Bug Juice

When he came aboard he was pretty full of "bug-juice," and had been asleep. ❋ George H. Devol (N/A)

He's got a mortgage on everything here but the houn's and the house cat, an 'he's tryin' to see if he cyant kill me with his bug-juice an 'save a suit in Chancery. ❋ John Trotwood Moore (N/A)

The terrible malady attacked me w'en I war an infant prodigy, an 'I've nevyer yit see'd thet time when I c'u'd resist the temptation an' coldly say 'nix' w'en a brother pilgrim volunteered ter make a liberal dispensation uv grub, terbarker, or bug-juice. ❋ Edward L. Wheeler (N/A)

Imagine the lord of the lower world seeking the miscroscopic [sic] souls of men who badger, brow-beat and bully-rag their better halves for spending a dollar for a new calico dress, then blow in a dozen times as much with the dice-box in a bar-room, trying to beat some other long-eared burro out of a thimble-full of bug-juice or a schooner o 'beer! ❋ Unknown (1919)

While Europe and America are peddling saving grace in pagan lands -- and incidentally extending the market for their cheap tobacco, snide jewelry and forty-rod bug-juice -- they are also building warships and casting cannon -- preparing to cut each other's throats while prating of the prince of peace! ❋ Unknown (1919)

The man who is capable of straddling an unlicensed keg of bug-juice in a back-room and ladling out liquid hell to little boys, is quite naturally in favor of Prohibition. ❋ Unknown (1919)

The ones who made this kind of talk had been "looking on the bug-juice when it was red," and they finally contented themselves by growling and taking another look. ❋ Burt L. Standish (1905)

An 'the hivens looked after thim, for divil a watch did they set, an' divil a rope did they lay hand to, till they'd seen the bottom av a fifteen-gallon cask o 'bug-juice. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

"Yes," said the agricultural editor, "and it's the meanest bug-juice in town -- regular sorghum skimmings." ❋ Frederick Stuart (1881)

"Ole hoss," broke in Brown; "do you ever tetch any of the old bug-juice?" ❋ Unknown (1880)

"They'll pay a visit to every shanty in Deadwood," said Harris, with a grim smile, "and if they don't find us, which they won't, they'll h'ist more than a barrel of bug-juice over their defeat. ❋ Edward L. Wheeler (N/A)

"Beat it, now, Ike, ol 'Stork!" he cried, "an 'take a bottle of bug-juice, an' our slumberin 'friend, with you. ❋ Unknown (1921)

I kin shoot rock with any of 'em's long as I kin make out to let the bug-juice alone. " ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)

"You're so damned hungry you're afraid to put a drop of bug-juice under your belt. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)

No doubt if the bar-tender were asked if he had not filled some flasks this evening he would say yes, and Potts is probably stretched out comfortably in the forage-loft of one of the stables, with a canteen of water and his flask of bug-juice, prepared to make a night of it. " ❋ Charles King (1888)

[Crap]. They're [all out] of [coffee] so I had to drink bug juice instead. ❋ Fugitive (2004)

"I spilled [bug juice] on this towel three years ago, [the stain] is [still here]!" "We told her to go get us a pitcher of OJ out of the drinks machine, but the only thing left was bug juice. [Bug juice] with breakfast?!" ❋ TheFirebottle (2005)

I [hoped] [we would] get soda with dinner at camp tonight, but it was [bug juice] yet again. ❋ Camp Queen (2010)

i [have been] enjoying bug juice every [summer] since i was [six] years old ❋ The CIT (2011)

I'm getting [eaten alive] by these [mosquitos] , [pass] me some bug juice. ❋ D Spurgeon (2005)

Playa 1 "Dude...your bro just walked in to [Mickey D's] with a blaster(gun) and spoiled everyones' [egg mcmuffin]." Palya 2 "Shit..The [dawg's] off the bug juice" ❋ DonnieLee (2006)

[Chuck] invented bug juice while [experimenting] with different liquers on [new years]. ❋ Anthony Milito (2006)

My [Okie] Grandpa always called [Worcestershire sauce] [bug juice]. "Pass me the bug juice" is way easier to say. ❋ Baby Elvis (2015)

"That [baby] [loves] his bug juice." ❋ D2lol1st (2007)

Jimmy is a total juice bug; he will [tell you what] kind of juice goes good with pizza, or burgers, or hot dogs, or pretty much anything you can think of! And he always makes sure to drink his daily [glass of juice]; he usually drinks [apple juice], but he has switched it up enough times that he is familiar with almost every kind of juice available in the country. ❋ Seshie (2020)