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The Mysteries and Miseries of New York choose

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[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries & Miseries of NY 11: ‘Yes, I am Big Lize, you lushy swell!’ cried the woman.
at lushy, adj.1
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries & Miseries of N.Y. 85: His face had a kind of sheneyish expression in which avarice, cunning, cowardice and licentiousness were all so mixed together that they could not be separated.
at sheenyish (adj.) under sheeny, n.
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. I 49: I came the sentimental over him, and I think I’ll make a few out of him!
at few, a, adv.
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. I 115: ‘Plea at the bar.’ Taking a drink.
at plea at the bar, n.
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries & Miseries of NY 16: ‘[L]et’s walk up to the bar and enter a plea, boys; I’ve had my fun, and it’s my treat’.
at plea at the bar, n.
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. I 113: ‘Autem-divers.’ Pickpockets in a Church.
at autem-diver (n.) under autem, n.
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. II 64: The coppers are too wide awake!
at wide-awake, adj.
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. I 77: Jist lind us the loan of thray pipes an’ a penny ’orth o’ baccy in ’em.
at bacca, n.
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. II 80: You soot-bags of mortality!
at soot-bag, n.
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. I 113: ‘Bantered.’ To dare one, to defy them, is to banter.
at banter, v.
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. V 27: I’ve just been cleaning that little beauty and loading it up.
at beauty, n.1
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. V 49: The foremost villain [...] broke down her guard with a short iron crowbar, or ‘billy,’ as the burglars term it.
at billy, n.4
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. II 84: Your name is Zack Reed, and you’re a states-prison bird!
at bird, n.1
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. IV 14: She’ll blab to the old man.
at blab, v.
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. IV 87: His honor – the honor of a professional blackleg!
at blackleg, n.1
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. I 63: Better be careful of yer blarney, my cove, or you’ll know the game uv fives afore ye die!
at blarney, n.1
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. I 13: You’re too blasted good-hearted to be on the tramp.
at blasted, adj.1
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. IV 94: Lize, [...] you’re not going to ‘blow’ on us to the old man?
at blow, v.1
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. V 65: Then I’m mighty sorry – ha’n’t had no muss, ’cept a little blow out last night, for ever so long.
at blow-out, n.1
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. I 76: And it’s a saxpence we’ve got, and a bloody good blow-out we’ll have uv it.
at blow-out, n.1
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. I 69: So ’mazin cute over his books, that an unlarnt body couldn’t help a likin’ him!
at body, n.
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. III 57: Put up the ‘books’, let your game go, we’ve got work to patter habout.
at books, n.
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. V 32: Och, botheration take ’em all!
at botheration!, excl.
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. III 58: Not if ye call carryin’ the bracelets workin’ in iron, Bill!
at bracelets, n.
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. IV 73: Old Jack’ll let me have the brads in a minute!
at brad, n.1
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. III 34: I am broke, flat broke! I haven’t a dollar left!
at broke, adj.1
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. I 20: Their glasses filled with the ‘London brown S,’ it’s saffron-colored foam o’ermantling the dark clear essence of the malt beneath.
at brown, n.
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. I 113: ‘Buck.’ An assistant to a cheating hack-driver.
at buck, n.1
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. III 57: I’d just give a mug o’ yale to mill that one-eyed buffer.
at buffer, n.3
[US] ‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries & Miseries of NY 12: ‘I haven’t lifted nuthin’ as yet; but I mauled some o’ the bigbug swells a bit ago’.
at big bug (n.) under bug, n.1
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