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‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 128: ‘Cousin Sal’ is pretty generally lamented throughout the South as the deceased and only daughter of our very worthy and revered ‘Uncle Sam’.at cousin sally ann, n.
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 128: ‘Cousin Sal’ is pretty generally lamented throughout the South as the deceased and only daughter of our very worthy and revered ‘Uncle Sam’. ‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 126: Among the names of revolvers I remember the following: Meat in the Pot, Blue Lightning, Peacemaker, Mr. Speaker, Black-eyed Susan, Pill-box, My Unconverted Friend.at black-eyed susan, n.
Overland Monthly (CA) III 129: North Carolinians call skim milk ‘Blue John’ [DA].at blue john (n.) under blue, adj.1
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 128: The Rebels had their ‘bluebacks’ for money.at bluebacks (n.) under blue, adj.1
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 126: Among the names of revolvers I remember the following: Meat in the Pot, Blue Lightning, Peacemaker, Mr. Speaker, Black-eyed Susan, Pill-box, My Unconverted Friend.at pill-box, n.
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 130: As for diseases, ‘Bronze John’ is pretty well known for yellow fever.at bronze john, n.
‘In the Tunnel’ in Overland Monthly II 284/2: Just you chip in, / Say you knew Flynn.at chip in, v.
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 129: For the Texan soubriquet ‘Chub’ I know of no explanation, unless it be found in the size of the Eastern Texans. It is related of the Fifteenth Texas Infantry, for instance, that at the mustering-in no member was of a lighter weight than a hundred and eighty pounds, while a large number made the scale-beam kick at two hundred.at chub, n.2
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 129: For no particular reason that I am aware of, a Virginian is styled a ‘Clover eater’.at clover-eater, n.
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 131: A Texan never has a great quantity of any thing, but he has ‘scads’ of it, or ‘oodles,’ or ‘dead oodles,’ or ‘scadoodles,’ or ‘swads’.at dead oodles (n.) under dead, adj.
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 130: Neither of them will [...] fall into an ‘almighty fix,’ though he might get into a ‘dog-oned fixment’.at doggone, adj.
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 130: ‘To have the drop on’ i.e., to have the advantage of, appears to refer to a cowardly state of things.at have the drop (on) (v.) under drop, n.1
Overland Monthly (CA) III 126: If, however, a Texan’s reading is occasionally contested, he has a one-eyed scribe, who is more infallible, as a last resort, than any Vatican manuscript.at one-eyed scribe, n.
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 126: Among the names of revolvers I remember the following: Meat in the Pot, Blue Lightning, Peacemaker, Mr. Speaker, Black-eyed Susan, Pill-box, My Unconverted Friend.at my unconverted friend (n.) under friend, n.
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 129: A Georgian is popularly known in the South as a ‘Gouber-grabbler’ [‘gouber‘ for gopher, peanut – a nut which is exceedingly abundant in that State].at goober-grabber, n.1
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 129: On account of the great number of gophers in that State, and the former use of their skins for money, a Floridian is called a ‘Gopher’.at gopher, n.1
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 131: I knew a man in Texas once who had no more sense than to have a ‘jimpsecute,’ and this was all her name: Dionysia Boadicea Jeffalinda Jacobina Christiana Buckiana Caledonia Susannah Emily Wyatt Wilkinson Moore Wynnle!at jimsecute, n.
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 129: The cant designation in the Rebel army for a man of Arkansas was ‘Josh.’ This is said to have originated in a jocular attempt to compare Arkansas, Texas, and part of Louisiana to the two tribes and a half who had their possessions beyond Jordan, but went over with Joshua to assist the remaining tribes.at Josh, n.
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 131: When a Texan goes forth on a sparking errand, he does not go to pay his devoirs to his Amaryllis, his Lalage, his Dulcinea, or other such antiquated object of affection, but (employing a word worthy of a place in the pasilaly of mankind) his ‘jimpsecute.’ She, on the other hand, is said to receive attention from her ‘juicy-spicy’.at juicy-spicy, n.
Overland Monthly (CA) III 128: Several persons in our ‘lay-out’ (i.e., our company) in New Mexico ‘swapped’ good American horses for mustangs.at layout, n.
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 126: Among the names of revolvers I remember the following: Meat in the Pot, Blue Lightning, Peacemaker, Mr. Speaker, Black-eyed Susan, Pill-box, My Unconverted Friend.at blue lightning (n.) under lightning, n.
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 126: Among the names of revolvers I remember the following: Meat in the Pot, Blue Lightning, Peacemaker, Mr. Speaker, Black-eyed Susan, Pill-box, My Unconverted Friend.at meat-in-the-pot (n.) under meat, n.
Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 129: Southern smoke-cured pork, in distinction from the Northern salted article, in allusion to the famous negro song, was termed ‘Old Ned,’ from its sable appearance [DA].at old ned (n.) under old, adj.
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 126: Among the names of revolvers I remember the following: Meat in the Pot, Blue Lightning, Peacemaker, Mr. Speaker, Black-eyed Susan, Pill-box, My Unconverted Friend.at peacemaker (n.) under peace, n.
Overland Monthly (CA) III 127: After a long desert journey the oxen become much ‘petered’ [DA].at peter, v.1
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 131: A Texan never has a great quantity of any thing, but he has ‘scads’ of it, or ‘oodles,’ or ‘dead oodles,’ or ‘scadoodles,’ or ‘swads’.at scad, n.2
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 128: A mustang is not ‘worth shucks.’ He will run ‘skygodlin’ (obliquely); lie down and roll over.at skygodlin, adj.
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 130: When two roughs fall to quarrelling about any matter, one of them usually administers to the other some species of a ‘snifter’ or ‘curries him down with a six-shooter’.at snifter, n.3
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 128: Neither did greenbacks succeed well at first in invading the State. In March, 1868, they had gotten no farther west than Marshall, and everywhere west of that, when a man named a price, he meant ‘spizerinctums’ (corrupted from specie).at spizzerinktum, n.
‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 128: A story is related of a brigade of North Carolinians, who, in one of the great battles, (Chancellorsville, if I remember correctly) failed to hold a certain hill, and were laughed at by the Mississippians for having forgotten to tar their heels that morning. Hence originated their cant name, ‘Tar-heels.’.at tarheel, n.
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