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[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 13 Sept. 3/1: They ought not, however, as some do, take their spite out on their hair and snatch themselves bald-headed.
at snatch bald-headed (v.) under bald-headed, adv.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (Anderson Court Ho., SC) 4 Mar. 2/2: Langley, a mullet-headed, muck-colored gentleman of African ’scent.
at mulletheaded, adj.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 12 Aug. 1/3: She one night made a moonlight flitting with her devoted swain.
at moonlight flitting, n.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer Anderson Court Ho., SC) 17 Nov. 2/2: There are several ‘mush heads’ round these diggings.
at mush-head, n.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 24 June 4/2: We will inform the [...] evader of truth and honesty who runs the little nigger nose-rag [...] that he cannot rain any of his infernal lies down our throat.
at nose rag (n.) under nose, n.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 4 Oct. 1/7: It would take regular Irish hints to encourage a farmer to do anything .
at Irish hint (n.) under Irish, adj.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 8 Jan. 1/6: General Grant is finding favor with Southern Democracy [...] That he should be chosen favorite of the Southern carpet-baggers and scallawags will not surprise anyone.
at scallywag, n.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (Anderson Court Hse, SC) 21 June 4/1: I’ll be dingswizzled, Betsy, if I know what they mean by onions!
at dingswizzled, adj.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 1 Mar. 1/5: There are now in Augusta about a score of Chinamen [...] John has come to stay.
at John, n.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 1 Mar. 1/5: There are now in Augusta about a score of Chinamen [...] John has come to stay. To see a squad of pigtails [...] is growing to be a familar thing.
at pigtail, n.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 12 June 2/8: he has an ordinary sandhill country cracker cow.
at country cracker (n.) under country, adj.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 7 Feb. 1/5: That dingnation old billy goat went and throw’d me this morning [...] confound his dingnation old hide.
at dingnation, adj.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 7 Feb. 1/5: Where in the wide world did you learn to say [...] dingnation and blame my skin and dad burn it all?
at dingnation!, excl.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 7 Feb. 1/5: Dog my cat if I can’t wheel a bully load of wood to the house [...] dog’d if I can’t.
at dog, v.2
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 20 Nov. 1/3: I used to be very smart in my appearance [...] but I worked so hard I had no time for prinking up.
at prink, v.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 6 Mar. 3/4: ‘Rough on Colds’ Knocks a Cough or Cold endwise.
at rough on under rough, adj.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 2 Apr. 3/5: No man can live happy until that home in heaven is reached, and the ‘country cracker’ has the best chance of reaching there.
at country cracker (n.) under country, adj.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (Anderson Court Hse, SC) 11 June 3/4: We had the pleasure of meeting one of our ‘jim-swinger boys’ [...] He looks much better than he used to, resembling a ‘half-grown-city-dude’.
at jimswinger, n.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (Anderson Court Hse, SC) 17 Aug. 1/4: ‘What in the dingnation is that,’ said Bill.
at dingnation, n.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (Anderson Court Hse, SC) 28 Aug. 1/6: These ape-headed pullets which invent [...] foot fangels merely for fashion’s sake.
at apehead (n.) under ape, n.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (Anderson Court Hse, SC) 11 Oct. 7/1: he peered ahead through the rain, which was now coming down ‘kersplosh’.
at kerslosh! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 30 July 2/4: Opium is a popular drug and almost any form of ‘hop’ is relished. The left arm of a black prisoner [...] was fearfully lacerated by continued jabs from a hypodermic syringe.
at hop, n.3
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 30 July 2/4: Opium is a popular drug and almost any form of ‘hop’ is relished. The left arm of a black prisoner [...] was fearfully lacerated by continued jabs from a hypodermic syringe.
at jab, n.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 3 Feb. 5/1: Policeman Jimmie O’Donnell don’t believe in negroes blockading sidewalks. When the Irishman appears the burr-heads clear the sidewalk.
at burrhead, n.
[US] Anderson Intelligencer (SC) 3 Jan. 3/4: It was sent, with increasing speed, back against the train, which it struck ‘Kerchunk’.
at kerchunk! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
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