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[US] N. Davis Northerner 115: It will be just as easy ‘as falling off a log’.
at easy as falling off a log, adj.
[US] N. Davis Northerner 222: Any influence which I might have ordinarily won’t be worth a continental damn to-night.
at not worth a damn, phr.
[US] N. Davis Northerner 217: Poor devils, they were ashy with fear. The black ones get about the color of the ashes in my pipe.
at ashy, adj.
[US] N. Davis Northerner 202: Served by old-time ‘aunties’ in snowy white, with bright-colored turbans on their heads.
at aunt, n.
[US] N. Davis Northerner 227: Jiminy! [...] This beats out all creation!
at beat (someone) out of (v.) under beat, v.
[US] N. Davis Northerner 13: Why, howdy, Cur’nel – ya’as, fum Sa-a-nd Mountain ... crapping yit!
at crapping, adj.
[US] N. Davis Northerner 258: That talk about the unconstitutionality of the Moody bill fizzled out, did n’t it?
at fizzle (out), v.
[US] N. Davis Northerner 218: I knew he was a gone ’coon.
at gone coon (n.) under gone, adj.1
[US] N. Davis Northerner 240: Lawdy, don’t I wisht I had er piece er M’lindy’s cawn bread.
at lawdy!, excl.
[US] N. Davis Northerner 69: Still, let us leave out the ‘black mammies,’ and the old-time ‘body-servants’.
at mammy, n.1
[US] N. Davis Northerner 221: There are three or four hundred men there, armed, and drunk with moonshine whiskey.
at moonshine, adj.
[US] N. Davis Northerner 165: ‘This is a nice bit of moral muck I’m about to drag you through, Falls!’ [...] ‘Well,’ – he loosened his tie with a savage jerk, as though it choked him, – ‘that girl – that colored girl – is my daughter.’.
at muck, n.1
[US] N. Davis Northerner 203: I like Falls – I wish I had his muscle!
at muscle, n.
[US] N. Davis Northerner 93: It had been on the market quite a bit before Wheatley nabbed me!
at nab, v.1
[US] N. Davis Northerner 154: Dish ’er de forwa’dest nigger on dis yearth!
at nigger, n.1
[US] N. Davis Northerner 199: But de niggers, dey ain’t spiling none ’bouten hit.
at spill, v.
[US] N. Davis Northerner 213: ‘No man not escorting a lady’—a stag, you know—could go upon the floor.
at stag, n.4
[US] N. Davis Northerner 317: Then we’ll stick our ‘local capitalists’ for punitive damages in the Federal courts. ‘Sting money’ will make Evert and Hallett sweat worse than the old General did under that B. H. & Q. business.
at stick, v.
[US] N. Davis Northerner 78: Billy is a cane-brake nigger; he’ll take to the sticks like a duck to water when he’s scared – won’t you, Will-Henry?
at sticks, n.2
[US] N. Davis Northerner 122: When it comes to yallow gals – they’re all alike, and they’re all rotten!
at yellow girl (n.) under yellow, adj.
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