Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Journal of Army Life choose

Quotation Text

[US] in R. Glisan Journal Army Life (1874) 377: I [...] had the pleasure of seeing all the elite of the town, and the ‘big guns’ of the Oregon Legislature.
at big gun (n.) under gun, n.1
[US] in R. Glisan Journal Army Life (1874) 90: I occasionally made him a little envious by my nigger-luck, as he is pleased to term it.
at nigger luck (n.) under nigger, n.1
[US] in R. Glisan Journal Army Life (1874) 123: His first two sermons sounded very much like good old hard shell baptist harangues.
at hard-shell, adj.
no more results