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[US] Iola Register (KS) 30 Jan. 1/5: Well hoss we expect you to be right cochunk up to the hub on them questions.
at cochunk!, excl.
[US] Iola Register (KS) 6 Nov. 2/1: The Democratic [...] Party has been compelled to take a scow and row up Salt River.
at row up Salt River (v.) under Salt River, n.
[US] Iola Register (KS) 5 Oct. 6/6: A native of Paddyland asked a neighbor if he had ever seen a red blackberry.
at paddy land (n.) under Paddy, n.
[US] Iola Register (KS) 17 Dec. 6/1: Soap, dod gast it. Gimme soap.
at dodgast...! (excl.) under dod, n.1
[US] Iola Register (KS) 6 Feb. 1/3: If the Register printed such silly twaddle as the Independent [...] it would soon fizzle out.
at fizzle (out), v.
[US] Iola Register (KS) 23 Apr. 8/5: He told the spinster that she was a gone-by old numb-head.
at numbhead (n.) under numb, adj.
[US] Iola Register (KS) 23 Dec. 4/1: It would require about four of the average editor to make a first class Congressman. They have the brains but lack the belly. Belly counts in Washington.
at belly, n.
[US] Iola Register (KS) 20 Jan. 6/3: When you hear me holler [...] come over lickety-split.
at lickety-split, adv.
[US] Iola Register (KS) 25 Dec. 6/2: If she didn’t like it she could pack her duds an’ mosey out’n thar.
at mosey, v.
[US] Iola Register (KS) 25 Dec. 6/2: Ol’ Balaam Topmuck [...] were the meanest of all the mean ol’ flippiny-bit squeezers th’ was in that deestric’.
at nickel squeezer (n.) under nickel, n.
[US] Iola Register (KS) 25 Dec. 6/2: The widder were quite some punkins in society at the Holler.
at some pumpkins (n.) under pumpkin, n.
[US] Iola Register (KS) 19 Aug. 3/3: He jest tumbled plum over backwards, ’n kep rollin’ on down till he landed kerswash into a deep hole.
at kerswash! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Iola Register (KS) 21 Dec. 9/5: Santa Claus! Jimminyjinks!
at jiminy!, excl.
[US] Iola Register (KS) 21 Dec. 9/1: The more or less hardened inhabitants, young and old, of Poverty Row.
at Poverty Row, n.
[US] Iola Register (KS) 21 Dec. 9/3: Scaly’s nickles [sic] are, by the necromancy of the wizard of a neghboring bakeshop, magically turned into what isknown to him as a ‘weenyworse’.
at weenie, n.1
[US] Iola Register (KS) 8 Aug. 4/2: They can’t see a hole through a political ladder when a man they have been constantly abusing [...] gets every delgate in the convention.
at can’t see a hole in a (forty-foot) ladder under can’t..., phr.
[US] Iola Register (KS) 21 Aug. 3/1: ‘Sa-a-ay, mister, got ’ny cigs?’ ‘Any what?’ ‘Cigs. Cigarettes. Dis’s me last’.
at cig, n.
[US] Iola Register (KS) 12 Jan. 4/3: Some whoop-em-up, slam-bang, barn-storming outfit.
at slam-bang, adj.
[US] Iola Register (KS) 12 Apr. 8/5: Hats, tilted at all possible angles, up in front, down behind, catawampus on the left ear [etc.].
at catawampus, adj.
[US] Iola Register (KS) 1 May 4/2: Not slatterns of the ’Arriet type, but well-dressed, fashionable damsels.
at ’Arry/’Arriet, n.
[US] Iola Register (KS) 1 May 4/2: ‘Myself when young did eagerly frequent’ all sorts of booze bazaars.
at booze bazaar (n.) under booze, n.
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