Quarterly Update 1, Summer 2015

Where might you wear a false face? Or a johnny? Why might you literally lose face during a game of smut? And what’s behind that Zion curtain, anyway? The answers await you!

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Headword Part of Speech Update Type
baby buggy n Revised Entry
baby cab n Revised Entry
baby carriage n Revised Entry
baby cart n Revised Entry
baby coach n Revised Entry
baby wagon n Revised Entry
backbone fence n Revised Entry
backset n Revised Entry
ball cheese n Revised Entry
banter n Revised Entry
banter v Revised Entry
Baptist pallet n Revised Entry
barn burner n Revised Entry
barrack n Revised Entry
baster n Revised Sense, New Sense
bat n1 New Sense
beach-walk n New Entry
beat a hen a-pecking v phr Revised Entry
beatenest adj Revised Entry
beatenest n Revised Entry
beatermost adj Revised Entry
beaverslide n New Entry
beef club n Revised Entry
beeler n2 New Entry
bettermost adj, n Revised Entry
blauser n New Entry
blowing adder n Revised Entry
blue martin n Revised Entry
bodega n New Entry
bogsucker n New Entry
boneless cat n New Entry
budge v New Entry
candle fly n New Sense, Revised Sense
candle miller n New Entry
cellar bug n New Entry
chank-a-chank n Revised Entry
cousin n New Senses
Dutch cap n Revised Entry
elkhorn cactus n Revised Entry
false face n New Entry
fried bread n Revised Entry
gallery n Revised Entry
gange v Revised Sense, New Sense
ganging n New Sense, Revised Sense
gangway n New Sense, Revised Sense
ground-sluice v phr New Entry
haycap n New Sense, Revised Sense
Jackson fork n Revised Entry
johnny n New Sense
la-la n New Entry
ma-and-pa n attrib New Entry
mom-and-pop n attrib New Entry
mop sauce n New Entry
Mormon derrick n Revised Entry
nab  n New Entry
Old Gappy n New Entry
overshot stacker n Revised Entry
slide stacker n Revised Entry
sluice v New Sense
smut n New Sense
sty-baked adj New Entry
swat v New Entry
Zion curtain n New Entry