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Lay My Burden Down choose

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[US] 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.
[US] Botkin Lay My Burden Down 160: Massa Black was awful cruel.
at awful, adv.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] Botkin Lay My Burden Down 133: There was a lot of bushwhacking all through that country by little groups of men.
at bushwhack, v.
[US] Botkin Lay My Burden Down 210: I been busting I was so mad.
at bust, v.1
[US] (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
[US] Botkin Lay My Burden Down 27: One which says I will and then won’t is a crawfish Christian.
at crawfish, n.
[US] Botkin Lay My Burden Down 121: I was plenty biggity and liked to cut a step.
at cut, v.3
[US] 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.
[US] Botkin Lay My Burden Down 85: I [...] was ’bout the most dudish nigger in them parts.
at dudish (adj.) under dude, n.1
[US] Botkin Lay My Burden Down 229: Niggers come up from the cabins nappy-headed.
at nappy-headed (adj.) under nappy head, n.
[US] Botkin Lay My Burden Down 107: The lead row nigger holler, ‘Hold up!’.
at holler, v.
[US] 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.
[US] Botkin Lay My Burden Down 30: The way that gal lam me across the head was a caution!
at lam, v.1
[US] 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.
[US] Botkin Lay My Burden Down 68: The Yankee stole out and tore up a scandalous heap.
at tear up, v.
[US] Botkin Lay My Burden Down 230: You all free [...] We don’t whup you no more.
at whup, v.
[US] Botkin Lay My Burden Down 161: The biscuits was yum, yum, yum to me.
at yum!, excl.
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