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Sam Slick’s Wise Saws II 90: We were as thick as two thieves.at ...thieves under thick as..., adj.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws II 90: We were as thick as two thieves. Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 33: That was a first-rate bam!at bam, n.1
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 36: Well, that beats all natur.at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 46: He was bit.at bite, v.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 160: Blartin’ out a discovery afore you take a patent may help others, but it keeps you poor.at blart, v.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 111: Did you never hear of ‘Old Blowhard?’.at blowhard, n.1
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws II 91: We kicked up a great bobbery, that’s a fact.at kick up a bobbery (v.) under bobbery, n.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 308: Such words too, [...] not jaw-breakin’ words, such as black gentlemen use to show their knowledge of dictionary, but heart-breakin’ words.at jaw-breaking, adj.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 47: It’s all bunkum, you know.at bunkum, n.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws II 280: I should like to draw him out now we are alone, for he is a character.at character, n.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws II 271: And off we went as hard as we could clip.at clip, v.2
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 162: Well, cookey, you are right for oncet in your life.at cookee, n.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 212: Danged if I do, I’ll fight till I die fust.at dang, v.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 125: Aint she a doll? [a ship].at doll, n.1
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 21: An awful large seven-foot down-easter.at Down-easter, n.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 68: I make myself master of the subject [...] and then go at it in rale right down airnest.at right down, adv.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 44: He drinks, as he says, ‘like a fish’.at drink like a fish (v.) under drink, v.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws II 142: He turns to his next neighbour, and earwigs him by the hour.at earwig, v.1
Sam Slick’’s Wise Saws II 94: I’m a dead shot; but perhaps you think you are a deader one, and make sartin you’ll fix my flint.at fix someone’s flint (v.) under fix, v.1
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 51: He fobbed it from Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’.at fob, v.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 43: You have heard of John Bull, it is the gineral name of the English, as ‘Frog’ is of the French.at Frog, n.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 153: He goes out to meet him, gallows polite.at gallows, adv.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 294: Go it, my little widder, while you are young.at go it!, excl.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws II 192: You’ll have to dig him up first, for he is a gone goose.at gone goose (n.) under gone, adj.1
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 137: Here’s where we grub.at grub, v.1
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws II 223: Strike off half the Irish Brigade, and give their seats to colonists, who, if they are ‘Blue-noses,’ aint potato-headed, at any rate.at potato-headed (adj.) under potato-head, n.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 128: You have seen a great deal, and he has read a great deal, and you are jist the boys to hitch your hosses together.at hitch horses (together) (v.) under hitch (up), v.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws II 283: The Dutch boys will make Le Haive too hot for him.at hot, adj.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 241: I don’t wonder ‘Hubby,’ as she called her husband, fell in love with her.at hubby, n.
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws II 282: Drink water in Maine, champaigne in New York [...] and everything in New Orleens, from whiskey down to red-ink – that they call claret.at red ink, n.
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