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[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 465: Shit a brick, how am I going to give him any blood?
at shit a brick!, excl.
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 425: This really grim, interior, tight-assed stuff I’d done [...] was work I really couldn’t be proud of.
at tight-arsed, adj.
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 320: Cass felt gladly shut of the blabber-mouthed bird.
at blabbermouth, adj.
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 402: A buck assed marine private from Columbus County N.C.
at buck-assed (adj.) under buck, n.1
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 401: It will I pray, prevail [...] Lest old Cass go bug house & bring down his abode.
at go bughouse (v.) under bughouse, adj.1
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 65: That great blond bundle of Mason’s.
at bundle, n.1
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 67: Christ on a bleeding toboggan!
at Christ on a bike! (excl.) under Christ, n.
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 439: He looked absolutely clobbered.
at clobber, v.2
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 438: You’d have thought Mason had been cold-cocked with a wrench.
at cold-cock, v.
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 79: Lemme explain, dollbaby.
at doll baby (n.) under doll, n.1
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 97: Wendy doesn’t want another drinkle.
at drinkie, n.
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 374: Where do you think I learned them, you dumb bunny.
at dumb bunny (n.) under dumb, adj.1
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 416: All solemn and standing stiff and straight in cheap Sunday-go-to-meeting.
at Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes (n.) under Sunday go-to-meeting, adj.
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 316: Good gravy, Cass!
at good gravy! (excl.) under good, adj.1
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 204: So it’s lowbrow diddling [...] A cheap smelly roll in the hay.
at roll in the hay, n.
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 301: A drunk argument with Poppy [...] left me feeling miserable and guilty as all hell.
at as hell (adv.) under hell, n.
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 413: ‘Hump it, boy.’ Cass humped it.
at hump it (v.) under hump, v.1
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 300: About as graceful as some swab jockey on liberty.
at swab jockey, n.
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 402: A couple of mackeral-snappers.
at mackerel-snapper (n.) under mackerel, n.
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 317: ‘Go peel a grape!’ Slam!
at go peddle your fish! (excl.) under peddle, v.
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 472: I don’t make the rules. Uncle Sambo makes the rules.
at Uncle Sam, n.1
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 179: How could he reject this haute cuisine in favor of Carole’s slumgullion.
at slumgullion, n.
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 242: He got up [...] swearing like a Turk.
at turk, n.1
[US] W. Styron Set This House on Fire 408: Well, dreams, you know. I never put much stock in them. [...] those naval wig pickers in San Francisco used to try and worm a few of them out of me.
at wig-picker (n.) under wig, n.2
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