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[US] Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 31 May 2/3: How to save the treaty means who shall eat the leek, or whether means cannot be invested whereby both parties shall agree to eat it in each other’s presence.
at eat the leek (v.) under eat, v.
[US] Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 28 Nov. 8/1: Delaware Musk rats; Florida, Fly-up-the-Creeks; Goergia, Buzzards; [...] Maine, Foxes.
at buzzard, n.
[US] Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 28 Nov. 8/1: Delaware Musk rats; Florida, Fly-up-the-Creeks; Goergia, Buzzards; [...] Maine, Foxes.
at fly-up-the-creek (n.) under fly, n.3
[US] Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 28 Nov. 8/1: Delaware Musk rats; Florida, Fly-up-the-Creeks; Goergia, Buzzards; [...] Maine, Foxes.
at fox, n.3
[US] Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 28 Nov. 8/1: Delaware Musk rats; Florida, Fly-up-the-Creeks; Goergia, Buzzards; [...] Maine, Foxes.
at musk-rat, n.
[US] Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 1 Oct. 6/2: We were all pretty well ‘mops and brooms’ when we came aboard, but Billy Carr was the worst.
at mops and brooms, adj.
[US] Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 1 Oct. 6/2: Who — is — this ’ere crazy — galute? I heern tell he used to bouse up his own jib pretty taut.
at booze up, v.
[US] Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 10 Sept. 3/3: That’s the chequer! Let’s all unite and advise Sergeant bates to get married.
at checker, the, n.
[US] Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 24 Sept. 6/4: That’s before I had that tussle with that dang nigger down East. Dang a nigger, anyway [...] I’ve been dang nigh everywhere in the meantime.
at dang, adj.
[US] Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 1 Oct. 6/2: When I woke out of that drunk I found that the ship [...] had carried all my dunnage with her.
at dunnage, n.
[US] Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 1 Oct. 6/2: Who — is — this ’ere crazy — galute? I heern tell he used to bouse up his own jib pretty taut.
at galoot, n.
[US] Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 1 Oct. 6/3: ‘Bill, we’ll stick to each other, won’t we?’ to which I answered, ’I’m jonnuch if you are ’.
at jannock, adj.
[US] Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 24 Sept. 6/4: Rough on John, wa’n’t it?
at rough on under rough, adj.
[US] Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 1 Oct. 6/3: Well, clap a stopper on it just now, old chap [...] and by and by when you’re stronger you shall spin me the twister.
at twister, n.
[US] Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 17 Jan. 1/6: We’l show him that Kentucky boys / Are alligator horses / [...] / The flow’r of old Kentucky’s land, / Half horse, half alligator.
at half-horse, half-alligator, adj.
[US] Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 25 Sept. 3/1: ‘Fred, you old stupid’.
at platter-faced, adj.
[US] Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 25 Sept. 3/1: ‘Fred, you old stupid’.
at stupid, n.
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