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Boston Weekly Globe 28 Mar. in Farmer Americanisms (1889) 28: Mr. Barker’s back-out has not much surprised me.at back out (n.) under back, v.2
Boston Weekly Globe 28 Mar. in Farmer Americanisms (1889) 28: Mr. Barker’s back-out has not much surprised me.![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States")
N.Y. World 13 May in Americanisms (1889) 290: He’ll beef an’ kick like a steer an’ let on he won’t never wear ’em.at beef, v.1
Americanisms 4: Absquatulate, also Absquotilate. — to run away, to decamp, with the more or less forcible idea of absconding in disgrace.at absquatulate, v.
Americanisms 265/2: For a thing to have no git up and git about it is equivalent to saying that it is weak, vain, mean, slow, etc.at get-up-and-get, n.
Americanisms 5: Ackruffs. — An old slang expression for river thieves.at ark-ruff, n.
Americanisms.at bag of nails (n.) under bag, n.1
Americanisms 33/2: Bald-faced shirt The name by which a Western cowboy knows a white shirt. It is thought to come from the fact of Hereford cattle having white faces.at baldfaced shirt, n.
Americanisms 38/1: Barber. A Canadian backwoods term for a kind of blizzard [...] the Canadian voyageurs call it the barber as it cuts the face like a razor.at barber, n.1
Americanisms.at bayoo, n.
Americanisms 46/1: To get a beat on is to get the advantage of [...] As used by thieves and their associates, to get a beat on one [...] also implies that the point has been scored by underhand, secret, or unlawful means.at get a beat on (v.) under beat, n.2
Americanisms.at belly button (n.) under belly, n.
Americanisms 64/1: Bloat (cant), a drowned body; also a drunkard. The simile which groups the two is, perhaps, not far wrong.at bloat, n.
Americanisms.at blueskin, n.
Americanisms.at bobtail (car), n.
Americanisms 299: Ho-boy or haut boy.—A New York night scavenger.at ho-boy, n.
Americanisms.at brace, v.
Americanisms 92/1: Buck ague or buck fever — [...] the nervous shyness of deer and game of a similar kind supplies [the hunter] with a term to express the trepidation which at first seizes the young and inexperienced sportsman.at buck fever (n.) under buck, n.1
Americanisms.at charms, n.
Americanisms.at crawfish, n.
Americanisms 551: Wamble-Cropped. — A curious New England phrase for sickness at the stomach. Its meaning has been idiomatically extended to convey the idea of abasement and humiliation.at wamble-cropped, adj.
Portland (OR) Transcript 14 Mar. in Americanisms 195/1: No post office business had ever passed through his hands [...] unless we count those which had to do with the stage business and went deadhead.at deadhead, adv.
Americanisms 219: To get up and dust, To move about quickly. [Ibid.] 265: To git up and dust, i.e., to use the utmost expedition in departing.at get up and dust (v.) under dust, v.2
Americanisms 484/2: Shoo! fly! don’t bother me! An exclamation of impatience. Shoo and fly are both common ejaculations in country districts when driving wandering fowls or cattle from gardens etc., to legitimate pastures... The full phrase is now familiarly colloquial.at shoo-fly!, excl.
Americanisms 257/1: In the patter of the criminal classes, one’s gait does not so much refer to style or pace in walking, as, by a curious transition, to one’s ‘walk in life’; calling; trade; profession—in short, the manner of making a living is one’s gait.at gait, n.
Americanisms 282/1: Gush. – A large quantity; abundance; e.g., a gush of cattle, fruit, etc.at gush, n.1
Americanisms 300/1: Hog in togs, a well-dressed loafer .at hog in togs (n.) under hog, n.
Americanisms 299/2: Hogg (Cant).—A ten cent piece (about 5d).at hog, n.
Americanisms 265/1: gism. – A synonym for energy, spirit. Probably from Dutch geest.at jism, n.
Americanisms 47: Mobtown. — The city of Baltimore. This place has always been, and still is, notorious for the gangs of roughs and rowdies which infest its streets [DA].at Mob Town (n.) under mob, adj.
Americanisms.at black nigger (n.) under nigger, n.1
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