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[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 148: Corn-meal mash [...] and bacon (known to the ranchero as ‘sow-belly’).
at sow-belly, n.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 84: They do say as he was ’customed to go on a scoop – on a bend, occasionally, as it were.
at on a bend under bend, n.2
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 145: ‘You bet your buttons!’ murmured Squito proudly.
at bet one’s buttons (v.) under bet, v.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 146: You’ll find me heeled, too, you can bet your sweet life!
at bet one’s (sweet) life (v.) under bet, v.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 259: The ‘boys’ [...] all of whom were gentlemen on the frontier, got the ‘big head,’ and displayed effervescence scarcely less remarkable than that of the champagne itself.
at get the big head (v.) under big head, n.1
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 120: Ain’t we struck it big, eh? ain’t we just eternally heeled?
at big, adv.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 130: I run a bluff on ’em.
at bluff, n.1
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 121: If you think that I’m trying to boost the place up because it belongs to us [...] call me an old mud-turtle.
at boost, v.1
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 301: ‘Apache’ was a ragged, six-foot, dark-eyed, bottle-nosed, bibulous-looking, able-bodied ‘loafer’.
at bottlenosed, adj.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 146: Sam’s too bronco; he gets all-fired mean sometimes when he’s full.
at bronco, adj.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 228: A tender-foot got in amongst the gamblers [...] and what with ‘strippers,’ and ‘stocking,’ and ‘cold decks,’ and ‘bugs,’ and ‘reflectors,’ and ‘codes,’ and so forth, he hadn’t the ghost of a show.
at bug, n.4
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 312: Well, you may talk about your chickabiddies, and your chickaweewees, and your Smart Alicks, and your Joe-dandies and daisies, but when it comes to making a duck stew, I’m a darling!
at chickabiddy, n.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 312: Well, you may talk about your chickabiddies, and your chickaweewees, and your Smart Alicks, and your Joe-dandies and daisies, but when it comes to making a duck stew, I’m a darling!
at chickadee, n.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 136: If he could kill Indians shooting off his mouth at them, he’d soon clean out all there is.
at clean out, v.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 42: Don’t listen to that coon; you get up.
at coon, n.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 149: The title, ‘cow servants,’ so delighted the gentle ‘puncher’. [Ibid.] 150: The cow-punchers know and like a gentleman.
at cow-puncher, n.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 312: Well, you may talk about [...] your Smart Alicks, and your Joe-dandies and daisies, but when it comes to making a duck stew, I’m a darling!
at joe dandy, n.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 68: I’ll be durned if I don’t shoot him.
at I’ll be darned! (excl.) under darn, v.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 123: The boys are death on cactus when they get scared.
at death on, adj.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 120: Ain’t we struck it big, eh?
at eh?, phr.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 4: The yaller, one-eyed cuss.
at one-eyed, adj.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 138: They’ll get you one of these days, Colonel, when you are driving around in your wagon.
at get, v.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 142: A load of goods for the ‘gin mill’ there.
at gin-mill, n.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 62: A couple of leather-overalled cowboys, ostentatiously ‘heeled’.
at heeled, adj.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 148: I’m a hell-tearing cyclone! I’m a pitch-fire, singeing, wild-car terror from Texas!
at hell-roaring (adj.) under hell, n.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 147: Well, there’ll be hell a-popping whenever they do come together.
at hell’s a popping under hell, n.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 123: The Apaches were out to beat hell.
at beat hell (v.) under hell, the, phr.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 172: If they catch you altering a brand – hell! that’s a penitentiary job.
at hell!, excl.
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 315: ‘How’s that for high, boys?’ concluded the narrator.
at how’s that for high? under high, adj.2
[US] F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 125: Nobody been joshing you, I suppose?
at josh, v.
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