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[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 213: ‘In a pig’s valise!’ sneered the red-headed man.
at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 301: He was as mad as Tucker.
at mad as..., adj.
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 198: That made me madder ’n a wet hen.
at ...a wet hen under mad as..., adj.
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 236: Oh Alfred! [...] I’ve got news fer you—big, big news!
at big, adj.
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 300: The blasted blockhead!
at blasted, adj.1
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 209: I knowed she was in cahoot with ’im.
at in cahoots (with) under cahoots, n.
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 255: He says he’s crazy for a cup of coffee with whipped cream in it.
at crazy for (adj.) under crazy, adj.
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 179: I would be out of the place at one of the—the knock-down and drag-out shouting-bees.
at knock-down, adj.
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 221: The feller that owns it ud jump at it like a duck on a June-bug.
at like a duck on a June bug (adv.) under duck, n.1
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 211: I jest knowed that pie-faced hypocrite had his money.
at pie-faced, adj.
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 249: She had been so spoiled by the ‘fast set’ of Atlanta during her stay.
at fast, adj.1
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 309: Ef you don’t back me in it, I’m a gone dog.
at gone, adj.1
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 242: It’s all hunkey, an’ my opinion is that it’ll never be wuth less.
at hunky, adj.1
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 301: This ain’t no put-in o’ mine, gracious knows!
at put-in, n.
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 301: His hand run up an’ knocked me off’n the track kerwhallop.
at kerwhallop, adv.
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 74: Durin’ election [...] he was leggin’ fer a friend o’ his’n [DAE].
at leg, v.1
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 209: Fred’s always been a stanch friend to me. We moonshined it together two yeer, though he never knowed my chief hidin’-place.
at moonshine, v.
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 234: Blast his ugly pictur’!
at picture, n.
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 264: You are a jim-dandy, young man [...] You take the rag off the bush.
at take the rag off the bush (v.) under rag, n.1
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 14: It’ll be started inside of the next yeer an’ ’ll run smack dab through my property.
at smack-dab (adv.) under smack, adv.
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 43: You young bloods are a-goin’ to play smash with the gals’ hearts to-night, I reckon.
at play smash (v.) under smash, n.1
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 91: He got blind, stavin’ drunk.
at staving, adv.
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 212: Fincher’s his best friend [...] an’ they are mighty thick.
at thick, adj.
[US] W.N. Harben Abner Daniel 199: Folks would say I was a born idiot to be payin’ my lazy triflin’ kinfolks out o’ the consequences o’ the’r devilment.
at triflin’, adj.
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