H.L. Mencken (1880–1956). The American Language. 1921.
List of Words and Phrases 5
| chapel, 131, 169 |
| chapapparal, 39 |
| chapter, 130 |
| char, n., 67, 168 |
| charge it, vp., 118 |
| Charley-horse, 128 |
| charwoman, 67, 168 |
| chase, n., 57 |
| chase one’s self, vp., 384 |
| chaser, 100 |
| chauf, 185 |
| chautauqua, 132, 166 |
| chautauquan, 166 |
| château, 218 |
| check, 123, 223, 247 |
| cheap, 144 |
| checkered, 241 |
| checkers, 113 |
| cheer, n., 316 |
| chef d’oeuvre, 320 |
| chemist, 114, 232, 245 |
| chemist’s shop, 114 |
| cheque, 123, 223, 237, 240 |
| chequered, 240 |
| chest, 217, 316 |
| chest of drawers, 113 |
| chevalier, 232 |
| chew the rag, vp., 384 |
| chianti, 199 |
| chick, suf., 407 |
| chicken, 119, 364 |
| chicken-yard, 113 |
| chiclet, 195 |
| chicory, 119 |
| chief-clerk, 113 |
| chief constable, 113, 121 |
| chief lithographer, 145 |
| chief of police, 113, 121 |
| chief of the ushers, 145 |
| chief-reporter, 113 |
| children, 318 |
| chimbley, 318 |
| chimist, 232 |
| chimney-piece, 115 |
| chimny, 246 |
| china-hospital, 194 |
| chinch, 67 |
| Chinee, 308 |
| chink, v., 32, 92 |
| chink, n., 333 |
| chinkapin, 51 |
| chin-music, 191 |
| chipeco, 196 |
| chip in, vp., 128, 384 |
| chipmunk, 51 |
| chipped-beef, 95 |
| chist, 316 |
| chistu, 409 |
| chit, 203 |
| chlorid, 245, 225 |
| chlorine, 218 |
| chocolate, 216 |
| chomp, v., 317 |
| choo-choo, 119 |
| choose, 272 |
| chore, 68, 122, 168, 414 |
| chortle, 186 |
| chose, 272 |
| chow, 203, 370 |
| chowder, 53 |
| Christ, 154 |
| Christer, 155 |
| chromo, 184 |
| chunky, 61 |
| church, 131 |
| churchman, 131 |
| chute, 39 |
| cider, 223, 225 |
| cigaret, 225, 245 |
| cinch, n., 15 |
| cinema, 15, 35, 115 |
| cipher, 237 |
| circuit-rider, 131 |
| circus, 358 |
| citified, 91 |
| City Hall, 359 |
| citizenize, 91, 191 |
| citizen’s-clothes, 122 |
| cits, 122 |
| City, 123, 164 |
| City, editor, 123 |
| city-editor, 113 |
| City men, 123 |
| city-ordinance, 113 |
| civil-servant, 122 |
| claim-jumper, 95 |
| clam-bake, 126 |
| clam-chowder, 126 |
| clamor, 221 |
| clamorous, 227 |
| clamour, 221, 227 |
| clang, v., 272 |
| clangor, 221 |
| clangorous, 227 |
| clangour, 221, 227 |
| clapboard, 39, 50 |
| Clarke, 214 |
| clas, 245 |
| class, 120 |
| class-day, 121 |
| classy, 32, 194, 309 |
| claw-hammer, 95 |
| cleanlily, 307 |
| cleanly, 307 |
| clean-up, 15 |
| clearing, n., 56 |
| clear the track, vp., 97 |
| clerk, n., 26, 63, 144, 219; clerk, v., 60 |
| clever, 39, 41, 68, 81 |
| climb, 272 |
| climbed, 276 |
| cling-stone, 56 |
| cling, 272 |
| clipping, n., 113, 125 |
| clock-watcher, 191 |
| clodhopper, 67 |
| clomb, 279 |
| clorid, 245 |
| closed-season, 113 |
| closed-shop, 137 |
| close-season, 113 |
| closet, 155 |
| closure, 226, 224 |
| cloture, 226, 224 |
| cloudburst, 95, 125 |
| clout the sphere, vp., 367 |
| club, 404 |
| club-car, 97 |
| clue, 241 |
| clum, 272, 279, 278 |
| clung, 272 |
| c’meer, 212 |
| clysmic, 195 |
| coal, n., 113 |
| coal-oil, 113 |
| coal-operator, 164 |
| coal-owner, 164 |
| coals, 113 |
| coast, v., 92 |
| coat-and-skirt, 118 |
| coatee, 91 |
| cocain, 233, 245 |
| cocaine, 233 |
| cock, 26, 115 |
| cocktail, 26, 99, 405 |
| C. O. D., 188 |
| codfish, a., 32, 94 |
| co-ed, 184, 188 |
| co-education, 163 |
| coffee, 216 |
| coffin, 147 |
| coffin-nail, 191 |
| cohanize, 191 |
| coiner, 114 |
| coke, 184 |
| coke-fiend, 194 |
| cold-deck, 128 |
| cold-feet, 166 |
| cold-slaw, 54, 251 |
| cold-snap, 41, 57, 95, 125 |
| cole-slaw, 251 |
| collar-button, 114 |
| collateral, 96 |
| colleen, 105 |
| college, 144 |
| collide, 92, 162 |
| collide head-on, vp., 97 |
| colonel, 138 |
| color, 26, 221, 246 |
| Colorado, 217 |
| colorific, 227 |
| colour, 221, 227 |
| colour-blind, 224 |
| colourable, 227, 225 |
| coloured, 227, 224 |
| colourist, 224 |
| colourless, 224 |
| colour-line, 225 |
| colour-sergeant, 225 |
| column-ad, 185 |
| combe, 57 |
| come, 272, 285 |
| come across, vp., 175, 364 |
| comed, 276 |
| come-down, 95, 175, 193 |
| come-on, 159, 366 |
| come out at the little end of the horn, vp., 41, 93 |
| comino, 202 |
| command, 70 |
| commencement, 121, 414 |
| commission-agent, 114 |
| commission-merchant, 114 |
| committee, 124 |
| common, n., 57 |
| common-loafer, 103 |
| communicable disease, 151, 152 |
| commutador, 405 |
| commutation-ticket, 114 |
| commute, 97, 185, 191 |
| commuter, 405 |
| company, 124, 219 |
| compass, 219 |
| compensable, 194 |
| complected, 61, 318 |
| compromit, v., 36, 60 |
| con, n., 184; con, v., 185 |
| conant, 203 |
| concertize, 91 |
| conch, 362 |
| conciet, 246 |
| condensery, 187 |
| condit, 246 |
| conduct, v., 40 |
| conductor, 26, 114, 138 |
| conductorette, 187 |
| confab, 185 |
| confessional-address, 130 |
| confirmand, 130 |
| conflagrative, 60 |
| congoleum, 196 |
| congressional, 39, 61 |
| connection, 224, 225 |
| connexion, 224, 237, 240 |
| conniption, 95 |