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[US] ‘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
[US] ‘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.
[US] ‘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
[US] ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 11: All my plans is busted up.
at busted, adj.1
[US] ‘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
[US] ‘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.
[US] 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.
[US] ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 30: They got into one of the hottest kind of argyments.
at hot, adj.
[US] ‘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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 76: Eight boxes for a levy.
at levy, n.
[US] ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 102: They was every one either drunk or crazy as loons.
at loon, n.1
[US] ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 112: Makin noise enuff to drive the very old Nick himself out of his senses.
at Old Nick, n.
[US] ‘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
[US] 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.
[US] ‘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.
[US] ‘Major Jones’ Sketches of Travel 147: You musn’t call the nigger waiters, boy, nor uncle, nor buck.
at uncle, n.
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