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Abilene Reflector (KS) 6 Sept. 8/1: ‘Heap much of big fools they would be to bite at such bait’.at heap, adv.
Abilene Reflector (KS) 6 Sept. 8/1: ‘Heap much of big fools they would be to bite at such bait’. Abilene Reflector (KS) 19 May 7/3: ‘A chippy chaser’ [...] They stand upon the street corners until some pretty girls pass by, then follow them, talking in a loud voice.at chippie-chaser (n.) under chippie, n.1
Abilene Reflector (KS) 19 May 7/3: Who ever heard a champion of the ring say that he gave his antagonist a [...] bloody nose? He prefers [...] ‘tapped the claret’.at tap someone’s claret (v.) under claret, n.
Abilene Reflector (KS) 19 May 7/3: Gentlemen never acknowledge to being drunk. It is a ‘still’ or a ‘jag’ they have on.at get a jag on (v.) under jag, n.1
Abilene Reflector (KS) 19 May 7/3: Swindlers are called [...] ‘sawdust men’.at sawdust game (n.) under sawdust, n.2
Abilene Reflector (KS) 19 May 7/3: If he knocks his opponent down he will say [...] that he ‘sent him to grass’.at send to grass (v.) under send, v.
Abilene Reflector (KS) 19 May 7/3: The ‘chippy chaser,’ if successful in making the clandestine acquaintance he seeks, and in making an appointment for some future evening, is, as a rule, ‘stood up’ .at stand up, v.
Abilene Reflector (KS) 19 May 7/3: Gentlemen never acknowledge to being drunk. It is a ‘still’ or a ‘jag’ they have on.at have a still on (v.) under still, n.2
Abilene Wkly Reflector (KS) 2 Aug. 4/3: If you see a man with gin-blossom on his nose and a whole gin-boquet [sic] in his breath, the chances are that he is a Democrat.at gin blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
Abilene Reflector (MN) 7 Apr. 11/3: When last seen he was pounding ties for Junction.at pound the rails (v.) under pound, v.2
Abilene Wkly Reflector (KS) 3 Jan. 5/3: We don’t want none of your Dam slang.at damn, adj.
Abilene Wkly Reflector (KS) 6 June 7/3: She hates the idea of any feller who’s only got lardy-dardy ways.at lardy-dardy, adj.
Abilene Wkly Reflector (KS) 24 Jan. 1/3: A Sorehead Mud-Slinger. It was necessary that the mud-slingers should get someone to do their dirty work.at mudslinger, n.
Abilene Wkly Reflector (KS) 21 Aug. 4/1: Judge Sturges has written a letter to a little one-horse country jerk-water paper.at country, adj.
Abilene Wkly Reflector (KS) 9 July n.p.: Senetaor-eoect Peffer the Craoker. Old Whiskers held down a Kansas job / In a dismal kind of way; / And all he did, whatever befell, / Was to croak the livelong day.at croak, v.1
Abilene Wkly Reflector (KS) 31 May 1/4: It was strictly a tabby party.at tabby party (n.) under tabby, n.
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