I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit.
My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.
The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you.
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.
He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.