1835 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 3: I will show ’em how to [...] take a blizzard at a bear.at blizzard, n.1
1835 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 6: My next flame was a pretty little girl that I had known when quite young.at flame, n.
1835 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 5: I took French leave of him.at French leave, n.
1835 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 38: I determined on trying to what virtue there was – not in stones, like the ‘old man with the young sauce-box,’ – but in a much more potent article, whiskey.at saucebox, n.
1835 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 7: She was at a tea-squall at one of the neighbors.at tea squall (n.) under tea, n.
1836 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 49: What should he see but his landlady with a big knotted club in her hand batterfanging a dozen rattle snakes.at batter-fang, v.
1836 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 52: I met a big fellow on the Levee at New Orleans, who [...] begun blackguarding me about my countrymen, for he didn’t belong to Kentucky himself.at blackguard, v.
1836 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 45: The corn was heaped up into a sort of hillock close to the granary, on which the young Ohioians and ‘Buckeys’ (the lasses of Ohio are all called ‘Buckeys’) seated themselves. [...] The old folks said the lads were wide awake – and the ‘buckeyes’ said there was no being up to the plaguey Irish ‘no how’.at buckeye, n.1
1836 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 54: The way his heart bobbed up and down was a caution.at caution, n.
1836 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 52: I jumped up and snapped my fingers in his face, and telled him that I didn’t care the fag end of a johnny cake for him.at fag end, n.
1836 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 47: I then cut my line, and rose to the surface pretty well fagged out.at fagged (out), adj.
1836 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 76: Wash the whole down with a quart of buttermilk, and you will shortly have a touch of the real thing.at real thing, the, n.
1836 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 54: Betsey herself come out all rigged up in her best bib and tucker.at rig, v.1
1836 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 76: He swore he was a regular snorter, half-horse, half-alligator.at snorter, n.2
1836 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 51: He [...] said we was as ignorant as savages. We looked rather striped at this, for every one in our parts hated the savages as we did pison.at stripe, v.
1837 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 95: Of all the rivers on this airth, the Mississippi beats all holler.at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
1837 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 93: Well, Capting, do you ate us, or do we ate ourselves? ‘Eat yourselves, to be sure.’.at eat, v.
1837 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 108: A coat of strong blue cloth of the Jehu cut, with white bone buttons of the Jehu size.at jehu, n.
1837 D. Crockett Almanack in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 107: I can take the rag off – frighten the old folks – astonish the natives – and beat the Dutch all to smash.at take the rag off the bush (v.) under rag, n.1
1837 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 92: Said I, stranger you are a damn red eel.at red eel (n.) under red, adj.
1837 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 81: I was beaten, for they made choice of a man with ‘a timber toe.’.at timber-toe, n.
1838 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 131: I instantly put a ball through him near the heart.at ball, n.1
1838 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 121: I went chewallop into the water.at chewallop, adv.
1838 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 125: Says I, give us none of your chin music.at chin music, n.
1838 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 126: Set your kickers on land, and I’ll give you a severe licking.at kicker, n.1
1838 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 125: I hit him a crack over his knob with my big steering oar.at knob, n.
1838 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 120: Surrender, stranger, or I may perforate ye.at perforate, v.
1838 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 133: He was proper mad, I tell you.at proper, adv.
1838 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 125: He had been ramsquaddled with whiskey for a fortnight.at ramsquaddle, v.
1838 D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 107: I’ve soaked my head and shoulders in Salt River, so much that I’m always corned.at row up Salt River (v.) under Salt River, n.