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The Diary of a Forty-Niner choose

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[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 15: Bunking With Pard.
at bunk, v.2
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 18: It makes a lot of difference having a pard with you. [Ibid.] 17 Nov. 35: Pard is all right again, thank the Lord.
at pard, n.
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 74: He said he did not feel like having a stag blowout.
at blow-out, n.1
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 104: He had shaved his beard [...] and was dressed up in a ‘biled shirt’.
at boiled shirt (n.) under boiled, adj.
[US] C.L. Canfield The Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 103: Pard went to Frisco early in the week.
at ’Frisco, n.
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 58: I have had to stand a lot of joshing from pard.
at josh, v.
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 95: She is telling everybody that she has given me the mitten.
at give someone the mitten (v.) under mitten, n.
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 85: Our claim is pretty nearly played out.
at played (out), adj.
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 74: I coaxed Anderson to go along; said he did not feel like having a stag blowout; rather have a pasear with Jack over on the river.
at stag, adj.
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 95: The town turned out to see the fun and I could hear them yell: ‘Go it, Yank.’.
at Yank, n.
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 211: The miners’ actions are generally endorsed and there is a disposition to bar the Chinks out of the district.
at Chink, n.
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 191: Jack has gone daffy.
at daffy, adj.
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 175: That settled it. He had his hat off, and ‘he’ was a woman dead sure.
at dead, adv.
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 178: Am I not better employed [...] beating law into the skull of a thick-headed judge, who don’t know Blackstone from white quartz?
at thick-headed, adj.
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 192: I followed suit with the shotgun and pistol. We both stood in the door and when they rode up they saw we were heeled.
at heeled, adj.
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 143: He bought his rum by the gallon and kept soaked all the time. Tuesday night he had a bad attack of the jim-jams.
at jim-jams, n.
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 185: They were mean enough to search her [...] Sure enough they found six slugs (fifty dollars each) in her stockings, which they confiscated.
at slug, n.1
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 143: He bought his rum by the gallon and kept soaked all the time. Tuesday night he had a bad attack of the jim-jams.
at soaked, adj.
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 170: The crowd agreed it was pretty tough on Jim and proceeded to help him forget it by ordering drinks all round.
at tough on under tough, adj.
[US] C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 193: [footnote] He associated himself with Rattlesnake Dick and three others and started out as a full-fledged ‘road agent.’ The band held together until 1853.
at road-agent (n.) under road, n.
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