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[US] ‘Non-Sucker’ [Henry Shutts] Tobacco 25: Your empty, idle, popinjay fopdoodles.
at fopdoodle, n.
[US] E. Caldwell Tobacco Road (1958) 24: She don’t give a cuss what nobody thinks about it.
at not care a curse, v.
[US] E. Caldwell Tobacco Road (1958) 29: If he does know it, he don’t give a good goddam now.
at not give a good goddam, v.
[US] E. Caldwell Tobacco Road (1958) 29: Lov’s going to big her [...] he acts like an old stud-horse.
at big, v.
[US] E. Caldwell Tobacco Road (1958) 66: You’ve got to swear to me you won’t let me be left in the box where the rats can get me.
at box, n.1
[US] E. Caldwell Tobacco Road (1958) 14: Some of these days He’ll bust loose with a heap of bounty and all us poor folks will have all we want to eat.
at bust loose (v.) under bust, v.1
[US] E. Caldwell Tobacco Road (1958) 16: Quit chunking that durn ball at them there weatherboards, Dude.
at chunk, v.1
[US] E. Caldwell Tobacco Road (1958) 13: What you got in that there croker sack, Lov?
at croker, n.2
[US] E. Caldwell Tobacco Road (1958) 13: I’m getting pretty durn tired of it.
at darn, adv.
[US] E. Caldwell Tobacco Road (1958) 140: But durned if I can’t run you off it – now git!
at git!, excl.
[US] E. Caldwell Tobacco Road (1958) 22: Ellie May’s straining for Lov, ain’t she? [...] She’s liable to bust a gut if she don’t look out.
at bust a gut (v.) under gut, n.
[US] E. Caldwell Tobacco Road (1958) 27: Lov’s wanting to hang up with Ellie May.
at hang with (v.) under hang, v.4
[US] E. Caldwell Tobacco Road (1958) 42: Bessie hated Hard-shell Baptists with the same intensity with which she hated the devil.
at hard-shell, n.
[US] E. Caldwell Tobacco Road (1958) 20: This raft of women and children is all the time bellowing for snuff and rations, too.
at raft, n.1
[US] E. Caldwell Tobacco Road (1958) 73: ‘Shucks,’ he said. ‘I couldn’t do that.’.
at shucks!, excl.
[US] E. Caldwell Tobacco Road (1958) 81: You can drive a new car anywhere in the State for seven days while you are waiting for the tags to come from Atlanta.
at tag, n.3
[US] E. Caldwell Tobacco Road (1958) 25: I could have raised me a whopping big mess of turnips this year.
at whopping, adj.
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