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[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 85: ‘It’s that scarlet chap, Frank Fearless!’ he announced, hopping about like a pig on a hot griddle.
at like a..., phr.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 84/1: Come on! slide in if you are after squar’ up-and-down fun.
at up-and-down, adj.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 82/3: ‘Go to blazes!’ shouts back Jehu.
at go to blazes! (excl.) under blazes, n.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 84/1: Harris, (who now held a cocked pill-box in each hand).
at pill-box, n.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 80/1: The ‘toughs’ are after you, and you can’t find a better place to coop than in here.
at coop, v.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 80/1: I’ll take you over to my coop, and you can lay low [...] You’ll have to promise me one thing, however, ere I admit you as a member of my household.
at coop, n.1
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/1: I ain’t afeerd o’ all the robber Dicks from here ter Jerusalem.
at dick, n.1
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/1: ‘Gentlemen!’ he [the coachman] plead, ‘there is need o’ yer dutchin’ out yer dudads right liberal ef yer’ve enny purtic’lar anticipation an’ desire ter git ter Deadwood ter-night.
at doodad, n.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/1: Get down! [...] before I drop you.
at drop, v.3
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/1: ‘Gentlemen!’ he [the coachman] plead, ‘there is need o’ yer dutchin’ out yer dudads right liberal ef yer’ve enny purtic’lar anticipation an’ desire ter git ter Deadwood ter-night. Dick, the Road-Agent, are law an’ gospel heerabouts, I spec’late!’.
at Dutch out (v.) under Dutch, v.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 87: But, now that we are counting eggs, how much of the ‘lay’ is to be mine.
at egg, n.5
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 80/3: Redburn [...] had already learned from study and experience how to guess a fat strike.
at fat, adj.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83: The game was poker. [...] ‘You’re flaxed ag’in pardner!’ he said with a light laugh, as he raked in the stakes.
at flax, v.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/1: ‘Durned a cent I’ll fork!’ growled an old fellow.
at fork out, v.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 1/3: Thar’s them gol danged copper-colored guests uv ther government.
at goldarned, adj.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 80/1: Come along [...] we’ll have to scratch gravel.
at scratch (the) gravel (v.) under gravel, n.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 88/2: Are you well-heeled?
at heeled, adj.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 82/3: ‘Poppong-jays?’ echoed Filmore, senior. ‘Yas—shutin’-irons—rewolwers—patent perforatin’ masheens.’.
at shooting iron, n.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:180/1: I’ll take you over to my coop, and you can lay low there until this jamboree blows over.
at jamboree, n.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 81/3: Across ther back, kerwhack!
at ker-, pfx
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 81/3: When a feller kerflummuxes rite down onter a payin’ streek I opine he’s goin’ ter roost thar till get gits reddy to vamoose.
at kerflummox, v.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 80/1: I’ll take you over to my coop, and you can lay low there until this jamboree blows over.
at lay low, v.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 80/1: ‘Did I kill the card-sharp?’ ‘No; you simply perforated him in the right side.’.
at perforate, v.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 80/1: A green pilgrim is the first to get salted.
at pilgrim, n.1
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:14/1: P’arps ye kin tell me who fired the popgun, a minnit ago, w’at basted my ole pard.
at popgun, n.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/3: By all the roarin’, screechin’, shriekin’, yowlin’, squawkin’, ringtailed, flat-futted cattymounts that ever did their forest aisles o’ old Alaska traverse!, you here, ye infernal smooth-faced varmint?
at ringtailed snorter, n.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 89/3: Deadwood, the road-agent chief rode out of the chaparral [...] He was still masked, well armed, and looking every inch the Prince of the Road.
at road-agent (n.) under road, n.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 84/1: I smacked him in the gob.
at smack, v.
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/2: Better that you should take the matter into your own hands and face the music, than to employ tools.
at tool, n.1
[US] E.L. Wheeler Deadwood Dick in Beadle’s Half Dime Library I:1 83/3: He laid an X in the ruffian’s hands.
at X, n.2
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