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[US] Ashtabula Wkly Teleg. (OH) 4 Dec. 1/7: I learned something of his giving dope to his horses [...] I learned that he was giving his horse arsenic and laudanum from Hiram and his brother.
at dope, n.1
[US] Ashtabula Wkly Teleg. (OH) 28 Jan. 1/4: ‘Per-haps, my old cock, you think that’s all the money I’ve got [...] ’ said he [...] ‘Pretty well crowned, my bantam,’ said the latter, as he keenly scrutinized the notes.
at bantam, n.
[US] Ashtabula Wkly Teleg. (OH) 28 Jan. 1/4: The young man with an air of bravado [...] said, ‘Per-haps I do: won’t you change them, old blister?’.
at blister, n.1
[US] Ashtabula Wkly Teleg. (OH) 18 Feb. 2/5: We have found its editor a ninny-hammer.
at ninnyhammer, n.
[US] Ashtabula Wkly Teleg. (OH) 28 Jan. 1/4: Drawing a huge roll from the pocket of his well-worn panatloons [etc.].
at roll, n.
[US] Weekly Tel. 28 Feb. n.p.: The war has brought into being many nicknames [...] women railway porters are known as ‘whistlers’ [etc.].
at whistler, n.1
[US] Weekly Tel. 6 Apr. in DSUE (1984).
at Vera Lynn, n.
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