: Sunday, June 14, 2015 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - A COUNTRY BOY REMEMBERS - GLOSSARY
Yonder -- some indeterminate location over yonder Where it at? Over
yonder sometimes with a nod of the head in a general direction
Plum wo out -- completely worn out
wawmehn -- a watermelon
all y'all
Yonder -- some indeterminate location over yonder Where it at? Over
yonder sometimes with a nod of the head in a general direction
Plum wo out -- completely worn out
wawmehn -- a watermelon
all y'all -- evvabody
--R
On 6/13/15 11:04 PM, WILTON via Mercedes wrote:
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Wachamacallit, wachamadoodle -- whatever you may call it - a thing
Warda, warder -- water
Way up yonh -- a long way up there
Well, I do declare. -- I'm amazed.
Weuns -- we, us
Wheelbar' -- wheelbarrow
'While ago -- a few minutes ago
Whir -- where
Whuppin'--
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Sent: Monday, June 8, 2015 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - A COUNTRY BOY REMEMBERS - GLOSSARY
You forgot, I'll swann which I think meant I'll swear but
Baptists never swore so swan it was. And Lawslaws
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Settin' hen -- a chicken hen sitting on eggs to incubate them
Sharif - sheriff
Sharp as a tack.-- very crisp, well defined, clean, neat, smart
Sheet berry -- cockle burr
She has let herself go. -- She is looking bad.
Sho'nuff, shore 'nuff, sure 'nuff --
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I lost my homework. -- I did not do my homework.
I'll be dog, I'll be doggone -- I'm amazed
In a bind, in a scrape/squeeze, in a tight -- in trouble, need money to pay
bills
In a family way -- pregnant
In high cotton -- got it made; doing very well
In hog
You forgot, I'll swann which I think meant I'll swear but
Baptists never swore so swan it was. And Lawslaws or Lawsamercy
which also substituted for lawdlawd etc.
And Rectum -- that boy drove them tars off the road and rectum. Had ta
git a coupla recaps ta fixem.
--R
On 6/8/15
: [MBZ] OT - A COUNTRY BOY REMEMBERS - GLOSSARY
You forgot, I'll swann which I think meant I'll swear but
Baptists never swore so swan it was. And Lawslaws or Lawsamercy which
also substituted for lawdlawd etc.
And Rectum -- that boy drove them tars off the road and rectum. Had ta
PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - A COUNTRY BOY REMEMBERS - GLOSSARY
Did anybody ever actually hear anybody say tin roof, rusted for
pregnancy? I've heard it used in music (most famously by the B52s) but
never actually heard anybody say it.
-Curt
From: Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes
) but never actually heard anybody
say it.
-Curt
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - A COUNTRY BOY REMEMBERS - GLOSSARY
You
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - A COUNTRY BOY REMEMBERS - GLOSSARY
You forgot, I'll swann which I think meant I'll swear but
Baptists never swore so swan it was. And Lawslaws or Lawsamercy
which also substituted for lawdlawd etc
: Re: [MBZ] OT - A COUNTRY BOY REMEMBERS - GLOSSARY
On 08/06/2015 4:44 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
Did anybody ever actually hear anybody say tin roof, rusted for
pregnancy? I've heard it used in music (most famously by the B52s) but
never actually heard anybody say it.
-Curt
Or how
On 08/06/2015 4:44 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
Did anybody ever actually hear anybody say tin roof, rusted for pregnancy?
I've heard it used in music (most famously by the B52s) but never actually heard anybody
say it.
-Curt
Or how about up the stump for being pregnant?
RB
Or Swallowed a watermelon seed.
Wilton
Yep, 'member hearin thatun
Or swallered a 'melonseed
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When I was a kid I always heard PG as in I think she's PG and
had no idea what it meant, which is why I guess the grownups used
the term. I finally figured it out and asked my dad why he said
PG and not pregnant and he got all embarrassed. Like the
proper term was somehow nasty or dirty or
Did anybody ever actually hear anybody say tin roof, rusted for
pregnancy? I've heard it used in music (most famously by the B52s)
but never actually heard anybody say it.
-Curt
nope, but tin roof and roof tin (its opposite) are both tasty sundaes.
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- A COUNTRY BOY REMEMBERS - GLOSSARY
Fixin -- like fixin ta go ( apparently this referred to fixing up the
horses and getting all their gear on)
--R (sent from my miniPad)
On Jun 1, 2015, at 10:51 AM, WILTON via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
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D’mar -- tomorrow
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D’mar -- tomorrow
Droppin’ soda -- dropping sodium nitrate fertilizer, by each plant, usually,
corn, by hand.
Eatin’ pokey, rolls and grits. -- We are so poor, all we can do is poke our
feet under the table, roll our eyes, and grit our teeth.
Eite -- alright, OK, yes
Ellem
Fixin -- like fixin ta go ( apparently this referred to fixing up the horses
and getting all their gear on)
--R (sent from my miniPad)
On Jun 1, 2015, at 10:51 AM, WILTON via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
GLOSSARY CONTINUED:
D’mar -- tomorrow
Droppin’ soda -- dropping sodium nitrate
Another one:
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Following, with phonetic spellings, are some words and phrases in use in
eastern North Carolina since the 1930’s. Some of them surely must have been
in use long before the ‘30’s, and a few of them have gradually faded from
use. Many are still in
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