The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell Part 109

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 Was.h.i.+ngton, an antislavery slaveholder; a humane buyer and seller of men and women, a Christian hero generally_.