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[US] John Neal Down-Easters I 88: D---d etarnal hot here, hey? – Hot as blue blazes.
at blue blazes (n.) under blue, adj.5
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 61: Old Jerry P.R. Gage was the biggest gentleman ever you see, an’ so’s the whole bylin’ of ’em.
at whole boiling lot, n.
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 61: I know a feller ’twould whip the whool boodle of ’em an’ give ’em six.
at whole boodle (n.) under boodle, n.1
[US] J. Neal ‘Robert Steele’ in Down-Easters 180: Botheration seize it, how do I know?
at botheration!, excl.
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 78: Lugging out a heavy silver watch [...] a genuine bull’s eye with a huge copper logging chain.
at bull’s eye, n.
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 119: That’s our Amos! if taint I’m a chowderhead.
at chowder-head, n.
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 93: Shet your clam!—like that better?—hold your yop!
at clam, n.1
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 95: I never could exactly understand [...] why the colored Americans are called cuffees.
at cuffy, n.
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 91: Dod butter it all!
at dod, n.1
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 104: I’m some tired o’ that feller’s gab.
at gab, n.2
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 93: If you don’t, I will, by the Lord Harry!
at by the Lord Harry! (excl.) under Lord Harry, n.
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 79: See what a hell-fired noise the watch makes.
at hell-fired (adj.) under hell, n.
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 104: Let ’em lump it if they don’t like it, an’ squirm their hides off.
at hide, n.
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 99: Two o’ the stubbedest fellers ever I did see, and always at it!
at at it under it, n.1
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 104: Let ’em lump it if they don’t like it, an’ squirm their hides off; that’s none o’ your look out – is it?
at lookout, n.
[US] John Neal Down-Easters II 33: Lud! how grave you are!
at lud!, excl.
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters 66: How is their temper? Why you know as well as me—they’re right down ugly when they’re mad, clear niggerish.
at niggerish (adj.) under nigger, n.1
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 197: I’ll – odds bobbs! I’ll beat you to death.
at odsbobs! (excl.) under ods, n.
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 64: You’re from tother side arter all, I’m a’ thinkin’? [...] From over there – away yender, pointing to the high seas.
at other side (n.) under other, adj.
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 65: Thats what they call gettin’ the yeller-boys, I spose – I’ve been there, an’ I’ve heern ’em say so many a time; pocky tarnal shame!
at pocky, adj.
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 105: Glancing at the ladies’ cabin, where a tremendous pow wow had just broken out. Such a screaming of mothers! and such a squalling of babies!
at pow-wow, n.
[US] John Neal Down-Easters I 91: Thank ye sir said the other, interrupting him with a good natured laugh – that’s what I call a smasher!
at smasher, n.2
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 101: I shouldn’t wonder if he was to try, added the swapper on my left.
at swapper, n.1
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 78: You shet your yop, an’ mind your own business.
at yap, n.1
[US] J. Neal Down-Easters I 95: Now sir! why zounds an’ death, you lump of tarred rattlin with a figger-head to match.
at zounds!, excl.
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