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[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 155: ‘I tell ye,’ said Abe Bowles, ‘this ’ere’s goin’ to be a reel slam-bang, this ’ere is.’.
at slam-bang, n.
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 86: That Bill is sassy enough to physic a hornbug. I never see the beat of him.
at beat, n.2
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 20: Wal, now, this beats all!
at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 43: Jim Sawin said last night you was the brassiest man he ever see.
at brassy, adj.
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 24: He’s putty smart and chipper.
at chipper, adj.
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 304: She is [...] not one of the mere dolls that have no capability for anything but ribbons and laces.
at doll, n.1
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 122: Ef Zeph Higgins would jest shet up his gash in town-meetin’, that air school-house could be moved fast enough.
at gash, n.1
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 130: I’m tired o’ this ’ere quarrellin’ and jawin’.
at jawing, n.
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 131: ‘Je-ru-salem,’ he exclaimed, ‘ef you hain’t ben and done it!’.
at Jerusalem!, excl.
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 21: Oh, lands! he ain’t no more ’Piscopal than I be.
at landsakes! (excl.) under land, n.1
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 94: I’ll buy such clothes as I see fit, and if anybody don’t like it, why they may lump it.
at like it or lump it (v.) under lump, v.1
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 7: Little girls like you must go to bed early. They can’t be up ‘night-hawkin’, and goin’ round in the cold.
at nighthawk, v.
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 93: Straw bonnets were ‘nowhere.’ To have a Leghorn was the thing.
at nowhere, adj.
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 80: If any of them Democrats ‘sassed’ him he’d give ’em as good as they sent.
at sass (out), v.
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 24: You’d think [...] that he’d sing small at fust; but he don’t. Lordy massy, no! He comes right out with it that Parson Cushing ain’t no minister.
at sing small (v.) under sing, v.
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 155: Old snowball is on his high heels this morning—got a suit of the colonel’s old uniform.
at snowball, n.2
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 246: The old man’s awful cranky to-day. Reely seems as if he was a little bit sprung. I don’t know but he’s going crazy!
at sprung, adj.
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 92: That air Almiry Smith is a stuck-up thing.
at thing, n.
[US] H.B. Stowe Poganuc People 126: I tell ye Zeph’s screwed himself into a tight place now.
at tight, adj.
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