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[US] ‘Practical Jokes & Bad Liquor’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 134: Yes, Judge, drunk as a fool, and forty times as stupid.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] ‘How Sally Hooter Got Snake-Bit’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 67: Forth sallied Mike with a ‘pocket full of rocks,’ and bent on a bit of a spree.
at bit of (a), n.
[US] ‘Losing Game of Poker’ in Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 45: I can manage to have him as drunk as a cooter by dark.
at drunk as a cootie, adj.
[US] ‘How Sally Hooter Got Snake-Bit’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 68: If you didn’t think all the peas in my corn field was er spillin in the floor, thar ain’t no ’simmons!
at that ain’t hay, phr.
[US] ‘How Sally Hooter Got Snake-Bit’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 69: The fust thing she knowed he bit her, slap — the all-firedest, biggest kinder lick!
at all-fired, adj.
[US] ‘How Mike Hooter Came Very Near “Wolloping” Arch Coony’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 146: Mike [...] in a regular knock-down-and-drag-out row, was hard to beat.
at knock-down-(and)-drag-out, adj.
[US] ‘M’Cracken’s Experience’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 60: If you’ve got any more of that baldface, pour it out!
at baldface (whisky), n.
[US] ‘How Sally Hooter Got Snake-Bit’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 70: ’Taint no use killin’ him – he’s past prayin’ for! I pledge you my word he was dead as Billy-be-d----d!
at Billy-be-damned, n.
[US] ‘The Blacksmith of the Mountain Pass’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 83: What’ll you do if I don’t whip you this time, you beef-headed disciple, you?
at beefheaded (adj.) under beefhead, n.
[US] ‘Pertaters & Ternups’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 90: An early bird was our doctor.
at early bird, n.1
[US] ‘The Thimble Game’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 33: Blamed ef I don’t know whar that ball is jist as well as you does.
at blame, v.
[US] ‘A Sleep-Walking Incident’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 175: I resolved to give him a parting ‘blizzard’.
at blizzard, n.1
[US] ‘A Fearful Tale of the Mississippi’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 123: A tingling cold feeling began to seize me, and a strong inclination to sing out for ‘help!’ ‘fire!’ and blue blazes!
at blue blazes (n.) under blue, adj.5
[US] ‘The Amateur Ticket-Vender’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 105: He sold out to some upper-country flatboatmen who were pretty blue.
at blue, adj.2
[US] ‘How Sally Hooter Got Snake-Bit’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 72: He was [...] er slobberin’ at the mouth, an’ er cuttin up shines worse nor er bob-tail bull in fly time! I tell you what, ef he didn’t go it boots that time, I don’t know!
at boots (and all) (adv.) under boot, n.2
[US] ‘Bingo’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 61: The liquor was called for – a pint of buck-eye whiskey.
at buckeye, n.2
[US] ‘Last Bloody Duel Fought in Ohio’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 176: Buckeyes do not now-a-days shoot one another.
at buckeye, n.1
[US] ‘Pertaters & Ternups’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 96: If this isn’t a fency country, dad fetch my buttons [...] ‘Dad blame my pictur,’ ses Bill.
at dad-burn, v.
[US] ‘The Blacksmith of the Mountain Pass’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 86: ‘Well,’ thought Ned, ‘this is a nice business!’.
at business, n.
[US] ‘How Sally Hooter Got Snake-Bit’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 67: Mike Hooter, made another visit to town last week, an’ being, as he supposed, beyond the hearing of his brethren in the church [...] concluded that he would go on a ‘bust.’.
at on a bust under bust, n.
[US] ‘How Mike Hooter Came Very Near “Wolloping” Arch Coony’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 151: I soon see thar was gwine to be the bustinest fight that ever was.
at busting, adj.1
[US] ‘Wars Yure Hoss?’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 41: A substantial farmer, who, by years of toil, had accumulated a tolerable pretty pile of castings.
at casting, n.
[US] ‘How Sally Hooter Got Snake-Bit’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 74: ‘That’s the best red eye I’ve swallered in er coon’s age,’ said the speaker, after bolting a caulker.
at caulker, n.
[US] ‘How Mike Hooter Came Very Near “Wolloping” Arch Coony’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 151: Lay thar, ole Methodist, till I learn this coon some sense!
at coon, n.
[US] ‘How Sally Hooter Got Snake-Bit’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 74: That’s the best red eye I’ve swallered in er coon’s age.
at coon’s age (n.) under coon, n.
[US] ‘Bingo’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 61: About forty men, ‘pretty well corned, and up to everything,’ entered the liquor room.
at corned, adj.
[US] ‘Pertaters and Ternups’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 90: He espied a brawny Cracker ’tending a load of vegetables.
at cracker, n.3
[US] ‘How Sally Hooter Got Snake-Bit’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 68: Cracky! it’s worse nor er young earthquake – beats h–ll!
at cracky!, excl.
[US] ‘A Modest Irishman!’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 160: He had a touch or two of the ‘craythur’.
at creature, the, n.
[US] ‘How Sally Hooter Got Snake-Bit’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 67: Jeeminy, criminy! Jest to see him, one uv them ar great big rusty rattlesnakes!
at jiminy cricket!, excl.
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