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[US] Gallipolis Jrnl (OH) 28 Nov. 1/2: That talk was of Hottentots —‘Don’t speak of ’em,’ cried Miss Angelina Daffy [...] ‘If I were only to look at a Hottentot, I should faint’ [...] ‘Fiddledeedee,’ said Miss Lillywhite.
at fiddledeedee!, excl.
[US] Gallipolis Jrnl (OH) 28 Nov. 1/2: That talk was of Hottentots —‘Don’t speak of ’em,’ cried Miss Angelina Daffy [...] ‘If I were only to look at a Hottentot, I should faint’.
at Hottentot, n.
[US] Gallipolis Jrnl (OH) 28 Apr. 1/3: Both of them chaps got our bits of lead square in the top of their gourds - right through their brains.
at gourd, n.
[US] Gallipolis Jrnl (OH) 28 Apr. 1/3: There’s not many of these red western niggers that’s got cunning enough to play rifle and tomahawk with old Jonah Gainly.
at red nigger (n.) under nigger, n.1
[US] Gallipolis Jrnl (OH) 1 June 3/4: For the culture of strawberries and grapes we believe Mr R beats ‘old Nick’ himself.
at beat (the) old Nick (v.) under beat, v.
[US] Gallipolis Jrnl (OH) 1 June 3/3: There sat a big darkey, like a ‘bump on a log’.
at like a bump on a log (adv.) under bump, n.2
[US] Gallipolis Jrnl (OH) 28 Aug. 1/3: You were hasty in assuming that all who live in the country are clodpoles.
at clodpoll, n.
[US] Gallipolis Jrnl (OH) 29 Sept. 3/3: Our old friend Dr A.A. Stanley [...] has dropped off and doubled up. He’s married.
at double up, v.1
[US] Gallipolis Jrnl (OH) 16 Dec. 1/8: Don’t you know any thing, you numb-head you?
at numbhead (n.) under numb, adj.
[US] Gallipolis Jrnl (OH) 12 Aug. 1/7: She took a saucer and fired it at his head, and ended by slinging a dish of strawberries on his shirt bosom.
at sling, v.
[US] Gallipolis Jrnl (OH) 6 July 2/3: Walk up, you greenbackers, and eat your mess of crow [...] see how easy it is for a Greenback Democrat to eat boiled crow.
at eat boiled crow (v.) under eat, v.
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