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Tarheel Talk choose

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[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 186: You have hinted me with marrying But I think it will Be your turn first as you are so fond of Sly Cuts.
at cut, n.1
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 274: Their daughter has eloped [...] it has the appearance of [...] glooming the Father for life.
at gloom, n.
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 260: [...] There has been talk that betsey . . . was Blowed up.
at blow up, v.1
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 298: There would have been no Shugar there for you except Some of the Rutherford Ladies.
at sugar, n.4
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 143: Nelley green [sic] was found not to be drunk but sister polley [sic] said that she was grogry.
at groggery, adj.
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 282: New cellin [i.e. ceiling] to the Little House.
at little house, n.
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk 260: Left his better half.
at better half, n.
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 264: Brother James Daniel came forward and confessed that there was carrying on at his home [...] fiddling and dancing.
at carrying-on, n.
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 271: Widow Yarborough has flatted the little Captain.
at flat, v.
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 279: She said . . . he’d make his Jack for a few years and then the mill would be done.
at make one’s jack (v.) under jack, n.4
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 284: One of the public Necessaries.
at necessary, n.
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 167: There is one thing above all others that the old man enjoins you.
at old man, n.
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 268: Miss – was there. I expected she would be a dash, but she is very coarse.
at dash, n.3
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 154: At 8 the ladies retired & said not dog.
at dog, n.4
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 275: Groging [...] he gets grogey.
at grog, v.1
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 135: Professors Mitchell and Olmstead have missed the figure [...] in their speculations on the gold mines.
at miss one’s figure (v.) under figure, n.1
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 124: I heard . . . she had given Henry a walking ticket.
at walking ticket (n.) under ticket, n.1
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 155: I visited Pa’s old faded pink . . . his old withered belle.
at pink, n.
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 293: Geo., I hear, is a money shaver – a calling which, must sooner or later [...] be blasted.
at shaver, n.2
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 298: I tell them I don’t know any better for I’m a mountain tackey sartin.
at tackhead, n.
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 290: I believe there is nothing to do here Christmas, the young Bucks tried to raise a breeze but could not make [it].
at kick up a breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 287: I am kicked . . . she said ‘I fear I do not love you’ . . . I had my papers.
at kick, v.1
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 287: I am kicked . . . she said ‘I fear I do not love you’ . . . I had my papers.
at walking papers (n.) under walking, n.
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 300: The whole party was thoroughly tight.
at tight, adj.
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 280: Ludy advertises to keep school and goes a ‘kick’ above everybody else she is to teach Greek and Latin.
at kick, n.3
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 284: The necessary on the lot . . . is a nuisance in the immediate neighborhood in which it stands.
at necessary, n.
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 296: I snapped from church today and McNary answered for me.
at snap, v.
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 266: I will now conversate a little upon the proximorities of nonsense.
at conversate, v.
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 134: Went to recitation with the certainty of a rush staring me in the face if I should be unlucky as to be taken up.
at rush, n.
[US] in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 266: [...] how does your corporosity seem to sagaciate.
at sagaciate, v.
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