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N.O. Daily Picayune 14 Mar. 1/5: I’m o-p-h.at o.p.h., adv.
N.O. Daily Picayune 14 Mar. 1/5: I’m o-p-h. N.O. Picayune 29 Mar. 2/2: [He] won the heat ‘just as easy as rolling off a log’ [DA].at easy as falling off a log, adj.
N.O. Picayune 8 Mar. 2/4: Things have been a goin’ on in a catawompussed fix for a long time [DA].at catawampus, v.
N.O. Picayune 1 Mar. 2/4: […] even admitting a person understands French and pronounces the name of a dish correctly, it’s all Hebrew or Choctaw to the waiter [DA].at choctaw, n.
N.O. Picayune 1 Mar. 2/4: Even admitting a person understands French and pronounces the name of a dish correctly, its all Hebrew or Choctaw to the waiter [DA].at Hebrew, n.
N.O. Picayune 5 Mar. 2/1: The markets afford good lodging, and every bale of cotton furnishes a bed; but, on such a night as last we hardly know how they can ‘tough it out’ .at tough it (out), v.
N.O. Picayune 8 Mar. 2/4: If they du come to hard blows the Maine boys ’ll flax out them are Brunswickers like sixty [DA].at like sixty, adv.
N.O. Picayune 21 Apr. 2/4: Though his grey-headed rival tried to win, it was n.g. (no go!) [DA].at n.g., phr.
N.O. Picayune 27 Mar. 2/2: ‘Aint he a rusher?’ bawls out still a third [DA].at rusher, n.
N.O. Picayune 30 Oct. 2/3: He calaboosed him [DAE].at calaboose, v.
N.O. Picayune 29 July 2/4: Six victims to report this morning — nothing important — offences trivial — loafing and drunkenness. Some of them got gos, and some got nothing [DA].at get goss (v.) under goss, n.1
N.O. Picayune 30 Aug. 2/2: Howard [...] is described as [...] wearing moustaches and soaplocks [DA].at soap lock, n.
N.O. Picayune 31 July 2/2: He was just on the eve of leaving town with his ‘pockets full of rocks.’ [DA].at rocks, n.
N.O. Picayune 31 Oct. 2/3: He had not well landed on the Levee, so famous for cotton bags, sugar [...] ‘ropers in,’ and other ‘dry goods’ [DA].at roper, n.2
N.O. Picayune 31 Oct. 2/1: Get ready for a scrouger, boys [DA].at scrouger, n.1
N.O. Picayune 2 Aug. 2/5: She scorned to find surety in $500 to keep the peace, so she was sent down.at send down (v.) under send, v.
N.O. Picayune 31 Oct. 2/3: He ‘wooded up’ as he came along [DA].at wood up (v.) under wood, n.1
N.O. Picayune 20 Apr. 2/3: A chap [...] caught the largest kind of a ‘turkey’ while visiting the different bar-rooms [DA].at catch a turkey (v.) under turkey, n.1
(ed.) Pickings from the [...] N.O. Picayune 42: Her own Rory, who’d knock saucepans out of any spalpeen that ’ud say black is the white of her eye.at knock saucepans out of (v.) under knock, v.
Pickings from N.O. Picayune (1847) 93: Closing the front doors and window shutters, and reporting themselves, through the coloured Abigail, ‘not at home’.at abigail, n.1
Pickings from N.O. Picayune (1847) 125: Blur-an’-ages! isn’t it a pity.at tare an’ ages!, excl.
Pickings from N.O. Picayune (1847) 170: Mackew, who at length became convinced that the talk about his wife [...] was ‘all in his eye and Elizabeth Martin’.at all my eye and Betty Martin, phr.
Pickings from N.O. Picayune (1847) 73: I’m a butcher, right up and down, and I never followed no other business.at up-and-down, adv.
Pickings from N.O. Picayune (1847) 134: I is always ready [...] there’s no back out in me.at back out (n.) under back, v.2
Pickings from N.O. Picayune (1847) 21: Why, be jabers, I’d put a turkey-cock under my arm.at bejabers!, excl.
Pickings from N.O. Picayune (1847) 62: I was on an almighty big bender last night.at on a bender (adj.) under bender, n.2
Pickings from N.O. Picayune (1847) 47: ‘What do you give?’ ‘Ten bits a day.’.at bit, n.1
Pickings from N.O. Picayune (1847) 113: ‘I’m blamed if he dont,’ said Burns.at blame, v.
Pickings from N.O. Picayune (1847) 101: I’m blow’d if you ain’t either slew’d, mad, or in love.at I’ll be blowed! (excl.) under blowed, adj.1
Pickings from N.O. Picayune (1847) 10: A low, chubby cabbage-headed Dutchman.at cabbage-headed, adj.
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