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Beautiful to see, pleasant to read, proper atmosphere, I've been following the story for almost an hour and I can't get away from it even if, at times, there are terms that I don't understand (like " Cowboy Scavver's" : i don't know what that mean) English is not my cup of tea ! Thats a very great,great job!
I Love it ! And your chracters are charismatics !
Found it -- Cowboy Glossary
- A word ending in "ing" becomes in' dropping the g. For example: She liked bein' under that huge blanket of stars.
- When you see o', it's usually "of". For example: There's a lot o' radiation here
- And ol' is old
- Wanna, shoulda, kinda, gonna. I suspect you've seen before. Want to, should have, kind of, going to
- I'll swanny = I'll swear meaning mild surprise or "I can't believe it"
- Well, I'll be = another expression of suprise. Short for "Well, I'll be damned." So the speaker doesn't have to say damned.
- Consarned: Darned or damned
- Daggum: just a curse. Probably came from God damn.
- Also dagnabbit and doggone = more curses. Means the same, used so the speaker doesn't have to take the Lord's name in vain.
- Shoot. As George Carlin used to say. Shoot, that's just sh** with two O's. But usually not meant to be as strong or harsh.
- (Cowboys, and Texans to this day, don't like to curse, or "cuss" as they say, in polite company. At least not the older ones.)
- jest = just (not the word joke or kid) It's just the way they pronounce "just".
- ya = you, yer = your
- y' all = you all, two or three people. And all y' all means a group of people.
- agin = again
- skeer = scare
- purty = pretty
- Pappy, Pa, Papa = father
- doohickey is used to name some complex item that's hard to pronounce or not understood
- prickly pear in this context means a difficult disagreeable person, in other words he has sharp needles on him
- thankee = thank thee or thank you
- hornswoggled = fooled, cheated
- polecat = skunk, a bad person
- shore = sure
- keller = color
- plumb = truly or surely Comes from a plumb bob showing a true vertical line.
- loco = crazy
- Punkin = pumpkin, a term of endearment like sweetie or dearest. Generally used for a daughter
- tarnation, a curse. A eupemism for damnation or damn it.
- beer goggles. Vision becomes cloudy after quite a few beers. A not so attractive girl or guy can look gorgeous as the night goes on.
- grub stake. money or other assistance furnished esp. to launch an enterprise.
- 'coon's age = raccoons life time. In other words a long time.
- hightail: to leave in a hurry, run fast. The dictionary says it originated from spooked mustangs. I thought it was white-tailed deer. Same difference.
-- burr under your saddle: riled, upset. A horse with a burr under it's saddle wouold be a very unhappy horse.
-- A sight better: quite a bit better.
-- smarts = intelligence
-- Elvis has a Memphis drawl, not quite deep south and not cowboy. He speaks slowly, and is kind of lazy in his pronunciation. So some word are slurred.
-- Ah = I, Ah'm = I'm
-- thuh = the
-- thum = them
-- jus' = just
-- mah = my
<3 Chelsy
Quite apart from that. SomewhatWindy hit the nail on the head. "Smooth Operator" indeed
Diamond life, lover boy
He move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy
City lights and business nights
Yeah, that fits.
Hahah love the light humour that you include :D
Always top work with the acting/staging and not forgetting the storylines :))
"GWIAOFSG"
Awesome chapter Laird!!! Billy is so good at this till now!
Now that he spotted Tony my interest skyrocketed as to what will happen next!
Excellent stuff Partner :)
always great "herding" and set up