Word: muckerish
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Texas girl, plump and pretty, with a natural antipathy to books and other instruments of cultivation, and a predilection for slang and amorous raillery (a girl whose type is familiar to many Harvard men) -and lastly, "a short, thickset young man with the countenance of a brakeman," of muckers, muckerish. Of these delineations, the first is the best, the second having certain touches of vulgarity which are not pleasing. Regarded as a story, this effort of Mr. Cohen's lacks effect in its conclusion...