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[US] Wilmington Jrnl (NC) 27 Sept. 3/3: I’m only walking out [...] and carrying my backy-pipe with me to smoke.
at bacca-pipe (n.) under bacca, n.
[US] Wilmington Jrnl (NC) 8 Mar. 4/3: [He] whopped er whole han’ full o’ saw dust kerbim into his face.
at kerbim! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Wilmington Jrnl (NC) 15 Nov. 2/4: Indiana is a free state, but has always been free from the fanaticism of niggerology.
at niggerology (n.) under nigger, n.1
[US] Wilmington Jrnl (NC) 29 Mar. 5/3: Abolitionists [...] have forced them out at ‘the little end of the horn’.
at little end of the horn (n.) under little, adj.
[US] Wilmington Jrnl (NC) 29 Mar. 5/3: ‘I will fill thy bottle.’ [...] Then the rum sucker’s heart was made glad.
at rum-sucker (n.) under rum, n.2
[US] Wilmington Jrnl (NC) 29 Mar. 5/3: A swell-head came [...] he had an empty bottle, and his noise was like a cancer.
at swellhead, n.1
[US] Wilmington Jrnl (NC) 1 Dec. 2/2: WEe do not want [the enemy] to slide away with impunity [...] to lose his paddy-whack.
at paddywhack, n.
[US] Wilmington Jrnl (NC) 10 May 2/3: This view alone will ensure them from being entangled in the meshes which the cunning trepanners have set for them.
at trapanner, n.
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