Skase

‘I have know’d strong men obleeged to make themselves uncommon skase for less. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I had wukked 'long wid Dave so much dat I knowed his tracks: he had a monst'us long foot, wid a holler instep, w'ich wuz sump'n skase 'mongs' black folks. ❋ Various (N/A)

W'en Sandy come back, Mars Marrabo gin 'im a dollar, en' lowed he wuz monst'us sorry fer ter break up de fambly, but de spekilater had gin 'im big boot, en times wuz hard en money skase, en so he wuz bleedst ter make de trade. ❋ Unknown (1888)

But schools was skase in them air days, and, besides, book-larnin 'don't do no good to a woman. ❋ Various (1887)

Bless yo 'soul, honey, "continued the old man, brightening' up, "w'en you git ole ez me -- w'en you see w'at I sees, en year w'at I years -- de creeturs dat you can't talk wid 'll be mighty skase -- dey will dat. ❋ Frederick Stuart (1881)

You better b'leeve dat w'en Mr. Dog got a chance to make hisse'f skase he tuck it, en w'at der wuz lef 'un him went skaddlin' thoo de woods like hit wuz shot outen a muskit. ❋ Frederick Stuart (1881)

Bless yo 'soul, honey, "continued the old man, brightening up," w'en you git ole ez me -- w'en you see w'at I sees, en year w'at I years -- de creeturs dat you can't talk wid'll be mighty skase -- dey will dat. ❋ Joel Chandler Harris (1878)

Dad run out to see what was to pay, but when he seed the hosses so close together, the passun spurrin ', and mam ridin' like close war skase whar she cum, he knew her fix in a second, and 'tarmined to help her; so clinchin' a sapplin ', he hid ❋ Unknown (1858)

'I have know'd strong men obleeged to make themselves uncommon skase for less. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

He wuz de wickedes 'an' han'sumest man en de richest man in dat secshun, en when he got drunk an 'got on his big black hoss, he would shoot de fust nigger whut crossed his path, en when he wuz drunk, de niggers wuz mi'ty skase eround. ❋ James Tandy Ellis (1905)

'im big boot, en times wuz hard en money skase, en so he wuz bleedst ter make de trade. ❋ Various (N/A)

He couldn't spend money for "victuals"; "money's too skase fur buying things on the road," he said, "I was 'lowin' ter fill up arter I done reach ❋ Unknown (1897)

"[That fool] is [trying to] [get some] skase out of us" ❋ Appstatewhiteboy (2006)

He [saw] [the cops] [coming] and he skased it. ❋ Quirriff (2004)

"Skase re [malaka]" "Skase gamw [thn] panaxaikh [mou]" ❋ Malakas Me Arhidia (2021)