1884 (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 43: Towards daylight he crawled out again, drunk as a fiddler.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
1884 (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.
1884 (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.
1884 (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 325: We got to dig in like all git-out.at all get out, phr.
1884 (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.
1884 (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
1884 (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.
1884 (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.
1884 (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 236: It does beat all how neat the niggers played their hand.at beat, v.
1884 (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
1884 (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.
1884 (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.
1884 (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.
1884 (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
1884 (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
1884 (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
1884 (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
1884 (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.
1884 (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.
1884 (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.
1884 (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 135: We can just have booming times — they don’t have no school now.at booming, adj.
1884 (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.
1884 (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.
1884 (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
1884 (con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 338: So he said, now for the grand bulge!at bulge, n.
1884 (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
1884 (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.
1884 (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
1884 (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
1884 (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