=dew-claws:= hands and knees (?), as in, Get down on your d., = apply yourself intensely. =Dick’s hatband:= in the phrase, As contrary as Dick’s hatband. What is the origin of this? =dick-nailer:= anything quite satisfactory, as in, He (it) is a dick-nailer. =drop:= advantage, as in, to get the drop on a person (allusion to dexterity in drawing a revolver). Comp. also: bulge, inside-track, whip handle, dead-wood, all used in the same way and with same sense. =diven=, past participle of _dive_. =drug:= pret. of drag. =east:= yeast. =emptings:= bread dough set to ferment. Note the expression “It will come out all right in the emptings,” i. e. after it has had a chance to stand. =fat up:= to increase a stake at cards. =find:= to supply with board, as in, Pay five dollars a week and find him; I get five dollars and found. =fresh:= impudent, (due to greenness). =fog:= to filch. =fluke:= to steal. (Indiana). =flat:= plug tobacco. (Arkansas). =gallery:= church, as in, He’s in the gallery. =gag:= an improbable story intended to deceive, as in, He tried to give me a gag. =go with:= to become of, as in, What has gone with my hat? Ohio; also in Pall Mall Gazette. =grub-stake:= to give board. =girling:= a ‘girl-boy,’ in contempt. =gaumy:= not neat. (Arkansas.) =gob, or gaub:= a shapeless mass, as, a gob of mud, then sportively, gaubs of wisdom. =gray:= an awkward fellow. =get to:= to get an opportunity to, as in, He didn’t get to do it. =go to:= to intend to, as in, I didn’t go (for) to do it. =gumbo:= a peculiar, putty-like dark soil. (Kansas.) =hen:= feminine, as in, hen-party; comp. stag-party, a gathering of men only. =honey:= a fine fellow, generally ironically. =hump:= to bestir, as, Hump yourself. =hole:= bad condition financially; as, He is in the hole, i. e. he has lost. =huckleberry:= indifferent, in, a huckleberry Christian. =huckleberry:= the right person, as in, You’re my huckleberry. =hornswoggle:= to discomfit, as in, I’ll be hornswoggled if I’ll do it. =in it:= on the successful side, as, He is not in it, i. e., He has no prospect of success. This phrase is universal in 1891. =infare:= the reception after a wedding. =in:= on the credit side, as, I was in five dollars. =jay:= a green, conceited fellow. =jag:= a bit of anything; a spree, a brief drunk. =jack mosquito:= a large insect of the mosquito family, three times the size of the pestiferous kind; this one does not bite. =jimmy:= to meddle, as, to jimmy with a thing or person, to ‘fool with.’ Comp., to ‘monkey with.’ =jump:= to leave without notice, as to jump the town, to jump bail; to jump a board-bill is to leave it unpaid. =joint:= an illegal saloon. What is the origin of it? =jigger= or =chigger:= a minute red mite, which frequents weeds and lawns, burrows beneath the human skin and causes excruciating itching. =keep:= board and lodgings, as, He works for his keep. =lay over:= to surpass, as, That lays over anything I know.