boocoo

"Eat too much, Baby Commie, too much. Get boocoo fat." "You fat, Gl all fat, me get fat, too." "But Baby Commie very pretty, uh, you know, boocoo dep, before fat." "Dep no good live. Eat, fat, boocoo okay live."

1973, Wayne Karlin, Basil T. Paquet, Larry Rottmann, Free fire zone: short stories by Vietnam veterans:

I saw the same detective at Santa Monica and Franklin several times. He was always chatting with a neighbor lady. She wore a dark green dress one day and showed boocoo back. The zipper was stuck above her bra strap.

2010, James Ellroy, The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women, Vintage, →ISBN, page 15:

"There's a boocoo bunch of destruction comin' our way," one of the calmer analysts muttered to himself.

2012, Bruce Biller, The God-Man: Seed of Satan, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 113:


youah

But you keep youah house here, youah Newport villa, youah château at Cannes. Whereas, if you broke the will and secured youah dower, youah income would not permit such extravagances.

1918, George Bronson-Howard, Birds of Prey: Being Pages from the Book of Broadway, page 84:

"Put away youah money! Eve'ything is free heah."

"Mahry Lou, Ah'm not foolin' wid yo'. — Youah cuhrtain dah at mah windah, youah baid spread hyah on ma bed, youah sham hyah on ma pillah, youah rug hyah on ma floo', youah good rockin' chahr obah dah ...

1991, Angelina Weld Grimké, Selected Works of Angelina Weld Grimké, Oxford University Press on Demand, →ISBN, page 344:

I will keep youah camp. I will clean the animals of the hunt. I will make the hides soft. I will bring the wood and keep the fahr. One day—I bring you a son—and you will happy.” Starr put his arms down around her shoulders.

2009, Phillip Obenchain, Refrain of the Night Wind, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 363:

2016, Mary A. Livermore, The Story of My Life: Sunshine and Shadows of Seventy Years, BIG BYTE BOOKS
Debbie jess yit, Ike Martin, quit youah stealin', an' of you doan, de ole Dragon '11 cotch you in de woods some dark night! Ben Solger, stop youah lyin'!”

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of your.


more than one cares to mention

It became the toughest of watches – the kind that England’s supporters have endured more times than they care to mention over the years.

2020 September 5, David Hytner, “Raheem Sterling keeps his cool to see off Iceland amid blaze of late drama”, in The Guardian:

too much or too many; an excessive amount of


any and every

Any without exception; used for emphasis.


whoever's

Given the observance of the provisions of clause 2 of this article, the organization and its property, wherever and at whoever's disposal it is, shall enjoy immunity from any form of legal interference.

1994, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, FBIS Report: Central Eurasia - Issues 107-111, The Service, page 35:

Messrs Denton and Denton will sell it to whoever's need is greatest, whoever's purse is deepest, whoever will most recklessly mortgage his future, whoever is of its desirers the most pound-puissant.

1999, Vikram Seth, An Equal Music, Penguin Books India, →ISBN, page 339:

And unless they do this, they have granted for themselves and their heirs and executors and for all others holding their lands and tenements in future, to whoever's hand they might come, that the barons of the Exchequer are to cause the aforesaid sacks of wool or the price of the same to be levied from their goods, lands, tenements and chattels.

2006, Paul Dryburgh, Advance Contracts for the Sale of Wool C. 1200 - C. 1327, List and Index Society, →ISBN, page 45:


this, that, and the third

this, that, and the other
this, that, and the other#English

Alternative form of this, that, and the other.


wch

There is also at my ffarme a long paper booke bound in parchment , such a one as my Inventory booke in my closet at Boston wᶜʰ I mentioned before, wᶜʰ booke I comonly keepe in that roome at my ffarme wᶜʰ I keepe locked up for my owne use, in wᶜʰ is the pticulʳˢ of the charges & profitts that I make of my ffarme ev’y yeare with an accoᵗᵗ of the Corne & Apples & Butter & Cheese that is made & where they are with some debts therein due to me & some other accoᵗᵗˢ to be Kept & pused

1653, “Will of Robert Keayne, 1653”, in A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Containing Miscellaneous Paperrs, Boston, Mass.: Rockwell and Churchill, published 1886, page 41:

As to your letter, for wᶜʰ I thanke you, I willingly acknowledge yᵉ Trinity in Unity, and Xᵗ to be not meer man but true God, in yᵉ Scripture sense, therefore I am a Christian.[…]For yᵉ present I must denie yᵗ major, viz. He that denieth yᵗ in Xᵗ wᶜʰ is most essential in him, denieth Xᵗ, for admit your minor was true, yet Jesus was called Xᵗ, in respect of his unction[…]Maldonati in Evang. thinkes yᵗ yᵉ disciples did not know yᵉ eternal generation, till after yᵉ resurrection, and yet they knew yᵗ Jesus was yᵉ Xᵗ, yᵉ Sonne of yᵉ living God, wᶜʰ seem to be used as words of the same importance, Matth. xvi. 16, John vi. 69, and Mark and Luke say only—Thou art yᵉ Xᵗ, and for this confession were declared blessed.

c. 1680, [Gilbert Clerke], To Baxter, on the Right of Antitrinitarians to be esteemed Christians; republished as “Original Letters from the Baxter Manuscripts in Dr. Williams’s Library”, in The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, volume XIX, number CCXXIV, Hackney: […] George Smallfield; […] Sherwood, Jones, and Co., […], 1824 August, page 452:

[…]& Xt taught himself that it was expedient he went, as outwardly, that he might send them that wᶜʰ would be better for them & wᵗ was that, but his own appearance in Spirit.

1692 November 29, W[illia]m Penn, [To Robert Turner], page 356; republished as “Fruits of Solitude, 1692–1694”, in Marianne S. Wokeck, Joy Wiltenburg, Alison Duncan Hirsch, Craig W. Horle, Richard S[lator] Dunn, and Mary Maples Dunn, editors, The Papers of William Penn, volume three, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986, →ISBN:


noman's

(obsolete) Not belonging to or created by mankind.


him's

You ain’t Em’s bitch, you just regular him’s bitch

2020, Eminem, “Guns Blazing”, in Music to Be Murdered By:


whatlike

There was nothing but eggs, butter, and cheese in the house, and the lady demurred: whatlike fare was that to set before a prince?

1895, George Eyre-Todd, Scotland Picturesque and Traditional, page 270:


every single

"[...] you must take turns in writing to me, children!"
"Every single day, mother!"
"Every single thing that happens."

1911, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mother Carey's Chickens:

“Sorry, love, they all look the same to me,” said Dad, desperately trying to spot one with a particularly pink nose. “Armitage? ARMITAGE!” called Zoe. All the rats eeked. Every single one of them wanted to escape.
“We’ll just have to set them all free,” said Zoe.

2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

Sybil had picked armfuls of lilies and daisies and roses from the garden and every single gladiolus, gathering them in the earliest morning when they were fresh and packing them carefully into an applebox on the carrier of her bike.

2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 104:

Every, without any exceptions. (used for emphasis)


a fair few

An indefinite and somewhat large number; more than a few; a fair number of.


a fair few

An indefinite and somewhat large number.


thylke

By Woden, God of Saxons, / From whence comes Wensday, that is Wodensday, / Truth is a thing that ever I will keep / Unto thylke day in which I creep into / My sepulchre--

1819, Washington Irving, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon:

Alternative form of thilk (“that same”).


whoseso

Women and land are hand-maidens of the sword, whoseso sword conquereth them, to him do they belong. In whoseso house the sword is pulled from the fist of the wielder, there is there no virile power, no moustache nor beard.

1893, Malika Mohammada Jāyasī, Sir George Abraham Grierson, A Specimen of the Padumawati with an Analysis of the Entire Poem, page 202:


shis

(rare, neologism, gender-neutral) Belonging to them; their.


woat

Alternative form of WOAT (“worst of all time”).


just enough

From just (“merely”) + enough (“sufficient”).

(set phrase) The minimum amount necessary for something.


eithers

Nor Court nor Citie had ſhe ſeene, yeat eithers prayſe ſhe had: / So much more vvorth by hovve much leſſe ſhe vvas vn-nicely clad.

1602, William Warner, “The Seventh Booke. Chapter XXXVI.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 173:

[T]he friends that in one Couch did ſleep, / Each others blade in eithers breſt do ſteep: / And all the Camp with head-les dead is ſowen, / Cut-off by Cozen-ſwords, kill'd by their owne.

1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His Second Weeke, […]. Abraham. […].] The Captaines. The IIII. Part of the III. Day of the II. Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 499:

That eithers friends, adherents, and ſequels, ſhould be comprehended in the truce, and that the truce ſhould extend it ſelfe to the titlers in Britaine and their ſides; and that the Cardinals ſhould doe their beſt to obtaine abſolution from the ſentence of Interdict executed vpon the Countrey of Flaunders.

1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 72, page 575, column 1:

Ganges (that great, rich and deified river which ſay the Bannyans iſſues out of a rock at Siba formed like a Cowes head) a whiles forbad them, reſtranyning eithers fury, ſave what volleyed from the roring guns to eithers prejudice.

1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book I, page 91:

[A]middle of meeting waters of river Yssia and Essia river on this one of eithers lone navigable lake piously Kevin, […]

1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part IV, page 605:


quite some

"Yes, a number of days ago. We had quite some important business to transact. He said he would come back the next day and sign some papers, and fix up some other matters. But he didn't come."

1913, Arthur M. Winfield, “Chapter 15”, in The Rover Boys in New York:

It's been quite some time since we've just sat down together for a quiet meal. Nobody's going to interrupt us, so we can talk during supper.”


thuck

(obsolete) Alternative form of thilk (“that same”).


thuck

(dated, rare) The sound of a bullet or missile striking a target.


sev'ral

en-adj

sev'ral (comparative more sev'ral, superlative most sev'ral)

more sev'ral (comparative)
most sev'ral (superlative)

(archaic or poetic) Contraction of several.


not one

Not one student had done the homework!

And guess how many students had done the homework? Not one!

Not one of my shirts is ironed.


them there

There's trolls in them there mountains!


xeir

Dismounting from xeir horse, xey approached stealthily, not making a sound […]

2025, Michel Nieva, Dengue Boy, page 56:

(nonstandard, possessive) Alternative spelling of xir Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with his and her.


deez

(humorous) Pronunciation spelling of these.