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Po’ Buckra choose

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[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] Shelby & Stoney Po’ Buckra 402: Worse than a nigger! I’m a brass-ankle.
at brass ankle (n.) under brass, adj.1
[US] Shelby & Stoney Po’ Buckra 97: I just came on da-own to say Ha-owdy-do.
at howdy do, phr.
[US] 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.
[US] Shelby & Stoney Po’ Buckra 178: I sarch dis country good; an’ widout Pompey Palmer, nobody wouldn’ serb.
at Pompey, n.
[US] Shelby & Stoney Po’ Buckra 255: Stepney, Quacco, Sambo, Dublin, Useful, that makes him the old woman’s great-great-grandfather.
at quaco, n.
[US] Shelby & Stoney Po’ Buckra 201: Purse looked well ahead; he was ‘schemey’.
at schemish (adj.) under scheme, v.
[US] 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
[US] Shelby & Stoney Po’ Buckra 22: Barty rode into Aunt ’Americky’s yard. [...] This was home.
at yard, n.2
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