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[US] Wheeling Dly Intelligencer (VA) 8 Oct. 2/1: Monroe, ‘the big dog with the brass collar’ in the cause of the faithful, the stay and hope of Sprigg.
at big dog with the brass collar, n.
[US] Wheeling Dly Intelligencer (VA) 18 Jan. 2/1: A myriad of hungry tigers and scared dogs would have been nowhere beside it than a ‘pig’s whisper’ to the storming of Sebastopol.
at pig’s whisper, n.
[US] Dly Intelligencer (Wheeling, VA) 3 Aug. 1/3: The flies buzzed around in a bedoozled sort of way.
at bedoozle, v.
[US] Dly Intelligencer (Wheeling, VA) 11 Dec. 3/1: The hunter may be mistaken for a bushwhacker [...] and shot down without ceremony.
at bushwhacker, n.1
[US] Dly Intelligencer (Wheeling, VA) 24 Jan. 1/5: Let them beware of those putty-eyed [...] meal-mouthed, chicken-hearted doughfaces.
at putty-eyed (adj.) under putty, n.
[US] Dly Intelligencer (Wheeling, VA) 27 May 2/2: Time has not only shown that he is a false prophet, but a systematic liar! Gentlemen, you must excuse my bad French — (loud laughter).
at excuse my French under French, n.
[US] Dly Intelligencer (Wheeling, WV) 23 Feb. 3/1: It has become quite fashionable to eat pickled pig’s feet at the theatre [...] know as Cincinnati oytsers [...] by munching and picking at the delicate bones, while the grease runs down the sides of their pretty mouths.
at Cincinnati oysters (n.) under Cincinnati, n.
[US] Wheeling Dly Intelligencer (VA) 5 Nov. 1/4: A carrot-headed Mephistopheles in appearance.
at carrot-headed (adj.) under carrot, n.
[US] Wheeling Dly Intelligencer (VA) 9 June 3/3: Ttry your strong Government and a Dictator, of you dare. The former will be broken up [...] and the latter will be put to bed with a spade and pick.
at put to bed with a shovel (v.) under bed, n.
[US] Wheeling Dly Intelligencer (VA) 1 Aug. 4/2: There are twenty-five inmates at the City Prison [...] One solitary drunk in the ‘cooler’.
at cooler, n.
[US] Wheeling Dly Intelligencer (VA) 9 June 3/3: The triumph of States Rights and White Supremacy may [...] lead to the secession of Yankeedom.
at -dom, sfx
[US] Wheeling Dly Intelligencer (VA) 22 Apr. 3/4: I’ll be cow-kicked Jedge if I kin remember a durn thing.
at I’ll be cow-kicked under cow, n.1
[US] (ref. to 1798) Wheeling Dly Intelligencer (VA) 16 Dec. 1/7: The play takes its name from the principal character [...] a leader of a band of ‘peep o’ day boys’ of 1798.
at peep o’ day boy, n.
[US] Wheeling Dly Intelligencer (VA) 1 Feb. 5/2: ‘Old Probs’ says colder weather is in sight.
at Old Probabilities (n.) under old, adj.
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