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’Lena Rivers choose

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[US] M.J. Holmes ’Lena Rivers (1878) 79: Now if this isn’t the last specimen from Yankeedom.
at -dom, sfx
[US] M.J. Holmes ’Lena Rivers (1878) 315: ‘Shut up your head,’ roared John Jr.
at shut one’s head (v.) under head, n.
[US] M.J. Holmes ’Lena Rivers (1878) 80: How do you git along down amongst them heathenish Kentucks and niggers?
at Kentuck, n.
[US] M.J. Holmes ’Lena Rivers (1878) 306: He got so engaged about the darned ‘liquor law,’ and the putty-heads that made it, that he’d no idee ’twas so late.
at putty-head (n.) under putty, n.
[US] M.J. Holmes ’Lena Rivers (1878) 253: Darned if you don’t look like aunt Nancy, only she’s lean and you are squatty.
at squatty, adj.
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