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Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 5 Nov. 4/2: ‘She’s a regular peach,’ said the first chappie. [...] ‘She’s a crab-apple to me’.at crab-apple, n.
Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 5 Nov. 4/2: ‘She’s a regular peach,’ said the first chappie. [...] ‘She’s a crab-apple to me’. Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 2 July 4/1: tThe threat to ‘snatch you bald-headed’ had a literal fulfillment [...] Hannah Dean and Sara Robbins both loved the same man, and after a quarrel over him, the Dean woman was as bald as a goose egg.at snatch bald-headed (v.) under bald-headed, adv.
Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 31 May 4/2: They are now contenting themselves with hard tack, potatoes, onions, Cincinnati chicken (‘sowbelly’) and beans.at Cincinnati chicken (n.) under Cincinnati, n.
Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 29 Mar. 6/2: ‘Bears be durned,’ I hollered [...] ‘Consarn ’em’.at consarn, v.
Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 4 Feb. 4/1: Having persistently given the icy mit [sic] to the Hon. James Corbett .at frozen mitt (n.) under mitt, n.
Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 7 Dec. 7/1: I heard Kingsley beg the Chink for a little of the gummy stuff.at Chink, n.
Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 7 Dec. 7/1: The great mass of rubbish that’s been written about the slant-eyes [is] disputed.at slant-eye, n.
Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 2 Feb. 8/5: A hacking cough is a graveyard cough.at graveyard cough (n.) under graveyard, n.
Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 7 Dec. 7/1: I heard Kingsley beg the Chink for a little of the gummy stuff.at gum, n.3
Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 7 Dec. 7/2: ‘You want to cut [opium] out. [...] It’ll nail you. It’s a game you can’t beat.at nail, v.
Bourbon News (KY) 2 Aug. 1/3: The kids is called ‘lambs’ — ‘black lambs’ — when their father goes to be a black sheep and I’ll never be a lamb, I’m fur the strikers.at black sheep, n.
Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 11 Jan. n.p.: Landlord, fill two pints, an’ thenI’ll be off in a pig’s whisper.at in a pig’s whisper (adv.) under pig’s whisper, n.
Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 10 July 7/1: He flopped over the eave [...] an’ then hit the ground kerslap.at kerslap! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 7 Nov. 6/3: ‘Well, we’re going to look out for a little cove what’s lame anyhow’ ‘There comes Limpy now’.at limpy, n.
Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 12 Mar. 2/4: He heard some of the Flabbergasting and Dropped to the situation.at drop to (v.) under drop, v.4
Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 11 Aug. 7/3: The President of the Kentucky Press Association [...] has named for his associates a number of the most wideawake young newspaper men [...] it will provide a genuine reunion of the quill-pushers.at quill-driver (n.) under quill, n.1
letter in Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 13 May 7/3: We are now sailing over a rough, deep blue sea to ‘Parlezvou’ and that’s France.at parleyvoo, n.
Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 25 June 3/1: [advert] The man who is chicken-livered and yellow-hearted may frighten his business to death.at chicken-livered, adj.
Bourbon News (Paris, KY) 14 Nov. 2/1: Did you ever stop to wonder why a railroad train, on which there is no sleeper, no diner [...] no porter and no news butcher is termed an ‘accomodation train’?at news butcher (n.) under news, n.
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