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letter 10 Jan. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 241: These measly little streams are not worth a dam.at not worth a damn, phr.
letter 10 Jan. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 241: These measly little streams are not worth a dam. letter 1 Dec. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 126: The roof serving as floor to a sky-thatched attic as big as all outdoors.at all outdoors, n.
letter 13 Nov. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 90: He was as dead as Adam is.at dead as..., adj.
letter 25 Jan. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 190: He could [...] make me jump about 30 just as sure as God made little apples.at sure as God made little (green) apples under sure as..., phr.
letter 25 Nov. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 111: Oh, God, but I’m sick as a dog!at …a dog (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
letter 30 Oct. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 53: There are a dozen different ways of carrrying it; but that knapsack balls me all up.at ball up, v.
letter 4 Oct. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 17: His heels caught on the rail, and down he went like beans in Boston.at like beans (adv.) under beans, n.3
letter 30 Oct. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 53: It gets too beastly cold.at beastly, adv.
letter 25 Dec. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 192: That’ll beat sow-belly and murphies [...] all hollow.at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
letter 15 Sept. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 4: A youthful looking Plug Ugly [...] emerged from the crowd with a ‘be-Jesus’ swagger.at bejesus, adj.
letter 25 Jan. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 235: They keep a respectful distance from me, evidently deeming me a fighter from Bitter Creek.at from Bitter Creek (adj.) under Bitter Creek, n.
letter 13 Nov. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 80: You fooled these men out here to starve by your damned blowing.at blowing, n.3
letter 19 Dec. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 180: One would have to be pretty industrious, however, to get ‘biled’ [sic] on this native wine.at boiled, adj.
letter 19 Dec. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 181: I kept my watch and scanty ‘boo’ carefully out of sight.at boo, n.1
letter 10 Oct. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 22: There was some pretty good ‘budge’ there.at budge, n.2
letter 19 Dec. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 166: The rascals of that Santa Fe Ring and their big-bug backers.at big bug (n.) under bug, n.1
letter 23 Oct. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 43: Sometimes a fellow has what these eloquent sons of the plains call ‘bull luck.’.at bull luck (n.) under bull, adj.1
letter 25 Nov. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 111: Two bum looking strangers came in.at bum, adj.
letter 25 Dec. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 188: To quote an eloquent section-hand, ‘this is the bigoodest country for water on the face of the earth’.at by-god, adj.
letter 13 Nov. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 90: He had a venerable old cackler in his jaws when I killed him.at cackler, n.2
letter 28 Sept. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 13: Bread and milk is about the only procurable ‘chuck’.at chuck, n.3
letter 13 Nov. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 91: Wasn’t that a corker? I said amen!at corker, n.2
letter 30 Oct. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 52: He ‘grubstaked’ a dead-broke miner, advancing him about $7 worth of provisions from his little grocery.at dead broke (adj.) under dead, adv.
letter in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 47: He was just mulish enough not to budge, and would have been named ‘Dennis’ in a brief time.at one’s name is Dennis under dennis, n.
letter 25 Dec. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 196: I know it’s doggoned tough now, but it’ll be a darned lot of fun to remember it.at doggone, adv.
letter 19 Dec. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 178: I [...] sank down on a chair beside the glowing fireplace, I was ‘done up’.at done up, adj.1
letter 25 Dec. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 192: We boys have chipped in and got the fixin’s for a big Christmas dinner.at fixings, n.1
letter 5 Nov. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 73: There, you mush-headed idiots, fix up your darned old world to suit yourselves, if you’re so gee-whizzly smart.at gee-whiz, adj.
letter 25 Dec. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 203: ‘By gosh!’ said heI know it’s doggoned tough now, but it’ll be a darned lot of fun to remember it.at by gosh! (excl.) under gosh!, excl.
letter 30 Oct. in Byrkit Letters from the Southwest (1989) 52: He ‘grubstaked’ a dead-broke miner, advancing him about $7 worth of provisions from his little grocery.at grubstake, v.
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