tolt

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He tolt me thar couldn't nobody git up thar whar they'd gone; no white folks, I mean.

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  1. In old English law, a writ whereby a cause depending in a court-baron was removed into a county court.

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  • Now he aint nuthin butts tha bully thets he be a despisin. ((wisperin:)) Has enyune tolt ol furster thet his peeps wun tha lection?
  • It is so sad that members of the church call it the morman church even tho they have been tolt time after time it is not. —  Boston.com Most Popular
  • Ha ha ... tRuth be tolt ... aint nuthin better then we Righties would liek to do but to TORTURE a few of yall. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • I member listenin to a interview with him and he tolt us that hed say things liek ... —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • Even this word has some excuse for being, in that it is a deformed member of a good family, having come from the Latin, tollit_, been transformed into the early English "tolt," and thus into what I believe to be a purely American word Other expressions which struck me as being characteristic of the South are "stop by," as for instance, "I will stop by for you," meaning, "I will call for you in passing"; "don't guess," as "I don't guess I'll come"; and "Yes indeedy!" —  American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
 

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  1. from Middle Latin tolta (Old French tolte, etc.), from Latin tollere, take away: see toll.
 

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