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Word: hackydam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1954-1954
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Usage:

...native Kentuckian . . . I was puzzled with "Hot as hackydam" and " 'whittledycut' -which in Kentucky means a real fine horse race." Would it be unkind to suggest that such expressions may have been used by infiltrators of the Pennyroyal . . . or that your correspondent had been investigating that special flavor the limestone imparts to the bourbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 26, 1954 | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...busier day at the state VFW encampment. That night Republican Cooper and the Democrat who is running against him, grizzled old Alben Barkley, had spoken at a sweltering, shirtsleeve banquet (the 106-degree temperature, said a native, was not as hot as hell; it was as hot as hackydam -four miles below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Whittledycut | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

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