Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A young one; a boy, babe, bairn, urchin, chit, chicken, sapling, etc.
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Examples
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“An when anybody tries tu tell me or mine that Protestant preachers an public schools is fit fu decent, God-fearing Americans, I tells um, ‘Well, I never say nothing bad about nobody, butcha oughta read u papers an listen to Father Moneyhan.’”
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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We divided um up last night—kinda crowds a person, butcha gotta do somethen—them little kids, an it cold.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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Lots u fun; butcha gotta line up an push—hard—real hard, like they was a door in front a yu an a fire behind yu.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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There he left her with her _butcha_, [3] my half-brother, and journeyed toward the setting sun to look upon the face of his father the Jam Saheb.
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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And I don’t know how you hid from my camera on Friday night–butcha did!
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“Christ yu meant it tu be—butcha couldn’t find no face fu him.”
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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Mrs. Miller only nodded, I don’t neither, butcha gotta learn some time.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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If you’d stayed in th car like we said, we’d have their number now an—butcha didn’t; that’s that.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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It’s shorter tu go by du tracks, butcha gotta watch out onu tracks.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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"_Man, Sahib_! too much quentence have got that chee-chee woman; that chee-chee woman all same dam iscamp; paunch butcha not have got, -- one butcha not have got.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various
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From The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia:
"A young one; a boy, babe, bairn, urchin, chit, chicken, sapling, etc."
July 11, 2017