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[US] Chariton Courier (Keytesville, MO) 10 Apr. 6/6: Durn my buttons but they did.
at dash my buttons! (excl.) under dash, v.1
[US] Chariton Courier (Keytesville, MO) 1 Jan. 1/6: Had he been back by the citizens and public sentiment [...] the gamlbing dead fall would not exist as a menace.
at dead fall (n.) under dead, adj.
[US] Chariton Courier (Keytesville. MO) 23 Aug. 2/2: Has James Gordon Bennett gone right off his chump?
at off one’s chump under chump, n.
[US] Chariton Courier (Keytesville, MO) 22 Aug. 3/5: Jim Patrick, a worthless, colored ‘alley rat’, was sentenced to sixty days in jail.
at alley rat (n.) under alley, n.1
[US] Chariton Courier (Keytesville, MO) 9 May 5/3: .
at chicken-lifter (n.) under chicken, n.
[US] Chariton Courier (MO) 3 Aug. 1/3: Another trio of the motley mess of crap-shooters [...] the same gang of bone-rollers.
at roll the bones (v.) under bones, n.1
[US] Chariton Courier (Keytesville, Mo) 1 Sept. 2/4: They would probably [...] laugh at you, or give you a ‘cold eye of scorn’.
at cold-eye, n.
[US] Chariton Courier (Keytesville, MO) 1 Mar. 7/1: He neither wore a bee-gum hat, nor a dress suit of the cutaway pattern.
at bee-gum (hat), n.
[US] Chariton Courier (Keytesville, MO) 20 Jan. 5/1: The Big-Feeling Gink is lawying down the Law again. Every remark is a Statement; every Step is a Strut.
at big-feeler (n.) under big, adj.
[US] Chariton Courier (Keytesville, MO) 3 Nov. 3/4: Why [...] are you putting those dod-busted, ding-blasted things there?
at dingbusted, adj.
[US] Chariton Courier (Keytesville, MO) 3 Nov. 3/4: Why [...] are you putting those dod-busted, ding-blasted things there?
at dod-busted (adj.) under dod, n.1
[US] Chariton Courier (Keytesville, MO) 3 Nov. 3/4: Think we’re a bunch of boarding-house girls, you ironheaded idiot?
at ironheaded, adj.
[US] Chariton Courier (Keytesville, MO) 20 Jan. 5/1: The Big-Feeling Gink is lawying down the Law again. Every remark is a Statement; every Step is a Strut. He takes himself Seriously [...] but personally We think he’s Full of Prunes.
at full of prunes under prune, n.
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