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[UK] H.L. Davis Honey in the Horn 309: The helpless old bawly-ike had reached her at last and at a time when she was ready for him.
at bawly-ike, n.
[UK] H.L. Davis Honey in the Horn 38: Her pa was red-eyed on Bible-bangin’. I remember well. He heerd heavenly voices, or claimed to.
at bible-banger (n.) under bible, n.
[UK] H.L. Davis Honey in the Horn 173: His uncle blacksnaked him for coming home late.
at blacksnake, v.
[UK] H.L. Davis Honey in Horn 231: It’s about ten to one they’d cinch you.
at cinch, v.
[UK] H.L. Davis Honey in the Horn 23: [as spelt] Dit through dreamin’ about them doddam women, or you’ll lose us every tockwallopin’ sheep we doddam well dot.
at dock-walloping (adj.) under dock, n.2
[UK] H.L. Davis Honey in the Horn I 12: There was a salad of lettuce whittled into shoestrings, wilted in hot water, and doped with vinegar and bacon grease.
at dope, v.1
[UK] H.L. Davis Honey in Horn 231: I could [...] pick a fight with him. Maybe if I jump on him I could down him, and then I’d be rid of him for good.
at down, v.3
[UK] H.L. Davis Honey in the Horn 66: Let me alone, or I’ll take this fence rail and knock you endways with it.
at endways, adv.
[UK] H.L. Davis Honey in the Horn 105: He shot at the bear in the dark, and when daylight came he found blood on the ground, so he feathered up and trailed it across the mountains.
at feather up (v.) under feather, n.
[UK] H.L. Davis Honey in the Horn 55: He was a good driver. A bad one would have said the gad-blamed horses lost the road.
at gad, n.1
[UK] H.L. Davis Honey in the Horn 37: She was running the kitchen and tending a grab-and-gallop lunch-counter for an average of forty men a day.
at grab-it-and-growl (n.) under grab, v.
[UK] H.L. Davis Honey in Horn 147: That one-armed old crow was lookin’ her over. You want to look out for him.
at old crow (n.) under old, adj.
[UK] H.L. Davis Honey in Horn 231: Leave this outfit as soon as your horses are fit to travel.
at outfit, n.1
[UK] H.L. Davis Honey in the Horn 15: If you yank him out for any all-night sashay on these roads, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
at sashay, n.
[UK] H.L. Davis Honey in the Horn 11: Having called the Indian boy a grass-hopper eating Siwash, and the Housekeeping girl Popeyes, he went.
at siwash, n.
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