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[US] Jefferson Republican (PA) 7 Mar. 1/5: The Frenchman, beginning to gesticulate [...] ‘Sare, you be grand rascalle — you like Sam —’ [...] ‘Sam Hill, I suppose you mean?’ ‘Oui, monsieur — Same de Hill — yes, sare, you lie like ‘two Sam Hill’.
at Sam Hill, n.
[US] Jefferson Republican (Stroudsburg, PA) 15 Sept. 3/4: A large concourse of people [...] assembled [...] in the immediate vicinity of the ‘Five Points’ of this city, or as it is called here, ‘Nigger-town’.
at niggertown, n.
[US] Jefferson Republican (Stroudsburg, PA) 11 July 1/1: May all the nigger drivers, kidnapers, and mobbers of missouri be placed in a stone canoe [...] in the middle of the sea.
at nigger-driver, n.
[US] Jefferson Repub. (Stroudburg, PA) 21 May 1/4: What are you palavering about?
at palaver, v.
[US] Jefferson Republican (Stroudsburg, PA) 19 July 2/5: [He] will make a pretty fair run, provoded he don’t ‘catch Jesse’.
at give someone jesse (v.) under jesse, n.
[US] Jefferson County Republican (Golden, CO) 28 Feb. 2/2: Just let me get hold of em, I’ll jerk ’em bald-headed [DA].
at snatch bald-headed (v.) under bald-headed, adv.
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