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[US] White Cloud Kansas Chief (KS) 4 June 1/1: He handles a Green River blade or an Arkansas tooth-pick with the dexterity of a sword-player.
at Arkansas toothpick (n.) under Arkansas, adj.
[US] White Cloud Kansas (KS) 25 June 1/3: Joe, you chowderhead, you blundering numskull!
at chowder-head, n.
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chief (KS) 4 June 1/3: ‘This old tool, ’ he said, tapping his rifle [...] ‘She shoots centre, she does; and thar’s never a bar, or buffler, or injun, that’s missed her say’.
at Injun, n.
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chief (KS) 18 June 2/3: Special Correspondence of the Chief: By the Shoe-Leather Express.
at ride the shoe leather express (v.) under ride, v.
[US] White Cloud Kansas (KS) 6 Oct. 2/5: It was Mr Larzelere’s watermelon patch from which a woman made him ‘scratch gravel’.
at scratch (the) gravel (v.) under gravel, n.
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chief (KS) 27 Jan. 2/5: We advise the Nebraska papers to sing dumb.
at sing dumb (v.) under sing, v.
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chieftain 11 Oct. 1/6: He had his sycophants vote for a fire-eater for Speaker.
at fire-eater, n.
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chieftain 13 June 1/2: Palmer the Sculptor has offered to make a statue in marble of the member of the Utica corps who will ‘bag’ [...] Jeff Davis.
at bag, v.
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chieftain 10 Oct. n.p.: State troops have no better right to enter Kansas in hunt of Jayhawkers [...] then the Jayhawkers have to go to Missouri and help themselves to secession property.
at jayhawker, n.
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chieftain 10 Oct. n.p.: They crossed the line, and trod the soil of Kansas, so unwholesome to invading ‘Pukes‘.
at puke, n.1
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chieftain 5 Dec. 2/1-3: [headline] Two Secesh are reported killed.
at secesh, n.
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chieftain 13 June 1/1: A powerful large Secesher came up and embraced me.
at secesh, n.
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chief (KS) 3 Apr. 2/4: The rebels hoped, in the sublime language of Gen. Scott, to ‘catch the Union troops with their breeches down’.
at catch someone with their pants down (v.) under catch, v.1
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chief (KS) 2 Nov. 3/3: A Quartermaster’s farewell Address [...] four years’ arduous serrice, marked by unsurpassed ink-slinging and unparallelled hard cursing.
at ink-slinging (n.) under ink, n.
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chief (KS) 18 June 2/2: There is now in session in the city of Chicago a nopndescript, black-and-tan, Rump Radical, politico-religious mob.
at black and tan, adj.
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chief (KS) 18 June 2/2: The Bible-bangers do delight to labor with the nymphs, who are profanely called beer-jerkers.
at beer-jerker (n.) under beer, n.
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chief (KS) 18 June 2/2: The Bible-bangers do delight to labor with the nymphs, who are profanely called beer-jerkers.
at bible-banger (n.) under bible, n.
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chief (KS) 24 Feb. 2/6: Sanford is a regular bug-eater [...] I hope he will be sent to Russia — to carry guts to the Russian bear.
at bug-eater (n.) under bug, n.4
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chief (KS) 24 Feb. 2/6: Sanford is a regular bug-eater [...] i hope he will be sent to Russia — to carry guts to the Russian bear.
at carry guts to a bear (v.) under gut, n.
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chief (KS) 11 Aug. 1/4: 4000 caricatoor portrates uv Chase [...] inskribed ‘The King nigger lover’ .
at king, adj.
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chief (KS) 11 Aug. 1/4: The banners intendid to capcher the niggers in the South went to Suthern Injeany, wher they stone nigger lovers.
at nigger-lover, n.
[US] White Cloud Kansas Chief (KS) 17 Aug. 1/3: Same to you Sim Roberts! to you, Jimmy Big-nose! [...] Ar’n’t I a ring-tailed squealer?
at ringtailed snorter, n.
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