The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-08-09
STORIES OF THE DAY.
Some Late and Pertinent Additions to the
Slang Dictionary.

Some Late and Pertinent Additions to the
Slang Dictionary.
Thanks to most able collaboration we
have been amply supplied with a rich
fund of material from which to select
the present addition to it's invaluable re-
posltory of phrases caught in passing. !"
Dream. Something desirable beyond
all description. "No doubt about it,
and on this I will stake my reputation,
Defender is a dream. Mat HERE
shoff. ''She was vision of delight. -
Wordsworth.
Dirt. The reshuff1ed discard in the
national game of poker 81 believe that
any man who'd seek third term for
the presidency would monkey with the
dirt. &c. G. dated Buzzards Bay.
Growler. ANY vessel used to convey
beer from saloon to a residence
IN. B.-This word is often used as
synonymous with "duck." The two
are carefully to be distinguished. A
"duck" is always concealed in a carpet
bag, top hat OF basket.)
Darkened is the Sunday doorway,
And the poor are out of luck;
Silent rests the prowling 'growler,"
Empty lies the useless ''duck. "
-Ballade of Better Days.
Curves, to get on Toto solve any
ones motives or line of action 81 did
not see how they could escape, for 1
wasn't on to their curves Land
lord Hansen of the Ludlow Street Hos
telrie.
High Hat.-An unusually large glass
of whisky. (Not to be COMPOUNDED with
"high collar" which is term applied
to the unnecessary amount of foam
found on Coney Island beer. Among
those who last Sunday abandoned the
high hats of the city and quaffed the
high collars by old ocean were Cherry
Hill Katie, Reddy the Rogue, Tony the
Rat, Morty McThird and Micky Nc
Phin. '-Society Note
Pal-Companion, associate, friend.
Syn, "Pardy," travelling mate"
''chum." II have 400 visiting cards,
and l am willing to use every one of
them in calling on big folks with Wales,
my pal. ''-From "a Peach Abroad /"
Pencil Pusher. An author, or news
paper man. 81 am a pencil pusher'
and my digital muscles are highly de-
veloped. "-R. Harding Van Bibber in
"An Open Confession Is Good For My
Sales. "
Dough. Money. Syn. "long green,
"frog skin, " "oof. -
"Let me make the dough of the
country, I'll care for who make the
laws. John D. Rockefeller.
Tire, to lose one S. To be mentally
unbalanced Or incapacitated (The fig
ure is taken from "biking.'') Syn.
"nutty, " "woozy.
sit seems to me that every lawyer I
employ loses his tire. ''-Hetty Green
Sight, out of. -Superlatively excel
lent Syn, Every superior, "'way up. "
perhaps a corruption of the German
ausgezeichnet. eff anybody should ask
you my opinion of myself, either as
gentleman, an actor or fighter, you
may say for me that l am 'out of
sight John l.. Sullivan in "What
Know About Chumps and Champions.
Peach. -Something very estimable
and desirable. A laudatory expression
that applies with equal force to any
thing, from baseball player to pos
sible presidential candidate. Syn,
"Lally cooler, - bird, ""daisy" (obs.
''There is only one peach in America,
and I am it. From Harmony Or
Hominy," by an Anonymous Author.
IN. Y, 1889
Finger, to give the.-To request that
bill be charged. SYM, ito hang up"
''to put on the slate. 81 have lived in
many lands and known many men, but
I have never yet had occasion to give
the finger. Thomas Ochiltree in
"L'Art de Vivre."
Glad hand, to give the.-To greet
effusively, with the expectation of re-
ceiving favors either bibulous, none
tary Or hospitable. 81 gave every re-
former the glad hand and all got
was the marble heart. "-Ollie Teall's
''Mr Whisker" (See Marble Heart. ~
Heart, marble. "A refusal to aid ones
fellow man.
Kelly, John.-In pool, the green ball
String, Toto trife with truth in
such way as to deceive. Also to make
game of. Syn, ''to jolly, - to guy"
Gold English and straight American, to
lie. "He strings me to the top of my
bent. THE New Woman's "Ham-
let, Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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