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Hoosier School-Master (1892) 240: Welch’s whisky was all-fired mean.at all-fired, adv.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 240: Welch’s whisky was all-fired mean. Hoosier School-Master (1892) 69: Thunder and Lightning! what a manager you air, Mr. Hartsook!at thunder and lightning!, excl.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 199: ‘Bless my stars!’ said that astounded saint, ‘fetch a pauper here?’.at bless my heart! (excl.) under bless, v.1
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 199: Ralph boiled a little.at boil, v.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 132: I hated Bill Jones what keeps the poor-house, and I knowed him and Pete would get you bound to some of their click.at click, n.2
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 153: You don’t come no gum games over me with your saft sodder and all that.at come over, v.2
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 147: You got me into this blamed mess, and now you want to crawfish.at crawfish, v.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 101: These bands of desperadoes still found among the ‘poor whitey,’ ‘dirt-eater’ class.at dirt-eater (n.) under dirt, n.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 72: She was so dog-on stuck up that she turned up her nose one night at a apple-peelin’ bekase I tuck a sheet off the bed to splice out the table-cloth.at doggone, adv.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 130: I [...] lost my leg by one of em stickin’ his dog-on’d bagonet right through it.at doggone, adj.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 153: You don’t come your gum games over me.at gum, n.1
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 134: Some people think the ‘Hardshells’ a myth, and some sensitive Baptist people at the East resent allusions to them.at hard-shell, n.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 133: Squire Hawkins, having been expelled from the ‘Hardshell’ church [...] for the grave offence of joining a temperance society.at hard-shell, adj.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 73: He got a heap o’ money, or, what’s the same thing mostly, a heap o’ good land.at heap, n.1
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 239: ‘Looky here, Squar,’ he said wiping the perspiration from his brow, ‘looky here.’.at lookee here!, excl.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 146: But he’ll git in, though, and tan your hide fer you, you see ef he don’t.at tan someone’s hide (v.) under hide, n.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 29: It has been in my mind since I was a Hoosier boy to do something toward describing life in the back-country districts of the Western States.at hoosier, adj.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 129: Pshaw! that talk about kyindness [...] is all humbug.at humbug, n.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 148: I’ll lay you out flat of your back afore you can say Jack Robinson.at before one can say Jack Robinson under Jack Robinson, n.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 278: Driving Martha to a wedding in a ‘jumper’.at jumper, n.1
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 85: He’s powerful smart, is the master [...] He’ll beat the whole kit and tuck of ’em afore he’s through.at whole kit and cargo (n.) under whole kit, n.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 121: Ef it’s rendered right, it’ll knock the hind sights off of any rheumatiz you ever see.at knock the hindsights off (v.) under knock, v.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 172: Here’s the old lady.at old lady, n.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 130: But, laws a me! we’re all selfish akordin’ to my tell.at law’s-a-me! (excl.) under laws!, excl.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 39: But ef you git licked, don’t come on us.at licked, adj.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 158: I don’t know whether you’re a Hardshell [...] or a Campbellite, or a New Light, or a United Brother.at new light, n.1
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 86: Young men were timidly asking girls if ‘they could see them safe home,’ [...] and were trembling in mortal fear of ‘the mitten’.at mitten, n.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 87: ‘Ole Miss Meanses’ white nigger,’ as some of them called her, in allusion to her slavish life.at white nigger, n.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 73: Jack, having bit off an ounce of ‘pigtail,’ returned the plug to his pocket.at pigtail, n.
Hoosier School-Master (1892) 121: And you know the cure for rheumatiz?at rheumatiz, n.
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