1888 Pioneer Exp. (Pembina, ND) 28 Dec. 1/7: West is a miser’ble old coot, an’ he ought to be told so.at old coot (n.) under coot, n.1
1888 Pioneer Exp. (Pembina, ND) 13 Apr. 4/4: Advice to girls [...] To make oneself conspicuous by open contempott of [...] social laws is the first degree of the descending scale. To be ‘fast,’ ‘loud,’ ‘high,’ ‘fly’ (how many synonyms out national slang dictionary offers for the next slide) is [...] dangerously allied to culpable indiscretion.at fast, adj.1
1888 Pioneer Exp. (Pembina, ND) 13 Apr. 4/4: Advice to girls [...] To make oneself conspicuous by open contempott of [...] social laws is the first degree of the descending scale. To be ‘fast,’ ‘loud,’ ‘high,’ ‘fly’ (how many synonyms out national slang dictionary offers for the next slide) is [...] dangerously allied to culpable indiscretion.at fly, adj.
1888 Pioneer Exp. (Pembina, ND) 13 Apr. 4/4: Advice to girls [...] To make oneself conspicuous by open contempott of [...] social laws is the first degree of the descending scale. To be ‘fast,’ ‘loud,’ ‘high,’ ‘fly’ (how many synonyms out national slang dictionary offers for the next slide) is [...] dangerously allied to culpable indiscretion.at high, adj.1
1901 Pioneer Exp. (Pembina, ND) 12 July 3/5: Six houses belonging to the notorious ‘Bedbug Row’ and a section of the elevated railroad were consumed [by fire].at bedbug alley, n.
1901 Pioneer Exp. (Pembina, ND) 6 Dec. 2/5: ‘What’s a rent rag?’ ‘Well, when some man gets down on his luck and can’t pay rent, he has a kind of benefit dance. The other tenants come to it and chip in 10 or 15 cents apiece’ .at rent rag (n.) under rent, n.