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Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 122: Say, you are getting too alfired smart.at all-fired, adv.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 122: Say, you are getting too alfired smart. Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 64: Well, I should say you had got it bad [...] Your getting in love will be a great thing for your Pa.at have (got) it bad (v.) under bad, adj.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 100: He has gone to drinking again, like a fish [...] he is now patronizing a barrel house down by the river.at barrelhouse, n.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 149: Come out here and bring in that kindling wood, or I will start a fire on your base-burner with this strap.at baseburner, n.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 39: ‘Well, that beats the devil,’ said the grocery man.at that beats the devil under beat, v.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 156: You are a high-toned, gentlemanly sort of a bilk.at bilk, n.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 40: If he got a hot box, and flew around mad, he was better out of church than in it. [Ibid.] 148: When [...] Pa found that I had not carried in the kindling wood, he had a hot box, and he told me if the wood was not in when he came back from the lodge, that he would warm my jacket.at hot box, n.1
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 91: Pa said [...] that there musn’t be no monkey business going on.at monkey business, n.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1893) 66: Pa said I was mistaken, cause they never prayed in circus, ’cept the lemonade butchers.at butcher, n.2
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 34: What kind of a circus have you been having, and what do you mean by destroying wine that way?at circus, n.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 123: My chum said if his Pa made such a circus of himself he would sandbag him.at circus, n.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 157: She kneeled down, but she corked herself.at cork, v.1
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 64: Pa looked at the dog and said, ‘Mad dog, by crimus!’.at crimast!, excl.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 25: Ma said [...] where is the huzzy, and a lot of things I couldn’t hear, and Pa said ‘damfino’.at damfino!, excl.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 41: ‘Religion be dashed,’ says Pa.at dash, v.1
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1893) 297: Ma’s mother used to warm her ears, and shake the daylights out of her.at beat the (living) daylight(s) out of (v.) under daylights, n.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 100: He has gone to drinking again, like a fish.at drink like a fish (v.) under drink, v.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 157: Polly got up on the perch, and as the minister got warmed up, and began to raise the roof, Polly said, ‘O, dry up’.at dry up, v.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 59: That’s the old duffer that sold me the bottle of brandy peaches at Chickamauga, for three dollars, and they eat a hole through my stummick.at duffer, n.1
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 36: If you was my boy and played any of your tricks on me, I would maul the everlasting life out of you.at everlasting, adj.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 48: Pa fanned the dust out of my pants.at fan, v.1
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 123: When Pa gets full, he gets so full his back teeth float, and the liquor crowds his eyes out.at full, adj.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1893) 263: You would pass in a colored prayer meeting, and no one would know you were galvanized.at galvanized, adj.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 69: Pa came to the door [...] I slapped him on the shoulder and shouted ‘Hello, Gov., how’s your liver?’.at gov, n.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1893) 251: Well, great Julius Caesar’s bald-headed ghost, what’s the matter with you?at great Caesar! (excl.) under great...!, excl.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 156: You are a high-toned, gentlemanly sort of a bilk.at high-tone, adj.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 159: He used to be a holy terror with the boxing gloves when he was a boy.at holy terror, n.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1893) 289: A sensitive soda jerker, who has reformed, feels that it is worse than three card monte.at jerker, n.1
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 96: It kerflummoxed Ma when I went into the dining room [,...] and broke Pa all up.at kerflummox, v.
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 159: I went [...] and got an Irish boy by the name of Duffy, who can knock the socks off any boy in the ward.at knock the socks off (v.) under knock, v.
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