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n. (eye dialect of figure English) vb. (eye dialect of figure English)
Usage examples of "figger".
One them letters you brought down here to me last week was from Walid Pasha asking me to send them some more of them, and I been studying that one at odd times trying to figger is it any way to make them simpler to make.
I was seeing the first couple times I flew over, but then I thought about it and figgered they were too regular to be natural, so I went over real low and real slow and finally landed.
Well, I figgered that if the helmet could let me speak mind to mind with peoplethe Indians of both tribes, the Spanish and so onit might work on animals .
I likewise fixt a wax figger up to represent Sir Edmun Hed the Govner Ginral.
Hubba hubba, ding ding Baby, you got everything What a face, what a figger!
I tole her I am quittin the encyclopedia bidness to go up to Atlanta an help Alfred make his new CokeCola, an that I figger I got to do this, account of it is a lot of money involved an we need to fix up little Forrest with some backup income.
He looked like a ghost, an I am wonderin how he wound up in such sorry shape, especially after all the money he got from our srimpin bidness, but I figger there is time to ast about that later.
Me, I figger I might have found some kind of career in this bidness, so's I can send some money home for little Forrest.
Richmond, but he lives in histry, and his equestrian figger may be seen daily for a sixpence, in conjunction with other em'nent persons, and no extra charge for the Warder's able and bootiful lectur.
Thay lookt putty scrumpshus in their Bloo coats with brass buttings onto um & ware very talented drinkers, but so fur as fitin is consarned I'd willingly put my wax figgers agin the hull party.
At sum futur time I shall continner my remarks on the drammer in which I shall show the varst supeeriority of wax figgers and snakes over theater plays, in a interlectooal pint of view.
The way we figger it, we is gonna go down to Bayou La Batre, where po ole Bubba come from, an get us some marsh land off the Gulf of Mexico someplace.
But after a wile, when they figgered I had learnt somethin from the oak tree, they put me back with the three guys an the ball carrier an then got mad I didn't jump on him real vicious-like after I moved the others out of the way.
I figger yo're a match for any wildman that ever come down the pike.
An' I's took me a pure lot offen you, cause you's a furriner and I figgered me mebbe they don't teach folks decent manners where you come from.