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The Way West choose

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[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 308: Be more broke wagon tongues today, or I’m a nigger.
at I’m a nigger, phr.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 35: He would saw open the big log where he had cached his beaver, banks being what they were. [Ibid.] 256: Whose beaver you earnin’, Caleb?
at beaver, n.1
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 256: Hudson Bay Company, H. B. C., ol’ Here Before Christ, that’s who.
at Here Before Christ, n.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 256: She needs good men all right [...] but not just anybody. There’s too many by-jesus anybodies everywhere. [Ibid.] 257: ‘Whativer is wrong with the Irish?’ [...] ‘Niver a thing,’ Greenwood said back, ‘Niver a by-jesus thing.’.
at bejesus, adj.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 19: ‘Name’s Hig,’ the figure announced. ‘Or that’s what they call me. It’s bobtail for Higgins.’.
at bobtail, adj.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 29: I’d like him to know something besides root, hog, or die.
at root, hog or die, v.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 74: Drive, plod, push, tug, turn the wheels. Eat dust, damn you!
at eat dust (v.) under eat, v.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 230: Waugh and Jesus Christ! Them was the fat days.
at fat, adj.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 230: She was gone on you. She was now. Purty as paint and a gone beaver on you.
at gone on (adj.) under gone, adj.1
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 290: ‘Good for another trip?’ [...] ‘Good as gravy,’ Hig answered.
at good as gravy (adj.) under gravy, n.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 48: Let Tadlock be upset, and you’d find McBee honey-fuggling the upsetters.
at honeyfugle, v.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 316: Summers said, ‘Party’s over, hoss.’.
at horse, n.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 230: ’Member that nigger you had to rub out [...] dast him to irons and give him the best of it and kilt him afore his finger could bend. Waugh and Jesus Christ! Them was the fat days .
at Jesus!, excl.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 48: God yes, shoot the dogs. They weren’t no real good to nobody. Just made more mess to step in.
at mess, n.2
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 122: We’re a- turnin’ back, by Moses!
at Moses!, excl.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 79: It ain’t an easy place [...] some sorry they set out and some just naturally ornery.
at ornery, adj.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 230: ’Member that nigger you had to rub out [...] dast him to irons and give him the best of it and kilt him afore his finger could bend. Waugh and Jesus Christ! Them was the fat days .
at rub out, v.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 53: His pappy had fought the British.
at pappy, n.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 253: The Snake ain’ no piss-piddle of a river.
at piss-, pfx
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 50: Good God! Scrub stock. Marry into scrub stock, and it was all right! Call Hank McBee pappy and Mrs. McBee ma.
at scrub, adj.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 111: ‘One man isn’t a train.’ ‘I didn’t figure you knew that.’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘Ain’t you the whole shebang?’.
at whole shebang, n.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 55: Give some men a rifle and a piece of power [...] and they got too studdish to put up with.
at stud, adj.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 7: You can sleep dainty in a sure-enough bed.
at sure-enough (adj.) under sure, adj.
[UK] A.B. Guthrie Way West 308: And when we get through, we got them tarnal hills.
at tarnal, adj.
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