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[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 101: No, nor I don’t care a cuss; so put off an’ don’t come yawpin’ round me!
at not care a curse, v.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 110: ‘I’m a poor, no ’count dyin’ man, Rose, but you’ll never —’ His voice choked a little and he did not finish the sentence.
at no-account, adj.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 8: A doggery of the regular old-fashioned, drink, gamble, rob and fight sort — a low place, known to all the hard bats in the State.
at bat, n.2
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 116: I stole him slicker ’n a eel. I had him ’fore he knowed it, and you jist better bet he was one clean beat conductor fore I was done wi’ ’im.
at beat, adj.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 57: Take the blamed ole shackemerack an’ all the cussed blue-birds an’ peerweers to boot, for all I keer!
at blame, adj.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 40: Blow the blasted luck!
at blow!, excl.1
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 39: Yes, sir, he’s got me! He’s about three lengths ahead o’ me, as these boss fellers says, an’ I don’t know but what I’m distanced.
at boss, adj.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 221: ‘By the way, who was that singing just now over in the saloon there?’ ‘Don’t know, didn’t hear ’em. Some of the boys, I s’pose.’.
at boys, the, n.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 116: Let him go on, he’ll give you a lively one. He’s a brick.
at brick, n.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 38: Her lip am sweet as sugah, / Her eye am bright as wine, / Dat yaller little boogah / Her name am Emiline.
at bugger, n.1
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 181: The country flared into flames of triumph. Blodgett’s friends stormed the village and ‘bully-ragged’ everybody who had stood out for the editor.
at bullyrag, v.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 117: I got onto a bum in Jacksonville and spent all my money and everything else but my very oldest suit o’ clothes and my pistol.
at on a/the bum under bum, n.4
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 35: It is quite probable that of all the unfortunate adventurers that day singed in the yellow fire of that expert gambler’s gold, Jack recognized himself as the most terribly burned.
at burn, v.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 34: ‘Hand me in the rag chips — gold don’t feel good to my fingers,’ answered Bill Powell, swaggering again and grasping the currency with a hand that shook with eagerness.
at chip, n.2
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 27: He’s a thief and a dog! – he’s chowzed me out’n my last cent!
at chouse, v.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 48: Dast the luck! Ding the prize package feller! Doggone Bill Powell! Blame the old b’loon! Dern everybody!
at darn, v.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 61: ‘Well I’m derned if ’taint quare,’ cried the latter.
at I’ll be darned! (excl.) under darn, v.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 21: Things is working dasted curious ’bout now.
at dasted, adv.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 48: Dast the luck! Ding the prize package feller! Doggone Bill Powell! Blame the old b’loon! Dern everybody!
at ding, v.2
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 125: When we got to Savanny I couldn’t help letting the conductor know me, so as I passed down the steps of the car I whispered savagely in his ear: ‘Ticket! dod blast you!’.
at dod, n.1
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 48: Dast the luck! Ding the prize package feller! Doggone Bill Powell! Blame the old b’loon! Dern everybody!
at doggone, v.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 149: I ha’n’t had any good duds for a long time, and I’m tired o’ lookin’ like a scarecrow made out’ a salt bag.
at duds, n.1
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 15: Berry Young stepped in and jist went for ’er like mad.
at go for, v.1
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 101: Shakin’ like forty — an’t ye, Zach?
at like forty, adv.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 14: A leetle more’n a year ago a gal and her father come here and stopped at this ’ere hotel.
at gal, n.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 118: I think I jumped as high as your head, stranger, and come down flat-footed onto a railroad cross tie. Whillikins, how I was scared!
at gee whillikins!, excl.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 174: The latter, a dapper Yankee, full of ‘get-up-and-snap,’ and alert to make way for his paper, measured the pedagogue at a glance.
at get-up, n.1
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 39: Yes, sir, he’s got me! He’s about three lengths ahead o’ me, as these boss fellers says, an’ I don’t know but what I’m distanced.
at get, v.
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 14: They seemed always to have gobs o’ money.
at gob, n.3
[US] M. Thompson Hoosier Mosaics 80: How could a young woman of such fine magnetic presence, and endowed with such genuine, instinctive purity of taste in everything else, bear the presence of a rough greenhorn like that?
at greenhorn, n.
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