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Rags and Hope choose

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[US] V.C. Giles Rags and Hope in Lasswell (1961) 57: Bill Ford and Sid Morey decided to help the sergeant out by abbreviating and Americanizing the unpronounceable names [...] Gobberlinsky Tromboosky, head of the mess.
at -ski, sfx
[US] V.C. Giles Rags and Hope in Lasswell (1961) 56: I’m your huckleberry.
at huckleberry, n.
[US] V.C. Giles Rags and Hope in Lasswell (1961) 223: ‘Nigger-foot’ tobacco.
at niggerhead, n.1
[US] V.C. Giles Rags and Hope in Lasswell (1961) 99: Oh, close your bread trap and give us a rest.
at bread trap (n.) under bread, n.1
[US] V.C. Giles Rags and Hope in Lasswell (1961) 278: Bushwhackers were almost as great a plague to the southern families as were the Yankees, on account of their pillaging.
at bushwhacker, n.1
[US] V.C. Giles Rags and Hope in Lasswell (1961) 235: No chance to walk across it, so we promptly ‘cooned’ it.
at coon, v.
[US] V.C. Giles Rags and Hope in Lasswell (1961) 273: We ‘ganged together’ conversing gayly until we reached the willow-clad shore.
at gang, v.
[US] V.C. Giles Rags and Hope in Lasswell (1961) 260: I knew at that very moment that the ‘Major’ was a ‘goner’.
at goner, n.1
[US] V.C. Giles Rags and Hope in Lasswell (1961) 99: Oh, close your bread-trap, and give us a rest.
at give it a rest! (excl.) under rest, n.
[US] V.C. Giles Rags and Hope in Lasswell (1961) 256: Two splashing girls! Just as pretty as pinks and bully good Rebs.
at splashy, adj.
[US] V.C. Giles Rags and Hope in Lasswell (1961) 159: He was invited over, with the modest request from Bill and Dick to ‘bring his wad with him.’.
at wad, n.1
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