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True Northerner (Paw Paw, MI) 25 Aug. 3/2: He saw the woolly cocoanut-head and rolling eyes of the Kanaka emerge from the waves.at coconut-head (n.) under coconut, n.1
True Northerner (Paw Paw, MI) 25 Aug. 3/2: He saw the woolly cocoanut-head and rolling eyes of the Kanaka emerge from the waves. True Northerner (Paw Paw, MI) 31 Mar. 1/5: Bale away, lads! One more such wave as that and we shall be drinking grog in Charon’s ferry boat.at go across the river (v.) under river, n.
True Northerner (Paw Paw, MI) 23 Feb. 6/3: ‘Do you call that a cup of tea,’ said Miss Temperance scornfully. ‘It’s cold as stepmother’s breath’.at ...a step-mother’s breath under cold as..., adj.
True Northerner (Paw Paw, MI) 9 Nov. 5/3: Harry Joseph was up, charged with being a clear case of chronic drunk. [...] and will cool his coppers [...] for ten days.at cool one’s coppers (v.) under cool, v.2
True Northerner (Paw Paw, MI) 8 Sept. 1/3: Myers was in the cooler. Too much balloon juice.at balloon juice (n.) under balloon, n.
True Northerner (Paw Paw, MI) 19 Oct. 7/1: When I asked the blamed skunk for doughnuts and milk he yelled ‘Twisters and cow for one!’.at cow, n.1
True Northerner (Paw Paw, MI) 19 Oct. 7/1: ‘Tell me — What in the name of sense is ‘dope?’ ‘Gravy, mister, gravy’.at dope, n.1
True Northerner (Paw Paw, MI) 19 Oct. 7/1: ‘An the Jersey? What may that be?’ ‘Cream, you gillie! Don’t Jerseys give cream?’.at Jersey, n.
True Northerner (Paw Paw, MI) 19 Oct. 7/1: ‘Then salve is —’ ‘Butter, oleomargarine’.at salve, n.
True Northerner (Paw Paw, MI) 19 Oct. 7/1: ‘What’s the sandbox?’ [...] ‘Why, it’s the sugar’.at sand, n.1
True Northerner (Paw Paw, MI) 24 Sept. 4/2: Muh wife mar’d me to refawm me, sah [...] and I’m so plumb bodaciously refawmed dat I wouldn’t marry ag’in.at bodaciously, adv.
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