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Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 2 Sept. 1/3: ‘Has he broke out?’ said the Judge. ‘Yes, and off, consarn him,’ said the prisoner.at consarn, v.
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 2 Sept. 1/3: ‘Has he broke out?’ said the Judge. ‘Yes, and off, consarn him,’ said the prisoner. Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 9 Sept. 4/1: The old hunker democratic conventional convention [...] show how easy a thing it is for some men to ‘jump Jim Crow’ whenever they think ‘circumstances’ require.at jump Jim Crow (v.) under Jim Crow, n.
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 27 May 3/3: Mr Soule has been authoprized to offer $250,000,000 for Cuba, and if he cannot get it to kick up a muss.at raise a muss (v.) under muss, n.
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 24 Feb. 3/2: The Lord deliver us from the doughface race — timid, [...] prevaricating, backing out, selling out crew.at doughface (n.) under dough, n.
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 24 Mar. 410/2: It is not stated whether they are the big English whites [..] pinkeyes, or nigger-toes.at nigger toe (n.) under nigger, n.1
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 8 Oct. 4/1: ‘The Brethren of Negroes!’ Won’t some Buck African negro-hater faint when he smells those words.at buck, adj.1
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 8 Oct. 4/1: Congo Cox [...] says: ‘All Distinctions of caste are odious!’ Stuff that up your delectable, fastuidious Congo noses! Retire to your polecat kennels and lie down in the same lair with Pompey, Sambo and Julius Caesar! at congo, n.2
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 6 May 4/1: A grotesque fancy has named food ‘belly timber’ and its receptacle the ‘bread-basket’.at belly timber (n.) under belly, n.
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 6 May 4/1: A grotesque fancy has named food ‘belly timber’ and its receptacle the ‘bread-basket’.at breadbasket (n.) under bread, n.1
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 6 May 4/1: To speak of the locomotive or an engine [...] ‘bullgine’ becomes very popular.at bullgine (n.) under bull, adj.1
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 6 May 4/1: Fairholt defines the ‘choux’ as ‘the great round boss or bundle of hair, worn at the back of the head, and resembling a cabbage!at cabbage, n.2
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 6 May 4/1: The narrow standing collar which was at one time fashionable was called ‘cut-throat’.at cut-throat, n.
Perryburg Jrnl (OH) 6 May 4/1: The name of ‘shin-plasters’ was applied to the old Continental bills, it is said, for the reason that they were so plenty and worthless that the soldiers used them as plasters for slight wounds on their legs.at shinplaster (adj.) under shin, n.3
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 6 May 4/1: None of these [names for a dress coat] is as expressive [...] as the name given by the West Point cadets of ‘steel-pen’ .at steel pen (n.) under steel, adj.
Perryburg Jrnl (OH) 6 May 4/1: When a sailor wishes to shake hands with you, he says ‘Tip us your fin’.at tip one’s fin (v.) under tip, v.3
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 6 May 4/1: The dentist has received the title of ‘tusk-hoister’ and ‘tooth carpenter’.at tooth carpenter (n.) under tooth, n.
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 6 May 4/1: The dentist has received the title of ‘tusk-hoister’ and ‘tooth carpenter’.at tusk-hoister (n.) under tusk, n.
Perryburg Jrnl (OH) 6 May 4/1: A New Englander [...] when he gets the best of as man he makes him ‘whittle down’.at whittle, v.
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 10 Nov. 2/3: He proved that rum and whisky and the like was the ‘Devil’s dye stuff’.at devil’s dye (n.) under devil, n.
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 26 Dec. 4/1: It does beat the old Nick that Perrysburg can’t have anything without B.G. trying to get in on it.at beat (the) old Nick (v.) under beat, v.
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 22 Apr. n.p.: The remainder of his party of noodle-headed dudes and shallow-pated females.at noodlehead (n.) under noodle, n.1
Perrysburg Jrnl (Wood Co., OH) 6 Oct. 2/6: Van Sharp- How is he getting on, doctor? Dr. Pillbox- I don’t think he will live a month.at pill-box, n.
Perryburg Jrnl (OH) 27 Nov. 1/6: [used generically] The ‘blind tiger,’ as the illicit whiskey trade is called, has at present a much wider range of territory.at blind tiger, n.
Perrysburg Jrnl (Wood Co., OH) 12 Jan. 5: Nothing but the pure quill goes in the H. A-S. Cigar.at pure quill (n.) under quill, n.1
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 27 Oct. 3/2: A blind rage [...]the effects of the wild-cat whisky acting on him.at wildcat, n.
Perrysburg Jrnl (OH) 8 June 6/3: he attended church [...] but didn’t sit in the ‘Niggers’ Gallery.at nigger heaven (n.) under nigger, n.1
Perrysburg Jrnl (Wood Co., OH) 29 July 1/2: If the graduate can’t see or speak to common people, it’s a sure sign of a peanut head or a ’missing link’.at peanut-head (n.) under peanut, n.
Perrysburg Jrnl (Wood Co., OH) 29 July 1/2: Education and a diploma cause ‘swell-head’.at swellhead, n.2
Perrysburg Jrnl (Wood Co., OK) 17 Mar. n.p.: The only time i saw jimmy ‘stumped’ for a reply was at [etc.].at stumped, adj.
Perrysburg Jrnl (Wood Co., OH) 22 May 2/2: You’ll know you’ve got a real man [...] the 18-K article.at eighteen-carat, adj.
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