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[US] Iron Co. Register (Ironton, MO) 21 June 8/1: [of a sportsman] The trump of fame shall sound his name / And nothing can out rank it, / While thousands throng to beat his game, / And see him stretch the lanket.
at stretch a/the blanket (v.) under blanket, n.
[US] Iron Co. Register (MO) 1 Dec. 4/1: We think ourselves some punkins on the vine.
at some pumpkins (n.) under pumpkin, n.
[US] Iron Co. Register (Ironton, MO) 6 Apr. 3: The pleasure of lambasting a job lot of cocoanut-headed Fillipinos.
at coconut-headed (adj.) under coconut, n.1
[US] Iron Co. Register (MO) 9 Jan. 4/2: The average man stares [...] as a country pumpkin on his first visit to the circus.
at country pumpkin (n.) under country, adj.
[US] Iron Co. Register (MO) 10 Nov. 6/1: ‘Big Bill’ the Koniacker, one of the foremost wholeseale dealers in ‘queer’.
at koniacker, n.
[US] Iron Co. Register (MO) 14 Aug. 8/1: I calls dis yuh mule Politician uh-kaze de minute yo’ takes yo’ eye off’n de bodacious scoun’el right den he’s into devilbent.
at bodacious, adj.
[US] Iron Co. Register (Ironton, MO) 30 Nov. 4/1: One of the gratifying results of the late campaign is the rebuke given by the [...] German-Americans to the blabber-mouths assuming to speak for them.
at blabbermouth, n.
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