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[US] Bemidji Dly Pioneer 12 Nov. 4/3: He was brough to the attention of the police about 6 o’clock [...] in a badly discombobulated condition.
at discombobulated, adj.
[US] Bemidji Daily Pioneer (MN) 30 Mar. 2/2: Scouse or lobscouse, a parson’s face sea pie, junk, tack, slush and duff —there’s a meal ye can’t beat [...] A parson’s face seapie. That’s a pie made of bullock’s head.
at parson’s face (n.) under parson, n.
[US] Bemidji Dly Pioneer (MN) 30 Mar. 2/2: Scouse or lobscouse, a parson’s face sea pie, junk, tack, slush and duff —there’ a meal ye can’t beat [...] Scouse is soup, soup made o’ salt beef.
at scouse, n.
[US] Bemidji Dly Pioneer (MN) 30 Mar. 2/2: Scouse or lobscouse, a parosn’s face sea pie, junk, tack, slush and duff —there’ a meal ye can’t beat [...] Tack and slush is the sailor’s bread and butter.
at tack, n.1
[US] Bemidji Dly Pioneer (MN) 19 Apr. n.p.: W.B. Dean, of Duluth, the travelling salesman [...] is a very popular ‘knight of the road’.
at knight of the road, n.
[US] Bemidji Dly Pioneer (MN) 9 Dec. 4/1: That ding-busted paddle, that dod-gasted paddle, that jim-twisted paddle that hung on the wall.
at dingbusted, adj.
[US] Bemidji Dly Pioneer (MN) 17 Jan. 2/2: It’s only in books that the poor man invents a doodad that brings in the brass.
at doodad, n.
[US] Bemidji Dly Pioneer (MN) 4 Oct. 6/3: The expression ‘Let her go, Gallagher’ is in use in nearly every city of the United States.
at let her go (Gallagher), v.
[US] Bemidji Dly Pioneer (MN) 7 Mar. 1/2: The New York press is continually blatting about the greatness of Wells.
at blat, v.
[US] Bemidji Dly Pioneer (MN) 18 Oct. 4/2: One Drunk Up. Berk Harcourt was hailed before Crowell on a charge of intoxication.
at drunk, n.
[US] Bemidji Dly Pioneer (MN) 15 Dec. 1/5: Ford owners in Bemidji are today saying ‘The much abused road louse is good enough for me’.
at road louse (n.) under -louse, sfx
[US] Bemidji Daily Pioneer (MN) 20 Aug. 1/2: As the young man says he is feeling ‘like a million bucks’ there is no reason for parental worry.
at feel like a million dollars (v.) under million, n.
[US] Bemidji Dly Pioneer (MN) 11 Jan. 1/2: [headline] Congress Disturbed by Freeze Out Game.
at freeze-out game (n.) under freeze-out, n.
[US] Bemidji Dly Pioneer (MN) 9 Sept. 1/2: [headline] Purity Head Federation Deplores ‘Cootie Garages’.
at cootie garage (n.) under cootie, n.
[US] Bemidji Dly Pioneer (MN) 25 Feb. 4/2: Here’s the cheese [...] but I’ll be dingswizzled if i know how I’m going to get the cloth off.
at dingswizzled, adj.
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