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The Kentuckian in New York choose

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[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 96: I’m a Turk if I ain’t tetotally dished.
at I’m a Dutchman, phr.
[US] Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 189: He’s a bark-well and hold-fast too, he doesn’t honey it up to em and mince his words [...] he knocks down and drags out.
at knock down and drag out, v.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 189: He’s a bark-well and hold-fast too; he doesn’t honey it up to em and mince his words [...] he knocks down and drags out.
at barkwell and holdfast, n.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 20: He’s the chap what plumped a bullet right into old Tecumseh’s bagpipes.
at bagpipes, n.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. II 216: I wish I may be teetotally ball-gusted, if here ain’t another petty piece of business.
at ball-gusted, adj.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. II 206: I’m teetotally bamboozled.
at bamboozled (adj.) under bamboozle, v.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. II 208: I’ve been poppen my bill into it, and out of it again, like a kingfisher in a mill-dam.
at bill, n.1
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 25: The tune would take a quick turn [...] I used to blaze away at it with the best of ’em.
at blaze away (v.) under blaze, v.2
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. II 207: A man must let off a little of the extra steam, you know, or he would burst his biler.
at burst one’s boiler (v.) under boiler, n.1
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 103: ‘Not your chaw-tobacco parson, I hope?’ ‘And why not? What if he would roll his chaw-tobacco into one cheek at you, while he coupled you up with the other?’.
at chewtobaccy, n.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 188: O Christopher! what a stump speech he could make.
at Christopher!, excl.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 66: The real officers came up and clamped me.
at clamp, v.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 66: He dropped over [...] I rather suspicion he thought a two year old colt’s heels had got a taste of his cocoanut.
at coconut, n.1
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 23: I wish I may be contwisted if you ain’t one of the queerest men [...] I have clapped eyes on.
at contwisted, adj.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 32: One of ’em [...] says to me as they went by, ‘Country,’ says he, ‘there’s something on your horse’s tail.’.
at country, adj.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 64: I [...] only sipped a little wine, and that made me straight instead of crooked.
at crooked, adj.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 23: Here’s a public house, let’s go in and cut the phlegm.
at phlegm-cutter, n.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 64: I’m not much of a dabster at it, but if the stake ain’t too high, I don’t care if I take a fling or two.
at dabster, n.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 67: Dash me if it wasn’t tail all the way to the collar.
at dash, v.1
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 97: I thought I would take a dish of chat, for that was the most I expected to get.
at dish of chat (n.) under dish, n.1
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 96: I’m a Turk if I ain’t tetotally dished.
at dished, adj.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 94: O! black eyes and bruises! what a rascally appetite I’ve got now for a knock down.
at knock-down, n.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 98: He gave me an order on the bank for the eel-skins.
at eel skin, n.1
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 217: O my grandmother! what jaunty heels they would have to sling after such elbow-grease as that.
at elbow grease, n.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 62: What an everalastin’ pity ’tis, these critters elbows ain’t a suple as their heels.
at everlasting, adj.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 28: He would go into a gallopin consumption! or die of the solemncholies.
at galloping, adj.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 188: I’m flambergasted! if that ain’t what I call goin the whole cretur, he’d go to Congress from old Kentuck as easy as I could put a gin sling under my jacket.
at go the whole critter (v.) under go the whole..., v.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 25: A chap would make a blue fist of takin a dead aim through double sights, with the butt end of a psalm in his guzzle.
at guzzle, n.
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 25: Hang me if I didn’t always think the fellow was afraid to stand in the woods.
at hang me! (excl.) under hang, v.1
[US] W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 30: I gin him a wink, as much as to let him know that [...] I would wipe him down with a hickory towel.
at hickory towel, n.
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