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Josh Hayseed in New York choose

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[US] 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.
[US] W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 126: Ger lang, Jerusha!
at get along with you!, excl.
[US] 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
[US] W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 63: You can’t bamboozle me.
at bamboozle, v.
[US] W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 125: What a pow’rful beefy critter he was.
at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 64: I’ve got respect for the bunko chaps.
at bunco, adj.
[US] W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 36: That there Chiny feller has got a opium j’int.
at Chinee, adj.
[US] W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 26: A clean-gone, love-struck gal.
at clean gone (adj.) under clean, adv.
[US] 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.
[US] W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 63: There ain’t no pertater bugs on you, Uncle Josh.
at no flies on..., phr.
[US] W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 73: ‘Be hokey,’ says I.
at by hokey! (excl.) under hokey, n.1
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 117: You’re pilin’ it on too thick.
at thick, adv.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 40: We got sorta used to York ways.
at York, adj.
[US] W.T. Call Josh Hayseed in N.Y. 7: A lot of Yorkers come up our way.
at Yorker, n.
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