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‘Fighting Ben’ in Mss. from the Federal Writers’ Project 🌐 Well, sir, that old alley bat came within an inch of spitting that gob of snuff amber in my face. She made me so mad I saw red.at alley bat (n.) under alley, n.1
‘Fighting Ben’ in Mss. from the Federal Writers’ Project 🌐 Well, sir, that old alley bat came within an inch of spitting that gob of snuff amber in my face. She made me so mad I saw red. ‘Fighting Ben’ in Mss. from the Federal Writers’ Project 🌐 Well, sir, that old alley bat came within an inch of spitting that gob of snuff amber in my face.at amber, n.
Guide TN 134: A gossip is a bone carrier.at bone-carrier (n.) under bone, n.1
‘Small Town Life’ in Mss. from the Federal Writers’ Project 🌐 Slang phrases I remember are pretty much the same today. Although we never used nearly as many as they do now: Golly dingit, Gosh darnit [...] Carnsarn it.at consarn, v.
‘Fighting Ben’ in Mss. from the Federal Writers’ Project 🌐 I took it upon myself, while the old alley bat cussed me, to walk through that house and drag out, piece by piece, our furniture.at cuss, v.
‘Fighting Ben’ in Mss. from the Federal Writers’ Project 🌐 The more it rained, the more the grass grew, and the more the weevil came. But it made no difference with the dern niggers and their wants.at darn, adj.
‘Small Town Life’ in Mss. from the Federal Writers’ Project 🌐 Slang phrases I remember are pretty much the same today. Although we never used nearly as many as they do now: Golly dingit, Gosh darnit.at gosh-darn, v.
‘Small Town Life’ in Mss. from the Federal Writers’ Project 🌐 Slang phrases I remember are pretty much the same today. Although we never used nearly as many as they do now: Golly dingit, Gosh darnit.at ding, v.2
‘Pedro and Estrella’ in the Folklore Project, Federal Writers’ Project, 1936–1940 🌐 I suggest a cafe of some sort — anywhere we can dance and buy drinks. ‘You don’t mean a jook joint, do you?’ Estrella asks. ‘Jooking is for unmarried men.’ ‘That’s what you think,’ replies Pedro, ‘plenty married men go jooking.’ ‘I know they do, but that’s not so good.’ ‘You don’t know what jooking means. Jooking means having a good time anywhere, drinking and dancing. We go somewhere nice.’.at juke, v.3
‘Pedro and Estrella’ in the Folklore Project, Federal Writers’ Project, 1936–1940 🌐 I suggest a cafe of some sort — anywhere we can dance and buy drinks. ‘You don’t mean a jook joint, do you?’ Estrella asks. ‘Jooking is for unmarried men.’ ‘That’s what you think,’ replies Pedro, ‘plenty married men go jooking.’ ‘I know they do, but that’s not so good.’ ‘You don’t know what jooking means. Jooking means having a good time anywhere, drinking and dancing. We go somewhere nice.’.at juke, v.2
‘Pedro and Estrella’ in the Folklore Project, Federal Writers’ Project, 1936–1940 🌐 I suggest a cafe of some sort — anywhere we can dance and buy drinks. ‘You don’t mean a jook joint, do you?’ Estrella asks. ‘Jooking is for unmarried men.’ ‘That’s what you think,’ replies Pedro, ‘plenty married men go jooking.’ ‘I know they do, but that’s not so good.’ ‘You don’t know what jooking means. Jooking means having a good time anywhere, drinking and dancing.’.at juke, n.1
‘Fighting Ben’ in Mss. from the Federal Writers’ Project 🌐 ‘Have you receipts to prove your claim?’ I asked. Yes, jist like this: ‘kerdap,’ she spit at me.at kerdap! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
‘Fighting Ben’ in Mss. from the Federal Writers’ Project 🌐 A fellow tried to scare my horse while I was on my way to Edgefield. I jumped on him at the courthouse and was giving him the one-two when a friend stopped me.at one-two, n.
‘Fighting Ben’ in Mss. from the Federal Writers’ Project 🌐 He was ‘quick on the trigger,’ he said. He meant that he often resorted to the use of his fist, rather than arbitration, in the settlement of an argument.at quick on the draw under quick, adj.
‘Villa Alexandria . . . 1870’ in Mss. from the Federal Writers’ Project 🌐 One of my boyhood friends here was Allan Greeley, son of old man Greeley, superintendent of the old Newman Street Presbyterian Sunday School, who had been sitting on his stumps waiting for something to happen in Jacksonville for many years.at stumps, n.
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