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[US] Hopkinsville Kentuckian (KY) 6 July 4/6: ‘How do you suppose a man can holler that way who spends most of his time [...] paitning his tonsils with iodine?’ [...] ‘I think, Jones,’ said his honor with a cyncial smile, ’ you apply an entirely different fluid [...] The witnesses say you were drunk’.
at paint one’s tonsils (v.) under paint, v.
[US] Hopkinsville Kentuckian (KY) 14 May 7/3: Mr Noodlehead at once purchased one thousand bottles.
at noodlehead (n.) under noodle, n.1
[US] Hopkinsville Kentuckian (KY) 15 June 2/3: By the blankety, bloinkety, blasted, blue — — you can’t run a show without swearing.
at blue, adj.5
[US] Hopkinsville Kentuckian (KY) 9 Mar. 3/3: The old slang words ‘cheek’ and ‘gall’ have been dupplanted by the word ‘front’.
at front, n.1
[US] Hopkinsville Kentuckian (KY) 9 Mar. 3/3: Men who drink too much and too frequently are said to suffer from ‘hitting the bottle’’.
at hit the bottle (v.) under hit, v.
[US] Hopkinsville Kentuckian (KY) 9 Mar. 3/3: A tipsy man [...] is declared to have a ‘skate’, or to ‘have his skates on’.
at on a skate under skate, n.
[US] Hopkinsville Kentuckian (KY) 13 July 4/4: The chop-suey young man reached down and closed his hand over it.
at chop suey, adj.
[US] Hopkinsville Kentuckian (KY) 8 May 1/5: Man of them are fairminded even in politics and would not stand for such a raw deal.
at raw deal (n.) under raw, adj.
[US] Hopkinsville Kentuckian (KY) 5 Oct. 1/3: The Whirling Wheelers, comic and trick cyclists.
at wheeler, n.
[US] Hopkinsville Kentuckian (KY) 23 May 7/3: [She] does not mind the ‘Peckerwood’ giving her the rush.
at peckerwood, n.
[US] Hopkinsville Kentuckian (KY) 20 July 6/3: Did you have any success in promoting that Punko Mining Company?
at punk, adj.
[US] Hopkinsville Kentuckian (KY) 1 Feb. 2/3: It is estimated that there are 13,000,000 devotees of the weed [...] one person in each six of our population is a puffer of smoke.
at weed, n.1
[US] Hopsville Kentuckian (KY) 30 Nov. 3/2: So he shot round the corner, exulting to feel / the way the old boat always answered her wheel.
at boat, n.1
[US] Hopkinsville Kentuckian (KY) 30 Nov. 3/2: His 60-H buzzer was there with the goods, / Her engine was working as sweet as ice cream.
at buzzer, n.2
[US] Hopsville Kentuckian (KY) 30 Nov. 3/2: Rigged out in goggles and motoring stuff, / He looked like a regular everyday ‘chuff’.
at chuff, n.1
[US] Hopsville Kentuckian (KY) 30 Nov. 3/2: For a gink with a dinky old ‘36’ car / was to wed the fair Helen of Bill Lochinvar.
at dinky, adj.2
[US] Hopsville Kentuckian (KY) 30 Nov. 3/2: He touched the self-starter and off shot the car — / ‘They’ll step some to catch us,’ remarked Lochinvar.
at step, v.
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