Time for this month's Appalachian Vocabulary Test. Take it and see how you do:
- Hippens
- Hunker
- Hisn
- Hear tell
- Hesh up
- Hippens-diapers. "When you bring little Suzy over day after tomorrow, don't forget her…
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Added by Tipper on February 23, 2010 at 3:30pm —
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Time for this month's Vocabulary Test:
1.Gall
2.Gander
3.Give out
4.Give in
5.Go devil
1.Gall-nerve. "The gall of her to talk about me after I bent over backwards to help her!"
2.Gander-look, stare. "Take a gander at that set of woods and see if you don't think it'd be a good place to hunt."
3.Give out-tired. "After a long day at work I'm usually give out."
4.Give in-to announce or submit.…
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Added by Tipper on November 18, 2009 at 1:12pm —
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Time for this month's Vocabulary Test:
1.Gall
2.Gander
3.Give out
4.Give in
5.Go devil
1.Gall-nerve. "The gall of her to talk about me after I bent over backwards to help her!"
2.Gander-look, stare. "Take a gander at that set of woods and see if you don't think it'd be a good place to hunt."
3.Give out-tired. "After a long day at work I'm usually give out."
4.Give in-to announce or submit.…
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Added by Tipper on November 18, 2009 at 1:12pm —
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Are you ready for a test? Cause it's time for this month's Appalachian Vocabulary Test.
1.Frail
2.Floozy
3.Fixen to
4.Fell
5.Frolic
1.Frail-old, feeble, sickly or to beat something. "Granny always frailed the rugs against the barn to get the dirt out of them."
2.Floozy-a loose trashy woman. "You ain't wearing that short dress out of this house. Folks will think you're a…
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Added by Tipper on September 19, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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Time for this month's Appalachian Vocabulary Test
1.Eat up
2.Evening
3.Et
4.Far
5.Fer
1.Eat up-bite badly, consume. "I swear the chiggers have eat me up this summer."
2.Evening-time between noon and night. "Late this evening we'll go fishing if you want too."
3.Et-eat, ate. "Come on in and sit down, have you et?"
4.Far-fire. "If you play in the far you'll pee in the…
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Added by Tipper on July 9, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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Time for this month's Vocabulary Test. This month's words are:
1.Dab
2.Dope
3,Doins
4.Done
5.Drug
The last two words-are more Appalachian in their usage rather than in their meaning. Personally I'm so used to them being used incorrectly it's hard for me to fathom that it's wrong-see what you think.
1.Dab-a small amount of something. "Believe I'll have me a dab more of that good fresh…
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Added by Tipper on June 10, 2009 at 10:22am —
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Time for this month's Appalachian Vocabulary Test.
Decoration
Dinner
Dodger
Druthers
Dreckly/Directly
Decoration-putting flowers on graves. "Next Sunday is Decoration up at Bethel Baptist-are you going?"
Dinner-lunch. "Pap fixed fried taters and cornbread for dinner today."
Dodger-a piece of baked bread. "All the boy…
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Added by Tipper on May 5, 2009 at 9:29am —
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Every once in a while-an old saying bubbles up from my consciousness and flows straight out of my mouth. It leaves me wondering why I said it-where I heard it-and who was the first person to say it.
One day last week, I was describing a tornado that hit near Atlanta recently-I said "it tore up Jack". As soon as I spoke the words-I thought how long has it been since I heard someone say that-and why did it float to the top of my mind…
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Added by Tipper on April 22, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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Time for this month's Appalachian Vocabulary Test.
1. Clutterment
2. Cut a dido/rusty
3. Cuttin up
4. Coon
5. Country
1. Clutterment-clutter, mess, debris. "The girls' bedroom is so full of clutterment you can barely get the door open."
2. Cut a dido or cut a rusty-pitch a fit, a tantrum. "The little boy ran up the aisle of the church cutting…
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Added by Tipper on April 13, 2009 at 2:31pm —
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Time for this month's Appalachian Vocabulary Test-
1. catty cornered
2. choke rag
3. clabber
4. clim
5. cuss fight
1. catty corner-in a corner or sitting cross ways. "The last time I saw Old Blue he was sitting catty corner on the porch."
2. choke rag- a neck tie. "I hate going to weddings, cause I have to wear a choke rag!"
3. clabber-sour milk.…
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Added by Tipper on March 10, 2009 at 11:27am —
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Have you ever been around someone who used the same word or words in every sentence? Years ago, I was introduced to a man-who at the end of every sentence said "and what not". I remember being obsessed with listening to him-to see if just once-he would'nt say "and what not". Never happened-he said it at the end of every sentence just like clock work.
A few other habitual sayings I've heard:
* you know (one of The Deer…
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Added by Tipper on February 12, 2009 at 11:53am —
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Time for this month's Appalachian Vocabulary Test!
1. Call On
2. Conniption
3. Captain
4. Care
5. Carry
6. Crick
7. Catamount
8. Catheads
9. Cheer
10. Chunk
1. Call On-to visit someone. "I believe I'll call on Uncle Tex, I hear he ain't been doing no good."
2. Conniption-a mad fit. "Granny had a conniption when she saw the mud…
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Added by Tipper on February 7, 2009 at 3:30pm —
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Bitter cold has made it's way to the southern Appalachian Mountains. Tonight is forecast to be the coldest night of the year. The temp this morning was a frigid 3 degrees-in my opinion thats just about cold enough.
When describing just how cold it is, folks can get pretty imaginative like:
* Cold as whiz (I always say this when it's cold-I have no clue what it means.)
*…
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Added by Tipper on January 16, 2009 at 11:00am —
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Time for another Appalachian Vocabulary Test.
Blackberry winter
Blow
Blue john
Boot
Brought on
Budget
Bumfuzzle
Buss
Bust a gut
Branch
Blackberry winter-the last cold spell in the spring "I was all ready to go barefoot for the summer and then blackberry winter showed up."
Blow-to brag or one who brags…
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Added by Tipper on January 6, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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It's that time again-time to test your Appalachian Vocabulary skills.
1. Back
2. Backset
3. Bad mouth
4. Bait
5. Bawl
6. Bear down
7. Beatinest
8. Bed tick
9. Biddies
10. Biggety
1. Back-To address a letter "Be sure to back the letter before you put it in the box."
2. Backset-A recurred illness "L.C. was getting better, then he…
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Added by Tipper on December 5, 2008 at 10:19am —
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I just finished reading Our Southern Highlanders written by Horace Kephart in 1913. The book documents the lifestyle of the Southern Appalachian People in the early 1900's. I enjoyed the book and thought it neat that I recognized many of the locations mentioned in the book. Of all the subjects covered, the chapters on dialect were the most fascinating to me.
I'm astounded the dialect documented in the book-continues to come straight out of my mouth 95 years later. I'm curious if the…
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Added by Tipper on August 17, 2008 at 7:30pm —
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