H.L. Mencken (1880–1956). The American Language. 1921.
List of Words and Phrases 3
| betray, 150 |
| be treated good, vp., 136 |
| betterment, 96 |
| betterments, 39 |
| bet your life, vp., 107 |
| bevo officer, 370 |
| bhoy, 107 |
| biased, 226 |
| bid, n., 113 |
| biff, v., 365, 384 |
| big-bug, 95 |
| big-chief, 52 |
| big-stick, 362, 405 |
| bild, 246 |
| bile, v., 42, 100, 315 |
| bill-board, 35, 113, 117, 168 |
| billion, 95 |
| biloferi, 421 |
| bilt, 231 |
| bin, v., 272, 288 |
| bind, 272 |
| bindery, 59 |
| bingle, 129 |
| biograph, v., 174 |
| biplan, 242 |
| biplane, 242 |
| bir, 413 |
| bird, 365 |
| biscuit, 64, 114 |
| bishop, 99 |
| bit, 287 |
| bitch, 148, 149 |
| bite, v., 272, 287 |
| bitten, 272, 287 |
| bizar, 245 |
| blacco enze, 409 |
| black-country, 126 |
| black-hand, 409 |
| black-stripe, 99 |
| blast, 70 |
| blather, 217 |
| bleachers, 122, 128, 190 |
| bled, 272 |
| bleed, 272 |
| bleeding, 156 |
| blew, 272, 283 |
| blighter, 153 |
| blimp, 369 |
| blind-baggage, 97 |
| blind-pig, 100 |
| blind tiger, 41 |
| blizzard, 95, 125, 162 |
| block, 126, 127, 362 |
| block-head, 365 |
| blofero, 404 |
| blofista, 161, 404 |
| blond, 251 |
| blonde, 251 |
| blooded, 61 |
| blood-poison, 150 |
| bloody, 24, 155 |
| bloomer, 95 |
| blouse, 116, 118 |
| blow, v., 60, 272, 283 |
| blowed, 272, 283 |
| blow-out, 95 |
| blue-blazer, 99 |
| blue-grass, 56, 126 |
| bluff, n., 56, 407, 414, 245, 352; bluff, v., 161, 384, 405, 281 |
| bluffer, 404, 406, 407 |
| blufferké, 407 |
| blurb, 186 |
| blurt, 186 |
| blutwurst, 103 |
| bo, 185, 251 |
| boar, 149 |
| boarder, 113, 117 |
| board-school, 115, 120 |
| board-walk, 113 |
| bob-sled, 57 |
| bobby, 122 |
| boche, 333, 368 |
| bock-beer, 103 |
| bog, 57, 125 |
| boggé, 414 |
| boghie, 398 |
| bogie, 97, 116 |
| bogus, 53, 61, 93 |
| bohee, 333 |
| boheme, 185 |
| bohick, 333 |
| bohunk, 333 |
| boil, n., v., 106, 315 |
| boiled-shirt, 95 |
| bolt, vp., 98 |
| bolter, 98 |
| bom, 246 |
| bombo, 405 |
| bomma, 411, 410 |
| bonanza, 101 |
| bonehead, 154, 190, 191, 365 |
| bonnet, 114 |
| boob, 14, 154, 159, 185, 191 |
| booch, 398 |
| boocoop, 370 |
| boodle, 98, 158 |
| boodler, 98, 406 |
| book, v., 123 |
| booking-office, 97, 116 |
| bookseller’s shop, 39 |
| book-shop, 168 |
| book-store, 39 |
| boom, n., 366, 405, 406; boom, v., 32, 92, 163 |
| boomer, 92 |
| boom-town, 92 |
| boost, n., 151, 158, 186; boost, v., 92, 159, 163 |
| boot, 26, 63, 113, 116, 122, 127, 168, 219, 239 |
| bootery, 187 |
| boot-lace, 116 |
| boot-legger, 16, 100 |
| boot-maker, 63, 116, 168 |
| boot-polish, 116 |
| boots, 26 |
| boot-shop, 63, 168 |
| boot-tree, 116 |
| booze-hister, 315 |
| boozery, 187 |
| booze-foundry, 365 |
| boracic, 254 |
| bordo, 410 |
| Bordox, 320 |
| boric, 254 |
| boro, 246, 355 |
| borough, suf., 355 |
| bortsch, 398 |
| bosom, 149 |
| boss, n., 15, 39, 54, 81, 124, 159, 383, 384, 401, 420, 406; boss, v., 92, 163, 384 |
| bosso, 410 |
| bösta, 413 |
| bottom, n., 352; bottom, v., 49 |
| bottom dollar, 95 |
| bottom-land, 39, 56 |
| bottoms, 56 |
| bought, 272 |
| boughten, 269, 272, 281, 284 |
| boulevard, 200, 319, 320, 358 |
| bouncer, 92, 100 |
| bound, v., 272 |
| bourgeois, 132 |
| bower, 104 |
| bowler, 114, 118, 164 |
| box, n., 122 |
| box-car, 97 |
| box-office clerk, 145 |
| box-office junior clerk, 145 |
| boy, 406 |
| boychick, 407 |
| bozart, 251 |
| braces, 26, 116, 118, 239 |
| bracken, 57, 114 |
| brain-storm, 175 |
| brainy, 94 |
| brakeman, 113 |
| brakesman, 113 |
| branch, n., 56, 70, 214, 352 |
| brand-new, 211 |
| brandy, 184 |
| brandy-champarelle, 99 |
| brandy-crusta, 99 |
| brand-new, 211, 317 |
| brang, 272 |
| brash, 94 |
| braten, 103 |
| brave, n., 101 |
| breaded, 278 |
| breadery, 187 |
| breadstuffs, 50, 61, 63 |
| break away, vp., 384 |
| break, v., 272 |
| break-bone, 365 |
| breakdown, 54 |
| breakfast, 119 |
| bred, n., 245 |
| breakfast, 245 |
| brethern, 318 |
| breve, 132 |
| brevier, 132 |
| brevis, 132 |
| briar, 224, 240 |
| briccoliere, 411 |
| bridal couple, 147 |
| bridge-fiend, 194 |
| brief, v., 125 |
| brier, 224, 241 |
| brig, 184 |
| brilliant, 132 |
| bring, 272 |
| brioche, 202 |
| Briticism, 12 |
| broad-gauge man, 97 |
| broiler, 119 |
| broke, 272 |
| broken, 272 |
| broker, 123 |
| bromid, 245 |
| bronchitis, 218 |
| broncho, 101, 420 |
| broncho-buster, 101 |
| broom, 219 |
| brought, 272 |
| brown-shoes, 127 |
| brung, 272, 277 |
| brusk, 225 |
| brusque, 219 |
| bryanize, 191 |
| bub, 67 |
| buck, n., 149; buck, v., 319 |
| buck-board, 401 |
| bucket, 171 |
| bucket-shop, 161 |
| Buckeye, 41 |