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Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 126: The reverend gentleman [...] who Simon was convinced was ‘the big dog of the tanyard’.at big dog of the tanyard, n.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 126: The reverend gentleman [...] who Simon was convinced was ‘the big dog of the tanyard’. Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 48: When we blowed off, I judge he had the wust of it.at blow off, v.1
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 58: A young man who was inclined to boot-lick any body suspected of having money.at bootlick, v.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 178: His lips produced such an explosion [...] ‘Ha!’ exclaimed an old fellow [...] ‘Well! ’twas a buster, any way!’ .at buster, n.1
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 57: He called for ‘Twenty, five-dollar checks’. [...] The dealer handed him the red checks and he piled them upon the ‘ten’.at check, n.1
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 35: He regarded them as only fit to be pursued by purse-proud clod-heads.at clod, n.1
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 54: Let me git one o’ these book-larnt fellers over a bottle of ‘old corn’.at corn, n.1
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 107: Oh! Jimminny Crimminny! what a cussed old fool!at jiminy cricket!, excl.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 196: I tried the cussedest ever a feller did to get loose, and couldn’t.at cussed, adj.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 88: ‘Whar do you aim to bury your dead Injuns, Cap’en?’ sarcastically inquired the little dirt-eater. ‘I’ll bury you, you little whifflin fice,’ said Captain Suggs in a rage.at dirt-eater (n.) under dirt, n.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 44: Ask him if he didn’t drop a couple of hundreds at the Big Council? Certainly — but then he was ‘drinky and played careless’.at drinky, adj.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 58: ‘That brings in the fat in great sleeks as big as my arm!’ observed the Captain, as he won the fifth consecutive bet.at fat, n.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 13: He lived with his father, an old ‘hard shell’ Baptist preacher.at hard-shell, adj.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 87: Old Mrs. Rollins [...] and her two daughters had what Simon termed the ‘high-strikes’.at highstrikes, n.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 178: His lips produced such an explosion as might have resulted, had he kissed Miss Winny. ‘Ha!’ exclaimed an old fellow [...] ‘at it a’ready ’squire!’ [...] Miss Winny turned red.at at it under it, n.1
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 88: Next time keep your jaw, you slink.at hold one’s jaw (v.) under jaw, n.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 119: All the negroes sang, screamed and prayed. Several, under the influence [...] ‘the jerks,’ were plunging and pitching about with convulsive energy.at jerks, n.1
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 156: By jings, I felt it that time.at jings!, excl.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 197: They’d hit pretty close by me ’casionally, ca-junk!at ker-, pfx
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 138: I would ‘nol pros.’ the case if I were you, and let this grief-stricken old man go home to his dying children.at nolle pross, v.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 38: I must push. Good mornin’.at push, v.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 48: The chances were altogether favorable for making a ‘raise,’ without fear of detection.at make a raise (v.) under raise, n.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 53: That tother bottle’s rot-gut, ef I know myself — bit a drink, I reckon, as well’s the rest.at rotgut, n.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 88: Keep the children outen the way [...] ’ef you don’t, Cap’em Suggs will whip ’em all. He’s a sight on children and people what’s got yaller jaunders!at have a sight on (v.) under sight, n.1
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 19: [Ch. title] Simon Gets a ‘Soft Snap’ out of His Daddy.at soft snap (n.) under snap, n.2
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 12: He possesses, in an eminent degree, that tact which enables man to detect the soft spots in his fellow.at soft spot (n.) under soft, adj.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 170: She inflicted what, in our nursery days, would have been called a ‘sound spankink’.at spanking, n.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 40: A hundred and seventy dollars in the clear spizarinctum.at spizzerinktum, n.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 49: I’d a’stuck to a feller that done that way, twell the cows come home—I’d cut the big vein in my neck before I’d ever desert sich a friend!at stick to, v.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1851) 30: I’m off, old stud.at old stud (n.) under stud, n.
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