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Mr Dooley in Peace and War choose

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[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 194: Whin a man begins f’r to see shtrange things, an’ [...] thinks he’s Vanderbilt drivin’ a four-in-hand, we sind him to what me ol’ friend Sleepy Burk calls th’ brain college.
at brain college (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 177: Man alive, don’t you know what a dollar is? Carlisle’d hand him out a plunk, a case, a buck.
at buck, n.3
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 208: He was a fine bucko.
at bucko, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 175: Ye’re talkin’ like a Populist an’ an anarchist an’ a big bullhead.
at bull-head, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 11: ‘Look here,’ says he, [...] ‘if ye don’t lave me counthryman out iv th’ bull-pen in fifteen minyits be th’ watch,’ he says, ‘I’ll take ye be th’ hair iv th’ head an’ ...’.
at bullpen, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 1: This here Sagasta is a boonco steerer like Canada Bill. [...] A smart man is this Sagasta, an’ wan tha can put a crimp in th’ ca-ards.
at bunco steerer (n.) under bunco, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 234: That Col. Hinnery, th’ man that sint me frind Cap. Dhry-fuss to th’ cage.
at cage, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 136: He was in here las’ night, how-come-ye-so, with his hat cocked over his eye.
at how came you so, phr.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 178: You ask f’r a little liquor with beer f’r a chaser.
at chaser, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 45: Th’ inhabitants is mostly naygurs an’ Chinnymen.
at Chinee, adj.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 227: He sint me a box iv soap that made me smell like a coon goin’ to a ball in a State Sthreet ca-ar.
at coon, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 1: This here Sagasta is a boonco steerer like Canada Bill. [...] A smart man is this Sagasta, an’ wan tha can put a crimp in th’ ca-ards.
at put a crimp in(to) (v.) under crimp, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr. Dooley in Peace and War 174: All this time ye’ve been standin’ behind this bar ladlin’ out disturbance to th’ Sixth Wa-ard.
at disturbance, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War viii: In this community you can hear all the various accents of Ireland, from the awkward brogue of the ‘far-downer’ to the mild aisy Elizabethan English of the southern Irishman.
at far-down, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 156: Whin we larn it thruly, we’ll teach thim college joods fr’m th’ pie belt a thrick or two.
at dude, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 214: ‘Th’ Dutch is with us,’ he says. ‘I mane the Germans is our frinds.’.
at Dutch, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 122: O’Connell was a bor-rn idjet.
at eejit, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 1: He’s been up again Gladstun an’ Bisma-arck an’ ol’ what-yer-call’im, the Eyetalian.
at Eyetie, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 185: Capital is at home now with his gams in a tub iv hot wather.
at gam, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 154: Take an ax, an ax, an ax to thim. Hooroo, hooroo, hellabaloo. Christian Bro-others!
at hooroo!, excl.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 18: He’s seen th’ hootchy-kootchy an’ th’ Pammer House barber shop.
at hootchy-kootchy, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 23: He’ll be settin’ up there undher a pa’am-three [...] an’ hootchy-kootchy girls dancin’ befure him.
at hootchy-kootchy, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 11: R-run over an’ wake up th’ loot at th’ station.
at loot, n.2
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 215: ‘Vell,’ says he (ye know th’ murdhrin’ way he has iv speakin’), ‘here we are,’ he says, ‘frinds at las’.’.
at murdering, adj.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 23: He’ll be settin’ up there undher a pa’m-three with naygurs fannin’ him.
at nagah, n.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 78: He’s wan iv th’ gr-greatest surgeons iv our time [...] an’ can cure annything fr’m pips to glanders.
at pip, n.1
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 208: Whin he died, she marrid somewan else an’ took the roly-boly [sic] with her.
at roly-poly, n.2
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 25: Gin’rals iv th’ r-rough-house kind, like Napoleon Bonypart.
at roughhouse, adj.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 246: Why should I take Mary Ann [...] an’ Robert Immitt Snakes, an’ all me little Snakeses, an’ rustle out west iv the tracks.
at rustle, v.
[US] F.P. Dunne Mr Dooley in Peace and War 126: He’d been sloughed up f’r wan thing or another.
at sloughed (up), adj.
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