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Old Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ choose

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[US] ‘Madison Tensas’ Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ (1850) 52: She tuk off her shoe, and the way a number ten go-to-meetin’ brogan commenced givin’ a hoss particular Moses, were a caution to hoss-flesh.
at bash the living Moses out of (v.) under bash, v.
[US] ‘Madison Tensas’ Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ (1850) 52: She tuk off her shoe, and the way a number ten go-to-meetin’ brogan commenced givin’ a hoss particular Moses, were a caution to hoss-flesh.
at brogan, n.
[US] ‘Madison Tensas’ Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ (1850) 136: It was the dog of a daddy on one hand, and the daddy of a dog on the other.
at daddy, n.
[US] ‘Madison Tensas’ Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ (1850) 181: You are the d--dest fool and coward unhung.
at damnedest (adj.) under damned, adj.
[US] ‘Madison Tensas’ Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ (1850) 162: I fear my eldest born has got – faugh! I sicken at the thought – the chill and fever!
at faugh!, excl.
[US] ‘Madison Tensas’ Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ (1850) 174: That war my wust enemy, waitin’ for me to giv him a finisher, an’ I cuddent git at him.
at finisher, n.
[US] ‘Madison Tensas’ Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ (1850) 153: She sunk rite down, an’ begun to siken awful; the cold fride collards began to come up in gobs.
at gob, n.2
[US] ‘Madison Tensas’ Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ (1850) 51: By gosh! but it war a quickener.
at by gosh! (excl.) under gosh!, excl.
[US] ‘Madison Tensas’ Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ (1850) 140: Love! h-ll!
at — hell!, excl.
[US] ‘Madison Tensas’ Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ (1850) 181: Gardens are a h-ll of a place to make love in.
at hell of a, a under hell, n.
[US] ‘Madison Tensas’ Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ (1850) 171: There is not a child, white, black, Injun, or nigger, from the Arkansas line to Trinity, but what has heard of me.
at Injun, adj.
[US] ‘Madison Tensas’ Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ (1850) 174: Vim! I tuck him over the head, and, cochunk, he keeled over.
at ker-, pfx
[US] ‘Madison Tensas’ Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ (1850) 146: He’s only been pupped ateen years.
at pup, v.
[US] ‘Madison Tensas’ Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ (1850) 150: Exclamations of [...] ‘Lordy grashus!’ and ‘Well, did you ever!’ and ‘You don’t say so!’.
at you don’t say under say, v.
[US] ‘Madison Tensas’ Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ (1850) 50: Crosh, cochunk! we all cum down like ’simmons arter frost.
at simmon, n.
[US] ‘Madison Tensas’ Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ (1850) 192: His face was hideous: a pair of tushes projected from either side of a double hair-lip.
at tash, n.
[US] ‘Madison Tensas’ Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ (1850) 71: As my uncle remarked [...] when the department gave him his walking papers.
at walking papers (n.) under walking, n.
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