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Humor of the Old Deep South choose

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[US] N.M. Ludlow in Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) 249: The darkey smiled and nodded, yes.
at darkie, n.
[US] G. Lincecum in Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) 94: Fulahooma had privately engaged forty brag players and had given me their names.
at brag, adj.
[US] Louisiana and Mississippi Almanac in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) 490: O loddy! dere was ebber so many ob ’em die.
at lawdy!, excl.
[US] Mississippi Free Trade and Natchez Gazette 12 Mar. V p.1 in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) n.p.: We recommend small and delicate juleps [...] with but little of the live critter in them.
at critter, n.
[US] H.C. Lewis Swamp Doctor’s Adventures in Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) 81–6: Don’t care a cuss; dimes is plentyer.
at not care a curse, v.
[US] H.C. Lewis Swamp Doctor’s Adventures in Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) 81–6: Ouch! criminy, but it hurts.
at criminy!, excl.
[US] H.C. Lewis Swamp Doctor’s Adventures in Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) 81–6: You’ll have to come down a notch lower, doc.
at doc, n.
[US] H.C. Lewis Swamp Doctor’s Adventures in Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) 81–6: I want to interduce Kaintuck fashions on a Southern sile.
at Kentuck, n.
[US] H.C. Lewis Swamp Doctor’s Adventures in Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) 81–6: I ’spected it would make all things pop, by hoecake.
at pop, v.1
[US] Spirit of the Times (N.Y.) 18 Mar. in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) 43: Let’s take a sweetener and go to bed.
at sweetener, n.2
[US] J.J. Hooper ‘The Elephant in Lafayette’ Tales of Alabama in Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) 121: ‘Is it a rail woman in thar?’ asked a skeptical dirt-eater.
at dirt-eater (n.) under dirt, n.
[US] J.J. Hooper ‘The Elephant in Lafayette’ in Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) 121–4: Well, by granny, I did notice he was hoarse when he hollered a while ago.
at my granny! (excl.) under granny, n.1
[US] Courier (Natchez, MS) 27 Feb. col. 2 in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) n.p.: Who sticks to the letter only, barks up the wrong tree.
at bark up the wrong tree, v.
[US] N.O. Weekly Delta 23 Nov. p.1 in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) n.p.: I went aboard as sassy as a meat-axe, and struttin’ ’bout de dex as large as life.
at meat axe, n.
[US] N.O. Weekly Delta 23 Nov. p.1 in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) n.p.: The Cap’n of the boat was standin’ [...] chawin’ backer.
at bacca, n.
[US] N.O. Weekly Delta 23 Nov. p.1 in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) n.p.: We adjourned over to the nearest dead-fall, tuck a whoppin’ horn of Ball Face.
at baldface (whisky), n.
[US] N.O. Weekly Delta 23 Nov. p.1 in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) n.p.: Jo Cole sed [...] he’d be dad burned if Uncle Mike should suffer for a drink.
at dad-burned, adj.
[US] N.O. Weekly Delta 23 Nov. p.1 in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) n.p.: The lower rejin of Loozeana, to that sitty of unhearn-of wikkedness, frogs, katfish and Frenchmen, called Orleans.
at catfish, n.
[US] N.O. Weekly Delta 23 Nov. p.1 in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) n.p.: Boys, sez I, look here! We’ve been on this dug-out ’bout a coon’s age.
at coon’s age (n.) under coon, n.
[US] N.O. Weekly Delta 23 Nov. p.1 in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) n.p.: We adjourned over to the nearest dead-fall, tuck a whoppin’ horn of Ball Face.
at dead fall (n.) under dead, adj.
[US] N.O. Weekly Delta 23 Nov. p.1 in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) n.p.: I [...] never pretends to quit till my bag is chock full, an’ my britches pockets, too, fit to bust.
at fit to bust under fit to..., phr.
[US] N.O. Weekly Delta 23 Nov. p.1 in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) n.p.: The lower rejin of Loozeana, to that sitty of unhearn-of wikkedness, frogs, katfish and Frenchmen, called Orleans.
at Frog, n.
[US] N.O. Weekly Delta 23 Nov. in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) 1: Very well, sez you, I won’t by hokey.
at by hokey! (excl.) under hokey, n.1
[US] N.O. Weekly Delta 23 Nov. p.1 in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) n.p.: We adjourned over to the nearest dead-fall, tuck a whoppin’ horn of Ball Face.
at horn, n.2
[US] N.O. Weekly Delta 23 Nov. in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) n.p.: Thar’s a sight of trees about here, an’ cane-breaks.
at sight, n.2
[US] N.O. Weekly Delta 23 Nov. p.1 in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) n.p.: ‘Well,’ sez I, ‘the “tiger” is genully considered the best, an’ then we have poker an’ eucre, an’ a occasional game of “seven up” or “old sledge!”’.
at tiger, n.
[US] N.O. Weekly Delta 23 Nov. p.1 in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) n.p.: We adjourned over to the nearest dead-fall, tuck a whoppin’ horn of Ball Face.
at whopping, adj.
[US] Southern Field and Fireside (Augusta, GA) 5 Sept. in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) 223: Shoot the other two; we’ve winged one of them!
at wing, v.
[US] Courier (Natchez, MS) 23 Aug. col. 3 in A.P. Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) n.p.: Several of the foot ‘cuffs’ being ‘dead-blowed’ with heeling it fer corner’.
at cuffy, n.
[US] [letter] Maj. Gen. A.J. Smith in Hudson Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) 479: ’Tis certain, Miss Clemmie, whether Fed or Confed, / In the plain course of nature you’re destined to wed [...] If Feds and Confeds will cease this vain strife, / And leave a man living to make you his wife.
at Fed, n.
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