1929 S.J. Perelman letter 6 May in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 3: A flock of dumber barnies than the clerks at the Sub-Treasury I never met.at barney, n.3
1929 S.J. Perelman letter 2 Apr. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) n.p.: The lucky gal and myself [...] will probably ‘take the step’ (ha ha!) around July 1st, scramming for France shortly afterward.at scram, v.
1930 S.J. Perelman letter 31 Oct. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 7: Along comes a sergeant mad as hell. Bawls out the cop for being off his beat.at bawl out, v.1
1930 S.J. Perelman letter 31 Oct. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 6: I have been so bust birching my ass to squeeze out my monthly stint.at break one’s ass (v.) under break, v.1
1930 S.J. Perelman letter 31 Oct. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 7: The gent caught short in Central Park, slips into the bushes and lets down his galluses.at caught short, adj.
1930 S.J. Perelman Letter 9 Oct. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 5: One gent more bored than the rest lifts his conk from a glass of mixed schmaltz and pernod and says; ‘I’ll tell you, fella...’.at conk, n.1
1930 S.J. Perelman letter 26 Feb. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 23: Organized effort to show him up for the cornpone Hitler he is.at cornpone (adj.) under corn, n.1
1930 S.J. Perelman letter in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 31 Oct. 6: An old acquaintance swam into our steaming ken a couple of days ago.at ken, n.1
1930 S.J. Perelman letter 31 Oct. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 7: ‘Oke, I’ll stand here and guard the hat while you run and get a cage,’ offers the shommus.at shamus, n.
1930 S.J. Perelman letter 31 Oct. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 7: I scared the shit out of him!at scare the (living) shit(s) out of (v.) under shit, the, phr.
1931 S.J. Perelman letter 17 Oct. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 8: You boll-weevil hell out of me for selling my corpse to a lot of lousy yid producers.at Yiddish, adj.
1937 S.J. Perelman letter 29 June in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 14: Just as sure as Jehovah made little green apples.at sure as God made little (green) apples under sure as..., phr.
1937 S.J. Perelman letter 11 Mar. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 11: Working away at that jerk-off musical and hating it more and more.at jerk-off, adj.
1940 S.J. Perelman letter 26 Apr. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 29: 32 m. chicken fat (also called ‘beggar’s schmaltz’).at beggar’s schmaltz (n.) under beggar, n.
1940 S.J. Perelman letter 10 Apr. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 28: A group of spectacular bull-dikers of the Elsa Maxwell set.at bull-dyker, n.
1940 S.J. Perelman letter 23 May in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 31: From that comes baldness and mopery.at mopery, n.
1945 S.J. Perelman letter 16 Mar. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 60: I don’t use a literary agent, but I probably should, because I have been frigged time and again by publishers.at frig, v.
1945 S.J. Perelman letter 26 Mar. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 61: I have become a whippy, probably homosexual youth reminiscent of Dorian Gray in his earlier phase but far more handsome.at whippy, adj.
1948 S.J. Perelman letter 26 June in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 76: If you are visited by any slant-eyed Celestials from Chefoo or Macao who present IOU’s [...] I beg your indulgence.at celestial, n.
1949 S.J. Perelman letter 20 Apr. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 95: I have come away with the most vitriolic loathing of these cheese-headed bastards.at cheesehead, adj.
1949 S.J. Perelman letter 21 Jan. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 83: Ordinary air mail stationery will never stand the gaff.at stand the gaff (v.) under gaff, n.2
1949 S.J. Perelman letter 22 Feb. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 89: Where we really got off nicely, though, was in our mutual respect and admiration for con men.at get off, v.2
1949 S.J. Perelman letter 26 Feb. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 24: Well, kiddies, it’s lunchtime.at kiddy, n.
1949 S.J. Perelman letter 19 May in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 96: Well, Peaches, it was a jim dandy.at peaches, n.
1950 S.J. Perelman letter 2 Aug. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 104: The two little charges can occupy themselves [...] in the surf instead of frazzling their parents’ nerves.at frazzle, v.
1951 S.J. Perelman letter 6 Aug. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 109: I’ll give you a bell when I get into town.at give someone a bell (v.) under bell, n.1
1951 S.J. Perelman letter 23 Nov. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 119: The phrase ‘Fuck you, big boy’ trembled on my lips.at big boy, n.
1951 S.J. Perelman letter 23 Nov. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 119: The phrase ‘Fuck you, big boy’ trembled on my lips.at fuck you!, excl.
1952 S.J. Perelman letter 20 June in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 130: A plumber and electrician, both of whom are the most exasperating feebs I’ve ever met.at feeb, n.
1953 S.J. Perelman letter 23 June in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 138: It [a radio broadcast] sure was a daisy.at daisy, n.