H.L. Mencken (1880–1956). The American Language. 1921.
List of Words and Phrases 2
| appendices, 251 |
| appendicitis, 218 |
| appendixes, 251 |
| apple-butter, 57 |
| apple-jack, 100 |
| apple-pie, 26 |
| apple-sass, 316 |
| appreciate, 59 |
| approbate, 68 |
| ar, 245 |
| arbor, 221 |
| Arbor Day, 133 |
| arboreal, 227 |
| arbour, 221, 227 |
| architect, 245 |
| arco, 196 |
| ardor, 233 |
| ardour, 227 |
| aren’t, 180, 181, 289 |
| are you there?, 118 |
| arkade, 247 |
| armistice, 209 |
| armoir, 202 |
| armor, 221 |
| armory, 227 |
| armour, 221, 227 |
| arroyo, 202 |
| arse, 154 |
| ary, suf., 210 |
| as, 302 |
| as drunk as a Pole, 334 |
| ask, 110 |
| ash-can, 57, 113, 117 |
| ash-cart, 113 |
| ash-man, 113, 117 |
| ask, 70 |
| asphalt, 222, 236, 237 |
| asphalte, 222, 237, 240 |
| ass, 154 |
| as scarce as hen’s teeth, 365 |
| assistant-master, 121 |
| assistant-treasurer, 145 |
| associate-editor, a., 145 |
| associational, 39 |
| assurance policy, 126 |
| ast, 317 |
| a tall, 313 |
| ataxia, 223 |
| ataxy, 223 |
| ate, suf., 91 |
| ate, 273 |
| athaletic, 318 |
| attaboy, 365 |
| attaché, 250 |
| attack, v., 272 |
| attackted, 272, 281 |
| au, p., 329 |
| aunt, 70, 110, 111, 214, 216, 217 |
| auschieppe, 411 |
| author, v., 192 |
| auto, n., 127, 184, 188, 405; auto, v., 127, 185, 194 |
| auto-car, 195 |
| automobile, 420 |
| autumn, 10, 67 |
| avenue, 358 |
| away, 165 |
| awful, 306, 362 |
| a. w. o. l., v., 189, 370, 194 |
| aw re-vore, 320 |
| awry-eyed, 100 |
| ax, 222, 232, 236 |
| axe, 222, 236, 240, 241 |
| baby-carriage, 164 |
| baby’s-class, 120 |
| bacardi, 196 |
| baccalaurate, 144 |
| bach, suf., 328 |
| bach, v., 185 |
| bachelor, 227 |
| bacillis, 252 |
| back and fill, vp., 93, 384 |
| back and forth, 39 |
| back-country, 57 |
| back-log, 57 |
| back-number, 95, 163 |
| back pedal, vp., 175 |
| back-settlements, 57 |
| back-settlers, 57 |
| back-talk, 10, 95 |
| back-taxes, 95 |
| back water, vp., 93 |
| backwoods, a., 59; backwoods, n., 57, 59 |
| backwoodsman, 50, 57, 59, 160 |
| back-yard, 113, 127, 163, 164 |
| bad, 306 |
| baddest, 309 |
| bag, 152 |
| baggage, 26, 40, 43, 113 |
| baggage-car, 113 |
| baggage-check, 97, 134 |
| baggage-master, 97 |
| baggage-room, 97 |
| baggage-smasher, 97, 191 |
| bagman, 114 |
| bailiff, 234 |
| Bakerloo, 129 |
| balance, n., 61 |
| balk, n., 236; balk, v., 222 |
| ballast, 113 |
| balled-up, 176 |
| ballot, n., 124 |
| ballot-box stuffer, 124 |
| ball up, vp., 176n, 193 |
| ballyhoo, 107 |
| ballyhoo-man, 107 |
| balm, 70, 111, 215 |
| balopticon, 196 |
| bandits, 251 |
| banditti, 251 |
| band-wagon, 15 |
| bang-up, 193 |
| banjo, 54, 420 |
| bank-account, 123 |
| bank-bill, 39 |
| bank-holiday, 114, 132 |
| banking-account, 123 |
| bank-note, 39 |
| bankrup, 318 |
| banner-state, 98 |
| bant, 184 |
| barb, v., 185 |
| barbecue, 50, 54 |
| barber-shop, 113, 144 |
| barber’s-shop, 113, 114 |
| bargain, v., 170 |
| bargaine, 401 |
| baritone, 223, 225, 237 |
| bark, n., 223, 237, 247 |
| barkeep, n., 184; barkeep, v., 185 |
| barkeeper, 401 |
| bark up the wrong tree, pp., 41, 93 |
| barly, 246 |
| barmaid, 122 |
| barman, 122 |
| barn, 62 |
| barometer, 196 |
| barque, 223, 237 |
| barra, 409 |
| barrel, 190 |
| barrel-house, 100 |
| barrens, 56, 352 |
| barrister, 125 |
| barritenne, 411 |
| bar-room, 401 |
| bartender, 14, 100, 122, 411 |
| barytone, 223, 237 |
| baseball, 414, 420 |
| basket, 70 |
| bas-relief, 217 |
| bat, n., 100 |
| bath, 70, 113 |
| bathe, 168 |
| bath-robe, 113 |
| bath-tub, 113 |
| batl, 244 |
| batteau, 53, 58, 101, 128 |
| batting-average, 128 |
| battle, 244 |
| batty, 191 |
| baulk, v., 222, 319 |
| baulky, 225 |
| bay, 64 |
| bayberry, 64 |
| bayou, 39, 101, 352 |
| bay-window, 67, 163, 414 |
| be, 272 |
| bean, v., 272 |
| beanery, 187 |
| beat, v., 272 |
| beaten, 272 |
| beastly, 24 |
| beat, 193 |
| beat it, v., 193 |
| beat up (or out), vp., 193 |
| beau, 251 |
| beaupré, 52 |
| beaut, 184, 365 |
| beautiful, 309 |
| beautifuller, 309 |
| beautifulest, 309 |
| became, 272 |
| become, 272 |
| beef, n., 67; beef, v., 384 |
| bee-line, 57 |
| been, 212, 218 |
| beer, 420 |
| beet, 113, 118 |
| beet-root, 113, 118 |
| began, 272, 278 |
| begin, 272, 278 |
| begob, 105 |
| begorry, 105 |
| begun, 272, 278 |
| behavior, 221 |
| behaviour, 221, 227 |
| behoove, 224, 241, 254 |
| behove, 224, 240, 254 |
| bellans, 196 |
| beinkel, 406 |
| bejabers, 154 |
| be left at the post, vp., 93 |
| Belgian hare, 64 |
| belgiumize, 191 |
| belittle, 41, 59, 161 |
| bell-hop, 95–96 |
| belly-robber, 369 |
| ben, v., 272, 288 |
| bend, v., 272 |
| benefice, 130 |
| bent, 272 |
| bent, v., 280 |
| bés-baal, 414 |
| besbol, 404 |
| beseid, 398 |
| beside, 182 |
| best of the bunch, 363 |
| bet, v., 272 |