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[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] Athens Post (TN) 22 Feb. 1/7: The entire legislature of Texas took a ‘spree’ together.
at spree, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] Athens Post (TN) 13 Aug. 2/4: The dod-blasted thing’s done gone up here.
at dod-blasted (adj.) under dod, n.1
[US] 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.
[US] 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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