The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,084 pages of information about The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell.

The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,084 pages of information about The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell.

Mash, marsh. 
Mean, stingy, ill-natured. 
Min’, mind.

Nimepunce, ninepence, twelve and a half cents. 
Nowers, nowhere.

Offen, often. 
Ole, old. 
Ollers, olluz, always. 
On, of; used before it or them, or at the end of a
  sentence, as on ’t, on ’em, nut ez ever I heerd on. 
On’y, only. 
Ossifer, officer (seldom heard).

Peaked, pointed. 
Peek, to peep. 
Pickerel, the pike, a fish. 
Pint, point. 
Pocket full of rocks, plenty of money. 
Pooty, pretty. 
Pop’ler, conceited, popular. 
Pus, purse. 
Put out, troubled, vexed.

Quarter, a quarter-dollar. 
Queen’s-arm, a musket.

Resh, rush. 
Revelee, the reveille. 
Rile, to trouble. 
Riled, angry; disturbed, as the sediment in any liquid. 
Riz, risen. 
Row, a long row to hoe, a difficult task. 
Rugged, robust.

Sarse, abuse, impertinence. 
Sartin, certain. 
Saxon, sacristan, sexton. 
Scaliest, worst. 
Scringe, cringe. 
Scrouge, to crowd. 
Sech, such. 
Set by, valued. 
Shakes, great, of considerable consequence. 
Shappoes, chapeaux, cocked-hats. 
Sheer, share. 
Shet, shut. 
Shut, shirt. 
Skeered, scared. 
Skeeter, mosquito. 
Skooting, running, or moving swiftly. 
Slarterin’, slaughtering. 
Slim, contemptible. 
Snake, crawled like a snake; but to snake any one out
  is to track him to his hiding-place; to snake a thing out is
  to snatch it out. 
Soffies, sofas. 
Sogerin’, soldiering; a barbarous amusement common among men
  in the savage state. 
Som’ers, somewhere. 
So’st, so as that. 
Sot, set, obstinate, resolute. 
Spiles, spoils; objects of political ambition. 
Spry, active. 
Steddles, stout stakes driven into the salt marshes, on which the
  hay-ricks are set, and thus raised out of the reach of high tides. 
Streaked, uncomfortable, discomfited. 
Suckle, circle. 
Sutthin’, something. 
Suttin, certain.

Take on, to sorrow. 
Talents, talons. 
Taters, potatoes. 
Tell, till. 
Tetch, touch. 
Tetch tu, to be able; used always after a negative in this sense. 
Tollable, tolerable. 
Toot, used derisively for playing on any wind instrument. 
Thru, through. 
Thundering, a euphemism common in New England for the profane English
  expression devilish.  Perhaps

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