Huck Finn Slang Vocabulary - Hamburg Central School District
Huck Finn Slang Vocabulary - Hamburg Central School District
Huck Finn Slang Vocabulary - Hamburg Central School District
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Short Commentary<br />
There’s a lot in this chapter about the hostility which existed between the uneducated<br />
and the educated at the time, and about the naivety of ‘do-gooders’. Why do you think<br />
this hostility existed?<br />
Chapter 6<br />
<strong>Vocabulary</strong><br />
raised Cain caused a lot of trouble<br />
game birds (for eating)<br />
licked me beat me<br />
too handy with his hick’ry beat me too much<br />
welts swellings caused by being<br />
beaten<br />
chimbly chimney<br />
for wadding wadding was used in muzzleloading<br />
guns to stop the ball<br />
from rolling out and to compress<br />
the charge so that the ball<br />
would go further.<br />
toted carried<br />
some lines some fishing lines<br />
hollered shouted<br />
suthin’ something<br />
anear near<br />
mulatter mulatto (i.e. someone with both<br />
white and black ancestors)<br />
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