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[US] Wichita Eagle 11 Nov. in Miller & Snell Why the West was Wild 262: E.T. Beard was better known as ‘Red’ [...] He was about forty-five years of age, straight as an arrow, red hair, which fell in a profusion of curls upon his shoulders, and from which he took his name of ‘Red’.
at Red, n.
[US] Wichita Dly Eagle 29 Nov. 6/2: To put an easy quietus upon his further complaints, let us say to this dear old belly-acher [etc.].
at belly-acher (n.) under bellyache, v.
[US] Wichita Dly Eagle 29 Nov. 6/2: To put an easy quietus upon his further complaints, let us say to this dear old belly-acher [etc.].
at bellyacher (n.) under bellyache, n.
[US] Wichita Eagle 29 May 2/6: The ancient gig was restored to its maison de santé, and the hat-rack of a horse to its stall.
at hat-rack (n.) under hat, n.
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 22 May 4/2: We would have to dodge [...] the boys with nigger-killers.
at nigger killer (n.) under nigger, n.1
[US] Wichita Daily Eagle (Kansas) 27 Jan. 2/1: This morning old haymaker shed his genial rays over this beautiful city.
at haymaker, n.1
[US] Wichita Daily Eagle (KS) 10 Feb. 2/1: The double-jointed wind business is a huckleberry above our persimmons.
at huckleberry above persimmon under huckleberry, n.
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 5 July 2/4: The boodler is generally a pretty smart sort of fellow, as it takes a smart man to be a successful rascal.
at boodler, n.
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 24 Dec. 7/1: What excuse can possibly be offered for such words as [...] ‘sardine,’ ‘chump’ [etc.].
at chump, n.
[US] Witchita Eagle (KS) 23 Oct. n.p.: Of all the jim dandy backers up he ever seen I am the jim dandiest.
at jim-dandy, adj.
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 11 Nov. 7/1: I saw old Mike McDonald [...] drop $100 simply becauise he was bound to win a seventy-five cent cravat.
at drop, v.2
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 11 Nov. 7/1: If a man every goes back to the table to play a little flyer after having made a large winning he’s a ‘goner’.
at flyer, n.2
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 23 Oct. n.p.: ‘Jee whizz!’ exclaimed the Old Settler.
at gee whiz!, excl.
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 11 Nov. 7/1: Every old gambler has a grist of yarns about the horrible ways he has hoodooed himself playing for some stupid trifle.
at hoodoo, v.
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 11 Nov. 7/1: He’s likely after winning for a long time to get the notion that he’ll win just enough to buy a new suit. It’s almost invariably a rank hoodoo. Away will go his whole pile.
at hoodoo, n.
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 24 Dec. 7/1: Even the fair sex [...] speak about his ‘royal nibs‘.
at his nibs (n.) under nibs, n.
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 11 Nov. 7/1: He’s likely after winning for a long time to get the notion that he’ll win just enough to buy a new suit. It’s almost invariably a rank hoodoo. Away will go his whole pile.
at rank, adj.1
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 24 Dec. 7/1: What excuse can possibly be offered for such words as [...] ‘sardine,’ ‘chump’ [etc.].
at sardine, n.
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 24 Dec. 7/1: Such expressions as [...] ‘I should snicker,’ ‘Now you’re shoutin’,’ etc. [...] are certainly not polite.
at now you’re shouting! (excl.) under shout, v.
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 24 Dec. 7/1: Such expressions as [...] ‘I should snicker,’ ‘Now you’re shoutin’,’ etc. [...] are certainly not polite.
at I should smile under smile, v.
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 17 July 4/3: In picking a ball from the three which were offered, Tubby says, ‘gimme de soft wan.’ Tubby is a batter too.
at tubby, n.
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 30 Oct. 3/3: He saw that ef I came across an Ingin hit’d be ‘Katie, bar the door’ with that savage.
at Katy bar the door, phr.
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 29 Apr. 10/3: A star or manager is known among his company [...] as ‘his jags,’ ‘his nibs,’ ‘her niblets,’ ‘the duchess’.
at his jags (n.) under jag, n.2
[US] Witchita Eagle (KS) 13 Mar. 3/5: Few fighters have the courage to fight with the ‘raw ’uns’.
at raw ’uns (n.) under raw, adj.
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 5 Aug. 5/4: The case against Ed. D. Dorsey [...] charged with gambling, in working the nutshell racket, was dismissed.
at shell game (n.) under shell, n.
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 5 Aug. 5/4: Wm. Gibson was a whisky vag [...] He was put in the cooler.
at vag, n.1
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 6 Mar. 4/2: Bradley was a kinky-headed mulatto.
at kinky-headed, adj.
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 13 Dec. 4/2: The question as to whether ‘Sooners’ could hold town lots has been mooted [...] the president’s proclamation ‘sitting down’ upon ‘sooners’ has fanned into a flame the smouldering embers and the ‘sooners’ are trembling in ther boots.
at Sooner, n.
[US] Wichita Eagle (KS) 8 Dec. 11/2: But ‘swelled head’ or ‘big head’ [...] is known as ‘long head’.
at swellhead, n.2
[US] Wichita Dly Eagle (KS) 14 Dec. 4/2: The president [...] is a member of [...] the same church as our carrot-topped friend.
at carrot-topped (adj.) under carrot, n.
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