1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 65: Them two been living with some mean, no-count people a hundred miles east of Tulip.at no-account, adj.
1958 T. Capote ‘A Christmas Memory’ in Breakfast at Tiffany’s 152: We can’t afford the made-in-Japan splendours at the five-and-dime.at five and dime, n.
1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 12: It is her. Sure as I’m a man fit to wear britches.at sure as you’re a foot high under sure as..., phr.
1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 93: All the badges want from me is a couple of free grabs and my services as a state’s witness against Sally.at badge, n.1
1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 36: He’s written barrels of the most marvellous stories.at barrel, n.1
1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 21: I mean he’s sweet when he isn’t drunk, but let him start lapping up the vino, and oh God quel beast!at beast, n.
1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 75: She spent whole hausfrau afternoons slopping about in the sweatbox of her midget kitchen.at sweat-box, n.
1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 85: Get them cotton-pickin’ hands off of me, you dreary, drivelling old bull-dyke.at bull-dyke, n.
1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 90: It’s him to a T. Buttoned up and constipated.at buttoned up, adj.
1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 38: Holly [...] caught me reading: Miss Holly Golightly, of the Boston Golightlys, making every day a holiday for the 24-carat Rusty Trawler.at twenty-four carat, adj.
1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 76: What could be prettier than a quite coony baby with bright green beautiful eyes.at coon, adj.
1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 14: Dead. Or in a crazy house. Or married.at crazy house (n.) under crazy, n.
1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 34: We modelled her along the Margaret Sullivan type, but she could pitch some curves of her own.at curve, n.
1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 25: Of course I like dykes themselves. They don’t scare me a bit. But stories about dykes bore the bejesus out of me.at dyke, n.
1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 91: But oh gee, golly goddamn [...] I did love him. The rat.at golly!, excl.
1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 75: But, after all, he knows I’m preggers. Well, I am, darling. Six weeks gone.at gone, adj.2
1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 77: A person ought to be able to marry men or women or – listen, if you came to me and said you wanted to hitch up with Man o’ War, I’d respect your feeling.at hitch (up), v.
1958 T. Capote ‘House Of Flowers’ Breakfast at Tiffany’s 154: Well, I can’t sleep a hoot.at hoot, n.2
1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 81: Trees, a lake with little-boy sailboats, statues went by licketysplit.at lickety-split, adv.
1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 35: You’re such a slob. You always nigger-lip.at niggerlip (v.) under nigger, n.1