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[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 57: That big bull-headed Goddard getting his muscle up on salt junk and crackers!
at bullheaded, adj.
[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 57: I say ‘Bully for them’.
at bully for —! (excl.) under bully, adj.1
[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 57: That big bull-headed Goddard getting his muscle up on salt junk and crackers!
at junk, n.1
[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 56: What I want to see done is, that if Baltimore makes any farther resistance to the passage of troops through her streets, that bloody ‘Plug Ugly’ city cleaned up!
at plug-ugly, n.
[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 56: I’ve been steaming on here at what is sometimes termed ‘a great grist’.
at steam, v.2
[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 66: There are any amount of darkies coming into camp here every day.
at darkie, n.
[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 66: These Northern contractors & politicians want fat offices and fat jobs by & by.
at fat, adj.
[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 95: A knowing leer to his eye & an extremely niggerish grin lurking about his mouth.
at niggerish (adj.) under nigger, n.1
[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 95: Tom was a ‘right smart boy’.
at right, adv.
[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 62: He is faithful & honest as the sun, smart, spunky, yet respectful & quiet.
at spunky, adj.
[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 67: If I was out of the army, I wouldn’t stir a peg to enlist.
at stir one’s stumps (v.) under stir, v.
[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 63: One was looking under the Bed to take the value of the thunder jug.
at thundermug (n.) under thunder, n.
[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 192: I have been much amused by attending some of their shouts or religious dances – in which they form a ring singing and dancing for hours.
at shout, n.
[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 153: You must not care what they say just keep cool and they will get sick of blowing after a while.
at blow, v.1
[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 152: I was in hopes you would keep on the right side of her you know that when she gets a little miff against anyone she will go to all lengths.
at miffed, adj.
[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 153: I told him to dry up or I would smash his mug for him.
at mug, n.1
[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 153: He said that he had heard that you was sasaing [sic] around all sorts with any one you could get a chance to.
at sashay, v.
[US] letter in Silber & Sievens Yankee Correspondence (1996) 153: You must not care what they say just keep cool and they will get sick of blowing after a while [...] if I live to come home they will not dare to spout on us.
at spout off (v.) under spout, v.1
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