I looked in two dictionaries and didn't find it. lied about it being in the dictionary (I wasn't gullible and knew he was lying), but like you figured it plausibly could be in pre Civil War or Civil Rights era dictionaries.
An American dictionary of the English language, published 1852. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t0bv8rn1n&view=1up&seq=703
Webster's new modern English dictionary, published 1922. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t21c38g05&view=1up&seq=670
I looked in two dictionaries and didn't find it. @JewsControlYou lied about it being in the dictionary (I wasn't gullible and knew he was lying), but like you figured it plausibly could be in pre Civil War or Civil Rights era dictionaries.
An American dictionary of the English language, published 1852.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t0bv8rn1n&view=1up&seq=703
Webster's new modern English dictionary, published 1922.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t21c38g05&view=1up&seq=670
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