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And so, dear reader, here be but a microcosm of America's nineteenth-century colloquialisms and slang, some from the upper class, some from the lower, and much from the strata in between. 19th Century Slang. absquatulate: to take leave, to disappear. 1843: A can of oysters was discovered in our office by a friend, and he absquatulated ................
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