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Sketches of the Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi choose

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[US] J.G. Baldwin Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 301: Well done, Tommy, here’s a V.; go, buck it off on a horse-race next Sunday, and we’ll go snooks.
at buck, v.2
[US] J.G. Baldwin Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 174: A big buck negro struck with all his might, with the back of an axe.
at buck nigger (n.) under buck, adj.1
[US] J.G. Baldwin Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 306: Hoot, man, what are you making all that how-de-do for?
at how-do-you-do, n.1
[US] J.G. Baldwin Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 308: The doggery-keepers got to sellin’ licker by the drink, instead of the half-pint, and a dime a drink at that.
at doggery, n.1
[US] J.G. Baldwin Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 42: She never had more than a thimbleful of brains in her doll-baby head .
at doll baby (n.) under doll, n.1
[US] J.G. Baldwin Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 302: At five years of age, they follow their fathers around to the dram-shops, and get drunk on the heel-taps.
at heeltap, n.
[US] J.G. Baldwin Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 193: Jonas was prodigal in the jaw-work.
at jaw-work (n.) under jaw, n.
[US] J.G. Baldwin Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 149: Blass, did you ever hear of my telling a lie? No, not by a jug-full. Blass, ain’t I an hones’ man?
at by a jugful under jug, n.1
[US] J.G. Baldwin Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 325: We took Jefferson with us, in the recess of court, over to a place of departed spirits [...] we mean, an evacuated doggery, grocery or juicery.
at juicery, n.
[US] J.G. Baldwin Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 310: You must mash Sam Boyd and Jo Holt into Scotch snuff; and you’ll do it, too.
at mash, v.
[US] J.G. Baldwin Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 120: I’ll enter a nolly prossy q. One hundred dollars and fifty better! Jewhellikens!.
at nolle pross, v.
[US] J.G. Baldwin Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 307: We settled it in the old way: I had my rifle, and I plugged him fust.
at plug, v.1
[US] J.G. Baldwin Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 287: It was [...] Sir William Blackstone, whom he regarded as ‘something between a sneak and a puke’.
at puke, n.1
[US] J.G. Baldwin Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 301: Well done, Tommy, here’s a V.; go, buck it off on a horse-race next Sunday, and we’ll go snooks.
at go snack(s) (v.) under snack, n.1
[US] J.G. Baldwin Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 174: Squire Moseley vamosed and left Luke to get a judgment.
at vamoose, v.
[US] J.G. Baldwin Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi 11: All the V’s and X’s of ten years’ hard practice, went into that penful of ink.
at X, n.2
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