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- noun Plural form of
jint .
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Examples
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I've limbered my jints too long in the land to git caught nappin '.
CHAPTER 10 2010
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‘’Tis only my jints that have kept me from assembling myself long ago.
Two on a Tower 2006
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And I'm not talking about some worthless half-game lead over the jints . . . oh no.
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“Wants oiling about the jints,” was his conclusion,
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'If you ask me candid, I should say that glue would be the best liniment to patch _them_ jints!'
The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell
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With all of my six years 'wide experience, I always learned something new from Uncle Jake and somehow I enjoyed the musty smell of the dark cabin, the strings of red pepper draped in festoons, twists of "chawing baccer" and bunches of onions which hung from the rafters and the soft goose feather bed which Uncle Jake said warded off dampness and kept him from having "the misery in his stiff ol' jints ".
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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Well, dinnertime come, suppertime come, and I was gittin 'shaky in my jints when her Daddy went to feed his hogs and I went along wid him.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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I was took quite aback when she held out her little hand for mine; I felt kinder delicate like that she should see my big jints.
Strange Visitors Henry J. Horn
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Ah! it give me what-for in my jints, and no end of a thundering thust;
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 Various
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People's jints bain't made to hold out for ever-'n-ever.
The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell
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