrs. Effie for what she had been led to believe was my rowdyish behaviour.
at shop, v.2
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 47: Know you, why, you knock-kneed old Siwash, I could pick out your hide in a tanyard!
at siwash, n.
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 284: I slicked up some and went on around to her house.
at slick (oneself) up (v.) under slick, v.
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 209: I had received a rather snarky letter from him demanding to know how long I meant to remain in North America.
at snarky, adj.
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 356: I was not above a snarky little wish to correct the social horizon of Belknap-Jackson.
at snarky, adj.
[US] H.L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap (1917) 258: He rejoined tartly that I was ‘to stow that piffle!’.
at stow, v.
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