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[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 Me, mebbe Ah ain’t so all-fiahed perfect.
at all-fired, adv.
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 Even if they recognized Loney’s clothes and crowbait cayuse.
at crow-bait, n.
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 Yo’re blamed whistlin’ he was, Trig!
at blame, adv.
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 A big buckaroo with a shock of yellow hair.
at buckaroo, n.
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 Leastwise, leave me my cayuse.
at cayuse, n.
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 The big yellow-haired puncher [...] was uncoiling a lariat from his saddle horn.
at cow-puncher, n.
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 What yuh so danged slow fur?
at danged, adv.
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 I’ll take [...] the double-eagle he stole from me.
at eagle, n.2
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 It was the law of the West to ask a stranger to light and line his flue with chuck.
at flue, n.1
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 Pop’s elderly wife had [...] run after the gunny, escaping a wild bullet.
at gunny, n.1
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 My hawglaig won’t have no cartridges in it when I passes it over.
at hogleg, n.
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 Hustle up, thar! [...] What yuh so danged slow fur?
at hustle, v.
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 Jest leather it [i.e. a meal] intuh yuh.
at leather, v.
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 Clay Barton didn’t like the looks of the ranny.
at ranny, n.1
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 The big ranny was as ringy as a worried steer.
at ringy, adj.
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 Yo’re shore a right good feller, pard, ter let a pore saddle tramp dig inter yore grub.
at saddle tramp (n.) under saddle, n.
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 ‘Off with ’em, Loney! Start with the sky-piece.’ Loney dropped the gray Stetson to the ground.
at sky-piece (n.) under sky, n.1
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 He had taken [...] all his ammunition, saddle, bridle, reata, braided stake rope, his soogans and tarp.
at sugan, n.
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 What in tarnashun’s the —.
at tarnation, n.
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 The young waddy felt the two guns poked in his back.
at waddie, n.
[US] B. Conlon ‘Rope Meat’ Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 This younker’s tellin’ the truth, is my guess.
at younker, n.
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