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[US] Bolivar Bulletin (Bolivar, TN) 16 Jan. 2/2: We should say you did, or else be forced to put you down as a selfish brother of the quill.
at brother of the quill (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
[US] Bolivar Bull. (TN) 26 Feb. 3/1: An ounce of prevention is worth dead oodles of cure.
at dead oodles (n.) under dead, adj.
[US] Bolivar Bull. (TN) 26 Feb. 3/1: Why don’t our country cousins [...] fetech in butter, eggs [...] Ye local would like some cow and hen fruit.
at hen fruit (n.) under hen, n.
[US] Bolivar Bull. (TN) 15 Apr. 1/3: The Slang of Our Day [...] When financial troubles come nigh you, they say, ‘Oh, he’s flat on his back’.
at on one’s back (adj.) under back, n.1
[US] Bolivar Bull. (TN) 15 Apr. 1/3: The Slang of Our Day [...] They substitute beating for cheating.
at beat, v.
[US] Bolivar Bull. (TN) 15 Apr. 1/3: The Slang of Our Day [...] They tell you ‘that game is quite played, say, walk, you dirty big loafer.’ Or ‘a head on you’ is sure to be made.
at dirty, adv.
[US] Bolivar Bull. (TN) 15 Apr. 1/3: The Slang of Our Day [...] Instead of saying ‘to the the devil,’ they tell you to ‘walk off on your ear’.
at on one’s ear under ear, n.1
[US] Bolivar Bull. (TN) 15 Apr. 1/3: The Slang of Our Day [...] Fusil oil is now named for whisky.
at fusil oil, n.
[US] Bolivar Bull. (TN) 15 Apr. 1/3: The Slang of Our Day [...] There are ‘that’s what’s the matter with Hannah’.
at Hannah, n.
[US] Bolivar Bull. (TN) 15 Apr. 1/4: We kin have a light-wood fire in two jiffies.
at jiffy, n.
[US] Bolivar Bull. (TN) 15 Apr. 1/4: You two kin take your revolvers an’ go to tother end of the room an’ pop away.
at pop, v.1
[US] Bolivar Bulletin (TN) 4 Mar. 3/2: Of course old ‘pot-gut’ is ‘trooly loil’.
at pot-gut (n.) under pot, n.1
[US] Bolivar Bulletin (Hardeman Co., TN) 12 Apr. 3/1: I wanted to ask you not to drink that red stuff, for it will kill you just as it killed my father.
at red stuff (n.) under red, adj.
[US] Bolivar Bulletin (TN) 19 Dec. 2/3: A benchlegged fice [...] rigning tinware of many patterns with his tail.
at bench-legged (adj.) under bench, n.
[US] Bolivar Bulletin (Hardeman Co., TN) 28 Nov. 2/1: Gold for the bondholder and the depreciated buzzard silver dollar for the masses.
at buzzard, n.
[US] Bolivar Bull. (TN) 30 Dec. 3/1: [headline] Mr Rawhide Cowboy.
at rawhide, n.
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