howdied

But dey all howdied, en Miss Meadows, she up'n say: --

Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

They howdied, but there was a sort of coolness between them on account of the fact that Brother Buzzard had been going about the neighborhood making his brags and his boasts that he could outfly Brother Crow.

Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country Joel Chandler Harris 1878

But dey all howdied, en Miss Meadows, she up'n say:

Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

“We’ve howdied at the AFN convention, but I don’t think you could say we’ve shook,”

A Taint in the Blood Stabenow, Dana 2004

I’ve howdied, as they say, with just about everyone who has lived or is living in it.

A Grave Denied Stabenow, Dana 2003

He’d been posted to the Park the year before she graduated from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, and they had howdied when she spent her vacations in the Park, but they hadn’t really shook until she had quit working as an investigator for the Anchorage district attorney and had come home with attitude to spare and a scar that stretched across her throat almost from ear to ear.

A Fine and Bitter Snow Stabenow, Dana 2002