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Waggeries and Vagaries choose

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[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 78: He left [...] quite careless as to what ‘didoes and shines’ he might cut up in future.
at cut up a dido, v.
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 17: Let’s licker one more round, and then absquattle.
at absquattle, v.
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 22: We go the hull shoat with them.
at go the whole shot (v.) under whole bang shoot, n.
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 14: Jest at eight bells, up ruz the gall, stark naked.
at bell, n.1
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 11: I left the hull bilin’ on ’em blazin’ drunk.
at blazing, adv.
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 180: Mr. D’s cranium – positive mountains amongst the ant hills thrown up by the other propensities affecting his brain pan.
at brainpan (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 50: If my sow-licitude is hurtin’ yer chitterlings, why be smashed into a hog’s pudding.
at chitlins, n.
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 19: You oughter be the commodore of all them cold water clubs, and perpetual president of all temp’rance teetotallers.
at cold water (n.) under cold, adj.
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 16: I recking the capting’s ebeneser was roused.
at ebenezer, n.1
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 77: Skeet, every daddy’s babby of you.
at every mother’s son, n.
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 187: The marriage was of course broken off. His intended declined a connection with a jail bird.
at gaolbird, n.
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 15: I recking that he was the raal grit for a parson.
at real grit (n.) under grit, n.1
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 17: Here’s jest a leetle horn a piece in the bottle – let’s licker one more round.
at horn, n.2
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 13: Then he took a ‘spell ho!’ at the jawin’ tackle.
at jawing-tackle, n.
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 14: The sojer had carried a small flask of Monongahely in his pocket.
at mahogany, n.
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 95: I’ve a Colt’s revolver in each pantey’s pocket.
at panties, n.
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 77: Skeet, every daddy’s babby of you.
at skate, v.1
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 14: Jest to see if he couldn’t soft soap the young critter out of a leetle rhino.
at soft soap, v.
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 12: First rate stuff it was, I swow. It oiled the parson’s tongue like all out doors.
at stuff, n.
[US] W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 74: Mr. Brattle dressed himself in a new bright blue coat [...] and a pair of large and showy unwhisperables.
at unmentionables, n.
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