What is "wuz"

Usage examples of "wuz".

No, he druther hunt after catamounts and painters, in woods where catamounts haint mounted, and painters haint painted sence he wuz born.

But it wuz duskish before we got to the turn of the road, and considerable dark before we got to the Corners.

And at the end of the 3d day I gently tackled him agin on the subject, and his state wuz such, bland, serene, happified, that he consented without a parlay.

He too had heerd the fearful word and his princeples too wuz rousted up.

Up, up, up, it soars as if it wuz bound to reach up into the very heavens, and carry up there these idees of ourn about Free Rights, and National Liberty.

And he sez, if Ardelia had forgot him in so short a time, mebby it wuz the best thing he could do, to try and forget her.

Miss Smedley wuz hypoey and spleeny -- and thought she wuz sicker than she really wuz.

And old Miss Abraham now, and Miss Isaac -- what stay to home wimmen they wuz, and equinomical!

No, all the preperations she had to make wuz to wrop her mantilly a little closter round her, and all Mr.

I argued with him, and talked well on the subject, eloquent, but it wuz of no use, I might as well have argued with the wind in March.

Aunt Polly Pixley wuz the only one who received the intelligence gladly.

Miss Pixley wuz very well off though they lived in a little mite of a dark, low, lonesome house, with some tall Pollard willows in front of the door in a row, and jest acrost the road from a grave-yard.

She measured off the breadths kinder trembly, and seemed so anxious to pacify me that she got it a leetle shorter in the back than it wuz in the front.

Why I have known a short tower to Slab City or Loontown act like a charm on my pardner, when crossness wuz in his mean and snappishness wuz present with him.

The oldest one wuz very sharp in her face and had a pair of small round eyes that seemed when they were sot onto you to sort a bore into you like two gimlets.