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North Amer. Rev. July 127: They work at it carelessly and negligently, just long enough to obtain a bare living, and then hurry [...] to the tavern to keep Saint Monday.at keep St Monday (v.) under St Monday, n.
North Amer. Rev. July 127: They work at it carelessly and negligently, just long enough to obtain a bare living, and then hurry [...] to the tavern to keep Saint Monday. North Amer. Rev. July 113: This Wall-Street note-shaving life is a new field, a very peculiar field [F&H].at shaving, n.
North Amer. Rev. July 296: ‘Chin music’ we venture to call it.at chin music, n.
North Amer. Rev. Jan. 157: An operator in Wall Street, and a professional gambler — he now dabbled in municipal politics much as he might have done in an exciting game of chance.at operator, n.
North Amer. Rev. CXXVII 426: The great ‘bulldozer’ of Europe [F&H].at bulldoser, n.
North Amer. Rev. (Century) 236: Hazing, rushing, secret societies [...] are unknown at Oxford and Cambridge [DA].at rush, v.
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 434: In the slang of the New York common restaurant waiters a plate of ham and beans is known as ‘stars and stripes’.at stars and stripes, n.
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Among the rank and file, both armies, it was very general to speak of the different States they came from by their slang names. Those from Maine were called Foxes; [...] Missouri, Pukes; Mississippi, Tad Poles; Florida, Fly up the Creeks; Wisconsin, Badgers; Iowa, Hawkeyes; Oregon, Hard Cases.at badger, n.1
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 434: ‘Barefoot whiskey’ is the Tennessee name for the undiluted stimulant.at barefoot, adj.
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Among the rank and file, both armies, it was very general to speak of the different States they came from by their slang names. [...] Virginia, Beagles.at beagle, n.
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Among the rank and file, both armies, it was very general to speak of the different States they came from by their slang names. Those from [...] New Hampshire, Granite Boys.at granite-boy, n.
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Among the rank and file, both armies, it was very general to speak of the different States they came from by their slang names. Those from [...] Vermont, Green Mountain Boys.at Green Mountain boy, n.
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 434: Among the crowd were four New-York cock-fighters, two Chicago murderers, three Baltimore bruisers, one Philadelphia prize-fighter, four San Francisco hoodlums, three Virginia beats, two Union Pacific roughs.at bruiser, n.
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Among the rank and file, both armies, it was very general to speak of the different States they came from by their slang names. Those from Maine were called Foxes; [...] Ohio, Buckeyes; Michigan, Wolverines; Indiana, Hoosiers; Illinois, Suckers; Missouri, Pukes; Mississippi, Tad Poles; Florida, Fly up the Creeks; Wisconsin, Badgers; Iowa, Hawkeyes; Oregon, Hard Cases.at buckeye, n.1
‘Sl. in America’ in North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Those from Maine were call’d Foxes; New Hampshire, Granite Boys; [...] Georgia, Buzzards.at buzzard, n.
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Among the rank and file, both armies, it was very general to speak of the different States they came from by their slang names. Those from Maine were called Foxes; [...] Missouri, Pukes; Mississippi, Tad Poles; Florida, Fly up the Creeks; Wisconsin, Badgers; Iowa, Hawkeyes; Oregon, Hard Cases.at hard case, n.
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Among the rank and file, both armies, it was very general to speak of the different States they came from by their slang names. [...] New Jersey, Clam Catchers.at clam-catcher (n.) under clam, n.1
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Among the rank and file, both armies, it was very general to speak of the different States they came from by their slang names. Those from Maine were called Foxes; [...] Kentucky, Corn Crackers.at corncracker (n.) under corn, n.1
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Among the rank and file, both armies, it was very general to speak of the different States they came from by their slang names. Those from [...] Maryland, Claw Thumpers.at craw-thumper, n.
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Among the rank and file, both armies, it was very general to speak of the different States they came from by their slang names. Those from Maine were called Foxes; [...] Missouri, Pukes; Mississippi, Tad Poles; Florida, Fly up the Creeks; Wisconsin, Badgers; Iowa, Hawkeyes; Oregon, Hard Cases.at fly-up-the-creek (n.) under fly, n.3
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Among the rank and file, both armies, it was very general to speak of the different States they came from by their slang names. Those from Maine were called Foxes.at fox, n.3
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Among the rank and file, both armies, it was very general to speak of the different States they came from by their slang names. Those from Maine were called Foxes; [...] Rhode Island, Gun Flints; Connecticut, Wooden Nutmegs [etc.].at gun-flint (n.) under gun, n.1
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Among the rank and file, both armies, it was very general to speak of the different States they came from by their slang names. Those from Maine were called Foxes; [...] Missouri, Pukes; Mississippi, Tad Poles; Florida, Fly up the Creeks; Wisconsin, Badgers; Iowa, Hawkeyes; Oregon, Hard Cases.at hawkeye, n.1
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Among the rank and file, both armies, it was very general to speak of the different States they came from by their slang names. Those from [...] Alabama, Lizzards.at lizard, n.
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Among the rank and file, both armies, it was very general to speak of the different States they came from by their slang names. Those from [...] Delaware, Muskrats.at musk-rat, n.
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 434: In the slang of the New York common restaurant waiters a plate of hash [is known as] ‘mystery.’.at mystery, n.
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Among the rank and file, both armies, it was very general to speak of the different States they came from by their slang names. Those from Maine were called Foxes; [...] Indiana, Hoosiers; Illinois, Suckers; Missouri, Pukes; Mississippi, Tad Poles; Florida, Fly up the Creeks; Wisconsin, Badgers; Iowa, Hawkeyes; Oregon, Hard Cases.at puke, n.1
North Amer. Rev. Nov. 434: The toughest set of roosters that ever shook the dust of any town left Reno yesterday for the new mining district of Cornucopia.at rooster, n.
‘Sl. in America’ in North Amer. Rev. Nov. n.p.: Those from Maine were call’d Foxes; New Hampshire, Granite Boys; Massachusetts, Bay Staters [...] Illinois, Suckers; Missouri, Pukes; Mississippi, Tad Poles.at sucker, n.2
‘Sl. in America’ in North Amer. Rev. Nov. 433: Those from Maine were call’d Foxes; New Hampshire, Granite Boys; [...] Mississippi, Tad Poles . . . Oregon, Hard Cases.at tadpole, n.
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