1881 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 5 Nov. 3/1: Did he acknowledge the corn?at acknowledge the corn, v.
1881 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 5 Nov. 3/1: When he is buried he is [...] ‘put to bed with a shovel’.at put to bed with a shovel (v.) under bed, n.
1881 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 5 Nov. 3/1: He’s a ‘toddy blossom’ and ‘hangs up his landlord’.at toddy blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
1881 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 5 Nov. 3/1: ‘Earth bath’ is a grave and ‘eternity-box’ is the proper name for a coffin.at earth bath (n.) under earth, n.3
1881 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 5 Nov. 3/1: I met an old chap who was ‘dead gone’ on piety [...] and he came up with the ‘rhino’.at gone on (adj.) under gone, adj.1
1881 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 5 Nov. 3/1: He’s a ‘toddy blossom’ and hangs up his landlord.at hang up, v.1
1881 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 5 Nov. 3/1: Hold your horses, he’s on his muscle and could ’lay you out!’.at on the muscle under muscle, n.
1881 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 5 Nov. 3/1: ‘Let’s take a nip.’ ‘Have you got the necessary?’.at necessary, n.
1881 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 5 Nov. 3/1: Hemp is denominated ‘neck-weed’.at neckweed (n.) under neck, n.
1881 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 5 Nov. 3/1: That’s ‘small potatoes’ and if I was his landlord I’d ‘sit down on him’.at sit on, v.
1881 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 5 Nov. 3/1: That’s ‘small potatoes’ and if I was his landlord I’d ‘sit down on him’.at small potatoes, n.
1882 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 22 Apr. 7/2: Had Dr and Mrs lovell had no child but the gentle, golden-haired Blondie, they would thought children all angels.at blondie, n.
1883 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 11 Aug. 10/1: I’m going to buy Hobart Hogley’s big dog, that is savage as a meat axe.at savage as a meat axe (adj.) under meat axe, n.
1883 Northern Tribune (Cherboygan, MI) 1 Dec. 12/1: Biddle beats the very Old Nick for sly.at beat (the) old Nick (v.) under beat, v.
1884 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 3 Apr. 7/1: ‘I lent my best girl to Jones yesterday,’ said Brown to his friend. ‘Lent your girl, what do you mean?’.at best girl (n.) under best, adj.
1884 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 7 Feb. 2/1: It is not for glory that people will vote [...] but for bread, employment, comofrtable existence.at bread, n.1
1884 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 13 Nov. 9/3: A small specimen of carrot-topped humanity.at carrot-topped (adj.) under carrot, n.
1884 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 13 Nov. 9/3: Why is he called Scrapper? Why, because he’s so fond of scrappin’ of course.at scrap, v.
1884 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 13 Nov. 9/3: Why is he called Scrapper? Why, because he’s so fond of scrappin’ of course.at scrapper, n.
1884 Northern Trib. (Cheboygan, MI) 13 Nov. 9/3: I’ll be afther kicking the red, white and blue stuffin’ out of yez.at knock the stuffing out of (v.) under stuffing, n.1