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Doughgods - Biscuits.
Dough Boxer - The camp cook.
Dough Puncher - The camp cook.
Dough Wrangler - the Camp cook, also called "Dough Puncher."
Douse-the-Lights - Lights out. Time to hit the hay.
Dowd - A woman's night-cap.
Down In The Mouth - Dispirited, dejected,
disheartened
Down to the Blanket - Almost broke.
Doxology Works - A church.
Drabble - To make dirty by dragging in dirt
and water, to wet and befoul, as, to drabble a gown or cloak.
Dragged Out - Fatigued, exhausted, worn out.
Dram Shop - A small drinking establishment, used in the early 19th century.
Drat or Dratted - A good-humored oath meaning
very, exceedingly.
Draw - Drawing your gun "border style" consisted of pulling your pistol, worn backward in the holster, by putting your arm across the front of your body. This fancy stuff was popular down around the Mexican border.
Draw Cuts - A common way of deciding by lots,
by drawing paper or straws.
Dreadful - Very, a lot,
exceedingly. "He's just got a dreadful amount of money."
Dreambook - A small packet of papers used to roll cigarettes. Also called a "prayer book" or a "bible."
Driving the Nail - A sport consisting of attempts to drive a nail into a post with rifle or pistol fire.
Droger - Lumber droger, cotton droger, etc. A
vessel built solely for burden, for transporting cotton, lumber, and other heavy
articles.
Drumming - Soliciting of customers in a
retail establishment, such as "can I help you find something?”
Dry Gulch - To ambush someone, especially when the ambusher hides in a gully or gulch near a road and jumps the passersby.
Ducky - Used in early century as term of endearment.
Dude -
Commonly, the term applied to an Easterner, or anyone in up-scale town clothes, rather than plain range-riding or work clothes.
However, the term began as an insult, as cowboys first used the word to mean a
pimple or boil on someone's backside, caused by riding in the saddle all day
when one wasn't used to it. Hence, the cowboys called those "wanna-be" wrangers
"dudes."
Dug-Out - A canoe or boat, hewn or dug out of
a large log.
Dull Music - A term applied to anything
tedious.
Dump - Jail or boarding house.
Dumpish - Sad, melancholy
Dun - To dun is to urge for payment, to
demand a debt in a pressing manner
Dunderhead - Blockhead, dolt.
Dusted - Thrown from a horse.
Dynamite - Whiskey.
Dyed In The Wool - Ingrained, thorough.
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