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[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 36: If you obsquotulate, you are ded before you can say Jack Robinson.
at absquatulate, v.
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 67: One of these alligator lookin fellers.
at alligator, n.
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 39: [They would] follow arter him jist like a tantoney pig or whipt spaniel.
at anthony, n.
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 92: [He] compelled every mountybank, and elbow-shaker, frezier, bully-trap, and janizary, lolly-poop, sea-crab, caper merchant. Badger, Dandy-pratt, and Fidlam-ben [...] tu muster in his army.
at badger, n.1
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 101: The gineral [...] was never basketed at a cok-pit, or squaddled in a fite.
at basket, v.
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 150: An undeservin person who hadn’t put all ’em are Inglish tu bed with a shovel, when he had 'em in his power.
at put to bed with a shovel (v.) under bed, n.
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 121: As bluf [sic] as bull-beef.
at bull-beef, n.
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 60: Just afore their beef was tri’d with cold iron, Coffy was order’d to line the river [...] that none mite scape.
at beef, n.1
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 27: The gineral at first thou’t him a mere bell-swagger.
at bellswagger, n.
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 92: [He] compelled every mountybank, and elbow-shaker, frezier, bully-trap, and janizary, lolly-poop, sea-crab, caper merchant. Badger, Dandy-pratt, and Fidlam-ben [...] tu muster in his army.
at fidlum-ben, n.
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 27: They bravely pop’d their blue pills at one another at six feet distance.
at blue pill (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 228: They’d’ve kick’d up a rale bubbery, and’ve thrown the fat intu the fire in a jump.
at bobbery, n.
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 125: It wou’d ’ve made your hart sick tu’ve seen so many of the brave boglanders in the dust.
at boglander (n.) under bog, n.3
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 5: Battels atween the White boys, harts of Oke, harts of Steel, peep of day boys [etc.] .
at peep o’ day boy, n.
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 101: By this time the swannery of the John Bull-ites became pritty much a goosery.
at John Bull-ite (n.) under John Bull, n.1
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 92: [He] compelled every mountybank, and elbow-shaker, frezier, bully-trap, and janizary, lolly-poop, sea-crab, caper merchant. Badger, Dandy-pratt, and Fidlam-ben [...] tu muster in his army.
at bully-trap (n.) under bully, n.1
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 119: The gineral tu, had his cacklers.
at cackler, n.1
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 92: [He] compelled every mountybank, and elbow-shaker, frezier, bully-trap, and janizary, lolly-poop, sea-crab, caper merchant. Badger, Dandy-pratt, and Fidlam-ben [...] tu muster in his army.
at caper merchant (n.) under caper, n.2
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 40: Captin Hammond gave him wisty castors on the hed.
at wisty-castor, n.
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 99: Give it tu ’em my lads, six inches of your cheese-toasters! [Ibid.] 102: In a wink a solder pin’d him tu the ground with his cheese-toaster.
at cheese toaster (n.) under cheese, n.1
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 62: The Injuns [...] were either chunk’d on the canister, scragged, or bagnetted .
at chunk, v.1
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 224: I tell you without any circumbendibus what the people say.
at circumbendibus, n.
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 125: They had bin coker’d with the notion that the damn Yankees were a parcel of clapperdogens.
at clapperdudgeon, n.
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 26: Every click tell’d; the gineral giv’d Swan sich a stoter on the nob that he reel’d back.
at click, n.1
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 33: It needed somethin more than a cod’s-head to manage, with such leger-de-main and hocus-pocus.
at cod’s head, n.
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 91: There he found the people all in the dumps; there was a general depression of sperits; the people seem’d tu have taken the collywabbles.
at collywobbles, n.
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 43: [They] cotcht one another by the kolquarron till they cou’dn’t squeek.
at colquarron, n.
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 24: But the gineral [...] wrote a consarnt cute letter to Jefferson.
at consarned, adv.
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 120: The Bullites, every one with a cag-mag, a piece of cow's spouse, or an Essex lion in his wallet.
at cow’s spouse (n.) under cow, n.1
[US] ‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 68: While in crack with the gineral [she] made a slapdash at the snappers.
at crack, n.1
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