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[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 144: Paris couldn’t give two shits.
at not give a shit, v.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 27: Hot as a forty balled tomcat.
at ...a fresh-fucked fox in a forest fire under hot as..., adj.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 79: Looks like Linton’s coming this way with an army of Bible-thumpers.
at bible-thumper (n.) under bible, n.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 180: That’s for cherrywood and birch [...] Pine’s cheap as ticks.
at cheap as ticks (adj.) under cheap, adj.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 79: Jesus H. Christ on a raft.
at Christ on a crutch! (excl.) under Christ, n.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 79: Jesus H. Christ on a raft.
at Jesus H. Christ!, excl.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 36: That fartface gave me a spiritual ulcer.
at fart-face, n.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 77: Roxy threw every gut-busting exercise he could at the kid.
at gut-buster (n.) under gut, n.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 70: Have you got a wild hair up your ass, or what, girl?
at have a (wild) hair up one’s ass (v.) under hair, n.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 78: A pounding at the back door scared her. ‘Goddamit!’ [...] ‘Who in fucking red hell is it?’.
at who in hell...?, phr.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 216: Linton Ray, high in his pulpit, pinch-hit for God.
at pinch hit, v.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 94: ‘Do you ever get homesick, Karel?’ ‘No; do you?’ ‘For that jerkwater town in eastern Alabama? I’d have to be nuts to go back there.’.
at jerkwater town (n.) under jerkwater, adj.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 184: I went to a party last week, kid stuff.
at kid stuff, n.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 70: ‘Why are you singing the blues?’ ‘More like the mean reds, really.’.
at mean reds (n.) under mean, adj.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 66: ‘Nifty beans,’ Athena said, ‘No slang in this house, miss.’ Ada frowned.
at nifty!, excl.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 28: What’s that pissant up to now?
at pissant, n.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 58: He died in the saddle.
at in the saddle (adj.) under saddle, n.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 28: That old reverend is a slyboots.
at slyboots (n.) under sly, adj.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 43: Isn’t it my inalienable right as an American citizen to get snookered?
at snockered, adj.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 185: ‘What havoc do you intend to wreak tonight?’ [...] ‘A stag party.’.
at stag party (n.) under stag, adj.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 132: I’d be sick, too, if I drank the swill he does.
at swill, n.
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 141: This prohibition victory puffs him up, the tick.
at tick, n.2
[US] R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 124: Willy Patterson called me a zebra today [...] he said I was half white and half black.
at zebra, n.
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