wrath

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Like all wrath, i. e. violently; vehemently; angrily. A Southern simile.


There ain't much to interest the traveller on the railroad from Hamburg to Charleston. Most of the passengers in the car were preachers what had been up to Augusta to attend the convention. They was the dryest set of old codgers I ever met with, till the jolting of the cars shook up their ideas a little, and then they fell to disputin' like all wrath.--Maj. Jones's Travels.

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