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Tempest and Sunshine, or, Life in Kentucky choose

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[US] M.J. Holmes Tempest and Sunshine 93: Mebby if I’d known all you city buggers was comin’, I’d a kivered my bar feet.
at bugger, n.1
[US] M.J. Holmes Tempest and Sunshine 105: Tempest is in a desput hurry to know whether I’m goin’ to cash over and send her to market in New Orleans.
at cash, v.1
[US] M.J. Holmes Tempest and Sunshine 30: We don’t have any of your chicken fixings nor little three-cornered handkerchiefs laid out at each plate.
at chicken fixings (n.) under chicken, n.
[US] M.J. Holmes Tempest and Sunshine 162: He inwardly accused them all of being ‘doughheads’.
at dough-head (n.) under dough, n.
[US] M.J. Holmes Tempest and Sunshine 94: I’ve got such fetched big corns on my feet, that I ain’t goin’ to be cramped with none of your toggery.
at fetched, adj.
[US] M.J. Holmes Tempest and Sunshine 8: In the cabins we seen a bright light, and heard the niggers larfin like five hundred.
at like five hundred, adv.
[US] M.J. Holmes Tempest and Sunshine 21: What does she want of any more flummerdiddle notions?
at flummadiddle, n.
[US] M.J. Holmes Tempest and Sunshine 2: For a spell you can get on right smart, but then, again, you’ll go in co-slush!
at kerslosh! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] M.J. Holmes Tempest and Sunshine 40: Miss Kate warn’t sent to Kentuck for nothin’, and unless you’re a bigger loggerhead than I think you be, you’ll try to find out what she come for.
at loggerhead, n.
[US] M.J. Holmes Tempest and Sunshine 93: Tell her there’s heaps of folks here, and mind tell Judy to get us up a whalin dinner.
at whaling, adj.
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