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Mass. Spy 28 Apr. [advert for a runaway] A tall fellow,. ... stammers some in his speech.at some, adv.
Mass. Spy 28 Apr. [advert for a runaway] A tall fellow,. ... stammers some in his speech. Mass. Spy 12 Nov. n.p.: [The great utility of Rum] has given it the medical name of an Anti fogmatic. The quantity taken every morning is in exact proportion to the thickness of the fog.at antifogmatic, n.
Mass. Spy 26 May n.p.: The ladies vowed he was a clever fellow.at clever, adj.
Mass. Spy 27 Aug. n.p.: My uncle Cuthbert blew out a prodigious puff of my dandy tobacco.at dandy, adj.
Mass. Spy 12 Nov. n.p.: A piece of sliced cabbage, by Dutchmen ycleped cold slaw.at Dutchman, n.
Mass. Spy 10 Dec. n.p.: The word ‘spunk’ signifies courage, when there is no danger.at spunk, n.
Mass. Spy 18 Feb. n.p.: Massachusetts beaten; and a black eye for Connecticut.at black eye, n.
Mass. Spy 2 Jan. n.p.: Instead of saying grace decently, as he used to do, he called out attention – handle arms – and for grace after dinner – now shut pans.at shut pan! (v.) under pan, n.1
Mass. Spy 14 Oct. 4/1: This settles all the hash.at settle the hash (v.) under hash, n.1
Mass. Spy 1 May n.p.: Tis thus that Hymen cracks his joke, / A hoax, a quiz, a bore [DAE].at bore, n.1
Mass. Spy 27 Jan. n.p.: These bush-whacking Yankees won’t do.at bushwhack, v.
Mass. Spy 14 June n.p.: I somehow did not feel quite clever, but hoped for the best.at clever, adj.
Mass. Spy 4 Sept. n.p.: His wife is a drozzle – his floors are an inch thick with dirt – his tables and chairs are covered with grease.at drozel, n.
Mass. Spy 4 Sept. n.p.: We have too many note-shavers; too many gentlemen [DA].at note shaver (n.) under note, n.2
Mass. Spy Feb. 19 n.p.: If the farmers and the traders, instead of attending closely to their proper callings, are busy here and there, they will assuredly ‘come out of the little end of the horn.’.at little end of the horn (n.) under little, adj.
Mass. Spy 22 Dec. n.p.: ‘Pretty well corned’ and ‘up to anything,’ / Drunk as a lord, and happy as a king.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
Mass. Spy 22 Dec. n.p.: ‘Pretty well corned’ and ‘up to anything,’ / Drunk as a lord, and happy as a king.at corned, adj.
Mass. Spy 21 Apr. n.p.: Cornered up so unexpectedly, she candidly confessed [DA].at corner, v.
Mass. Spy 6 Sept. n.p.: The land of ‘wooden nutmegs’ and horn gun-flints.at land of the wooden hams (n.) under land, n.3
Mass. Spy 22 Aug. n.p.: A few jolly topers, who wallowed in the sand, ‘as drunk as a cooter’ [DA].at drunk as a cootie, adj.
Mass. Spy 31 Oct. n.p.: They become enamoured of blue ruin itelf. They hug the black Betty that contains it, to their bosoms.at black betty (n.) under black, adj.
Mass. Spy 31 Oct. n.p.: They become enamoured of blue ruin itself. They hug the black Betty that contains it, to their bosoms.at blue ruin (n.) under blue, adj.1
Mass. Spy 24 Oct. n.p.: Give us a shake of your corn-stealer [DA].at cornstealer (n.) under corn, n.1
Mass. Spy 10 Jan. The Albany beau drinks brandy and talks politics, and is in fact what he styles himself, ‘a real roarer’.at roarer, n.
Mass. Spy 24 Oct. n.p.: We mought paddle our canoes together pretty snipshush like [DA].at sniptious, adj.
Mass. Spy 4 Nov. n.p.: It is said the Dutchman got cloyed with her name, so dissonant with his beloved sour-krout and buttermilk.at Dutchman, n.
Mass. Spy 8 Apr. n.p.: Talking loudly in taverns and grog-shops.at grog shop (n.) under grog, n.1
Mass. Spy 22 July n.p.: I want to lay out [this candidate] as cold as a wedge.at lay out cold (v.) under lay out, v.
Mass. Spy 10 June n.p.: If you hadn’t a nig’d [...] you might have had better luck [DA].at nig, v.4
Mass. Spy 28 July n.p.: Your notions and mine don’t agree; we can never hitch horses [DA].at hitch horses (together) (v.) under hitch (up), v.
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