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Bill Arp 46: Did you suppose it was going to take a year to whip a parcel of blue-bellied Yankees? They knew who was coming after their codfish.at blue-bellied, adj.
Bill Arp 46: Did you suppose it was going to take a year to whip a parcel of blue-bellied Yankees? They knew who was coming after their codfish. Bill Arp 42: Blame his old hide of him; I’ll bet he don’t appear at Savannah, not him.at blame, v.
Bill Arp 72: The dog wasn’t so blame fat as you might suppose. I’ll be darn’d if he didn’t starve to death.at blame, adv.
Bill Arp 129: The very day I got there, everlastin blast ’em, the Wilson raiders got there too.at blast, v.1
Bill Arp 19: Mr. Lincoln, sir, privately speaking, I’m afraid I’ll get in a tight place here among these bloods, and have to slope out of it.at blood, n.1
Bill Arp 136: I’ve had my breeches died blue, and I’ve bot a blue bucket, and I very often feel blue, and about twice in a while I go to the doggery and git blue.at blue, adj.1
Bill Arp 87: General Johnston was retreating, and the bluenosed Yankees were to pollute our sacred soil the next morning.at blue-nosed, adj.
Bill Arp 136: I’ve had my breeches died blue, and I’ve got a blue bucket, and I very often feel blue, and about twice in a while I go to the doggery and git blue.at blue, adj.2
Bill Arp 78: To rot in some thicket, far, far away, where ghosts and boogers go dodging around.at booger, n.2
Bill Arp 69: It’s good Buncombe to have a scape-goat!at bunkum, n.
Bill Arp 48: Dad burn old Brown. What security has a man got for his liberty?at dad-burn, v.
Bill Arp 162: If they had held out the hand of fellowship, we would have made friends and buried the hatchet.at bury the hatchet (v.) under bury, v.
Bill Arp 116: The Confederate cavalry can fight ’em, and dog ’em, and dodge ’em, and bushwhack ’em, and bedevil ’em, for a thousand years.at bushwhack, v.
Bill Arp 21: Me and the boys started last May to see you personally [...] but we got on a bust in old Virginia, about the 21st of July.at on a bust under bust, n.
Bill Arp 118: Ike was at home on a busting furlow.at busting, adj.1
Bill Arp 118: He rode up to the militia and pulling out his repeater, exclaimed, with uncommon gravity, ‘Lay down, meelish, I am going to bust this cap’.at bust a cap (v.) under cap, n.2
Bill Arp 54: Then suddenly pokes its head out like a catawampus and says, Booh!at catawampus, n.
Bill Arp 145: Poor Tennessee! I golly, didn’t she catch it!at catch it (v.) under catch, v.1
Bill Arp 172: Marks ses, ‘Now, sir, you will take the stand and translate this Latin into English, so that the court may understand it.’ Well, he jest caved, for he couldn’t do it.at cave, v.
Bill Arp 143: Mr. Johnson ain’t got no more respect for ’em than I have. We want to trade ’em off. By hoky, we’ll give two of ’em for one copperhead, and ax nothin to boot.at copperhead, n.
Bill Arp 48: I knew the contemptible curse had a substitute in the army himself.at cuss, n.1
Bill Arp 161: We resolved to cut loose from ’em, and paddle our own canoo.at cut loose, v.
Bill Arp 158: Any man found guilty of treason ought to be talked to by a preacher right under a gallows, and then be allowed to stand on nothing for a few hours.at dance on nothing (v.) under dance, v.
Bill Arp 158: Any man found guilty of treason ought to be talked to by a preacher right under a gallows, and then be allowed to stand on nothing for a few hours.at dance upon nothing (v.) under dance, v.
Bill Arp 42: Durn the staff and Joe Brown too.at darn, v.
Bill Arp 18: I tried my darn’dst yesterday to disperse and retire, but it was no go.at darnedest (adj.) under darned, adj.
Bill Arp 42: One day might be while enough for my daylights to be shelled out.at daylights, n.
Bill Arp 68: My daddy sold goods on credit [...] and when a customer run away, he used to codicil his name with ‘G.T.A.,’ gone to Arkansaw. What a power of dead heads must have roosted in them woods on the other side of Jordan!at deadhead, n.
Bill Arp 41: How in the dickens can Joe Brown reduce a Major to a private, when he hasn’t done any thing?at dickens, the, phr.
Bill Arp 101: Durned if I’ll leave these diggings.at diggings, n.
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