Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Poor liquor.
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Examples
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He's got a mortgage on everything here but the houn's and the house cat, an 'he's tryin' to see if he cyant kill me with his bug-juice an 'save a suit in Chancery.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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The terrible malady attacked me w'en I war an infant prodigy, an 'I've nevyer yit see'd thet time when I c'u'd resist the temptation an' coldly say 'nix' w'en a brother pilgrim volunteered ter make a liberal dispensation uv grub, terbarker, or bug-juice.
Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler
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When he came aboard he was pretty full of "bug-juice," and had been asleep.
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol
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Imagine the lord of the lower world seeking the miscroscopic [sic] souls of men who badger, brow-beat and bully-rag their better halves for spending a dollar for a new calico dress, then blow in a dozen times as much with the dice-box in a bar-room, trying to beat some other long-eared burro out of a thimble-full of bug-juice or a schooner o 'beer!
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While Europe and America are peddling saving grace in pagan lands -- and incidentally extending the market for their cheap tobacco, snide jewelry and forty-rod bug-juice -- they are also building warships and casting cannon -- preparing to cut each other's throats while prating of the prince of peace!
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The man who is capable of straddling an unlicensed keg of bug-juice in a back-room and ladling out liquid hell to little boys, is quite naturally in favor of Prohibition.
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The ones who made this kind of talk had been "looking on the bug-juice when it was red," and they finally contented themselves by growling and taking another look.
Frank Merriwell's Bravery Burt L. Standish 1905
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An 'the hivens looked after thim, for divil a watch did they set, an' divil a rope did they lay hand to, till they'd seen the bottom av a fifteen-gallon cask o 'bug-juice.
Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900
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"Yes," said the agricultural editor, "and it's the meanest bug-juice in town -- regular sorghum skimmings."
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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"Ole hoss," broke in Brown; "do you ever tetch any of the old bug-juice?"
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