jint

• “I've seen the time it'd take me ten minutes to git my mouth from the waterhole an 'come to my feet -- every jint crackin' an 'kickin' fit to kill.”

  GRIT OF WOMEN

• “Capting bent just one jint of his back very slitely; I retund his stare with equill hottiness.”

  The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters

• “But suddenly he looked around and said: "Gen-tul-men, my jaw's flew out'n jint!”

  Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales

• “The first time you was caught trying to read or write, you was whipped with a cow-hide, the next time with a cat-o-nine tails and the third time they cut the first jint offen your forefinger.”

  Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives

• “He then sent for his feller worms, and they licked me from skull to toe-jint.”

  Strange Visitors

• “He said 'Niggers' wuz made by de good Lawd to work, and onct when my Uncle stole a book and wuz a trying to learn how to read and write, Marse Jasper had the white doctor take off my Uncle's fo 'finger right down to de' fust jint '.”

  Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3

• “It'm _me_, dat libs up yere in de brain, an 'sends my _will_ fru ebery part -- fru ebery siner, an' ebery muscle, an 'ebery little jint, an' make'm all do jess what I like.”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

• “Isn't it the intercourse with this here country that enables them to speak their very language with something rayther like a leetle correctness, though they're just about as far behind us as the last jint of the sea-sarpent is from his eye-tooth?”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841

• “HAMBO: (To BRAZZLE) Say, Matt, gimme a jint or two of dat green cane -- dis ribbon cane is hard.”

  The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts

• “One crowd formed a jint-stock company, an 'sold shares, an' skun a whole pile of money outer people.”

  The Voyage of the Hoppergrass

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