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[US] Arizona Sentinel 16 Nov. 5/3: A Yankee by birth, a fire-eater by compulsion and a rebel by choice.
at fire-eater, n.
[US] Arizona Sentinel (Yuma, AZ) 27 Sept. 6: [We] were about to pull the trigger, when [...] ‘gee-whoa-ha! come back hea!’ felk upon our ears, and we felt good enough to jump out and hug that bull-driver.
at bull-driver (n.) under bull, n.1
[US] Arizona Sentinel (Yuma, AZ) 1 Mar. 4/2: Clear As Mud. The wise men of the Prescott Miner [...] proposes to enlighten the Sentinel.
at clear as mud (adj.) under clear, adj.1
[US] Arizona Sentinel (Yuma, AZ) 7 Nov. 1/2: I heard a yelling [...] and the office door came in on me. I saw stars, comets [...] and ‘came to’ in the next town.
at see stars (v.) under see, v.
[US] Arizona Sentinel (Yuma, AZ) 20 Nov. 4/1: Git up, you lazy, snorin’ hound, you, or I’ll blister your hide.
at blister, v.
[US] Arizona Sentinel (Yuma, AZ) 8 May 4/1: I can knock the socks right off’n these swell-head teachers.
at swell-headed, adj.
[US] Ariz. Sentinel (Arizona City) 15 Jan. 4/2: Our eyes met a pudding-headed individual.
at pudding-headed, adj.
[US] Arizona Sentinel (Yuma, AZ) 13 Mar. n.p.: There was a whiskered hombre / Who lived at Santa Cruz.
at hombre, n.
[US] Ariz. Sentinel (Yuma Co., AZ) 3 Apr. 4/1: Kill him! Shoot him down, you old noodlehead!
at noodlehead (n.) under noodle, n.1
[US] Arizona Sentinel (Yuma) 11 Mar. 3/2: The Editor is not well. He has the fan-tods, mully-grubs, [...] neuralgia, oldragia, or something else.
at fantod, n.
[US] Arizona Sentinel (Yuma, AZ) 23 Dec. 3/2: The Sioux have a new motto. ‘White man big smart; he furnish brains. Red man heap brave; he knock ’em out’.
at heap, adv.
[US] Ariz. Sentinel (Yuma Co., AZ) 2 Dec. 1/3: When the animal turned his Gatling gun upon the crowd about two dozen men took refuge behind Kettle Belly Brown.
at kettlebelly, n.
[US] Arizona Sentinel (Yuma) 11 Mar. 3/2: The Editor is not well. He has the fan-tods, mully-grubs, [...] neuralgia, oldragia, or something else.
at mulligrubs, n.
[US] Arizona Sentinel (Yuma, AZ) 5 Feb. 2/4: Yuma don’t give a continental expletive what they do.
at continental, adj.
[US] Arizona Sentinel 23 Sept. 2/1: The Prescott Democrat gets on the anxious bench and says the least said about the affairs of the campaign the sooner it will be mended.
at on the anxious bench (adj.) under bench, n.
[US] Ariz. Sentinel Yuma Cty, AZ) 19 Dec. 2/3: Planet is the Joe dandy Democrtic precinct in Yuma county.
at joe dandy, n.
[US] Arizona Sentinel (Yuma, AZ) 29 Nov. 2/1: he ‘dished up’ several items about Yuma and Arizona territory.
at dish (out), v.
[US] Arizona Sentinel 17 Apr. 4/4: A woman may [...] knock a man end over appetite for making an insulting remark.
at end over appetite (adj.) under end, n.
[US] Arizona Sentinel (Yuma, AZ) 1 Oct. n.p.: He will give you for ‘bub and grub’ a dish of ‘scouse’.
at grub and bub (n.) under grub, n.2
[US] Arizona Sentinel (Yuma, AZ) 1 Oct. n.p.: He will give you for ‘bub and grub’ a dish of ‘scouse’.
at scouse, n.
[US] Arizona Sentinel (Yuma, AZ) 27 Oct. 3/2: Several drunks and ‘discords’ were copped up in jail in the past week.
at cooped (up), adj.
[US] Arizona Sentinel (Yuma, AZ) 26 Oct. 1/5: These ’eer passengers has got to come up to the chalk, they has.
at come up to (the chalk) (v.) under come up, v.1
[US] Arizona Sentinel 8 Jan. 3/1: Peter Burke, the wide-awake constable at Kofa, came in Monday, and as usual brought a boarder for the ‘county hotel’.
at county hotel (n.) under county, adj.
[US] Arizona Sentinel (Yuma, AZ) 18 Nov. 3: As he was climbing over the boar hit him a Jim Jeffries ‘diff’ in the side.
at diff, n.
[US] Arizona Sentinel 6 May 2/4: The President has said [...] he has ‘shown them a thing or two’.
at know a thing or two, v.
[US] Arizona Sentinel (Yuma, AZ) 6 Sept. n.p.: The governor refused to sanction their jawfest.
at jawfest (n.) under jaw, n.
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