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The Big Bear of Arkansas and Other Sketches choose

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[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 21: You can now roll a barrel of whiskey into my yard in high water from a boat, as easy as falling off a log.
at easy as falling off a log, adj.
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 119: The bar don’t care a dam for nobody!
at not give a damn, v.
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 93: What on the Lord’s yearth young people now a days works and laces and befrils nite caps fur I can’t tell – it beets me.
at beats me! (excl.) under beat, v.
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 46: That animal after you ain’t a she one, and mine is – I know by its being so infernal artful. Ugh! you bitch!
at bitch, n.1
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 131: ‘Massa Chunkey is risin’,’ said Sol, and then he busted.
at bust, v.1
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 128: ‘What’s busted, Jem?’ ‘Hell has busted and no mistake! the ground is kivered with snow!’.
at busted, adj.1
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 72: There aint nobody round here kin make seed corn off o’ me at cards. I’m rale smart.
at corn, n.1
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 43: Don’t croak so, Tom, don’t. You’ll drive me mad with your cursed din.
at croak, v.1
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 62: How Simon Suggs ‘Raised Jack’ [title].
at cut up jack, v.
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 129: ‘Hurrah’ [...] says Jem, takin’ a drink and cuttin’ a few pigeon wings with his left leg.
at cut, v.3
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 77: You’ve got to look me right dead in the eye.
at dead, adv.
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 102: A little raggid orflin Boy, with nobody to patch his close torn behin a makin of a dicky-dicky-dout of himself.
at dicky-dido, n.
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 91: I had on my new wastecoat and a dicky bussam with ruffles on each side.
at dicky, n.1
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 91: Dod drot it, it went sorter hard.
at dod rot it! (excl.) under dod, n.1
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 89: Jerry [...] invited Quashey ‘to go up to the doggery and liquor’.
at doggery, n.1
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 95: It’s that drotted three day agur I cotch’d last fall.
at dratted, adj.
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 79: You sassy aig-sukkin’, roguish, gnatty, flop-eared varmint.
at lop-eared, adj.
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 79: You sassy aig-sukkin’, roguish, gnatty, flop-eared varmint.
at egg-sucking, adj.
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 98: Being sorter flusticated like, thinkin of that skrape, last time I was there [...] I didn’t notis perticlar where I sot.
at flusticate, v.
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 88: Oh, Jerry! Jerry! you’re a gone sucker.
at gone coon (n.) under gone, adj.1
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 52: The boss is clean gone, – stark mad.
at gone, adj.1
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 62: He lived with his father, an old ‘hard-shell’ Baptist preacher.
at hard-shell, n.
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 41: Who hollered? Which gave up?
at holler, v.
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 164: ’Way he’d go, and I arter – hot as h-ll, too.
at hot, adv.
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 126: He was breathin’ sorter hard, his eye set on the Governor, humpin’ himself on politics.
at hump, v.1
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 172: When he gets three sheets spred, and is tryin’ to unfarl the fourth, he can jist out-laugh the univarse.
at three sheets in the wind, phr.
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 124: Chunkey lathered away, and ca chunk! he went into the creek.
at kerchunk! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 37: To give him a white man’s chance, I proposed alternatives to him.
at white man’s chance (n.) under white man, n.
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 123: I knoed he were my meat without an accident.
at meat, n.
[US] W.T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas (1847) 135: I raised my arm, trimblin’ like a leaf, and says I, ‘Jem! – I’ll have your melt!’.
at melt, n.1
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