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Holt County Sentinel choose

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[US] Holt Co. Sentinel (Oregon, MO) 26 Oct. 8/3: [You have] no ability to do anything but loaf and lop and lally-gag around.
at lallygag, v.
[US] Holt Co. Sentinel (Oregon, MO) 31 May 6/2: The elephant [...] bangs right on through, kerthump, into the hole.
at kerthump! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Holt Co. Sentinel (Oregon, MO) 31 May 6/2: He [...] chooses the animal he wants, maddens it, makes it chase him. Lickety-split, lickety-split.
at lickety-split, adv.
[US] Holt Co. Sentinel (Oregon, MO) 11 Mar. 1/2: A few ‘blabmouth’ partisans who belong to the past.
at blabbermouth, adj.
[US] Holt Co. Sentinel (Oregon, MO) 25 June 3/2: The busy farmer frets [...] and says that it just beats the Jews how rains are fallng every day so he can’t cut his clover hay.
at beat the Jews (v.) under beat, v.
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