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[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 43: Towards daylight he crawled out again, drunk as a fiddler.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn (2001) 81: Steamboat captains is always rich [...] and they don’t care a cent what a thing costs.
at not care a cent, v.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 348: Spos’n he can’t fix that leg in just three shakes of a sheep’s tail, as the saying is?
at two shakes of a lamb’s tail, phr.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 325: We got to dig in like all git-out.
at all get out, phr.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn (2001) 264: In about a half an hour they was as thick as thieves again.
at ...thieves under thick as..., adj.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn (2001) 241: Then you come out and spread the news around, and get these beats jailed.
at beat, n.3
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn (2001) 345: We cruised along up-shore till we got kind of tired and beat out.
at beat, adj.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn (2001) 254: The lawyer looked powerful astonished, and says: ‘Well, it beats me.’.
at beats me! (excl.) under beat, v.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 236: It does beat all how neat the niggers played their hand.
at beat, v.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 204: When he’d take off his new white beaver and make a bow and do a smile, he looked that grand and good and pious.
at beaver, n.1
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 99: Blame it, I’d sorter begun to think you wasn’t. [Ibid.] 27: Why, blame it all, we’ve got to do it.
at blame it!, excl.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 68: ‘You wouldn’ tell on me ef I uz to tell you, would you, Huck?’ ‘Blamed if I would, Jim.’.
at blame, v.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 213: So the king he blatted along, and managed to inquire about pretty much everybody and dog in town.
at blat, v.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 51: I judged he would be blind drunk in about an hour.
at blind drunk (adj.) under blind, adv.1
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 256: Well, I never see anything like that old blister for clean out-and-out cheek.
at blister, n.1
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 199: Henry the Eight [...] He was a blossom. He used to marry a new wife every day, and chop off her head next morning.
at blossom, n.1
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 225: I says to myself, shall I go to that doctor, private, and blow on these frauds?
at blow, v.1
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 161: He had an old long-tailed blue jeans coat with slick brass buttons flung over his arm.
at long-tail blue, n.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 269: No-sirree-bob, they ain’t no trouble ’bout that speculation, you bet you.
at no siree (bob)!, excl.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 85: Next day back comes old Finn, and went boo-hooing to Judge Thatcher to get money to hunt for the nigger.
at boohoo, v.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 135: We can just have booming times — they don’t have no school now.
at booming, adj.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 304: I called it borrowing, because that was what pap always called it; but Tom said it warn’t borrowing, it was stealing.
at borrow, v.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 274: When we see the raft was gone, and we flat broke, there wasn’t anything for it but to try the Royal Nonesuch another shake.
at flat broke, adj.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 40: Starchy clothes — very. You think you’re a good deal of a big-bug, don’t you?
at big bug (n.) under bug, n.1
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 338: So he said, now for the grand bulge!
at bulge, n.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 235: The old fool he bulled right along, spite of all the duke could say or do.
at bull, v.1
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 329: Well, then, let it go, let it go, if you’re so bullheaded about it.
at bullheaded, adj.
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn (2001) 97: I’d take en bust him over de head — dat is, if he warn’t white.
at bust, v.1
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 31: It wasn’t anything but a Sunday-school picnic [...] We busted it up and chased the children up the hollow.
at bust, v.1
[US] (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn (2001) 215: It most busted them, but they made up the six thousand clean and clear.
at bust, v.1
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