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[US] Dly Crescent (New Orleans, LA) 7 Mar. 2/1: Had he dipped his proboscis under the water, he certainly would have been a ‘gorner’ [sic].
at goner, n.1
[US] Dly Crescent (New Orleans, LA) 26 May 1/6: Boloition (extra) — In the course of a speech delivered at the ‘Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society’ [etc.].
at bobolition, n.
[US] N.O. Dly Crescent (LA) 9 Feb. 1/6: ‘If I slay thee thou hireling dog, as I have often slain thy clodpated countrymen...’ the Frenchman laughed fiercely.
at clod-pated, adj.
[US] N.O. Dly Crescent (LA) 20 June 2/3: They then entered, sung and ‘beered up’ [...] AS like number from Milwaukee met [...] to see which party could drink the most beer.
at beer up (v.) under beer, n.
[US] N.O. Daily Crescent (LA) 12 June 2/3: The drop curtain of the National theatre in Cincinnati [is] covered with advertisements [...] Genuinely porkopolitan.
at Porkopolitan (n.) under Porkopolis, n.
[US] N.O. Dly Crescent 30 May 1/7: Men and women dying by consumption are too common about Boston [...] for anybody to go and pay money to listen to a churchyard cough.
at churchyard cough (n.) under churchyard, n.
[US] N.O. Dly Crescent (LA) 8 Aug. 1/4: He was soon in the land of dreams, and began ‘sawing gourds’.
at saw gourds (v.) under saw, v.
[US] N.O. Dly Crescent (LA) 16 Apr. 1/4: Talking about Bronze John, yellow fever and vomito, we are reminded of the latest intelligence from Havana [...] twenty-seven cases of yellow fever or vomito.
at bronze john, n.
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