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Examples
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Oh, dat Br'er Rabbit and Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear and de tar baby, lawsy, lawsy ...
Another Child Star Gone Steve Perry 2010
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Oh, lawsy, where Wild Hunt lets you linger a few feet above the ground on the waft of violets, Rainforest insists you stick with the leaves and the needles and the ground and remember that this growing thing is vegetal, baby.
Dirt and Mothering ScentScelf 2009
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Oh, lawsy, where Wild Hunt lets you linger a few feet above the ground on the waft of violets, Rainforest insists you stick with the leaves and the needles and the ground and remember that this growing thing is vegetal, baby.
Archive 2009-05-01 ScentScelf 2009
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As she drove along the winding road to his hunting lodge, she had a premonition that he might be dead, and if so, lawsy-mercy, all of her plans would go up in smoke ... well, unless she talked to his heirs.
Shiver Jackson, Lisa 2006
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Oh lawsy … Wolcott has been surfing this afternoon … and has called out on his blog the whole “exchange” between the lovely but pissant Margaret and the intrepid Jane.
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Why, lawsy me! if he was tongue-tied an 'speechless, an'
Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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"He come here last fall looking mighty poor-like, but, lawsy me, he's as fine now as any man on the avenue."
The Adventures of a Boy Reporter Harry Steele Morrison
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"Oh, lawsy-massy-gollyation!" yelped the frightened darkey.
On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake Roy Rockwood
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"Fo 'de lawsy sake!" gasped Rad, and got a full breath again.
Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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"Lawsy, lawsy," she gasped, as Polly circled around her, dodging the children.
Polly of the Circus Margaret Mayo 1916
dpcooper commented on the word lawsy
I noticed that no definition was given for "lawsy" which is as best as I can tell Southern Negro dialect for "lordy". I could not find a way to offer this as a definition on your site.
February 14, 2011