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[US] Columbus Jrnl (NE) 1 Dec. 1/8: Thee may cut it, but as the tailors sometimes cabbage cloth [...] I shall stay and watch.
at cabbage, v.1
[US] Columbus Jrnl (NE) 24 Dec. 4/5: Stealing up through the sheltering cornbush [...] comes the ring-tail peer.
at ringtailed snorter, n.
[US] Columbus Jrnl (NE) 23 Nov. 1/6: Their thanksgiving dinner of boiled codfish and potatoes [...] 'It's Cape Cod turkey!' exlaimed Master John MacMoffat.
at Cape Cod turkey, n.
[US] Columbus Jrnl (NE) 20 Mar. 2/2: Outside it showed signs of old age, and outside it looked like a hurrah’s nest.
at hurrah’s nest, n.
[US] Columbus Jrnl (NE) 38 Sept. 1/6: Van Wyck’s money can buy the truckling support of the cocoanut-headed editors [...] and the puffing braggadocio of Paul Vandervoort.
at coconut-headed (adj.) under coconut, n.1
[US] Columbus Jrnl (NE) 17 May 6/3: A Hammer Duet. ‘That fellow Fibbers,’ said Jaggson contemptuously. ‘He seems to be afraid of the truth.’ ‘Well you know, replied Billson, ‘it is always best to be cautious of strangers ’.
at hammer duet (n.) under hammer, n.2
[US] Columbus Jrnl (NE) 12 July 8/5: I don’t know whether he turned over in bed, or turned some different color [...] or how the dingnation he turned.
at dingnation, n.
[US] Columbus Jrnl (NE) 15 Feb. 6/4: I fo’got for the moment that he is off his dip, sur, and I plugged him one.
at off one’s dip (adj.) under dip, n.1
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