Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary

Abbreviations and Symbols Used in Text

xxxi abbreviations and symbols used in text a. = adjective or adjectival phrase ADD = Wentworth, American Dialect Dictionary adv. = adverb ATS = Berrey and Van den Bark, American Thesaurus of Slang cf. = consult, see by way of comparison. When this abbreviation appears before a cited glossary or dictionary, it indicates that the author is applying its information selectively, rather than verbatim. DAH = Mathews, Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles DAP = Taylor and Whiting, Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases DARE = Cassidy, Dictionary of American Regional English, Vol. 1 DARE 2 = Cassidy, Dictionary of American Regional English, Vol. 2 DARE 3 = Cassidy, Dictionary of American Regional English, Vol. 3 DARE 4 = Hall, Dictionary of American Regional English, Vol. 4 DAS = Wentworth and Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang DAS 3 = Chapman and Kipfer, Dictionary of American Slang DAUL = Goldin, O’Leary, and Lipsuis, Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo DC = Partridge, Dictionary of Clichés DCS = Green, Dictionary of Contemporary Slang EDD = Wright, English Dialect Dictionary F&H = Farmer and Henley, Slang and Its Analogues LC = Library of Congress (as opposed to commercial) recording n. = noun OED = Oxford English Dictionary Partridge = Partridge, Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English q.v. = which see SB = Partridge, Shakespeare’s Bawdy STY = Partridge, Slang To-Day and Yesterday TT = Eliason, Tarheel Talk UD = Urban Dictionary v. = verb or verbal phrase WD = Hendrickson, Whistlin’ Dixie ? = problematic definition; undecipherable passage within lyric Note:Partsofspeechareindicatedonlyinsofarastheyarehelpfulforclarification. The use of quote marks within lyrics indicates either a spoken utterance, or the singer’s representation of someone else’s (typically a girlfriend’s) words. ...