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[US] N.Y. Mercury 16 Feb. n.p.: This monster is larger than an Elephant, of a very uncommon shape, having three Heads, eight Legs, three Fundaments, two Male Members, and one Female Pudendum on the Rump. It is of various Colours, very beautiful, and makes a Noise like the conjunction of two or three Voices. It is held unlawful to kill it, and is said to live to a great Age. The Canadians could not give it a Name, ’till a very old Indian Sachem said, He remembered to have seen one when he was a boy, and his Father called it a gormagunt.
at gormagon, n.
[US] N.Y. Mercury 27 May 3/3: Two valuable Negro Wenches [for sale]; for no other Reason than Want of the Ready.
at ready, n.
[US] N.Y. Mercury 2 Mar. in Ware (1909) 266/1: It is an Americanism. We cannot tell who invented it, but it means that a man is in possession of uncommon powers of mind. That he is a whole team when he is smart; when he is very smart he is a whole team and a horse to spare, and when the smartest, a whole team and a horse to spare and a pair of coach dogs under the waggon.
at whole team (and a/the dog under the wagon) under team, n.
[US] N.Y. Mercury in Ware (1909) 8/2: She could kick higher in the can-can than any anonyma there.
at anonyma, n.
[US] N.Y. Mercury 8 Oct. in Ware (1909) 55/2: You are nothing but a third-class society bummer, fit only to associate with your own class of New York scum.
at bummer, n.3
[US] N.Y. Mercury Sept. in Ware (1909) 225/1: Since we are going to have German opera this season, it is high time to explain that Die Gotterdammerung is not a six-cornered German oath but an opera.
at six-cornered oath (n.) under six, adj.
[US] N.Y. Mercury in Ware (1909) 245/2: Innocent people regard the high rates announced by the managers as final, and only discover at the entrance that the advertised price for seats is a ruse to lure them to the merciful treatment of middle men, called ticket-skinners, who, having temporary possession of nearly all the tickets, exact just what they please for a seat.
at ticket-skinner (n.) under ticket, n.1
[US] N.Y. Mercury in Ware (1909) 257/1: ‘I want to sue a man for breach of promise,’ said a maiden of the vintage of 1842, coming into a lawyer’s office.
at vintage, n.
[US] N.Y. Mercury June in Ware (1909) 89/2: The confidence queen of Miss Caroline Hill revealed that lady’s stage qualities to great advantage.
at confidence-queen, n.
[US] N.Y. Mercury in Ware (1909) 240/1: There is a woman in Fargo who takes the flour.
at take the cake, v.
[US] N.Y. Mercury May in Ware (1909) 236/1: With Captain Williams, her namesake, as chairman, would be the judges here. The Mercury will be pleased to hear from Mrs Williams on this sub.
at sub, n.1
[US] N.Y. Mercury 16 Jan. in Ware (1909) 245/2: Thankee, mister ; that war well thought of. It’s Sunday ; but come, let’s steer for a side door, and tickle our innards, ye know.
at tickle one’s innards (v.) under tickle, v.
[US] N.Y. Mercury 3 Jan. in Ware (1909) 196/1: At the depot the light was dim, and so it was in the sleeper, as it generally is; but as she got into the car a neat leg in a white stocking showed plainly enough to make Jim murmur to himself, ‘Well, this is pie.’.
at pie, n.
[US] N.Y. Mercury 21 July n.p.: If you cannot be a captain / Of a famous baseball nine, / You can ante up your fifty cents, / And at the players whine.
at ante (up), v.
[US] N.Y. Mercury 15 Jan. in Ware (1909) 32/2: [heading] A black eye for Platt. — An Albany jury has decided that Governor Hill was right and Quarantine Commissioner Platt wrong [...].
at black eye, n.
[US] N.Y. Mercury Both ladies then came to the conclusion that the fortune-teller was a fake, and they decided to notify the police [DA].
at fake, n.1
[US] N.Y. Mercury n.p.: Both ladies then came to the conclusion that the fortune-teller was a fake, and they decided to notify the police [F&H].
at fake, n.1
[US] N.Y. Mercury 21 July n.p.: Here the old police or leatherheads tried to restrain them, but in vain [F&H].
at leatherhead, n.
[US] N.Y. Mercury Dec. in Ware (1909) 206/1: The ‘rail-birds’, as certain people are called who closely watch the work of horses on the race tracks, would do well to keep an eye on Tommy Ryan.
at railbird, n.
[US] N.Y. Mercury in Ware (1909) 190/1: It is currently believed that Mrs Willie K. Vanderbilt, nee Alva Smith, and the Baroness Fontenilliat, We Mimi Smith, are decidedly and emphatically on the outs.
at on the outs under out, n.
[US] N.Y. Mercury May in Ware (1909) 224/2: Sissy men in Society. – Powdered, painted and laced. They swarm at afternoon teas. Of late, says a London writer, a certain type of man has become protuberant – a languid, weak-kneed, vain, and lazy specimen of humanity who has literally no redeeming points that can be discovered, and who yet gives himself all the airs of one to whom the universe ought to do unquestioning homage.
at sissy, adj.
[US] N.Y. Mercury 1 Jan. in Ware (1909) 38/1: This ought to make recruiting brisk in Canada and incite the blue noses to volunter in a mass to defend Queen Victoria’s codfish.
at bluenose, n.1
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