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The Wabash choose

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[US] (con. 1820s) W.E. Wilson Wabash 225: I ain’t heared a real, honest-to-God, knock-down-an’-drag-out, repytation-blastin’ jaw-fest among good friends in a coon’s age.
at knock-down-(and)-drag-out, adj.
[US] (con. 1820s) W.E. Wilson Wabash 199: Shore kin, now! An’ outargufy ’em too!
at argufy, v.
[US] (con. 1920s) W.E. Wilson Wabash 294: The Bible-thumping preacher was there in those hillside gatherings.
at bible-thumper (n.) under bible, n.
[US] (con. 1820s) W.E. Wilson Wabash 203: ’Tain’t nothin’ but a little-bitty hand-horse mill.
at bitty, adj.
[US] (con. 1820s) W.E. Wilson Wabash 228: Abe had no taste for the blue ruin, the bug juice, or the moral suasion that was consumed in those days in great quantities.
at blue ruin (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] (con. 1820s) W.E. Wilson Wabash 224: An imitation of the new brimstone peddler at the Old Pigeon Hard-Shell Baptist Church.
at brimstone buster, n.
[US] (con. 1820s) W.E. Wilson Wabash 228: Abe had no taste for the blue ruin, the bug juice, [...] that was consumed in those days in great quantities.
at bug juice (n.) under bug, n.4
[US] (con. 1820s) W.E. Wilson The Wabash 225: I ain’t heared a real, honest-to-God, knock-down-an’-drag-out, reputation-blastin’ jaw-fest among good friends in a coon’s age.
at coon’s age (n.) under coon, n.
[US] (con. 1820s) W.E. Wilson Wabash 224: An imitation of the new brimstone peddler at the Old Pigeon Hard-Shell Baptist Church.
at hard-shell, adj.
[US] W.E. Wilson Wabash 187: Dunn, the historian [...] says that ‘hoosier’ was a slang word once used in the South to denote a ‘jay’ or ‘hayseed’.
at hoosier, n.
[US] (con. 1820s) W.E. Wilson Wabash 231: ‘Let’s git a hump on, Allen,’ Abe said; and the two boys dipped their oars deeper into the brown water.
at get a hump on (v.) under hump, n.1
[US] (con. 1820s) W.E. Wilson Wabash 225: I ain’t heared a real, honest-to-God, knock-down-an’-drag-out, repytation-blastin’ jaw-fest among good friends in a coon’s age.
at jawfest (n.) under jaw, n.
[US] W.E. Wilson Wabash 187: Dunn, the historian [...] says that ‘hoosier’ was a slang word once used in the South to denote a ‘jay’ or ‘hayseed’.
at jay, n.1
[US] (con. 1820s) W.E. Wilson Wabash 226: I know the state of Kaintuck runs to the low-water mark on the Indianny shore, yer honor.
at Kentuck, n.
[US] W.E. Wilson Wabash 318: The Wabash is [...] barefoot boys on country roads, with nigger-killers dangling from the pockets of their overalls and strings of ‘yeller catfish’ slung over their shoulders.
at nigger killer (n.) under nigger, n.1
[US] (con. 1820s) W.E. Wilson Wabash 224: The squirrels got into my pappy’s corn patch [...] afore he could shift his chaw to his other cheek an’ say ‘Skedaddle!’.
at skedaddle, v.
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