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Word: hollerin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...many skunks hev you ed'tors act'ally ketch'd? Au' all them classy letter-writers a-hollerin' their heads off? How many of 'em are honest-to-goodness skunk hunters? It's one thing to say ya hate skunks--altogether another matter when they's hunt'd. 'Course they do, dadgum it! They don't like it. Truly yours, The Old Minuteman (As reported by Kenneth D. Robertson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A VARMINT IN THE VERNACULAR | 3/17/1954 | See Source »

...Cartoonist Al Capp always stepped in, in time's nick, with a save. Once, at the crucial moment, a gas explosion blasted Abner into a tree out of Daisy Mae's reach. Another time, after Preacher Sam had completed the $1.25 ceremony (with "hootin' an' hollerin', catch-as-catch-can rasslin' . . . and several embarrassin' jokes told in a loud voice as yo' departs on yore honeymoon"), Li'l Abner was reprieved; his marriage license had expired. But this week the most unthinkable is happening. Man of Honor. As all Al Capp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Unthinkable | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

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