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[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 240: ‘I’ma Chinaman,’ says Billy, ‘if it ain’ta kid!’.
at I’m a Dutchman, phr.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 134: ‘Well, I’m a coyote!’ says Monte, a heap disgusted, ‘wherever is the female?’.
at I’m a nigger, phr.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 7: There ain’t no camp this side of St. Looey could turn this trick.
at turn a trick, v.2
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 72: He sets in to win Jennie hard. Jim tries to crowd the game an’ get action.
at action, n.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 330: Air-tights is can peaches, can tomatters, an’ sim’lar bluffs.
at air-tights, n.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 150: Folks locoed most usual – clean off up in the air an’ pichin’ on their ropes.
at up in the air (adj.) under air, n.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 12: ‘The bridle’s plumb off to you, amigo,’ says Cherokee, an’ his tones is some hard.
at amigo, n.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 16: As the Lizard makes his bluff his hand goes to his artillery like a flash.
at artillery, n.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 143: Game as hornets. Never knowed him to quit anythin’ in his life. [Ibid.] 199: The Wells-Fargo gents – they was game as goats both of ’em.
at ...an ant under game as..., adj.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 243: But the Mexican gets ugly as a t’ran’tler at this an’ with one motion he lugs out a six-shooter.
at ...a tarantula under ugly as..., adj.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 332: Here’s lookin’ at you, Crawfish.
at here’s looking at you!, excl.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 168: My off-wheel mule – a reg’lar shave-tail – is bad medicine.
at bad medicine (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 31: It ain’t been usual for me to blow my own bazoo to any extent.
at blow (off) one’s bazoo (v.) under bazoo, n.1
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 57: I knows men [...] as would beef him right yere an’ leave him as a companion piece to that compadre of his you downs.
at beef, v.2
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 231: It seem like that Bible-sharp is right a whole lot?
at bible-banger (n.) under bible, n.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 330: They’s runnin’ blazers on each other [...] an’ don’t mean nothin’.
at run a blazer (on/over) (v.) under blazer, n.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 251: I reckons Billy’s merely blowin’ his horn; bein’ sick an’ cantankerous with his game knee.
at blow one’s horn, v.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 330: Air-tights is can peaches, can tomatters, an’ sim’lar bluffs.
at bluff, n.1
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 3: We gets a box an’ grave ready.
at box, n.1
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 15: I now announces that this yere game is a skin an’ a brace.
at brace game, n.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 86: You go down to them Injuns, an’ find the right buck [...] an’ tell him the squaw’s got a buck now.
at buck, n.1
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 197: S’pose I asks you-all to lend me money, quite a bundle, say, would you do it?
at bundle, n.1
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 274: Red Dog sends its comps, an’ asks Wolfville to bury the hatchet for one day in honor of to-morrow bein’ Thanks givin’.
at bury the hatchet (v.) under bury, v.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 63: All we has to do is [...] make a camp; an’ by bein’ slow an’ shore, an’ takin’ time an’ pains, we bushwhacks an’ kills the last one.
at bushwhack, v.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 28: Yesterday, allowin’ to bushwhack some trooth about ’em, I waits till old Wilkins drifts over to the corral, an’ then I goes projectin’ ’round for facts. I works it plenty cunnin’.
at bushwhack, v.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 331: Crawfish prances into camp on this yere occasion with Julius [i.e. a pet snake] bushwacked ’way ’round back in his shirt.
at bushwhack, v.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 149: The calabose is dry, an’ what you-alls might call, commodious. It’s a slam-up camp.
at calaboose, n.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 140: We takes a drink on the house, quits, an’ calls it a day.
at call it a day (v.) under call, v.
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 52: But Peets says it’s the reg’lar caper, an’ you can gamble Peets knows.
at caper, n.2
[US] A.H. Lewis Wolfville 6: In honor of the dead an’ to mark the occasion of his cashin’ in.
at cash in, v.
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