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(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 111: It matters not a tinker’s curse.at not matter a tinker’s damn, v.
(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 111: It matters not a tinker’s curse. (con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 64: Busy? Why, I am thet goldarn busy, I—I’m busy as a one-armed paperhanger with an itchy armpit.at busy as a one-armed paper-hanger (adj.) under busy as..., adj.
(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 95: ‘But, Ben, poor old Senn can’t talk English!’ I broke in. ‘Bull’s foot! He can jest talk English as plain as I can, or the President of the United States!’.at bullshit!, excl.
(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 53: ‘Damifino!’ he returned.at damfino!, excl.
(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 65: Why, yew jest go to Fiddlers Green and hunt grass.at fiddler’s green (n.) under fiddler, n.3
(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 57: So happy that the ‘spare parts’ (apprentices) formed a Foofoo-band.at foo-foo, n.
(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 159: In his lap he tenderly nursed a large flagon of rye whisky — the real tangle-foot.at tangle-foot, n.
(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 110: Git to ’ell out of it!at get to hell (out of...)! (excl.) under hell, n.
(con. 1899) Shanghaied out of Frisco 166: Ef they don’t put him in irons to-night he’ll be Hell with the lid off in the mornin’!at hell with the lid off (n.) under hell, n.
(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 53: The front of his idea-pot looks ez if a herd of mules had galloped over it!at idea pot, n.
(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 165: Accompanied by most of the sailor ‘Kangaroos’.at kangaroo, n.1
(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 58: Guess the old nickel-nurser is playing hee-fee-fi-fo-fum himself.at nickel nurser (n.) under nickel, n.
(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 96: Senn, the invalid, a possum!at possum, n.
(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 23: The weather-beaten old shell-back.at shell-back (n.) under shell, n.
(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 105: ‘I jest made a straight coat-tail up the lane to her heart,’ gurgled the ecstatic Ben. ‘No shennanikin.’.at shenanigan, n.
(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 186: Cracker Hash—another wonderful sea cookery mélange consisting of pounded sea biscuit companioned with dried peas—(‘Shot’) boiled for half an hour with a lump of very fat pork.at shot, n.2
(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 186: Skilly (Spotted Dog) — A grotesque mixture of pounded sea biscuit with small lumps of meat (the ‘Spots’) and grease scrapings from the cook’s copper.at spotted dog (n.) under spotted, adj.
(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 18: Ben [...] ordered from Calico Jim two more ‘stiff ’uns’.at stiff ’un, n.
(con. 1899) Shanghaied Out of Frisco 105: I jest made a straight coat-tail up the lane to her heart.at make a straight coat-tail (v.) under straight, adj.1
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