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[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 19: Rougher than a cob. Wilder than a woodchuck [...] Madder than nine hundred dollars.
at madder than a woodheap, adj.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 19: Rougher than a cob. Wilder than a woodchuck [...] Mixed-up, screwed-up people.
at ...a cob under rough as..., adj.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 100: Quit popping off at your mouth!
at pop off (at the mouth), v.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 369: You know, you’re an awful, awful smart girl.
at awful, adv.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 12: This is th’ roughest bastardly boxcar that I ever swung into.
at bastardly, adj.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 422: I never did see such a dirty, messy, bloody, beat-up bunch of people in my whole life.
at beat-up, adj.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 178: They quit jumping on me for two reasons: I’d beat the hound out of them, and the others wanted to ride on that motorcycle.
at beat the hound out of (v.) under beat, v.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 373: Sow bosom and beans!
at sow-belly, n.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 262: Tucson’s a bitch, boys.
at bitch, n.1
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 415: Man gits outta woik, tho’, goes off on a Goddam blink.
at on the blink (adj.) under blink, n.1
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 353: You’re not going to hurt anybody, Mister Blowoff!
at blow off, n.1
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 20: Quiet down! You damn bunch of liars, you! Blowin’ off at yer head what all you can do! I hear this talk all up an down these railroads! [...] You go around blabbin’ off at your mouth.
at blow off at the mouth (v.) under blow off, v.2
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 250: Bad time uv year fer them right blue northers!
at blue, adj.1
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 372: There’s a blue jillion things wrong with how th’ country’s run.
at blue, adj.5
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 23: I t’ink I’ll jist boot yez offa dis train!
at boot, v.1
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 28: Kin ya rally beat it out on dat jitter box dere, mister?
at jitter box, n.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 343: Bar flies, brass railers.
at brass rail (n.) under brass, adj.1
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 297: I hit the breeze again.
at hit the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 97: She was so broke up and hurting that she couldn’t stand still.
at broke up, adj.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 227: The white puts out a long arm [...] The dark one is buffaloed.
at buffaloed, adj.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 383: They want ya ta sing pure ol’ bull manure an’ nothin else.
at bullshit, n.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 206: Then I got so dizzy I caved in.
at cave in (v.) under cave, v.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 304: Then I put in my three cent’s worth.
at put in one’s two cents’ (worth) (v.) under two cents’ worth, n.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 277: She acted crabby and fussy, chewing the rag.
at chew the rag, v.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 364: You don’t hafta swing that pump aroun’s so much [...] You don’t want to konk none of yer own soldiers out, do you?
at conk (out), v.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 122: Little too much noise there, buddy [...] Walk along with me till you cool off.
at cool off, v.2
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 400: ‘Sing!’ ‘Crank up!’.
at crank, v.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 356: The whole bunch of thugs made a big run at us sailing cuss words of a million filthy, low-down, ratty kind.
at cuss-word (n.) under cuss, n.2
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 19: I’m th’ best dadgum blacksmith in Logan County!
at dad-gum, adj.
[US] W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 75: Well, now there you go again with your dang fool infernal questions.
at dang, adv.
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