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[US] F.R. Stockton Novels and Stories 307: Don’t you know, you dullhead, that our good King George has issued a proclamation.
at dullhead (n.) under dull, adj.
[US] Z.N. Hurston John Redding Goes to Sea (1995) 931: Ef he wuz uh home-buddy he’d be drove ’way by you all’s racket.
at homeboy, n.
[US] Z.N. Hurston John Redding Goes to Sea (1995) 927: Ain’t Ah done tol’ you forty times not tuh tahk dat lowlife mess in front of mah boy?
at lowlife, adj.
[US] Z.N. Hurston John Redding Goes to Sea (1995) 927: Ain’t Ah done tol’ you forty times not tuh tahk dat lowlife mess in front of mah boy?
at mess, n.2
[US] Z.N. Hurston John Redding Goes to Sea (1995) 930: John, is you crazy sho’ nuff?
at sho’ ’nuff, phr.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Drenched in Light (1995) 940: You jes wave dat rake at dis heah yahd, madame, else Ah’ll take you down a button hole lower.
at take someone down (a buttonhole) (v.) under take down, v.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Drenched in Light (1995) 947: She’s de wustest lil’ limb dat ever drawed bref.
at limb, n.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Spunk (1995) 949: Theah they go, big as life an’ brassy as tacks.
at brassy, adj.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Spunk (1995) 953: A big black bob-cat [...] walked round and round that house and howled like forty.
at like forty, adv.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Spunk (1995) 954: The men whispered coarse conjectures between guzzles of whiskey.
at guzzle, n.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Spunk (1995) 953: I’m skeered of dat man when he gits hot.
at hot, adj.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Spunk (1995) 953: Ah wuz glad when knockin’ off time come.
at knock-off, n.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Spunk (1995) 950: Don’t tell me nothin’ ’bout that rabbit-foot colored man.
at rabbit foot (adj.) under rabbit, n.1
[US] Z.N. Hurston Spunk (1995) 953: Spunk wuz cussin’ a blue streak to-day.
at blue streak (n.) under streak, n.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Sweat (1995) 956: You ain’t nothing but a hypocrite. One of them amen-corner Christians.
at amen corner (n.) under amen, n.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Sweat (1995) 960: We’se all sufferin’ wid de heat. De bear’s done got me!
at bear, n.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Sweat (1995) 959: He done got too biggety to live.
at biggity, adj.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Sweat (1995) 960: Heah, everybody chip in.
at chip in, v.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Sweat (1995) 963: Ah hates yuh lak uh suck-egg dog.
at suck-egg, adj.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Sweat (1995) 962: Dat’s a nice snake an’ anybody doan lak ’im kin jes’ hit de grit.
at hit the grit (v.) under grit, n.2
[US] Z.N. Hurston Sweat (1995) 959: There oughter be a law about him [...] He aint fit tuh carry guts tuh a bear.
at carry guts to a bear (v.) under gut, n.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Sweat (1995) 962: How de hen-fire did you ketch day six-foot rattler, Syke?
at henfire, n.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Sweat (1995) 957: That ole snaggle-toothed black woman you runnin’ with ain’t comin’ heah.
at run with (v.) under run, v.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Sweat (1995) 960: We all is steady customers an’ you aint set us up in a long time.
at set up, v.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Sweat (1995) 958: She wuz a right pritty lil trick when he got huh.
at trick, n.1
[US] Z.N. Hurston Bone of Contention (1995) 970: Come on! Youse a big seegar, but Ah kin smoke yuh!
at big cigar (n.) under big, adj.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Bone of Contention (1995) 970: I’ll be henfired! Simms, you tries to know mo’ ’bout runnin’ de town than me!
at henfired, adj.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Bone of Contention (1995) 977: Jes’ hold yo’ hot potater, Brother Simms, Ahm comin’ tuh dat part right now.
at take a red-hot potato! (excl.) under hot potato, n.1
[US] Z.N. Hurston Bone of Contention (1995) 978: By ziggity, dat ol’ mule been dead three years an’ still kickin’.
at by jiggers! (excl.) under jigger!, excl.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Bone of Contention (1995) 971: Ah wants uh warrant took out fuh Jim Weston. Ahm gointer law him outa dis town.
at law, v.
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