gemmun

“Tack ye summers, gemmun?” the driver said in a completely unintelligible accent.

To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997

"Well, suh," he admitted, "Ah finds that gemmun gen'ly does change they min's erbout me, aftuh they done cut er melon, like."

The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906

"Den, gemmun, yer oughten seed dat race; dem birds dey done dey leb'l bes ', but Nancy Jane O, spite er all dey could do, she gaint on 'em, an' ole Pigunawaya he sot up dar, an 'he kep' er urg'n an 'er urg'n Nancy Jane O. "'Dat's you!' sezee; 'git erhead!' sezee.

Diddi, Dumps, and Tot 1882

Wen hit comes ter s'ords an 'famines, I tell yer, gemmun, hit's nip an' tuck.

Diddi, Dumps, and Tot 1882

When they sang "I ac 'gemmun moshuns," he would stick his hat on one side of his head, take a walking-cane in his hand, and strut back and forth, to represent a gentleman.

Diddi, Dumps, and Tot 1882

Takes a limber-toe gemmun fer ter jump Jim Crow, '

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

"Oh, I'm a waitin 'on a culled gemmun fum Savannah -- wunner deze yer high livers you bin tellin' 'bout."

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

When they sang "I ac 'gemmun moshuns," he would stick his hat on one side of his head, take a walking-cane in his hand, and strut back and forth, to represent a gentleman.

Diddie, Dumps, and Tot : Or, Plantation Child-Life Louise Clarke Pyrnelle 1878

Wen hit comes ter s'ords an 'famines, I tell yer, gemmun, hit's nip an' tuck.

Diddie, Dumps, and Tot : Or, Plantation Child-Life Louise Clarke Pyrnelle 1878

"Oh, I'm a waitin 'on a culled gemmun fum Savannah -- wunner deze yer high livers you bin tellin' 'bout."

Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878