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[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 246: You satchel-ass old son of a frigging goddam.
at satchel-arsed, adj.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 247: All his haystacks are gonna tip assy-turvy before winter.
at arsey-varsey, phr.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 291: Major Evan Kelley [...] The big sugar, over in Missoula.
at big cheese, n.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 68: I bunged up my hand.
at bung up, v.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 236: He [...] laid his hand on the chuckbox.
at chuck, n.3
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 295: For crike’s sake, mister.
at crikey!, excl.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 247: He don’t see doodly-squat about putting up hay, that fellow.
at doodley-squat, n.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 204: She and my father traded gab with the Hahns.
at gab, n.2
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 207: I never could resist you McCaskill galoots.
at galoot, n.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 13: You will End Up as Nothing More Than a Gimped-Up Saddle Stiff.
at gimped up, adj.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 29: You could go into a bar and still find an occasional old hammerhead who proclaimed himself nothing but a cowboy and never capable of drawing breath as anything else.
at hammerhead, n.1
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 108: Why had I let the sight of him hoodoo me like this?
at hoodoo, v.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 297: I would buy time by faking a little swig of Stanley’s joy juice.
at joy juice (n.) under joy, n.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 84: One inveterate jughead of a horse named Bubbles.
at jughead, n.1
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 248: He seemed to take a particular pleasure in any evidence that jugheaded behavior wasn’t a monopoly of the Forest Service.
at jugheaded, adj.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 211: Earl, you lardbrain.
at lardhead, n.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 75: I had seen my share of swacked-up people, yet Stanley didn’t really look liquored.
at liquored (up), adj.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 96: A brimming mulligan stew.
at mulligan, n.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 29: I suppose that runs against the usual notion of the West, of cow chousers and mutton conductors forever at odds with each other. [...] You could go into a bar and still find an occasional old hammerhead who proclaimed himself nothing but a cowboy and never capable of drawing breath as anything else, especially not as a mutton puncher.
at muttonpuncher (n.) under mutton, n.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 93: They’re plenty piss—uh, peed off over it.
at peed off, adj.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 285: It is an ornery sonofabitch.
at ornery, adj.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 73: He had finally run out of bottle, and at least I could look forward to an unpickled companion from here on.
at pickled, adj.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 90: This was a starchier Stanley [...] one you could imagine giving Canada Dan the reaming out he so richly deserved.
at ream, v.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 13: You will End Up as Nothing More Than a Gimped-Up Saddle Stiff.
at saddle tramp (n.) under saddle, n.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 296: My mother would skin whatever was left of me after my father’s skinning.
at skinning, n.2
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 300: Dish me up some of your goddamn slumgullion.
at slumgullion, n.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 211: Alec interrupted her by simply telling Earl, ‘Stash it, sparrowhead’.
at sparrow-brain (n.) under sparrow, n.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 211: Alec interrupted her by simply telling Earl, ‘Stash it, sparrowhead’.
at stash it (v.) under stash, v.1
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 75: I had seen my share of swacked-up people.
at swacked (up), adj.
[US] I. Doig Eng. Creek 298: Mister, you weren’t just woofing. You can cook.
at woof, v.1
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