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Examples
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*stares intu space, seeing nuffin an heering nuffin*
I’m telling you - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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An 'he mos' turn 'white an' he say, 'I sol' 'em down de ribber '; an' massa say, 'I'se a great mind to sell you down de ribber, too' -- but he nebber sol 'nuffin' -- gib us all our freedom.
Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870
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'Yas, my chil'ren, you hab started on a long journey, an' nuffin 'will git you fru it but _love_.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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"He's showin 'off now, but when he gits to bawlin', you ain't a gwine to make no mistake 'bout his bein 'nuffin' 'tal but a cry-baby," she continued, preparing to move on.
What Two Children Did Charlotte E. Chittenden
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He ain't gwine open he eyes fo 'nuffin', 'ca'se de wind go, "You-_you_-o-o-o!" an' de owls go,
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews
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They ain 'nuffin' to be skeered of 'bout Marse Wes.
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It's salt in yer blood makes scurvy, from libbin 'so long er eatin' nuffin 'but salt junk.
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And it was not to curry favor, but from a sincere belief that the one child should be caressed and loved, while the other must expect knocks and blows, being 'nuffin' but a nigga. '
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A few hyenas moaned, a few jackals barked: otherwise the first part of the night was silent, for the hunters were at their silent business, and the hunted were "layin 'low and sayin' nuffin '."
The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909
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` ` A gemmen in de circus done tole me dis mawnin 'dat ef I carry water fo' de el'phants, he'll let me in de circus fo 'nuffin', an 'I make a' greement wid him.
Polly of the Circus 1908
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