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[US] Ade ‘College Widow’ in Verses and Jingles (1911) 7: For I made a mash, and knocked him out of sight.
at make a mash (v.) under mash, n.1
[US] Ade ‘College Widow’ in Verses and Jingles (1911) 7: I heard from you quite often I liked your letters, / They were spicy and chuck full of college news.
at spicy, adj.
[US] Ade ‘College Widow’ Verses and Jingles (1911) 5: He had a young professor on the string; / He used to send her flowers.
at on a/ the string under string, n.
[US] Ade ‘Wayside Ambition’ in Verses and Jingles (1911) 3: I want to be a brakeman, / I jing!
at I, prep.
[US] Ade ‘R-E-M-O-R-S-E’ in Verses and Jingles (1911) 2: Last night at twelve I felt immense, / To-day I feel like thirty cents.
at like thirty cents (adj.) under thirty cents, n.
[US] Ade ‘R-E-M-O-R-S-E’ in Verses and Jingles (1911) 2: To-day I feel like thirty cents. / My eyes are bleared, my coppers hot, / I’ll try to eat, but I cannot.
at hot coppers, n.
[US] Ade ‘R-E-M-O-R-S-E’ in Verses and Jingles (1911) 2: It is no time for mirth and laughter, / The cold, gray dawn of the morning after!
at morning after (the night before) (n.) under morning, n.
[US] Ade ‘R-E-M-O-R-S-E’ in Verses and Jingles (1911) 2: When I’ve been full of the oil of joy, / And fancied I was a sporty boy.
at oil of joy (n.) under oil of..., n.
[US] Ade ‘R-E-M-O-R-S-E’ in Verses and Jingles (1911) 2: I was pickled, primed, and ossified.
at ossified, adj.
[US] Ade ‘R-E-M-O-R-S-E’ in Verses and Jingles (1911) 2: I was pickled, primed, and ossified.
at primed, adj.
[US] Ade ‘Smiling Isle’ in Verses and Jingles (1911) 22: We have no prize-fight sluggers, / No vaudevillian muggers.
at slugger, n.
[US] Ade ‘Modern Japanee’ in Verses and Jingles (1911) 25: The Russian and the tough Chinee, / Can tell a lot regarding me, / Banzai! Hoopla! Japanee!
at banzai, n.
[US] Ade ‘Modern Japanee’ in Verses and Jingles (1911) 25: Brown as a berry, busy as a bee, / Ichi ban! Ichi ban! Japanee.
at ichiban, n.
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