Quarter, a quarter-dollar.
Queen's-arm, a musket.
Resh, rush.
Revelee, the réveille.
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 derived from the belief, common formerly, that thunder was caused by the Prince of the Air, for some of whose accomplishments consult Cotton Mather. Tu, to, too; commonly has this sound when used emphatically, or at the end of a sentence. At other times it has the sound of t in tough, as Ware ye gain' tu? Goin' ta Boston.
Ugly, ill-tempered, intractable.
Uncle Sam, United States; the largest boaster of liberty and
owner of slaves.
Unrizzest, applied to dough or bread; heavy, most unrisen, or most
incapable of rising.
V-spot, a five-dollar bill.
Vally, value.
Wake snakes, to get into trouble.
Wal, well; spoken with great deliberation, and sometimes with the
a very much flattened, sometimes (but more seldom) very much
broadened.
Wannut, walnut (hickory).
Ware, where.
Ware, were.
Whopper, an uncommonly large lie; as, that General Taylor is in
favor of the Wilmot Proviso.
Wig, Whig; a party now dissolved.
Wunt, will not.
Wus, worse.
Wut, what.
Wuth, worth; as, Antislavery perfessions 'fore 'lection aint
wuth a Bungtown copper.
Wuz, was, sometimes were.
Yaller, yellow.
Yeller, yellow.
Yellers, a disease of peach-trees.
Zack, Ole, a second Washington, an antislavery slaveholder; a humane
buyer and seller of men and women, a Christian hero generally.