1872 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.
1873 Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 28 Nov. 8/1: Delaware Musk rats; Florida, Fly-up-the-Creeks; Goergia, Buzzards; [...] Maine, Foxes.at buzzard, n.
1873 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
1873 Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 28 Nov. 8/1: Delaware Musk rats; Florida, Fly-up-the-Creeks; Goergia, Buzzards; [...] Maine, Foxes.at fox, n.3
1873 Jasper Wkly Courier (IN) 28 Nov. 8/1: Delaware Musk rats; Florida, Fly-up-the-Creeks; Goergia, Buzzards; [...] Maine, Foxes.at musk-rat, n.
1875 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.
1875 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.
1875 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.
1875 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.
1875 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.
1875 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.
1875 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.
1875 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.
1890 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.