1917 E. Hemingway letter 19 Sept. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 2: I wanted to hire the Polacks to pick up but they wanted 5c a bush.at Polack, n.
1918 E. Hemingway letter 14 May in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 6: We bummed around and went up on the top of the Woolworth Tower.at bum, v.3
1918 E. Hemingway letter 21 July in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 12: I suppose Brummy has written you all about my getting bunged up.at bunged up, adj.
1918 E. Hemingway letter 18/19 May in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 7: Does he still classify the Chicagoan, Noblest Scion of the Windy City as a well meaning fellow.at Windy City, n.
1918 E. Hemingway letter 13 Dec. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 20: Bill, this is some girl and I thank God I got crucked so I met her.at crocked, adj.
1918 E. Hemingway letter c.1 June in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 11: I crawled out over the top this afternoon and took some darby pictures of the Piave and Austrian trenches.at darby, adj.
1918 E. Hemingway letter 2 Mar. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 5: The big political men are sure raising the merry deuce.at raise the deuce (v.) under deuce, the, phr.
1919 E. Hemingway letter 30 Apr. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 24: Had me practically married off and entangled with any amount of femmes.at femme, n.
1919 E. Hemingway letter 3 Mar. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 21: I think of [...] you and me, a little illuminated sometimes, but always just pleasantly so, strolling through that great old place.at illuminated, adj.
1919 E. Hemingway letter 30 Apr. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 24: Rather good-looking and a pretty mean dancer.at mean, adj.
1919 E. Hemingway letter 3 Mar. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 321: My typewriter, slang for mill, battered key board etc.at mill, n.1
1919 E. Hemingway letter 3 Mar. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 21: They didn’t recognize me [...] when I piled off the train.at pile, v.
1919 E. Hemingway letter 30 Apr. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 24: That place that they are pulling for very strongly is Wisconsin.at pull for (v.) under pull, v.
1920 E. Hemingway letter 22 Dec. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 42: The mag has 65,000 circulation.at mag, n.4
1920 E. Hemingway letter 1 Jan. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 31: Several girls got a bit miffed because I told ’em they couldn’t dance as well as you all.at miffed, adj.
1920 E. Hemingway letter 8 Aug. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 36: I had only six seeds to my name.at seed, n.
1921 E. Hemingway letter 10 Jan. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 44: Levine is an excellent fellow and gave us the cold dope on Rooshia.at cold, adj.
1921 E. Hemingway letter 20 May in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 50: Coming out Sunday I think and will cast an optic on you.at optic, n.
1922 E. Hemingway letter 20 Mar. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 64: The temptation of course is to tell him to take his whole damned family and jam them as far as they will go up some elephant’s fanny.at fanny, n.1
1922 E. Hemingway letter 20 Mar. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 64: Show the Ghee the screed.at ghee, n.
1922 E. Hemingway letter 20 Mar. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 865: Some day I will get careless and he will knock me for a row of latrines.at knock for a row of... (v.) under knock, v.
1923 E. Hemingway letter 12 Dec. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 106: I’ve found it fatal to delay letters. And I want to write to you bang off.at bang off (adv.) under bang, adv.
1923 E. Hemingway letter 23 Jan. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 77: We have 6 to 8 months grub money ahead.at grubstake, v.
1923 E. Hemingway letter 29 Jan. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 78: I understand you are having a gutfull of Rapallo.at gutsful, n.
1923 E. Hemingway letter 17–18 July in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 85: I suppose this sounds like all sorts of Merde from the good old manure spreader.at manure, n.
1924 E. Hemingway letter 20 Nov. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 135: I’m having a period of not being able to do anything worth a shit after this last story.at worth a shit under worth a..., phr.
1924 E. Hemingway letter 19 July in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 119: Having been bitched financially and in a literary way by my friends.at bitch, v.