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in Treasury Amer. Folklore (1944) I 8: Davy Crockett’s hand would be sure to shake if his iron was pointed within a hundred mile of a *shemale.at she-male, n.
in Treasury Amer. Folklore (1944) I 8: Davy Crockett’s hand would be sure to shake if his iron was pointed within a hundred mile of a *shemale. in Treasury Amer. Folklore (1944) 349: Whar’s big butch little butch, ole case, cob-handle, granny’s knife and the one I handled yesterday!at butch, n.1
Amer. Lumberman in Botkin (1944) 33: But Joe the Cook, a French Canuck.at Canuck, n.
Amer. Lumberman in Botkin (1944) 33: He come to camp expectin’ he / Would get from Bunyan the G.B.at get the g.b. (v.) under g.b., n.1
Amer. Lumberman in Botkin (1944) 33: It is the meat, / The pie and sinkers.at sinker, n.2
in Treasury Amer. Folklore (1944) 430: I can’t say so bodaciously much for it.at bodaciously, adv.
Bowleg Bill in Botkin (1944) 11–18: The crimp would accost his prey in the pulparee, buy him a few drinks, and then slip him a dose of knockout drops.at crimp, n.2
Bowleg Bill in Botkin (1944) 21–28: Well, you got to know how to gaff ’em in. Hoss-mackereling is no business for a green hand.at gaff, v.1
Bowleg Bill in Botkin (1944) 21–8: We ain’t taking on no greenies.at greenie, n.1
Bowleg Bill in Botkin (1944) 11–18: Git aloft there, ye swill-sotted son of a sarpint.at swill, n.
in Botkin Treasury of Amer. Folk 541: It was goodbye crapping a smoke or drinking a rest.at crap a smoke (v.) under crap, v.2
A Treasury of Amer. Folklore 809: Fair maid, pretty maid, / Give your hand to me, / I’ll show you a blackbird, / A blackbird on the tree.at blackbird, n.2
A Treasury of Amer. Folklore 129: He comes [...] with a blue steel in his hand.at blue-steel (n.) under blue, adj.1
A Treasury of Amer. Folklore 322: Pineywoods tackies, hill-billies, dirt-eaters, clay-eaters.at clay-eater (n.) under clay, n.
A Treasury of Amer. Folklore 29: So I combobbolated on the subject and at last I resisted that I would expluntificate my passions by axletrissity.at combobbolate, v.
A Treasury of Amer. Folklore 322: Something, too, of the conservative’s distrust of the pioneer and ‘coonskin’ democracy enters into the treatment of backwoods hospitality.at coonskin, n.
A Treasury of Amer. Folklore 571: ‘Little pig, big pig, root, hog or die,’ was a trite saying current some years ago in the daily press. It was used to express the certainty that human life depended on personal exertion.at root, hog or die, v.
A Treasury of Amer. Folklore 322: Pineywoods tackies, hill-billies, dirt-eaters, clay-eaters.at dirt-eater (n.) under dirt, n.
in A Treasury of Amer. Folklore 25: The way he [...] wiped his red tongue about was elegantifferously greedy.at elegantifferously, adv.
(ref. to 1849) A Treasury of Amer. Folklore 836: ‘Oh the hog-eye man is all the go / When he comes down to San Francisco.’ [...] Another negro shanty which has no connection with the cotton trade is ‘The Hog-Eye Man,’ which dates from the days of the ‘forty-niners’ in California.at hog-eye man (n.) under hog-eye, n.
A Treasury of Amer. Folklore 836: Oh, the hog-eye man is all the go / When he comes down to San Francisco.at all the go (adj.) under go, n.1
A Treasury of Amer. Folklore 585: I loadened up, and moseyed off.at mosey, v.
A Treasury of Amer. Folklore 592: How fast I did pike for home.at pike, v.1
A Treasury of Amer. Folklore 589: I got him down, and that’s ’nuff fur sich pukes as you ter know.at puke, n.1
A Treasury of Amer. Folklore 318: Early Californians christened as ‘Pukes’ the immigrants from Missouri, declaring they had been vomited forth from that prolific state.at puke, n.1
A Treasury of Amer. Folklore 591: It were a whaler.at whaler, n.1
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