1945 Botkin Lay My Burden Down 117: They act up and say they don’t have to take off their hats in the white stores and such.at act up, v.
1945 Botkin Lay My Burden Down 48: All before that I is heard it gits you in bad.at get in bad (with) (v.) under bad, adj.
1945 Botkin Lay My Burden Down 86: When they got married on the places, mostly they just jumped over a broom and that made ’em married.at jump (over) the broomstick, v.
1945 Botkin Lay My Burden Down 133: There was a lot of bushwhacking all through that country by little groups of men.at bushwhack, v.
1945 (ref. to US Civil War) Botkin Lay My Burden Down 96: They had all their menfolks in the Confederate army [...] I seen lots of men in butternut clothes.at butternut (n.) under butter, n.1
1945 Botkin Lay My Burden Down 27: One which says I will and then won’t is a crawfish Christian.at crawfish, n.
1945 Botkin Lay My Burden Down 126: Lawsy me, it a wonder I ain’t the biggest drunker in this here country, counting all the toddy I done put in my young belly!at drunkie, n.
1945 Botkin Lay My Burden Down 85: I [...] was ’bout the most dudish nigger in them parts.at dudish (adj.) under dude, n.1
1945 Botkin Lay My Burden Down 229: Niggers come up from the cabins nappy-headed.at nappy-headed (adj.) under nappy head, n.
1945 Botkin Lay My Burden Down 30: That’s how the niggers say Old Bab Russ used to make the hoodoo hands he made for the young bucks and wenches.at hoodoo, adj.
1945 Botkin Lay My Burden Down 41: Every time us shake our tree [...] down come the ’simmons. [Ibid.] 66: ’Simmon beer was good in the cold freezing weather too.at simmon, n.