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[US] (con. 1850s) R. Bradford Kingdom Coming 114: Dat’s a-men-cornder tawk, gal.
at amen corner (n.) under amen, n.
[US] (con. 1860s) R. Bradford Kingdom Coming 164: It was just a matter of time until old Abe Lincoln would be pulling in his horns, the damned old blue-bellied nigger-lover.
at blue-bellied, adj.
[US] (con. 1860s) R. Bradford Kingdom Coming 289: Penny is de big stuff down at de hoo-doo place.
at big stuff (n.) under big, adj.
[US] (con. 1850s) R. Bradford Kingdom Coming 71: Son [...] you got de brass, all right.
at brass, n.1
[US] (con. 1850s) R. Bradford Kingdom Coming 41: My maw say a nigger woman which git mixed up wid a white man ain’t got no call bellyache efn he chilluns is bright.
at bright, adj.1
[US] (con. 1860s) R. Bradford Kingdom Coming 156: Everybody sat tense and stared buckeyed at the draped figure.
at buck-eyed, adj.
[US] (con. 1860s) R. Bradford Kingdom Coming 121: Dat boy a case! A lowdown case!
at case, n.1
[US] (con. 1860s) R. Bradford Kingdom Coming 192: Jest waitin’ for you to grow up and be a man, so’s I c’d dig out.
at dig out, v.
[US] (con. 1860s) R. Bradford Kingdom Coming 148: Well, what in hell’s fire you waitin’ on?
at what the hell...?, phr.
[US] (con. 1860s) R. Bradford Kingdom Coming 187: She gonter beat de Jesus outn me.
at beat the (living) Jesus out of (v.) under Jesus, n.
[US] (con. 1860s) R. Bradford Kingdom Coming 255: Efn I was skinnin’ dese jughaids over in Alabam’, I’d fix ’em up good.
at jughead, n.1
[US] (con. 1850s) R. Bradford Kingdom Coming 84: Hit ain’t but one sho-’nuff free and dat’s in heab’m.
at sho’ ’nuff, adv.
[US] (con. 1860s) R. Bradford Kingdom Coming 284: Now you drag on outn de yard or I’ll git you pro-vo’ed.
at provo, n.
[US] (con. 1860s) R. Bradford Kingdom Coming 263: De sergeant run you raggity do he ketch you wid a fire.
at run someone ragged (v.) under run, v.
[US] (con. 1850s) R. Bradford Kingdom Coming 71: Efn you tells de moster somethin’ de moster know already, hit ain’t no harm done and no skin offn yo’ sweet back.
at no skin off one’s nose under skin, n.1
[US] (con. 1860s) R. Bradford Kingdom Coming 129: Well, Sweet King Jesus! [...] ain’t you sad?
at sweet Jesus! (excl.) under sweet, adj.1
[US] (con. 1850s) R. Bradford Kingdom Coming 48: Efn I had me my free papers and a trashy Law put he hands on me, I’d make a behime at him and tell him to git on about his own.
at trashy, adj.
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