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tellin'
vb. (eye dialect of telling English)
Usage examples of "tellin'".
He seemed almost morbid on the subject, and would dispute himself half a hour, to get a thing or a story he wuz tellin' jest exactly right.
But suffice it to say that after a long explanation my companion at last gin in that the man wuz a tellin' the truth, and it wuz the lower part of a tree-trunk, that growed once near the Yo Semity valley of California.
He owned up that he had dreaded tellin' me about it, for fear I would upbraid him.