W.

Wake snakes, _to get into trouble_.

Wal, _well_;

spoken with great deliberation, and sometimes with the _a_ very much

flattened, sometimes (but more seldom) very much broadened.

Wannut, _walnut_ (_hickory_).

Ware, _where_.

Ware, _were_.

Whopper, _an uncommonly large lie_;

as, that General Taylor is in favour of the Wilmot Proviso.

Wig, _Whig_;

a party now dissolved.

Wiz, _to whiz_;

_go off_ (like a rocket).

Wunt, _will not_.

Wus, _worse_.

Wut, _what_.

Wuth, _worth_;

as, _Antislavery perfessions 'fore 'lection aint wuth a Bungtown

copper_.

Wuz, _was_, sometimes _were_.

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