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[US] Neihart Herald (MT) 9 Dec. 1/3: Fortunately there is no monkey-doodle business going on in Neihart.
at monkey business, n.
[US] Neihart Herald (MT) 18 Apr. 2/4: Ye don’t want ter call me a bum, see? [...] Ye don’t know what a bum is. I’m a hobo. When ye call a hobo a bum, yer takin’ chances, see?
at bum, n.3
[US] Neihart Herald (MT) 18 Apr. 2/4: A hobo’s fly [...] He puts on a good front, bums on the fly, which is hustlin’ on the street.
at front, n.1
[US] Neihart Herald (MT) 18 Apr. 2/4: A tramp begs at houses [...] ’n thery’re all can gaugers; they get a can ’n sneak roun back doors of saloons ’n drink the drippin’s out of beer kegs.
at gouger, n.
[US] Neihart Herald (MT) 18 Apr. 2/4: Don’t know what a jigger is? Why ye scratch yer arm ’n put some kind of liniment on it, ’n it swells up, ’n then ye show it ter people ’n they come down with the stuff, easy, see?
at jigger, n.5
[US] Neihart Herald (MT) 18 Apr. 2/4: There’s jest two kin’s of bums ’n them is town bums ’n shovel bums [...] A shovel bum will work when he’s broke [...] A town bum’ll sponge on ennybody, but a shovel bum won’t sponge.
at shovel stiff (n.) under shovel, n.1
[US] Neihart Herald (MT) 18 Apr. 2/4: Don’t know what a jigger is? Why ye scratch yer arm ’n put some kind of liniment on it, ’n it swells up, ’n then ye show it ter people ’n they come down with the stuff, easy, see?
at stuff, n.
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