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Life in Dixie’s Land choose

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[US] ‘Edmund Kirke’ Life in Dixie’s Land 59: No, sar! No darkies eats with us. Hope you don’t reckon yerself no better than a good-for-nothin’, no-account nigger!
at no-account nigger (n.) under no-account, adj.
[US] ‘Edmund Kirke’ Life in Dixie’s Land 169: He’s a North Carolina corn-cracker one of the ugliest specimens of humanity extant. They’re as thick as fleas in this part of the state.
at corncracker (n.) under corn, n.1
[US] ‘Edmund Kirke’ Life in Dixie’s Land 191: However they have their uses; they make excellent bacon, and are ‘death on snakes’.
at death on, adj.
[US] ‘Edmund Kirke’ Life in Dixie’s Land 190: The dirt-eater did as he was bidden.
at dirt-eater (n.) under dirt, n.
[US] ‘Edmund Kirke’ Life in Dixie’s Land 58: The stores disclosed boiled chicken [...] corn-bread, buttered waffles, and ‘common doin’s’. [Ibid.] 67: That struck me as ‘rather steep’ for ‘common doin’s;’ particularly as we had furnished the food.
at doings, n.1
[US] ‘Edmund Kirke’ Life in Dixie’s Land 67: ‘Haint got nary a flip o’ change,’ she said, as she took it.
at flip, n.3
[US] ‘Edmund Kirke’ Life in Dixie’s Land 59: No, sar! No darkies eats with us. Hope you don’t reckon yerself no better than a good-for-nothin’, no-account nigger!
at no sir!, excl.
[US] ‘Edmund Kirke’ Life in Dixie’s Land 62: ‘Rail-splitter!’ Then he’s a nigger, shore.
at railsplitter, n.
[US] ‘Edmund Kirke’ Life in Dixie’s Land 67: That struck me as ‘rather steep’ for ‘common doin’s’; particularly as we had furnished the food.
at steep, adj.
[US] ‘Edmund Kirke’ Life in Dixie’s Land 101: He hab swore a blue streak at him, and called him a ---- Ab’lishener, jess ’cause Massa K--- wudn’t get mad and sass him back.
at blue streak (n.) under streak, n.
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