1887 W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 63: I’ll tell you chaps a thing or two.at know a thing or two, v.
1887 W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 100: It would make a baker’s dozen she’d have in all.at baker’s dozen, n.1
1887 W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 125: What a pow’rful beefy critter he was.at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
1887 W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 7: I’ve ben hankerin’ to see where them bug hunters and rock smashers git their tomfool idees from.at bug-hunter, n.1
1887 W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 62: I’ve got to give in to one lot of Yorkers, and that is the bunko boys.at bunco artist (n.) under bunco, n.
1887 W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 36: That there Chiny feller has got a opium j’int.at Chinee, adj.
1887 W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 26: A clean-gone, love-struck gal.at clean gone (adj.) under clean, adv.
1887 W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 34: I was dead sot [sic] on seein’ the court house.at dead set on (adj.) under dead set, adj.
1887 W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 63: There ain’t no pertater bugs on you, Uncle Josh.at no flies on..., phr.
1887 W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 62: ‘Don’t you think I’m a greenhorn,’ I says, ‘becuz if you do you’ll find me a plaguey hot pertater to handle.’.at hot potato, n.1
1887 W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 34: I had a time to git the right idee into the cocoanut of my nevvy Sprouts.at nevvy, n.
1887 W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 117: When you come to tell ’em that I pay any sech outrageous debts as that, you’re pilin’ it on too thick.at pile it on (v.) under pile, v.
1887 W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 34: He strutted up for all the world like a bantam rooster, slingin’ dignity round permiscus, and plenty of it.at sling, v.
1887 W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 83: I’ll step over and wet my whistle.at wet one’s whistle (v.) under wet, v.
1887 W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 99: What’s the use for you to try to git me to swaller that whoppin’ lie?at whopping, adj.