Colloquialisms are dialects, slang, idioms, and other variations of English
Dialect
I reckon (I think)
Spile (ruin)
Bully taw
Mighty (very)
Idioms
Dialect
- Yaller (Yellow)
- 'taint so (not so)
- Ain't (isn't)
- tollable
- your'n
- Furder (farther)
- Warn't
- Becuz
- Injun
- Swaller
- Hendering (hindering)
- Pard
- Genuwyne
I reckon (I think)
Spile (ruin)
Bully taw
Mighty (very)
Idioms
- Tom hung fire
- Breath in her nostrils
- Sin't dressed fitten
- Who's hendering you?
- When the long night comes
- Sudden falling of his mercury
- By and by
- Spile her looks
- Look mighty sharp
- Divide up perfectly square
- Been on my pens a little
- Snaked me out of the wet
- Pretty thin (not believable)
- Bloodiest-looking villain
- Look mighty sharp