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job's
Tears. The seeds of Coix lachryma, whichare used for necklace-making by the native tribes on the Cap...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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turkey
n. This common English bird-name isapplied in Australia to three birds, viz. – – 1) To the bird Eu...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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as
as, assis, m. (nom. assis, Don. ad Ter. Phorm. 43, and Schol. ad Pers. 2, 59; old form assārĭus, ii,...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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native turkey
n. Same as Wild Turkey.A vernacular name given to Eupodotis australis, Gray,which is not a turkey a...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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scrub-turkey
n. an Australian bird, Leipoaocellata, Gould; aboriginal name, the Lowan (q.v.).See Turkey. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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as good as go
In the phrase, I'd as good's go to New York, instead of "I might as well go to New York." "I'd as go...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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poor-soldier
or Soldier-Bird (q.v.), n. another name for the Friar-bird (q.v.),and so named from its cry. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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as good's go
In the phrase, I'd as good's go to New York, instead of "I might as well go to New York." "I'd as go...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cold as presbyterian charity
I know not the origin of this saying, and am not aware that there is less charity in this sect than ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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sick as a dog
A common expression, meaning very sick at the stomach. He that saieth he is dog sick, or sick as a ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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hearty as a buck
A hunter's phrase, now in very common use. Well, how d'ye do, any how? So, so, middlin'. I'm heart...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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sick as a horse
'I'm as sick as a horse,' is a vulgar phrase which is used when a person is exceedingly sick. As a h...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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slick as a whistle
A proverbial simile, in common use throughout the United States. To do anything as slick as a whistl...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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sure as a gun
Absolutely certain. A common colloquial expression.--Brockett. There's luck, says auld Lizzy, in fa...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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crooked as a virginia fence
A phrase applied to anything very crooked; and figuratively to persons of a stub-born temper, who ar...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead as a door nail
Utterly, completely dead. The figure is that of a nail driven into wood, and, therefore, perfectly i...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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if so be as how
A vulgar expression used by uneducated people in the interior parts of this country and in England. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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mad as a march hare
A common simile, used alike in England and America. The whole's to be fourpence a quart-- 'Odswing...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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savage as a meat axe
Exceedingly hungry. This vulgar simile is often used in the Northern and Western States. "Why, you ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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straight as a loon's leg
is a common simile in New England. They were puzzled with the accounts; but I saw through it in a m...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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i don't know as i shan't
for I don't know but I shall. This uncouth expression, Mr. Hurd says, is very common in the eastern ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.