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[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 15: Sez he, ‘Stan’ back!’ ‘Aint you a buster?’ / Sez I, ‘I’m up to all thet air, I guess I’ve been to muster.’.
at air, n.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 114: It takes a mind like Dannel’s, fact, ez big ez all ou’ doors.
at all outdoors, n.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 21: These creeturs [...] Should come to Jaalam Centre fer to argify an’ spout on ’t.
at argufy, v.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 115: It kin’ o’ makes me sick ’z / A horse, to think o’ what he was in eighteen thirty-six.
at …a horse (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 69: I scent which pays the best, an’ then / Go into it baldheaded.
at bald-headed, adv.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 17: The sort o’ trash a feller gits to eat doos beat all nater. / I’d give a year’s pay for a smell o’ one good blue-nose tater.
at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 5: ’Tain’t afollerin’ your bell-wethers will excuse ye in His sight.
at bell-wether, n.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 18: I heern a horn, thinks I it’s Sol the fisherman hez come agin, / His bellowses is sound enough.
at bellows, n.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 48: Warn’t we gettin’ on prime with our hot an’ cold blowin’, / Acondemnin’ the war wilst we kep’ it agoin’?
at blow hot and cold (v.) under blow, v.1
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 110: I edvise the noomrous friends that’s in one boat with me.
at row in the (same) boat (v.) under boat, n.1
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) xxix: To delay attaching the bobs until the second attempt at flying the kite would indicate but a slender experience of that useful art.
at bob, n.3
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 92: This all-fiered [sic] buggy hole.
at buggy, adj.1
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 113: He aint / No more ’n a tough old bullethead.
at bullet-head, n.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 15: Sez he, ‘Stan’ back!’ ‘Aint you a buster?’ / Sez I, ‘I’m up to all thet air, I guess I’ve been to muster.’.
at buster, n.1
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 22: Mind your eye, be thund’rin’ spry, or damn ye, you shall ketch it!
at catch it (v.) under catch, v.1
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 115: ’T will take more emptins, a long chalk, than this noo party’s gut.
at by a long chalk under chalk, n.1
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 88: I don’t see, nuther, / Wy one [i.e. leg] should take to feelin’ cheap a minnit sooner ’n t’other.
at cheap, adj.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 95: An’ not a hundred miles away frum ware this child wuz posted.
at child, n.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 120: I made my darkies all set down around me in a ring, / An’ sot an’ kin’ o’ ciphered up how much the lot would bring.
at cipher, v.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 113: Two pickpockets [...] / Turn all his pockets wrong side out an’ quick ez lightnin’ clean ’em.
at clean, v.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) xxx: Our little craft [...] shall seem to leave port with a clipping breeze.
at clipping, adj.2
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 109: Hail Columby’s happy land is goin’ thru a crisis.
at hail Columbia, n.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 112: Ef I’d expected sech a trick, I wouldn’t ha cut my foot / By goin’ and votin’ fer myself, like a consumed coot.
at coot, n.1
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 110: I ain’t a crooked stick.
at crooked stick (n.) under crooked, adj.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 112: Ef I’d expected sech a trick, I wouldn’t ha cut my foot / By goin’ and votin’ fer myself, like a consumed coot.
at cut one’s foot (v.) under cut, v.2
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 19: I’d an idee thet they [i.e. Mexicans] were built arter the darkie fashion.
at darkie, adj.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 49: Why, those chaps from the North, with back-bones to ’em, darn ’em.
at darn, v.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 89: Ware’s my left hand? O, darn it, yes, I recollect wut’s come on ’t.
at darn!, excl.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 69: I do believe thet holdin’ slaves / Comes nat’ral tu a President, / Let ’lone the rowdedow it saves.
at row-de-dow, n.
[US] J.R. Lowell Biglow Papers (1880) 4: But my narves it kind o’ grates, / When I see the overreachin’ / O’ them nigger-drivin’ States.
at nigger-driving (adj.) under nigger-driver, n.
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