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Journal of Amer. Folklore I 78: When two American boys are fighting together and a crowd is watching the mill, a spectator will often encourage one of the contestants by crying, ‘Give him jessy!’.at give someone jesse (v.) under jesse, n.
Journal of Amer. Folklore I 78: When two American boys are fighting together and a crowd is watching the mill, a spectator will often encourage one of the contestants by crying, ‘Give him jessy!’. Journal of Amer. Folklore III Dec. 311: Sagatiate, [...] came into use here [in Phila.] between 1853 and 1859, being used only in the phrase, ‘How does your corporosity sagatiate the inclemency of the weather?’ [DA].at sagaciate, v.
Journal of Amer. Folklore IV 159: Words from the dialect of Marblehead. [...] Pixielated. Confused, bewildered [DA].at pixillated, adj.
Journal of Amer. Folklore IV 160: Snoop.—This word I have frequently heard in New England, used both as a verb and as a noun. It implies sneaking, spying, prying around [DA].at snoop, v.
Journal of Amer. Folklore V 60: To feel like a stewed owl, or like a stewed monkey. More idiomatically, like a biled owl [DA].at feel like a (fresh-)boiled owl (v.) under feel, v.
Journal of Amer. Folklore V 145: Putty-head.—A term of reproach. Soft head, stupid [DA].at putty-head (n.) under putty, n.
Journal of Amer. Folklore V Sept. 236: Skeezicks [...] In my boyhood, in western New York, the word was applied to persons, usually children, who had been in mischief, and where the prank had caused sorrow to person or damage to property [DA].at skeezicks, n.
Journal of Amer. Folklore 8 84: To be low spirited was to have the ‘hypos’.at hypo, n.1
in Journal of Amer. Folklore Apr. IX 32: It da jump about, and shake him head, and do all kin’ o’ ’tupid ting.at chupid, adj.
in Journal of Amer. Folklore Apr. IX 32: De book say, dat white-o, brown-o, black-o, all mek de same blood.at -o, sfx
in Journal of Amer. Folklore Apr. IX 32: It da jump about, and shake him head, and do all kin’ o’ ’tupid ting.at stupid, adj.
in Journal of Amer. Folklore XXVI (1913) 128: Bought a cow of Farmer Jones, / She wasn’t nothing but skin and bones; / Kept her till she was fine as silk, / Jumped the fence and strained her milk [HDAS].at strain one’s milk (v.) under strain, v.
Journal of Amer. Folklore 24 354: The ‘creeper’ watches his chance to get admittance into a home, unknown to the husband.at creeper, n.
‘Cross-eyed Sallie’ in Journal of Amer. Folklore Oct. 377: She was the blackest girl in Paradise Alley. — She had liver lips an’ kidney feet.at liver-lips, n.
Journal of Amer. Folklore 24 292: Railroad Bill was [a] mighty sport, Shot all [the] buttons off [the] high sheriff’s coat, Den hollered, ‘Right on, desperado Bill!’ .at right on!, excl.
Journal of Amer. Folklore 28 138: When I was young and in my prime, / Sunk my axe deep ’most every time.at axe, n.
Journal of Amer. Folklore Jan.–Mar. 63: ‘Lally-gaggin’’ was Grandmother’s word for love-making [DA].at lallygag, v.
Journal of Amer. Folklore Jan.–Mar. 63: The devil was referred to as ‘Old Ned’ or ‘Old Scratch’ [DA].at old Scratch (n.) under old, adj.
Journal of Amer. Folklore Jan.–Mar. 63: The devil was referred to as ‘Old Ned’ or ‘Old Scratch’ [DA].at old Ned (n.) under old, adj.
in Journal of Amer. Folklore 🌐 My personal vocabulary of such catch-names was enriched [...] to include ridge-runner, appleknocker, cherrypicker, and turdkicker.at apple-knocker, n.
in Journal of Amer. Folklore 🌐 My personal vocabulary of such catch-names was enriched [...] to include ridge-runner, appleknocker, cherrypicker, and turdkicker.at cherry-picker, n.1
in Journal of Amer. Folklore 🌐 At one time or another Southern local colorists used these analogs for poor white: [...] clayeater.at clay-eater (n.) under clay, n.
in Journal of Amer. Folklore 🌐 At one time or another Southern local colorists used these analogs for poor white: lubber, peckerwood, cracker, conch, sandhiller, redneck, cajun, woolhat, squatter, clayeater, sharecropper, linthead, swamprat, tarheel, hillbilly.at conch, n.1
in Journal of Amer. Folklore 🌐 At one time or another Southern local colorists used these analogs for poor white: lubber, peckerwood, cracker, conch, sandhiller, redneck, cajun, woolhat, squatter, clayeater, sharecropper, linthead, swamprat, tarheel, hillbilly.at linthead, n.
in Journal of Amer. Folklore 🌐 My personal vocabulary of such catch-names was enriched [...] to include ridge-runner, appleknocker, cherrypicker, and turdkicker.at ridgerunner, n.
in Journal of Amer. Folklore 🌐 At one time or another Southern local colorists used these analogs for poor white: lubber, peckerwood, cracker, conch, sandhiller, redneck, cajun, woolhat, squatter, clayeater, sharecropper, linthead, swamprat, tarheel, hillbilly.at swamp-rat (n.) under swamp, n.
in Journal of Amer. Folklore 🌐 At one time or another Southern local colorists used these analogs for poor white: [...] swamprat, tarheel, hillbilly.at tarheel, n.
in Journal of Amer. Folklore 🌐 My personal vocabulary of such catch-names was enriched [...] to include ridge-runner, appleknocker, cherrypicker, and turdkicker.at turdkicker (n.) under turd, n.
in Journal of Amer. Folklore 🌐 At one time or another Southern local colorists used these analogs for poor white: [...] woolhat.at wool hat (n.) under wool, n.1
Jrnl Amer. Folklore 79 597: What you flip away you then call a [...] ‘dincher,’ ‘dobe,’ ‘duck,’ ‘dummy,’ ‘hobo’s delight’.at hobo’s delight (n.) under hobo, n.
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