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- noun
Eye dialect spelling ofjoint .
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Examples
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I've seen the time it'd take me ten minutes to git my mouth from the waterhole an 'come to my feet -- every jint crackin' an 'kickin' fit to kill.
GRIT OF WOMEN 2010
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Capting bent just one jint of his back very slitely; I retund his stare with equill hottiness.
Burlesques 2006
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Capting bent just one jint of his back very slitely; I retund his stare with equill hottiness.
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006
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Isn't it the intercourse with this here country that enables them to speak their very language with something rayther like a leetle correctness, though they're just about as far behind us as the last jint of the sea-sarpent is from his eye-tooth?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 Various
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The first time you was caught trying to read or write, you was whipped with a cow-hide, the next time with a cat-o-nine tails and the third time they cut the first jint offen your forefinger.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration
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It'm _me_, dat libs up yere in de brain, an 'sends my _will_ fru ebery part -- fru ebery siner, an' ebery muscle, an 'ebery little jint, an' make'm all do jess what I like.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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But suddenly he looked around and said: "Gen-tul-men, my jaw's flew out'n jint!"
Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor
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He then sent for his feller worms, and they licked me from skull to toe-jint.
Strange Visitors Henry J. Horn
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He said 'Niggers' wuz made by de good Lawd to work, and onct when my Uncle stole a book and wuz a trying to learn how to read and write, Marse Jasper had the white doctor take off my Uncle's fo 'finger right down to de' fust jint '.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration
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HAMBO: (To BRAZZLE) Say, Matt, gimme a jint or two of dat green cane -- dis ribbon cane is hard.
The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts Langston Hughes 1934
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