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Dly Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 1 Oct. 2/1: I am a mossy-back, sir, and I stand here to-day to represent the county of Jones, otherwise known as the free State of Jones.at moss-back, n.
Dly Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 1 Oct. 2/1: I am a mossy-back, sir, and I stand here to-day to represent the county of Jones, otherwise known as the free State of Jones. Dly Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 6 Dec. 4/2: ‘That fellow is beastly drunk,’ remarked the General.at beastly, adv.
Dly Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 20 Sept. 2/1: We have to eat our leek, even as Pistol had to do. It is for the conqueror to impose the conditions.at eat the leek (v.) under eat, v.
Dly Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 23 Sept. 2/4: It is well known that the niggerheads of the North are, as public men, the most unreliable in the country.at niggerhead, n.2
Dly Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 10 Nov. 3/2: ‘Upon my word this is most singular!’ ejaculated Mr Crowdie [...] ‘Spifflicate me!’.at spiflicate me! (excl.) under spiflicate, v.
Dly Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 21 Mar. 2/5: [He] from that point to Danville [...] and thence to Washington, will ‘ride shank’s mare’.at shanks’s pony, n.
Dly Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 17 Feb. 4/1: ‘S’death! the rascally gray-beard questioned us!’ interrupted the younger horseman, a braggadocious private.at braggadocious, adj.
Daily Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 16 July 2/1: The carpet-baggers will be [...] making straight coat-tails for their homes.at make a straight coat-tail (v.) under straight, adj.1
Dly Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 30 Sept. 2/5: Let Porkopolis see what Cottonopolis can do.at Cottonopolis (n.) under cotton, n.
Dly Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 15 Feb. 2/6: A think lady is told: ‘Shaped like a lath, fat as a match’.at fat as a match (adj.) under fat, adj.
Dly Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 16 June 2/2: He raised his hand in an imploring attitude [...] and one of them fired his pistol at the palm of the upraised potato stealer.at potato-stealer (n.) under potato, n.
Dly Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 11 JUly 3/6: Joe is said to have his ‘back up’ in terrible earnest.at get one’s back up (v.) under back, n.1
Dly Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 5 Oct. 1/1: The Grand Duke Alexis has reached Hong Kong, but has not yet become acquainted with any of the ‘bong tong’ of Celestical society.at bong tong, n.
Daily Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 26 Apr. 1/1: Atern gin distiller [...] desires to impart an old fruit flavor to his juniper juice.at juniper (juice), n.
Dly Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 21 May 3/4: Is this all the outcome from his cheap minstrelsy, his black and tan jockey club?at black and tan, adj.
Dly Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 9 July 4/4: Savannah boasts the champion chicken-lifter of the age. He was arrested last week with sixty-eight chickens — eighteen pairs in a bag and sixteen pairs on a string.at chicken-lifter (n.) under chicken, n.
Dly Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 10 Feb. 1/1: Look at the increase of [...] ignorant, clod-headed, pox-faced jackass Jutsices.at clod-brained (adj.) under clod, n.1
Daily Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 6 Feb. 2/4: Orders emanating from weak, ambitious, vain-minded [...] low-life satraps.at lowlife, adj.
Daily Phoenix (Columbia, SC) 7 Mar. 2/3: The urchin [...] had been making a target of him by shooting at him with a ‘nigger killer’.at nigger killer (n.) under nigger, n.1
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