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[US] H.E. Taliaferro Fisher’s River 33: A mountain ‘boomer’, dressed in a linsey hunting shirt.
at boomer, n.3
[US] (ref. to 1820s) ‘Skitt’ Fisher’s River 72: I [...] jerked out old Butch [HDAS].
at butch, n.1
[US] H.E. Taliaferro Fisher’s River 39: Mosey! Trollop! Git out’n here, you dinged old sloomy Yahoo!
at dinged, adj.
[US] ‘Skitt’ Fisher’s River 254: So ongentlemanly dog-drunk.
at dog-drunk (adj.) under dog, adv.
[US] (con. 1820s) Taliaferro Fisher’s River 204: But I was mad as flugence.
at flugens, n.
[US] H.E. Taliaferro Fisher’s River 171: His ‘Sunday go-to-meetin’’ hat is an old-fashioned, smooth, bell-crowned fur hat.
at Sunday go-to-meeting, adj.
[US] (con. 1820s) ‘Skitt’ Fisher’s River 52: Here’s at you, sir. What bizness have you on my grit? [HDAS].
at grit, n.2
[US] H.E. Taliaferro Fisher’s River 47: I’ll show him I’m a huckleberry over his ’simmons, sartin.
at huckleberry above persimmon under huckleberry, n.
[US] H.E. Taliaferro Fisher’s River 33: Our Stewart’s Creek hero ‘moseyed’ off, ‘three sheets in the breeze.’.
at three sheets in the wind, phr.
[US] H.E. Taliaferro Fisher’s River 33: Our Stewart’s Creek hero ‘moseyed’ off, ‘three sheets in the breeze’.
at mosey, v.
[US] H.E. Taliaferro Fisher’s River 60: At last the spell were broke, and I moseyed home at an orful rate .
at mosey, v.
[US] H.E. Taliaferro Fisher’s River 35: The first idea that entered his ‘noggin’ was that he was in a general ‘still-house’ fight.
at noggin, n.1
[US] H.E. Taliaferro Fisher’s River 46: I want to talk all night with you on Scripter, I’ve hearn you was a reg’lar built screamer in that way, and I want to try my hand with you.
at screamer, n.
[US] H.E. Taliaferro Fisher’s River 31: Ha! boys let’s take some uv the knock-’em-stiff, fur I can’t half talk to these gentlemen candidates till I’m ’bout half slewed.
at half-slewed (adj.) under slewed, adj.
[US] H.E. Taliaferro Fisher’s River 31: Ha! boys let’s take some uv the knock-’em-stiff, fur I can’t half talk to these gentlemen candidates till I’m ’bout half slewed.
at knock-’em-stiff (n.) under stiff, adj.
[US] (con. 1820s) ‘Skitt’ Fisher’s River 18: A rifle, a shot-pouch [...] and an article they dubbed ‘knock-’em-stiff’ were of vastly more importance than ‘larnin’’.
at knock-’em-stiff (n.) under stiff, adj.
[US] H.E. Taliaferro Fisher’s River 39: Mosey! Trollop! Git out’n here, you dinged old sloomy Yahoo!
at yahoo, n.1
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