| H.L. Mencken (1880–1956). The American Language. 1921. |
List of Words and Phrases |
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| buck-private, 176, 370 |
| buckra, 39 |
| buck the tiger, vp., 93 |
| buckwheat, 26, 401 |
| buffalo, 352 |
| buffer, 113 |
| buffet, n., 144, 250 |
| bug, 148, 191 |
| bugaboo, 95 |
| buggy, 401, 414, 418, 420 |
| bugle, 401 |
| build, 272 |
| built, 231, 272, 280 |
| bull, 149 |
| bulldoze, 92, 98 |
| bull-frog, 55, 56 |
| bull’s-eye, 401 |
| bully, 401 |
| bum, a., 32; bum, adv., 32; bum, n., 32, 103, 148, 185, 193, 401, 405, 406, 410, 411; bum, v., 32, 103 |
| bummer, 103 |
| bummery, 103 |
| bumper, 113 |
| bumpers, 97 |
| bunch, 406 |
| bunco, n., 15, 31 |
| buncombe, 31, 95, 98, 161, 224 |
| bunco-steerer, 15 |
| bund, suf., 199 |
| bungalow, 119 |
| bung-starter, 100 |
| bunk, 31 |
| bunkum, 161, 224 |
| bunned, 100 |
| bunt, v., 281 |
| burden, n., 223, 237 |
| bureau, 41, 53, 113 |
| burg, suf., 355 |
| burgh, suf., 355 |
| burglarize, 32 |
| burgle, 92, 185 |
| burgoo-picnic, 126 |
| burlesk, 247 |
| burly, 68 |
| burn, v., 272 |
| burned, 272 |
| burnt, 272 |
| buro, 247 |
| burro, 101 |
| burst, 176, 272, 281 |
| burthen, 223, 237 |
| bury, 147 |
| bus, 184, 368, 369, 401 |
| buscellatori, 410 |
| bush, a., 176; bush, n., 54, 219, 383 |
| busher, 128 |
| bush-town, 54 |
| bushwhacker, 54 |
| business, 401 |
| business-block, 126 |
| bust, n., 32, 100, 318; v., 42, 176, 272, 281, 369 |
| busted, 272, 281, 414 |
| buster, 42 |
| butch, 185 |
| butcher, 219 |
| butt, 193 |
| butte, 101, 352 |
| butterine, 144 |
| butter no parsnips, vp., 367 |
| butter-nut, 56 |
| but that, 181, 312 |
| butt in, vp., 175, 193 |
| buttinski, 44, 193, 199 |
| buttle, 185 |
| buy, 272 |
| buz, 245 |
| buzz-saw, 95 |
| buzz-wagon, 190 |
| B. V. D.’s, 144 |
| by God, 153 |
| by gosh, 153 |
| by-law, 113 |
| byre, 57 |
| by way of being, 164 |
| cab, 184 |
| caballero, 202 |
| cabaret, 200 |
| cablegram, 186 |
| caboose, 53 |
| cach, 244 |
| cache, n., 39, 53 |
| cachexia, 223 |
| cachexy, 223 |
| cactuses, 252 |
| cadet, 150, 406 |
| café, 144, 200, 319, 250, 249 |
| cafeteria, 187 |
| cag, 231, 232 |
| cake-walk, 95, 163 |
| calaboose, 39, 54 |
| calamity-howler, 95 |
| calculate, 39, 81 |
| cald, 245 |
| calendar, 113 |
| caliber, 222, 240, 241 |
| calibre, 222, 231 |
| calico, 118 |
| call a bluff, vp., 128 |
| call down, vp., 193 |
| called to the bar, 125 |
| calm, 70, 215, 216 |
| calox, 196 |
| calumet, 52 |
| calvary, 318 |
| came, 272 |
| camera, 196 |
| camerado, 88 |
| camera-hospital, 194 |
| camorra, 199 |
| camouflage, n., 199; camouflage, v., 161, 175, 364, 370 |
| campain, 247 |
| campaign, n., 113, 124 |
| camp-meeting, 57, 414 |
| campus, 95, 122 |
| can, n., 113, 117, 122; can, v., 117, 272 |
| canabuldogga, 411 |
| candidacy. 98 |
| candor, 221 |
| candour, 221, 227 |
| candy, 113, 118, 404, 420 |
| candy-store, 15 |
| cane, 113, 127, 168 |
| cane-brake, 57 |
| canned-goods, 113, 117 |
| canned-monkey, 369 |
| cannon-ball, 144 |
| canoe, 52, 58, 103, 128 |
| canon, 130, 251 |
| can’t, 117, 214 |
| can’t come it, vp., 40 |
| canter, 184 |
| canuck, 333 |
| canvas-back, 56 |
| canvass, n., 113, 124 |
| canyon, 251, 352 |
| capitalize, 42 |
| capote Allemande, 334 |
| capote Anglaise, 334 |
| captain, 138 |
| cap the climax, vp., 93 |
| car, 26, 70, 113 |
| caracter, 245 |
| carborundum, 195, 196 |
| card, 41 |
| card up his sleeve, 128, 160 |
| care, v., 316 |
| caretaker, 114, 127 |
| caribou, 51, 53 |
| carñival, 96 |
| carpentieri, 410 |
| carpet-bagger, 95, 98 |
| carriage, 26, 113, 217 |
| carriage-paid, 115, 118 |
| carrid, 245 |
| carrier, 97 |
| carry-all, 53, 59 |
| carry on, vp., 137, 166 |
| cars, 52 |
| carv, 245 |
| cascaret, 195 |
| cash in, vp., 128 |
| casket, 70 |
| castrate, 149 |
| catalogue, 222 |
| catalog, 222, 244, 246, 247 |
| catalpa, 51 |
| catar, 247 |
| cat-bird, 56 |
| cat-boat, 58 |
| catch, v., 272, 244, 316 |
| catcher, 272 |
| catnip, 126 |
| ca’tridge, 318 |
| catsup, 224 |
| catty-cornered, 68 |
| caucus, n., 39, 43, 50, 157, 161, 401, 420; caucus, v., 58 |
| caucusdom, 158 |
| caucuser, 158 |
| caught, 272 |
| cause-list, 113 |
| cavalieress, 42 |
| cave in, vp., 39 |
| cavort, 60 |
| cellarette, 187 |
| cemetery, 210 |
| census, v., 192 |
| cent, 58 |
| center, 222, 240, 241, 246 |
| centre, 222, 231 |
| centremost, 225 |
| cerebras, 252 |
| certain dangerous disease, 151 |
| certainly, 307 |
| cesspool, 67 |
| ch, p., 328, 330, 332 |
| chain-gang, 95 |
| chair, 149, 316 |
| chair-car, 97 |
| chairman, 123 |
| chair-warmer, 10, 96 |
| chalkologist, 187 |
| chambers, 127 |
| champ, n., 184, 317 |
| champeen, 317 |
| champion, 317 |
| chancellor, 121 |
| chandelle, 370 |
| change cars, vp., 52 |
| channel, 125 |
| chaparral, 202 |
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