lock-a-do

Updated: May 18, 2025

"Now look heah," cried the crone, growing angrier and angrier as the reaches of the insult spread itself before her, "is you gwine to put one o' us niggers befo' de udder? Ca'se ef you is, I mus' say, it's Kady- lock-a-do' wid me." The Captain looked up satirically. "What do you mean by Katie-lock-the-door with you?" he asked, though he had an uneasy feeling that he knew. "You know whut I means.

T. S. Stribling - Birthright: A Novel