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Stray Subjects (1848) 119: That ’ere poor drivellen’ creetur ain’t of no account ’long side of a bar.at no-account, adj.
Stray Subjects (1848) 119: That ’ere poor drivellen’ creetur ain’t of no account ’long side of a bar. Stray Subjects (1848) 109: And when the news was brought to me, / I felt almighty blue.at almighty, adv.
Stray Subjects (1848) 102: Zenas had been on ‘a bat’ during the night previous.at on a bat under bat, n.3
Stray Subjects (1848) 116: The collection – bears, tigers, kangaroos, and porkepines, which beats the Zoological Gardens all holler.at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
Stray Subjects (1848) 62: Wai, that beats thunder all teu smash!at that beats cockfighting under beat, v.
Stray Subjects (1848) 115: ‘Bless my eye-balls!’ a juvenile critic would exclaim, ‘that ’ere a flamingo!’.at bless my heart! (excl.) under bless, v.1
Stray Subjects (1848) 61: A ‘shocking bad ’un’ was his hat, and matted was his hair. He wore a ‘brick’ within that hat.at have a brick in one’s hat (v.) under brick, n.
Stray Subjects (1848) 58: It was now the turn of the Quaker gentleman to smile [...] But our benevolent friend in the broad brim, was careless – he was!at broadbrim (n.) under broad, adj.
Stray Subjects (1848) 60: I’ve sunk a very pretty sum / In rides and sweetmeats past; / And haven’t now the first red cent; / She drained me of the last.at red cent, n.
Stray Subjects (1848) 49: ‘O! you darn’d old chowder-head!’ shrieked the insensate young man.at chowder-head, n.
Stray Subjects (1848) 104: Here’s yure contemptible copper.at copper, n.
Stray Subjects (1848) 31: The brown horse he bought for a fast crab, and is mighty good for a rush.at crab, n.3
Stray Subjects (1848) 38: Making himself agreeable to his officers by jumping Jim Crow, playing the bones, and imitating the ‘bull-gine’.at jump Jim Crow (v.) under Jim Crow, n.
Stray Subjects (1848) 109: And though I didn’t shed no tear, / Perhaps I cussed ‘a few’.at cuss, v.
Stray Subjects (1848) 107: I took her out to Harlem – / On the road we cut a swell.at cut, v.3
Stray Subjects (1848) 30: I’m a sexton, sir, and undertaker – Jack Crossbones, at your service – ‘Daddy Crossbones’ they call me at Porter’s.at daddy, n.
Stray Subjects (1848) 30: She’s as sober as be d---d’ when she gets the shop – that’s what I call the hearse – behind her.at as be damned (adv.) under damn, v.
Stray Subjects (1848) 71: I foller not the trade / I did afore they made my bed / With mattock and with spade, / And I was took to my last home, / And in the dead wood laid.at deadwood, n.
Stray Subjects (1848) 81: Jest fetch on your ‘prary dew’ for the hull lot, and d--- the expense.at dew, n.
Stray Subjects (1848) 113: Well, I kno’ed he wus a Jonah [...] an’ ef he hadn’t a bin done fer, as he wus, I’d a licked him to death.at done for, adj.
Stray Subjects (1848) 87: The company proved a heterogenous conglomeration of [...] editors, lawyers, auctioneers, indescribables, and ‘fancies’ – with a sprinkling of ‘none-such’s’.at fancy man, n.2
Stray Subjects (1848) 50: He […] always know’d Badger was a jo-fired fool.at jo-fired, adv.
Stray Subjects (1848) 73: Ho! landlord! there’s a flimsy – / Come, don’t be cross or coy – / Ten dollars for your alley / And ninety for your boy!at flimsy, n.
Stray Subjects (1848) 69: So the lawyer forked over one V and kept the other.at fork over, v.
Stray Subjects (1848) 95: A gentleman who was swimming about, upon being refused, declared that he might go to grass with his old canoe, for he didn’t think it would be much of a shower, anyhow [F&H].at go to grass, v.
Stray Subjects (1848) 29: She’s a rum ’un to look at, but a good ’un to go.at good ’un, n.
Stray Subjects (1848) 112: Wul, thar was a heap o’ steam on her.at heap, n.1
Stray Subjects (1848) 36: He flares up and fires away and bestows many opprobrious epithets upon Mr. Macbeth, calling him among other things a ‘hell-kite’.at hell-cat (n.) under hell, n.
Stray Subjects (1848) 106: Perhaps his sable friend’s eye didn’t glisten, and may be his ‘ivory’ didn’t shine.at ivory, n.
Stray Subjects (1848) 69: Jerusalem! that’s great!at Jerusalem!, excl.
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