1828 R.M. Bird City Looking Glass I i: Mother Gall! Why I would not send that delightful old bag of bones to jail for all the world.at bag of bones, n.1
1828 R.M. Bird City Looking Glass V ii: Troubled with the blues, doctor, very blue – ha, ha, ha! [...] I am resolved to be drunk.at blues, n.1
1828 R.M. Bird City Looking Glass I i: Mr. Ravin, you are a comical to scare a poor body so.at body, n.
1828 R.M. Bird City Looking Glass I iv: The chief ingredients of which are love and counterfeit money [...] I am sure the gentlemen will not boggle at the latter.at boggle, v.
1828 R.M. Bird City Looking Glass III i: And another man’s bona-roba too! If you had told me this before, I could have prevented this rencontre.at bona roba, n.
1828 R.M. Bird City Looking Glass IV ii: We’ll have the bull-dogs here in a twinkling, head ratcatchers and all.at bulldog, n.
1828 R.M. Bird City Looking Glass V ii: I don’t stagger, and I can walk the crack with any man, only I’m giddy, – that’s all.at walk the chalk, v.
1828 R.M. Bird City Looking Glass V ii: Drink you porpoise. If you should become cosey, I’ll send to the ’pothecary for sal aeratis.at cosy, adj.
1828 R.M. Bird City Looking Glass II vi: rav.: Dog! give her back. ros.: Thou worse than dog! thou beast, Without a name to express thy lust or fury!at dog, n.2
1828 R.M. Bird City Looking Glass I iii: Here’s one poor copper; ’tis all I have earned to day. So, if you’ll deliver me a fip, I’ll change it.at fip, n.
1828 R.M. Bird City Looking Glass I i: Gadswogs! nor I. [Ibid.] III iv: Gadswogs! That’s a word never came from a Christian dictionary.at gadswogs! (excl.) under gad, n.1
1828 R.M. Bird City Looking Glass III i: Odds my life! I think he has been guzzling porter.at ods my life! (excl.) under ods, n.
1828 R.M. Bird City Looking Glass I i: ring.: How’s your wound? rav.: Where? on my heart? ring.: Rot your heart. – Your arm?at rot!, excl.1
1828 R.M. Bird City Looking Glass V i: What fools men are to get drunk. – Here soak, you rogue.at soak, n.1
1828 R.M. Bird City Looking Glass IV i: He played the very devil at college, for all ’twas in a Yankee land.at Yankeeland, n.
1828 R.M. Bird City Looking Glass IV v: Zooks, sir! you are as solemn as a snapping-turtle of a cold day.at zooks!, excl.