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Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 108: Oh, she was an all fired nice gal, tew.at all-fired, adv.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 108: Oh, she was an all fired nice gal, tew. Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 170: Off they go, and out in the hall little Gid commences tew blow on Abby.at blow, v.1
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 103: Citizens and fellers; on the bloody ground on which our fathers catawampously poured out their claret free as ile, to enrich the soil over which we now honor and watch with hyena eyes, let the catamount of the inner varmint loose.at catawampusly, adv.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 38: ‘Captain, there be the jug.’ ‘Ah,’ said the Captain, ‘are that the jug?’ ‘It are,’ was the reply. ‘Nuff ced,’ exclaimed the Captain, ‘and now let us liquor.’.at nuff ced, phr.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 160: Zachariah Stanhope, a consarned dirty little rascal, who swept our historical room and made the fires, bust right eout intew a snigger.at consarned, adj.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 153: The Ingins knew heow to use it in the rough, but, oh! Johnny cakes and corn juice, tew what parfection it was finally brought by the descendants of the primitive fathers.at corn juice (n.) under corn, n.1
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 125: There was two Sals livin’ in our town, Sal Stebbins and Sal Babit, — real corn-fed gals, I swow [...] Sal Babit, she was so fat, she’d roll one way jest as easy as t’other, and if anything, a little easier.at cornfed, adj.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 168: How, and what distinguishes the ancient New England monament builders? What shows their cuteness?at cute, adj.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 86: He utters more ‘Got dams’ and ‘sacré dieus‘ than would set up a whole committee of politicians for twelve months.at God-damn!, excl.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 168: I’ve a propensity tew bust rite intew a reglar roar, when I think that a people who looked so ripe as to be yaller, could be so durnation green.at darnation, adv.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 193: And don’t I go home and tell the old folk; and when they come home, don’t the old folk kick up the darndest row?at darnedest (adj.) under darned, adj.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 126: She out with a hot dumplin’, and let me have it in t’other, which made me shut it up a darn’d sight quicker than I ever did afore.at darned, adj.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 23: Don’t the bill say that you’ve got a Olio? now I want to see the critter; I never heard of the animal afore, and I’m death on critters.at death on, adj.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 145: Hill’s hand had been fumbling in his pocket, and at last he drew out an eagle, and threw it to the sick man. ‘There, send that to your wife, and if she don’t want to use it, keep it to buy yourself a wooden leg when you get well.’.at eagle, n.2
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 26: Captain Gay was tried, found guilty, and condemned to be shot, or, rather, to pay the shot for the amount of oysters, champagne, and other fixings.at fixings, n.1
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 41: We used water, Cologne, &c., while Doctor Lobelia was sent for, but all our efforts and his were ineffectual. [...] We were giving her up as a gone case, the only case he had ever lost.at gone, adj.1
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 23: I’ve hearn the blowers, (meaning the musicians,) but one part of the show you ain’t put out. No gouging, you know! I paid my money and I want to see the hull.at gouge, v.1
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 23: ‘Beg your pardon, sir, but we have given the whole entertainment.’ ‘No, you ain’t: do you see any thing green, eh?’ ‘I can’t imagine to what you allude.’.at see any green (in my eye)? under green, n.1
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 103: Men of blood, and friends of General Washington, and that old hoss, General Jackson, I want your attention.at old horse, n.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 37: May he be a star in Europe, and succeed in showing John Bull what brother Jonathan is in his true character.at Jonathan, n.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 39: He took me by the coat-collar, and pulled me in kerchunk.at kerchunk! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
Yankee Hill 152: The tarm hierology, which we use in describing these things, means that the people in old times were ruther toploftical.at top-loftical, adj.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 190: Oh, thuch a love of a dreth. I am going to appear ath a Highland Thotch Lath. Than’t I look a divinity?at love, n.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 162: This part of your subject may not account for the milk in the cocoa nut, but it does account for why your humble sarvint is here. All owin’ tew his New England.at milk in the coco(a)nut (n.) under milk, n.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 22: Wal, this is a plaguey nice place; and what a mortal lot of purty picters you’ve got hanging round.at mortal, adv.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 30: Look here, Nigger, show a feller the Captain. Look here, you black sarpint, don’t stick out your lips at me.at nigger, n.1
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 163: In modern New England varsion, the select men air ‘old flints,’ I reckon ’cause some on’ em air a leetle flinty-hearted.at old flint (n.) under old, adj.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 197: So saying, the old lady put another [quarter] down upon the one she had just received from Pat. The Irishman put both into his pocket.at Pat, n.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 187: You see, Mr. Hill, I’m a kind of strange among these folks here, but at home I am ‘some pumpkins’.at some pumpkins (n.) under pumpkin, n.
Life and Recollections of Yankee Hill 26: Captain Gay was tried, found guilty, and condemned to be shot, or, rather, to pay the shot for the amount of oysters, champagne, and other fixings.at pay one’s shot (v.) under shot, n.1
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