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[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/3: I’m a ‘Abraham-cove,’ p[lease yer honor. [...] A Abraham-cove, a ‘addle-cove,’ and a ‘hickjop’.
at abraham-man, n.
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/3: I’m a ‘ankle,’ and my mother a ‘ace of spades’.
at ace of spades (n.) under ace, n.
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/3: I’m a ‘Abraham-cove,’ p[lease yer honor. [...] A Abraham-cove, a ‘addle-cove,’ and a ‘hickjop’.
at addle-cove, n.
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/3: We lived up ‘apples and pears’.
at apples (and pears), n.
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/4: The ratification hop [...] was a success. Everybody and his wife, sisters and daughters, and everybody else’s sweethearts were there.
at everybody and his cousin, n.
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/3: My earliest years were spent among ackneffs [sic] and when I could hardly more than walk I was an ‘angler’.
at angler, n.
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/3: I’m a ‘ankle,’ and my mother a ‘ace of spades’.
at ankle-biter (n.) under ankle, n.
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/3: My earliest years were spent among ackneffs [sic] and when I could hardly more than walk I was an ‘angler’.
at ark-ruff, n.
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/4: Hardinsburg has the railroad fever ‘bad’.
at bad, adv.
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/3: As for eating, we were lucky if once in a while we got a bit of ‘billy butter’ [sic].
at billy button, n.1
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/3: My mother was so poor that half the time I had no clothes but my ‘birthday suit’.
at birthday suit, n.
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/3: My mother moved into a ‘castle’ and left me to shift for myself’.
at castle, n.
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/3: I’m a ‘Abraham-cove,’ p[lease yer honor. [...] A Abraham-cove, a ‘addle-cove,’ and a ‘hickjop’.
at hick jop (n.) under hick, adj.
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/4: It has been my good fortune to hobnob with some of the most elegant people [...] and sit with my feet beneath their mahogany.
at mahogany, n.
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/3: With a smart ‘peddler’s pony’ swinging in my hand I was as fancy a ‘rabbit’ as walked the street.
at pedlar’s pony, n.
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/3: With a smart ‘peddler’s pony’ swinging in my hand I was as fancy a ‘rabbit’ as walked the street.
at rabbit, n.3
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/3: One day I met a ‘rainbow’ that was ‘sassy’ and called him a ‘soldier’.
at rainbow, n.
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloveport, KY) 23 Aug. 3/3: One day I met a ‘rainbow’ that was ‘sassy’ and called him a ‘soldier’.
at sassy, adj.
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloverport, KY) 20 Jan. 1/3: I met him in the road; had er nice dish er chat with him, too.
at dish of chat (n.) under dish, n.1
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloverport, KY) 17 Apr. 3/1: A Piker Patriot is a man who loudly cheers marching soldiers, but keeps a padlock on his pocketbook .
at piker, adj.
[US] Breckenridge News (Cloverport, KY) 20 Apr. 8/4: He loafed around a stale beer joint, talked politics, argued relgion.
at beer joint (n.) under beer, n.
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