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[US] in R.W. Emerson Eng. Traits (1856) 69: The radical mob at Oxford cried after the tory Lord Eldon, ‘There’s old Eldon; cheer him; he never ratted’.
at rat, v.2
[US] R.W. Emerson Eng. Traits 27: I found abundant points of resemblance between the Germans [...] and our ‘Hoosiers,’ ‘Suckers,’ and ‘Badgers,’ of the American woods.
at badger, n.1
[US] R.W. Emerson Eng. Traits 99: At his house in London six oxen were daily eaten [...] any acquaintance in his family, should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger.
at boiled, n.
[US] R.W. Emerson Eng. Traits 129: Lord Shaftesbury calls the poor thieves together, and reads sermons to them, and they call it ‘gas’.
at gas, n.1
[US] R.W. Emerson Eng. Traits 27: I found abundant points of resemblance between the Germans [...] and our ‘Hoosiers,’ ‘Suckers,’ and ‘Badgers,’ of the American woods.
at hoosier, n.
[US] R.W. Emerson Eng. Traits 27: I found abundant points of resemblance between the Germans [...] and our ‘Hoosiers,’ ‘Suckers,’ and ‘Badgers,’ of the American woods.
at sucker, n.2
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