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in Shirley Letters (1949) 74: Little John was [...] betting, or to speak technically, – ‘bucking’ away large sums at monte.at buck, v.2
in Shirley Letters (1949) 74: Little John was [...] betting, or to speak technically, – ‘bucking’ away large sums at monte. in Shirley Letters (1949) 52: If they ask a man an embarrassing question, or in any way have placed him in an equivocal position, they will triumphantly declare that they have ‘got the dead-wood on him’.at have the deadwood on (v.) under deadwood, n.
in Shirley Letters (1949) 52: Instead of simply asking you if it is true, he will invariably nod his head interrogatively, and almost pathetically address you with the solemn adjuration, ‘Honest Indian?’.at honest Injun, phr.
in Shirley Letters (1949) 49: In this rag and card-board house, one is compelled to hear the most sacred names constantly profaned by the drinkers and gamblers who haunt the bar-room.at rag house (n.) under rag, n.1
in Shirley Letters (1949) 88: [She] flatteringly informed me, that I really had a ‘soul above buttons’.at have a soul above buttons (v.) under soul, n.1
in Shirley Letters (1949) 40: In all celebrations [...] it is each man’s most onerous duty, to get, what is technically called ‘tight.’.at tight, adj.
in Shirley Letters (1949) 79: The man who keeps the store [...] goes by the sobriquet of ‘Yank,’ and is quite a character. He used to be a peddlar in the States, and is remarkable for an intense ambition to be thought what Yankees call ‘cute and smart.’.at Yank, n.
in Shirley Letters (1949) 133: It takes several persons to manage, properly, a ‘long-tom’ [...] The spadesmen throw in large quantites of the precious dirt, which is washed down to the ‘riddle’ by a stream of water leading into the ‘long-tom’.at long tom, n.
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