H.L. Mencken (1880–1956). The American Language. 1921.
List of Words and Phrases 23
| troble, 244 |
| trolley-car, 116, 171, 401 |
| tromp, v., 317 |
| trouble, 244 |
| troupe, 394 |
| trousers, 127, 160 |
| trubbel, 412 |
| truck, 97, 116 |
| true-blue, 93 |
| trumpeter, 241 |
| trunk-call, 115 |
| trust, n., 414 |
| trust-burster, 176 |
| trust-buster, 366 |
| trustification, 175 |
| trustify, 175 |
| tru trin, 414 |
| try, 185 |
| try-out, n., 185, 188; vp., 193 |
| tsar, 224, 237, 249 |
| tub, v., 168, 170 |
| tube, 116, 127 |
| tuberculogian, 194 |
| tuch, 247 |
| Tuesday, 219 |
| tuf, 246 |
| tumor, 221 |
| tumour, 221, 227 |
| tung, 231, 232, 244, 246 |
| turbot, 126 |
| turkey-gobbler, 56 |
| turn-down, 193 |
| turn down, vp., 193, 384 |
| turning, n., 127 |
| turnpike, 40 |
| turn-verein, 104 |
| tuxedo, 196 |
| twelv, 245 |
| twelve-month, 132 |
| twenty-three, 189 |
| twic’t, 318 |
| twine, n., 127 |
| twirling, 129 |
| two-fer, 93 |
| 2 o’clock, 150 |
| tyco, 196 |
| typist, 116, 118 |
| tyre, 247 |
| typewrite, 185 |
| typewriter, 116, 118 |
| typhoid-fever, 116 |
| tyre, 223, 237, 240 |
| u, p., 112, 219 |
| ü, p., 328 |
| ugly, 39 |
| ukase, 249 |
| uhrgucker, 105 |
| under-brush, 56 |
| undercut, n., 116, 118 |
| underdone, 115, 118 |
| underground, n., 116, 127 |
| underground-railroad, 97 |
| underpinned, 61 |
| underpinning, 67 |
| undershirt, 116, 127 |
| undertaker, 144 |
| under the weather, 95, 125 |
| underwear, 144 |
| uneeda, 195 |
| union, 122 |
| union-man, 137 |
| uniquer, 309 |
| unit, 58 |
| United Brethren, 131 |
| Universal preacher, 40 |
| university, 144 |
| unloosen, 274, 275, 310 |
| unloosened, 275 |
| unwell, 152 |
| up, 124 |
| up against it, 160 |
| up-lift, 10, 132 |
| up-line, 127 |
| up-state, 32, 126 |
| up street, 188 |
| up-train, 127 |
| ur, p., 317 |
| us, 291 |
| used, 144, 289 |
| used to could, vp., 40 |
| usen, 407 |
| usen’t, 313 |
| use’to, 313 |
| ush, 185 |
| usher, 121 |
| usherette, 187 |
| usually, 307 |
| vacation, v., 192 |
| vacationize, 191 |
| vag, 184 |
| vally, 246 |
| valor, 221 |
| valorous, 227 |
| valour, 221, 227 |
| Valspar, 195 |
| vamose, 101, 202 |
| vamp, n., 184; v., 185, 366 |
| van, 112, 113, 183 |
| vapor, 221 |
| vaporize, 227 |
| vapour, 221, 227 |
| variate, 39 |
| variety, 201 |
| varsity, 169 |
| vase, 111, 215 |
| vaseline, 195 |
| vaudeville, 200, 201, 319, 320 |
| vaudevil, 245 |
| vaudeville-theatre, 116, 201 |
| venereal, 151 |
| venereal disease, 150, 151 |
| veranda, 222 |
| verandah, 222, 240 |
| verger, 130 |
| Vespasien, 150 |
| vest, 116, 127, 406 |
| vestry, 124 |
| vial, 223, 236, 237 |
| vicar, n., 130; v., 130 |
| vice, 224 |
| vice-chancellor, 121 |
| vice diseases, 151 |
| vice-president, 145 |
| vice-rector, 121 |
| victrola, 195 |
| viertel, 132 |
| vigilans, 415 |
| vigilante, 101, 415 |
| vigor, 221 |
| vigorous, 227 |
| vigour, 221, 227 |
| villa, 119 |
| violet, 218 |
| virgin, 152 |
| virtuosi, 251 |
| virtuosos, 251 |
| visco, 409 |
| vise, 224 |
| vivil, 195 |
| vodvil, 247 |
| voodoo, 54 |
| voting-paper, 124 |
| voyageur, 53 |
| vrille, 370 |
| w, p., 71 |
| waffle, 54 |
| wage-day, 115 |
| waggon, 113, 222, 230, 237, 239, 240 |
| wagon, 26, 105, 222, 230, 232, 236, 237, 241–247 |
| waikiki, 204 |
| wain, 57 |
| waistcoat, 116, 127 |
| wake, v., 275 |
| walk, n., 358 |
| walking-stick, 127 |
| walk-out, 158 |
| walk out, vp., 133 |
| walk the ties, vp., 97 |
| walk-up, n., 127 |
| walk-up-apartment, 127 |
| Wall Street, 164 |
| Wall Street broker, 123 |
| wallow, n., 352 |
| wampum, 41, 52 |
| wampum-keeper, 52 |
| wan, 276, 283 |
| wanderlust, 104 |
| wangle, 166 |
| wan’t, 72 |
| want-ad, 185 |
| warden, 116 |
| ward-executive, 122 |
| ward-heeler, 124 |
| wardman, 122 |
| warehouse, 116 |
| ware-zee, 212 |
| war-paint, 52 |
| war-path, 52, 60 |
| warphan, 196 |
| was. 272, 288 |
| wash-basin, 162–163 |
| wash-hand-basin, 163 |
| wash-hand-stand, 116, 163 |
| wash-out, n., 24 |
| wash-rag, 116 |
| wash-stand, 26, 116, 162 |
| wasn’t, 72 |
| wassermann, v., 192 |
| waste, 393 |
| waste-basket, 116 |
| waste-paper-basket, 116 |
| watch-glass, 114 |
| water, v., 161 |
| water-closet, 150, 155 |
| water-gap, 56–352 |
| watermelon, 405 |
| water-pitcher, 26 |
| watershed, 56 |
| water stocks, vp., 405 |
| water-wagon, 32 |
| way, 165 |
| way-bill, 97 |
| wazzo maro, 410 |
| W. C., 150 |
| we, 291 |
| weald, 57 |
| wear, v., 275 |
| wed, 188 |
| wedding, 147 |
| week-end, 122 |
| weep, 276 |
| weir, 128, 185 |
| well, expletive, 44, 416 |
| well-fixed, 135 |
| well-heeled, 94 |
| well-posted, 93 |
| weltpolitik, 249 |
| weltschmerz, 249 |
| went, 273, 284 |
| wep, 276, 280, 318 |
| wer, 245 |