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[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 231: She’s struck on you [...] I never saw her worse bent up over a man.
at bent up, adj.
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 150: That’s the bull-gine on the Great Western; we got two railroads now.
at bullgine (n.) under bull, adj.1
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 53: He’s a dandy ball-player, and skates bully.
at bully, adv.
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 80: Don’t you worry, cap, I’m not drinkin’ liquor of any colour.
at cap, n.1
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 213: Ain’t it a caution to yaller snakes? Must be nigh on fifteen thousand people there now.
at caution, n.
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 112: A couple of rude groceries completed the necessary equipmnent of a ‘cow-town’.
at cow town, n.
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 194: I’m going to do a little cow-punchin’ for a man in Apache County.
at cow-puncher, n.
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 83: Only the closest observer was able to ‘cut out’ Moose as a ‘tenderfoot.’.
at cut out, v.4
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 91: Don’t let ’em get the drop on ye.
at get the drop(s) (on) (v.) under drop, n.1
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 79: Pratt looked round sheepishIy. ‘I do reckon I made a plum ejot of myself.’.
at eejit, n.
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 99: He [...] cut out ‘a great gob of trouble’ for himself in Cheyenne County.
at gob, n.3
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 99: He made a serious social mistake when he ‘lined-up’ with the truck-farmers, [...] and the ‘greaser’ sheep-herders.
at greaser, adj.
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 212: ‘Grub-pile! All down for grub!’ yelled the cook.
at grub-pile (n.) under grub, n.2
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 83: A couple of whisky-heated cowboys rode furiously up behind Mose.
at heated, adj.
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 125: We’ll have some taters and sow-belly in a giff or two.
at jiffy, n.
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 53: They jugged Harry and he’s there — in jail.
at jug, v.1
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 28: He lit into me with a big clasp-knife.
at light into (v.) under light, v.1
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 99: He made a serious social mistake when he ‘lined up’ with the truck farmers.
at line up, v.
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart (2008) 169: He pulled his gun and nailed me to the cross .
at nail someone to the cross (v.) under nail, v.
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 83: He came under the head of a ‘nester’ or ‘truck-farmer’ who was likely to fence in the river somwhere and homestead some land.
at nester, n.
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 47: He considered them ‘a little off their nut’, that is to say, fanatic.
at off one’s nut (adj.) under nut, n.1
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 76: ‘Mose’ was now indispensable to the Pratt ‘outfit.’ He built fires, shot game, herded the cattle, greased the waggons, curried horses and mended harness.
at outfit, n.1
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 77: It ain’t natural for to be so durned sure-pop on game [...] Doggone it, I’d want o’ miss ’em once in while.
at sure pop (n.) under pop, n.1
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 201: You see, we’ve been overrun with ‘rollers’ and ‘skin-game’ men.
at roller, n.
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 84: ‘Any objection?’ ‘You bet we have, you ruta-baga. You better keep out o’ here.’.
at rutabaga, n.
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 219: She wants to see you bad [...] I think she has given King his walking papers — and all on account of you.
at walking papers (n.) under walking, n.
[US] H. Garland Eagle’s Heart 55: Jack is my chum; I’d trust him with my life. He’s all wool.
at all wool (adj.) under wool, n.1
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