1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy III 122: You had to trapse down yer, sniffin’ about my tracks, you black and tan idiot.at black and tan, adj.
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy II 164: She’s a peart sort o’ woman in her way [...] pow’ful to argyfy and plan.at argufy, v.
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy III 39: They did say that I used to sometimes fetch that congregation, jest snatch ’em bald-headed.at snatch bald-headed (v.) under bald-headed, adv.
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy II 228: She may have been deceived or wronged or disappointed or bamboozled.at bamboozled (adj.) under bamboozle, v.
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy II 222: ‘Blank it all,’ I said to myself, ‘Blank it all, Star, you ain’t goin’ to pop out upon a man just as he’s ministering to Beauty.at blank, v.1
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy II 48: The eloquent Mr. Blowhard and the persuasive Mr. Windygust .at blowhard, n.1
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy III 30: It’s just [...] playing it mighty rough on as white a man as ever you saw, Sophy, [...] and everybody ready to buck in agin us who has ten cents to chip in on.at buck, v.2
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy III 181: It was a mighty sharp move of Pete Dumphy’s bailin’ thet Gabe, right in the face of that there ‘dropped lead’ in his busted-up mine!at busted, adj.1
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy II 33: To think of the artfulness of that man [...] a-gettin’ up sympathy about his sufferin’s at Starvation Camp, and all the while a-carryin’ on with the widder of one o’ them onfortunets.at carry on, v.
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy II 160: Able to keep up your end of a conversation with anybody, and allus ez chipper as a jay-bird.at chipper, adj.
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy II 310: You’ve been [...] playin’ it very low down on my moral and religious nature, and generally ringin’ in a cold deck on my spiritual condition for the last five years.at cold deck, n.
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy II 310: You’ve jest cut up thet rough with my higher emotions thet there ain’t enough left to chip in on a ten-cent ante.at cut up rough, v.
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy III 175: Dash it all! what in dash are you dashingly doing here, dash you?at dash, n.5
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy III 175: Dash it all! what in dash are you dashingly doing here, dash you?at dash, v.1
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy III 266: Dry up! — don’t you see you’re driving me half-crazy with your infernal buzzing?at dry up, v.
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy III 39: They did say that I used to sometimes fetch that congregation, jest snatch ’em bald-headed.at fetch, v.1
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy II 311: It is worthy of a short-card sharp and a keno flopper, which I have, I regret to say, long suspected you to be.at flopper, n.
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy II 148: As hash-slinger, Sal can walk over anything of her weight in Plumas.at hash-slinger, n.
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy II 311: Your suggestion, Peter [...] emanates from [...] an intellect weaked by Rum and Gum and the contact of Lager Beer Jerkers.at jerker, n.1
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy II 31: Six Chinymen by Jinks — and a Greaser!at by jinks! (excl.) under jinks, n.
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy II 30: Gabe [...] jest comes along, accidental like, and, dern my skin! but he strikes onto a purty gal and a wife the first lick!at lick, n.2
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy II 302: Yer’s me been gambolin’ desprit with this yer man, Victor Ramyirez, and gets lifted bad!at lift, v.
1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy III 27: He don’t spell well—and he won’t let me teach him—the old Muggins!at muggins, n.1