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[US] Sacramento Union (CA) 11 Jan. 6/7: Candidates are plentiful as ‘wild cat claims in the Flowery District’ .
at wildcat, adj.
[US] Sacramento Dly-Record Union (CA) 22 Nov. 4/4: A great many of us were happy to be remembered on Christmas Eve with a penny whistle or a ‘Billy Barlow’ knife.
at billy barlow, n.2
[US] Sacramento Dly Record-Union (CA) 8 Jan. 3/4: She keeps that old blister of a mother of hers in clover. I wouldn’t.
at blister, n.1
[US] Sacramento Dly Record Union (CA) 1 jan. 13/5: Would you have me called a petticoat pensioner, Helen?
at petticoat pensioner (n.) under petticoat, n.
[US] Sacramento Dly Record-Union (CA) 28 Mar. 1/5: I’ll be dingswizzled, pard, ef you hadn’t better put your words close together when you slash at me.
at dingswizzled, adj.
[US] Sacramento Daily-record Union (CA) 9 Oct. 1/7: Some run, some backed into the creek ker-slosh.
at kerslosh! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Sacramento Dly Record-Union (CA) 18 Aug. 8/2: Effect of the Licence Law in Ohio [...] Factory Hill, Commercial Street and the Hay Markket [...] still flourish [...] and show up precisely the same list of dead-falls.
at dead fall (n.) under dead, adj.
[US] Sacramento Daily Record-Union 12 Dec. 4/4: The Jim Crow car is [...] a chief agency or trouble - for it is representative of the spirit of the South and the condition of the negro in the South.
at Jim Crow, adj.
[US] Sacramento Dly Record Union (CA) 20 Mar. 1/7: Reformatory Prison for Women [...] There was a falling off in committments last year, the decrease being mainly for drunkenness and night-walking.
at night-walking (n.) under night walker, n.
[US] Sacramento Daily Record (CA) 5 Sept. 2/2: The boys start resplendent. They have [...] a new uniform which is of a color and that that [...] Sam Weller would have characterized as a ‘bobby-dazzler’.
at bobby-dazzler, n.1
[US] Sacramento Dly Record-Union (CA) 5 July 3/2: Bucephalus [...] started off through Seventh street, ‘lickety-brindle’ for his stable.
at lickety-brindle, adv.
[US] Sacramento Dly Record-Union (CA) 26 July 3/4: Everybody ‘catches on’ and smiles or frowns. as each considers it a joke or put up job.
at catch on, v.
[US] Sacramento Daily Record (CA) 25 May 1/4: I tell ye these Eyetalians is walkin’ right over us.
at Eyetie, n.
[US] Sacramento Daily Record-Union 11 Jan. 2/4: The horses [...] were sold in the city pound. and Laporte, for $5, became the owner of a perambulating hatrack.
at hat-rack (n.) under hat, n.
[US] Sacramento Dly Record-Union (CA) 25 Jan. 3/2: Up jumps another old buck, and — kerchunk!
at kerchunk! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Daily Record (Glasgow) 13 July n.p.: Women go into pubs [...] to enjoy a quiet drink with friends. And any halitosis-ridden, hand-wandering blooter who thinks otherwise could find himself stuck up his own optic.
at blooter, n.1
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