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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