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Congressional Globe 17 Feb. Appendix 115: [Some have declared] that his election had been brought about by the ‘hurrah boys’, and those who knew just enough to shout ‘hurrah for Jackson!’.at hurrah boys (n.) under hurrah, n.
Congressional Globe 17 Feb. Appendix 115: [Some have declared] that his election had been brought about by the ‘hurrah boys’, and those who knew just enough to shout ‘hurrah for Jackson!’. Congressional Globe 23 Sept. Appendix 194: John Bull has been at his ease, while Jonathan has been in trouble.at Jonathan, n.
Congressional Globe 28 Dec. 76: I would gather the light of these documents into a focus so bright and so hot that every Dutchman in Maryland and Pennsylvania might light his pipe by it.at Dutchman, n.
Congressional Globe 15 Feb. Appendix 343/1: We have a postmaster in our own little village [...] and in his little caboose of a post office I have found electioneering interferences [DA].at caboose, n.
Congressional Globe 4 Mar. 211: I will splice the member for North Carolina to you, and for a short time will consider you one person, or in cahoot.at in cahoots (with) under cahoots, n.
Congressional Globe 19 Jan. Appendix 127/3: That party contains no jack-legged pettifogging lawyers [DA].at jackleg, adj.
Congressional Globe Appendix 17 Jan. 105/3: There was not a Whig whiffet in the country but could ask [etc.] [DA].at whiffet, n.
Congressional Globe 9 Jan. 50: Treat with contempt all the blasting, blowing, blustering, and bullying displays.at blow, v.1
Congressional Globe 10 Apr. Appx. 435: Mary Rogers are a case, / And so are Sally Thompson.at case, n.1
Congressional Globe 29 Apr. 367: The gentleman had brought up many hard words, which he said he could scarcely spell, nor pronounce [...] They were in fact what in Virginia they termed ‘jawcrackers.’.at jawbreaker, n.
Congressional Globe 2 Apr. Appendix 376: In that living, moving, ranting band, the boys, negroes, loafers, and a new species of the same animal, familiarly known in the city of New York as soap-locks, took the lead.at soap lock, n.
Congressional Globe 13 July 191: The boss had been in for a few moments; but, finding his hands absent, he had left.at boss, n.2
Congressional Globe June 133: Mr. Alford of Georgia warned the ‘tariff bugs’ of the South that [...] he would read them out of church [DA].at bug, n.4
Congressional Globe 7 July Appendix 123: No one rose. No one broke silence. Shut pan seemed to be the word of command on the left side of this chamber.at shut pan! (v.) under pan, n.1
Congressional Globe 25 Jan. 152: [Appendix] The Federal party have been in banishment for forty years. For forty years they have been rowing up ‘Salt river,’ bareheaded and barebacked, on half rations; and now they have a right to exult.at row up Salt River (v.) under Salt River, n.
Congressional Globe 25 Aug. 380: When a small boy, I went to school in a Scotch-Irish neighborhood, and learnt many words and phrases [...] shake-poke [When a meal-bag] is nearly empty, it is turned upside down and shaken; and the meal that comes out last is called the shake-poke ... The last child [of a family], like the last meal, is called a shake-poke.at shake of the bag (n.) under shake, n.1
Congressional Globe 23 Feb. 261: Champagne was charged for under the head of ‘old junk’ [DA].at junk, n.1
Congressional Globe 8 July Appendix 636: The cargo consists of almost everything you could comprise in the extensive term of ‘Yankee notions.’ with perhaps the exceptions of wooden nutmegs and hams.at land of the wooden hams (n.) under land, n.3
Congressional Globe 13 Jan. Appendix 65: Does he not know that it is the old, worn out, used up, dead and gone slang upon which every red dog, wild cat, owl creek, coon box, and Cairo swindling shop obtained their charters?at wildcat, n.
Congressional Globe 3 Feb. 152: All Mr. Foster asked for was a clear field and a fair fight — no bush-whacking, if he might be indulged in an expressive word, well understood in the border wars of the West.at bushwhack, v.
Congressional Globe 4 Feb. 322/2: I had been accused of flying the track on the creed of the Democratic party [DA].at fly the track (v.) under track, n.2
Congressional Globe 26 Jan. 262/3: Neither by demonstrations here, nor by figuring and wire-pulling at home, am I engaged to the support of this bill [DA].at pull wires (v.) under wire, n.1
Congressional Globe 1 Feb. 277/3: No sooner did they see the old British Lion rising up [...] than they crawfished back to 49°.at crawfish, v.
Congressional Globe 31 Jan. App. 91: Mammy has always been hell on dignity! [DA].at hell on under hell, n.
Congressional Globe 17 Apr. 759: Gentlemen of the South, you have us in your power. All I ask is that, after you have laid us out cold, you will not point us out as having been bought dog-cheap.at lay out cold (v.) under lay out, v.
Congressional Globe 4 Mar. Appendix 324/3: There should be no skulking or dodging — [...] every man should ‘face the music’ [DA].at face the music (v.) under music, n.
Congressional Globe 17 Aug. Appendix 959: He goes right kerwallop over into the Whig party, and nothing will content him but an appropriation of money.at kerwhallop, adv.
Congressional Globe 1 Feb. 463: The Connecticut people are religious. It is a land of liberty and religion and steady habits. (A voice. And wooden nutmegs).at wooden nutmeg (n.) under wooden, adj.
Congressional Globe 24 Jan. Appendix 108/2: When I came to that point I ‘was befogged, and hung up for the night’ [DA].at hang up, v.3
Congressional Globe 17 Jan. 1220: I have always found (President Franklin Pierce) a very kind and agreeable man — what the ‘rounders’ in New York would term a ‘glover’ [DA].at rounder, n.
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