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Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 1 Aug. 4/3: Men can not be great in all things. Gen. Grant was a poor swearer. His two most violent oaths were ‘Judas priest’ and ‘dog gone it’.at doggone, v.
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 1 Aug. 4/3: Men can not be great in all things. Gen. Grant was a poor swearer. His two most violent oaths were ‘Judas priest’ and ‘dog gone it’. Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 1 Aug. 4/3: Men can not be great in all things. Gen. Grant was a poor swearer. His two most violent oaths were ‘Judas priest’ and ‘dog gone it’.at Judas Priest!, excl.
Courier Jrnl (Louisville, KY) 24 Aug. 2/4: In London costermonger language, chuck a jolly is to buck up, or praise.at chuck a jolly (v.) under chuck, v.2
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 6 May 4/8: [headline] Chicago Boodler Trials.at boodler, n.
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 30 Jan. 8/4: This sale will be a boomer for the very finest soft or stiff hat goes for $1.98 [DA].at boomer, n.1
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 3 May 1/2: The Army and Navy people ruled in Washington society [...] Many wealthy civilians were anxious to get into the giddy whirl, but they were barred out by the brass-button brigade.at brass buttons (n.) under brass, adj.1
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 1 May 21/1: The festival of last year was quite a card for Louisville [DA].at card, n.2
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 12 Jan. 2/1: Dear Sir: Though a stranger to you (yet a Democrat), let me say you are a ‘Jim Dandy’ [DA].at jim dandy, n.
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 26 Jan. 1/1: Two hundred cases of giant powder exploded on a freight train yesterday.at giant powder, n.
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 19 Jan. 5/1: No one calls the affair a hippodrome. The fight was to be for points, and the winner was to get 75 per cent. of the house receipts [DA].at hippodrome, n.
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 2 May 6/5: The man who has one or more good mares to breed can . . . make a very ridiculous ass of himself . . . in using some jay-bird stallion to breed them to.at jaybird, adj.
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 13 Jan. 3/4: Senator Beck gets the credit for most of the Federal appointments in Mason county [...]. The boys enjoying the plums will support anybody who is for him and them [DA].at plum, n.2
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 17 Jan. 1/7: [caption] Plays Smash With a Passenger Train on the Fitchburg Railroad [DA].at play smash (v.) under smash, n.1
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 29 Jan. 3/2: He changes his stripes for a suit of citizens’ clothes [DA].at stripes, n.1
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 1 Oct. 6/3: The people of Louisville [...] will never surrender their rights to Johnny Davenport’s proposed gang of ballot-box stuffers and bull-dozers [DA].at bulldoser, n.
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 2 July 5: She has already had [...] literary experience to burn [DA].at to burn (adv.) under burn, v.
Courier Jrnl (Louisville, KY) 7 Dec. 2/5: Slim and Squabby Leo were two gray cats.at squabby (adj.) under squab, n.1
Courier Jrnl (Louisville, KY) 4 Apr. 60/3: ‘Some punkins’ [...] the antonym of this is ‘small potatoes — and a few in the hill’.at small potatoes, n.
Courier Jrnl (Louisville, KY) 4 Apr. 60/3: ‘Not by a jugful’ [...] slick as a greased pig,’ ‘slow as molasses’.at slick as owl shit under slick, adj.
Courier Jrnl (Louisville, KY) 4 Jan. 7/1: Those attending the sale pay half a slug at the door.at slug, n.1
Courier Jrnl (Louisville, KY) 30 Mar, PA6/5: He was such an aw-shucks, down-to-earth, colorfil person.at aw shucks! (excl.) under shucks!, excl.
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