1931 Shelby & Stoney Po’ Buckra 348: I always knew [...] that my boy’d get to be among the high mucky-mucks, an’ the big-bugs, an’ the bong-tongs.at high muck-a-muck, n.
1931 Shelby & Stoney Po’ Buckra 15: Roun’ here dey is four kinds o’ people. Two kind o’ white folks; quality-buckra, and po’ buckra – da’s crackers; all kind o’ colored folks – dem is all niggers.at backra, n.
1931 Shelby & Stoney Po’ Buckra 402: Worse than a nigger! I’m a brass-ankle.at brass ankle (n.) under brass, adj.1
1931 Shelby & Stoney Po’ Buckra 159: I leaned more about bein’ a soldier from watchin’ the way he walked around [...] than from anything that ninety-day wonder, Thompson, ever taught me.at ninety-day wonder (n.) under ninety, adj.
1931 Shelby & Stoney Po’ Buckra 178: I sarch dis country good; an’ widout Pompey Palmer, nobody wouldn’ serb.at Pompey, n.
1931 Shelby & Stoney Po’ Buckra 255: Stepney, Quacco, Sambo, Dublin, Useful, that makes him the old woman’s great-great-grandfather.at quaco, n.
1931 Shelby & Stoney Po’ Buckra 201: Purse looked well ahead; he was ‘schemey’.at schemish (adj.) under scheme, v.
1931 Shelby & Stoney Po’ Buckra 178: I eben study ’pon Tartown; but dat ebber was a den o’ t’iefs.at Tartown (n.) under tar, n.1
1931 Shelby & Stoney Po’ Buckra 22: Barty rode into Aunt ’Americky’s yard. [...] This was home.at yard, n.2