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Word: sluggin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...motel?" he said. "Motel's strung, kimmie, but pike in the nook an' whittle a slib by the jeffer. Got enough zeese for a gormin' tidric. You from Belk?" We repeated our question, more slowly. He seemed to understand. "There's a nonch sluggin' nook ye can pike to," he said and gestured up the road. We thanked him and went back to our rented car, which wouldn't start. Finally, we walked the way he pointed, found the rickety New Boonville Hotel, roused a pale clerk, and were shown to a room where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Harpin' Boont in Boonville | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...steak. Gano is the name of a very hard kind of apple they used to grow in the valley and, by extension, Boontling for all apples. Bacon is bowrp (a contraction of boar pig), eggs are easters, as in "If I don't shy to the sluggin' region [sleeping place] soon, I may as well set me a jeffer and gorm bowrp and casters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Harpin' Boont in Boonville | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

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