1848 ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 8: I’m gwine to [...] spend the summer until pickin time, nockin round in them big cities.at knock about, v.1
1848 ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 53: I ain’t much of a frenologist myself, or I’d go on and give you a full description of Uncle Sam’s knowledge-box.at knowledge box, n.
1848 ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 126: They say the people of Stunnington [...] live on fish so much that they smell like whale oil, and have scales on their backs. This may be a bug what they put on me.at bug, n.4
1848 ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 77: The little ragged cus [...] put his thum on his nose and wiggled his fingers at me. ‘Do you see anything green,’ ses he.at see any green (in my eye)? under green, n.1
1848 ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 146: The kinky-headed cuss looked at me sideways and rolled the whites of his eyes at me like he was gwine to have a fit of hidryfoby.at kinky-headed, adj.
1848 W.T. Thompson Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 137: The major’s got his high-heeled boots on tonight.at high-heeled shoes (v.) under high-heeled, adj.
1848 ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 30: They got into one of the hottest kind of argyments.at hot, adj.
1848 ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 12: They’d have her out of yer hands quicker’n you could say Jack Robinson.at before one can say Jack Robinson under Jack Robinson, n.
1848 W.T. Thompson Major Jones’s Sketches of Travel 156: I ax’d the captain what sort of a gigamaree he had got up thar for a flag?at jigamaree, n.
1848 W.T. Thompson Major Jones’s Sketches of Travel 8: The southern people [...] spend all their money in travelin and byin fineries and northern gigamarees.at jigamaree, n.
1848 W.T. Thompson Major Jones’s Sketches of Travel 64: I jerked the ladel, what was already runnin’ over, towards the middle spout, when kerslosh went the water all over my feet.at kerslosh! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
1848 ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 102: They was every one either drunk or crazy as loons.at loon, n.1
1848 ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 112: Makin noise enuff to drive the very old Nick himself out of his senses.at Old Nick, n.
1848 ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 25: Every now and then they’re ketchin up some green feller, and puttin him throo, as they call it.at put someone through (v.) under put, v.1
1848 W.T. Thompson Major Jones’s Sketches of Travel 117: I shucked out of my old clothes, and got into my new ones.at shuck down (v.) under shuck, v.
1848 ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 76: They was jest the same kind of boxes that we git two for a thrip in Georgia.at threp, n.
1848 ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 147: You musn’t call the nigger waiters, boy, nor uncle, nor buck.at uncle, n.