Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States |
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... Slick . I'm dying- I know I am ! My mouth tastes like a rusty cent . The doctor will charge an all - fired price to cure me .-- Knickerbocker Mag . , 1845 . V The first thing I know'd , my trowsers were 1 * ALB - ALL 5 ALBANY HEMP ...
... Slick . I'm dying- I know I am ! My mouth tastes like a rusty cent . The doctor will charge an all - fired price to cure me .-- Knickerbocker Mag . , 1845 . V The first thing I know'd , my trowsers were 1 * ALB - ALL 5 ALBANY HEMP ...
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... Slick , Nature and Human Nature , p . 17 . The crowd of office - seekers in Washington will be among the missing , when they learn the President's decision . - New York Herald . ✓ AMONG , for between . This word is often used when ...
... Slick , Nature and Human Nature , p . 17 . The crowd of office - seekers in Washington will be among the missing , when they learn the President's decision . - New York Herald . ✓ AMONG , for between . This word is often used when ...
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... Slick was a queer chap . I never see the beat of him . — Yankee Hill's Sto- ries . BEAT OUT . Tired or fagged out . BEAU . This word , nearly obsolete in England , is in common use with us to mean a lover , sweetheart . TO BEAU . To act ...
... Slick was a queer chap . I never see the beat of him . — Yankee Hill's Sto- ries . BEAT OUT . Tired or fagged out . BEAU . This word , nearly obsolete in England , is in common use with us to mean a lover , sweetheart . TO BEAU . To act ...
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... years ' absence in Europe : Every thing looked belittled , degenerated in dimensions . The church seemed small , the galleries low , the pulpit mean . — Vol . I. p . 309 . " I won't stand that , " said Mr. Slick 28 BEE - BEL.
... years ' absence in Europe : Every thing looked belittled , degenerated in dimensions . The church seemed small , the galleries low , the pulpit mean . — Vol . I. p . 309 . " I won't stand that , " said Mr. Slick 28 BEE - BEL.
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... Slick , " I won't stay here and see you belittle Uncle Sam for nothin ' . He ain't worse than John Bull , arter all . " - Sam Slick in England , ch . 19 . An article in the New York Times , relative to Congressional corrup- tion's being ...
... Slick , " I won't stay here and see you belittle Uncle Sam for nothin ' . He ain't worse than John Bull , arter all . " - Sam Slick in England , ch . 19 . An article in the New York Times , relative to Congressional corrup- tion's being ...
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