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| H.L. Mencken (1880–1956). The American Language. 1921. |
List of Words and Phrases |
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| cooler, 99 |
| consign to earth, vp., 147 |
| consociational, 39, 89, 91 |
| consols, 123 |
| constable, 115, 122 |
| constituency, 124 |
| consumptionick, 407 |
| contact, v., 192 |
| contri, 410 |
| convict, 184 |
| convocation, 130 |
| cookey, 54 |
| cook-general, 117 |
| coon, 184 |
| cooper, 219 |
| cootie, 368, 369, 370 |
| copious, 68 |
| copper-head, 56 |
| coppetane, 411 |
| cord, n., 127 |
| cord, v., 60 |
| cordwood, 67 |
| corn, 26, 63, 114, 119 |
| corn-cob, 57, 119 |
| corn-crib, 57 |
| corn-dodger, 57 |
| corner, n., 114; corner, v., 92, 162 |
| corner-loafer, 103, 165 |
| corn-factor, 114 |
| corn-fed, 190 |
| corn-juice, 100 |
| corn-market, 164 |
| corn-meal, 114 |
| corn-starch, 420 |
| corp, 370 |
| corporation, 123 |
| corpse-reviver, 100 |
| corral, n., 32, 420; corral, v., 32 |
| corset, 149 |
| corus, 245 |
| cosma, 252 |
| cosmos, 252 |
| coster (monger), 114 |
| costume, 118 |
| cosy, 224, 226 |
| cotched, 272 |
| cottage, 119 |
| cotti da costume, 410 |
| cotti da uomo, 410 |
| cottonwood, 345, 352 |
| cougar, 51 |
| could, 272 |
| council, 124 |
| councillor, 222 |
| councilor, 222 |
| council-school, 120 |
| counsellor, 222 |
| counselor, 222 |
| counterfeiter, 114 |
| counterfit, 247 |
| court, n., 235 |
| courteous, 219 |
| court-house, 352, 355 |
| cover, n., 316 |
| cowboy, 420 |
| cow-catcher, 36, 114, 420 |
| cow-country, 176 |
| cow-creature, 149 |
| cowhide, v., 55 |
| coyote, 352 |
| cozy, 225, 240 |
| crab-cocktail, 126 |
| Cracker, 41 |
| cracker, 63, 64, 114, 420 |
| crack up, vp., 93 |
| cranberry-bog, 57 |
| crank, n., 96 |
| crap, n., 316 |
| crape, 249 |
| crawfish, n., 119; crawfish, v., 92, 119, 352 |
| crayfish, 52, 119 |
| crazy-bone, 114 |
| crazy-quilt, 58 |
| cream, 144 |
| creature, 316 |
| credit-trade, 114, 118 |
| creek, 57, 62, 125, 218, 316, 384, 352 |
| creep, 272 |
| crème de menthe, 320 |
| creole, 54 |
| crep, 272, 318, 352 |
| crêpe, 249 |
| creton, 245 |
| crevasse, 39 |
| crew, v., 272 |
| crick, 316 |
| cricket, 128 |
| crickey, 154 |
| criminal assault, 150 |
| criminal operation, 150 |
| crisco, 195, 196 |
| crispette, 187, 195 |
| criteria, 252 |
| criterions, 252 |
| critter, 316 |
| cronic, 245 |
| crook, n., 15, 159, 406 |
| crook the elbow, vp., 100 |
| crop, 316 |
| crope, 272 |
| crossing, n., 114, 127 |
| crossing-plate, 36, 114 |
| crossing-sweeper, 116, 122 |
| cross-purposes, 67, 162 |
| cross-roads, 352 |
| cross-tie, 114 |
| crotchet, 132 |
| croud, 232 |
| crow, n., 124, 232; crow, v., 98, 272 |
| crowd, 231 |
| crowed, 272 |
| crown, n., 58, 249 |
| cruet, 164 |
| cruller, 39, 54 |
| crypt, 130 |
| crystal, 114 |
| ct, p., 318 |
| cuanto, 203 |
| curate, 130 |
| curb, 226 |
| curet, 233 |
| curette, 233 |
| curio, 184 |
| curricula, 252 |
| curriculas, 252 |
| curriculums, 251 |
| curse, 153 |
| cuspador, 200 |
| cuspidor, 144, 200 |
| cuss, n., 318; v., 153, 184 |
| cussedness, 96 |
| cussword, 153 |
| customable, 60 |
| cut, v., 272 |
| cut a swath, vp., 93 |
| cute, 61, 184 |
| cuticura, 195 |
| cutlas, 224 |
| cutlass, 224 |
| cut no ice, vp., 366, 367 |
| cut-off, 95 |
| cutting, n., 113, 125 |
| cut-up, 193 |
| cyclone, 125, 420 |
| cyclopedia, 247 |
| cyder, 223, 237 |
| cypher, 237 |
| czar, 224, 236, 237, 249 |
| d, p., 211, 317 |
| daffy, 16, 309 |
| dago, 333 |
| damaskeene, 195 |
| damfino, 153 |
| damn, 153, 154 |
| damnation, 153 |
| damndest, 153 |
| damphool, 153, 405 |
| dance, 70, 110, 111, 214, 217 |
| D. & D., 189 |
| dander, 54 |
| dansants, 251 |
| dare, v., 272 |
| dared, 272 |
| darken one’s doors, vp., 41, 60 |
| darkey, 61 |
| darn, 153 |
| dast, 272 |
| dasn’t, 272 |
| data, 217, 252 |
| daunt, 111 |
| day-coach, 97, 134 |
| day-nursery, 201 |
| D. D., 138 |
| deacon, n., 144 |
| deacon, v., 91 |
| dead, a., 107 |
| dead-beat, 15, 15, 95, 159 |
| dead-head, n., 161 |
| dead-head, v., 97 |
| deaf, 70, 71, 111, 217, 316 |
| deal, v., 272 |
| deals, 115 |
| dealt, 272 |
| dean, 121, 130, 145 |
| dear, 142 |
| début, n., 249, 250, 320; début, v., 192 |
| débutante, 250, 251 |
| decalog, 244 |
| decent, 152 |
| deciev, 246 |
| deck, 95 |
| decline business, vp., 123 |
| décolletté, 320 |
| Decoration Day, 133 |
| decoy, 209 |
| deed, v., 59 |
| deef, 111, 316 |
| deep, 305 |
| defect, 209 |
| defence, 224, 226, 231 |
| defense, 224, 225, 232, 240, 241 |
| defensive, 226 |
| defi, 184, 188 |
| deficit, 209 |
| definit, 245 |
| deft, 68 |
| degress of frost, 126 |
| Deitsch, 397 |
| delicate condition, 150 |
| delicatessen, 103, 166 |
| delicatessens, 251 |
| delite, 247 |
| deliveress, 88 |
| dell, 57 |
| demagogue, v., 175 |
| demean, 62, 160, 162 |
| demeanor, 221 |
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