skunt

Back when my friends and I were undergrads, I lived for the tales about their "skunt"!

The University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt 2010

ORLANDI: Did you see your skunt (ph) -- your son Quinny (ph), skating back toward that area?

CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2002 2002

De nex 'time Sandy wuz turnt back he had a big skyar on his lef' leg, des lack it be'n skunt; en it tuk Tenie nigh 'bout all night fer ter fix a mixtry ter kyo it up.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

De nex 'time Sandy wuz turnt back he had a big skyar on his lef' leg, des lack it be'n skunt; en it tuk Tenie nigh 'bout all night fer ter fix a mixtry ter kyo it up.

Po' Sandy 1888

'All right,' sez de Woodpecker; an 'de Robin, she cotch er good grip on his feet, an' she brace herse'f up 'gins er bush, an 'pullt wid all her might, an' atter er wile she fotch 'im thu; but she wuz bleeged ter lef' his topnot behin ', fur his head wuz skunt des ez clean ez yer han'; 'twuz jes ez raw, honey, ez er piece er beef.

Diddi, Dumps, and Tot 1882

En he want mo'n gone 'fo' Brer Rabbit, he whirl in en skunt de cow en salt de hide down, en den he tuck'n cut up de kyarkiss en stow it 'way in de smoke-'ouse, en den he tuck'n stick de een' er de cow-tail in de groun '.

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

"Well, den, dey tuck'n kilt a cow, en 't wa'n't dey own cow, en alter dey done skunt 'er Brer Rabbit, he up'n' low, he did, dat ef Brer Fox wanter git de good er de game, he better run home en fetch a tray er sump'n fer put de jiblets in."

Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

En he wa'n't mo'n gone 'fo' Brer Rabbit, he whirl in en skunt de cow en salt de hide down, en den he tuck'n cut up de kyarkiss en stow it 'way in de smoke-'ouse, en den he tuck'n stick de een' er de cow-tail in de groun '.

Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878

'All right,' sez de Woodpecker; an 'de Robin, she cotch er good grip on his feet, an' she brace herse'f up 'gins er bush, an 'pullt wid all her might, an' atter er wile she fotch 'im thu; but she wuz bleeged ter lef' his topnot behin ', fur his head wuz skunt des ez clean ez yer han'; 'twuz jes ez raw, honey, ez er piece er beef.

Diddie, Dumps, and Tot : Or, Plantation Child-Life Louise Clarke Pyrnelle 1878

"Well, den, dey tuck'n kilt a cow, en 't wa'n't dey own cow, en alter dey done skunt 'er Brer Rabbit, he up'n' low, he did, dat ef Brer Fox wanter git de good er de game, he better run home en fetch a tray er sump'n fer put de jiblets in."

Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878