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Athens Post (TN) 11 Oct. 1/2: Another convict [...] went boldly up to the northern gate and called out to the turnkey to hurry up his cakes and open.at hurry up the cakes (v.) under cake, n.1
Athens Post (TN) 11 Oct. 1/2: Another convict [...] went boldly up to the northern gate and called out to the turnkey to hurry up his cakes and open. Athens Post (TN) 26 Dec. 3/3: Good-looking girls are generally poor—while your little dumpy, ill-looking women have generally more ‘spondulicks’ than they know what to do with.at spondulics, n.
Athens Post (TN) 17 Dec. 3/2: The laugh of that platter-faced, portly-bellied, jolly-looking man [...] possesses a rumbling sound.at platter-faced, adj.
Athens Post (TN) 22 Feb. 1/7: The entire legislature of Texas took a ‘spree’ together.at spree, n.
Athens Post (TN) 28 May 1/3: A report [...] that there has been discovered ‘a vein of gold’ [...] we suspect is ‘all my eye, and Betty Martin’.at all my eye and Betty Martin, phr.
Athens Post (TN) 26 Feb. 2/5: The largest amount distributed would not buy the vote of a single railroad irish-man.at railroad Irish (n.) under railroad, adj.
Athens Post (TN) 22 Aug. 2/2: There is about the usual amount of mutton-heads and chaw-bacons at the street corners, listlessly discussing the war.at chaw-bacon, n.
Athens Post (TN) 13 Aug. 2/4: The dod-blasted thing’s done gone up here.at dod-blasted (adj.) under dod, n.1
Athens Post (TN) 13 Aug. 2/4: Ain’t seen any nigger to-day that voted for Stokes; every goll durned one on ’em voted for Senter.at goldarned, adj.
Athens Post (TN) 13 Aug. 2/4: The dod-blasted thing’s done gone up here [...] yes sir-e-e! you bet!at yes sir!, excl.
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