eatin'
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eatin'
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- Pronunciation spelling of eating.
- 1864, George S[earle] Phillips, The Gypsies of the Danes’ Dike. A Story of Hedge-Side Life in England, in the Year 1855., Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, page 138:
- You may be sure they did n’t forget their eatin’s an’ drinkin’s nuther; nor the vengeance they had vowed to hev.
- 1896, Maria Louise Pool, “Ristus Leads the Way”, in In Buncombe County, Chicago, Ill.: Herbert S. Stone & Company, page 53:
- THE woman who entertained us in her cabin had complimented us on “doin’ mighty well at our eatin’s,” and we deserved the remark.
- 1907, “X. Z. Q. V. D.”, in The Brecky, Washington, D.C.: the senior class of Central High School, page 97:
- “Have some more meetin’s, / And get lots of eatin’s.”
- 1919 April, Louise Breitenbach Clancy, “Barterers”, in The Canadian Home Journal, volume fifteen, number twelve, Toronto, Ont.: The Canadian Women’s Magazine Publishing Co., Limited, page 9, column 2:
- “Search me,” Becky retorted flippantly, “sooner we get home and make our eatin’s, Yetta’s went. I don’t ask her nothin’. She don’t tell me nothin’, but,” with a sarcastic laugh, “I just pretty near guess I know.”
- 1921 September 1, Eleanor H[odgman] Porter, “Oh, Money! Money!”, in The Chinook Advance, volume VII, number 49, Chinook, Alta., page [6], column 2:
- You eat out of it, some way—I mean, it cooks things ter eat; an’ Bess wants one. Gussie Pennock’s got one. All our eatin’s different, ’seems so, on the West Side.
- 1941, Frederick H. Koch, editor, Carolina Folk-Plays, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, page 249:
- Katherine. Got anything for supper? Kizzie. Got a plenty for them that’s not so partic’ler about their eatin’s.
- 1979, Mitchell Caine, Worship the Wind, New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Gold Medal, →ISBN, page 415:
- My woman done offer ter share our eatin’s, but Miz Oakes, I reck she too proud ter eat nigger eatin’s.
- 1994, Judith A. Hamer, Martin J. Hamer, editors, Centers of the Self: Stories by Black American Women from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, New York, N.Y.: Hill and Wang, →ISBN, page 304:
- I’m goin’ into town to the store for you and git your eatin’s or anythin’ else you want.
- 1996, Nancy J. Martin-Perdue, Charles L. Perdue Jr., editors, Talk About Trouble: A New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression, Chapel Hill, N.C., London: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 118:
- We hadn’t much in the camp to eat; it was our day to go fer supplies an’ our eatin’s was low.
- 2000, Michael Kilian, Murder at Manassas: A Harrison Raines Civil War Mystery, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 18:
- He’s goin’ out there in a carriage and four, all kinds of eatin’s and drinkin’s, two revolvers, a rifle, and a saddle horse tied on behind.