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[US] Belmont Chron. (St Clairsville, OH) 26 Apr. 2/3: A gentleman looking about as fat as match [...] had been seen.
at fat as a match (adj.) under fat, adj.
[US] Belmont Chron. (St Clairsville, OH) 5 Jan. 3/4: Be jabers, me boys, have you heard from the raid [...] How Sherman kerwhollopped the Rebel Hardee?
at kerwhallop, v.
[US] Beltmont Chron. (St Clairsville, OH) 30 Aug. 2/2: The President expects to drizzle the last of his oratorical hogwash on the defenseless heads of New England farmers.
at hogwash, n.
[US] Belmont Chron. (St. Clairsville, OK) 24 May An interesting talk with Rev. J.R. Frazier, recently one of the American legation in Jap-land: .
at Japland (n.) under Jap, n.
[US] Belmont Chron. 28 June 1/6: A low-life vagabond, I’ll be bound, or he wouldn’t go to a vile ball and use such disgusting slang. ‘Shake a leg’ indeed!
at shake a leg (v.) under shake, v.
[US] Belmont Chron. (St Clairsville, OH) 18 June 2/6: A number of the ‘toughs’ [...] stationed themselves at the post-office corner [...] to ridicule a couple of ‘pumpkin-rollers’.
at pumpkin-roller (n.) under pumpkin, n.
[US] Belmont Chron. St Clairsville, OH) 26 Nov. 1/6: ‘She looked sniptious I can tell you.’ ‘Much too sniptious, I should think,’ said one girl.
at sniptious, adj.
[US] Belmont Chron. (St Clairsville, OH) 1 Apr. 4/3: They tell me [...] this is an Eye-talian show. Now I can’t talk Eye-talian and don’t understand it.
at Eyetie, adj.
[US] Belmont Chron. (St Clairsville, OH) 1 Apr. 4/3: They tell me [...] this is an Eye-talian show. Now I can’t talk Eye-talian and don’t understand it.
at Eyetie, n.
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