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[US] Polynesian (Honolulu, HI) 21 Dec. 1/1: St Sebastian Sockdolager, Esq., the editor of the ‘National Pop-gun’.
at popgun, n.
[US] Polynesian (Honolulu, HI) 21 Dec. 1/1: ‘Tickletoby!’ said he rumpling his hair into heroic expansiveness’.
at tickle-toby (n.) under tickle, v.
[US] Polynesian (HI) 16 May 5/3: Her mother’s coal-scuttle bonnet.
at coal-scuttle (n.) under coal, n.1
[US] Polynesian (Honolulu, HI) 31 May 1/6: If natives take an oath to each other, it is never a Bible oath. They swear by old deities.
at bible, n.
[US] Polynesian (Honolulu, HI) 19 July 1/6: ‘Ah, split me but this is rum’.
at split me! (excl.) under split, v.
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