It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test.
I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases. To start the videos click on them. This month it’s all about the word put.
1. Put in: to propose, see, request. “They said he put in to get one of those scholarships offered down there for college but I don’t reckon he got it.”
2. Put no store by: to place no stock in. “I don’t put no store by them plastic screws they sent. Why them things won’t even last to screw’em in.”
3. Put one in the mind of: to remind one of. “A lot of people say that little town puts them in the mind of Switzerland.”
4. Put the quietus on: make one be quite; to make one to behave. “We had to put the quietus on the girls a lot when they were little. Especially when they got so silly they could barely stand upright for laughing and running through the house.”
5. Put to: to start, cause one to start. “After I run into him the other day it put me to studying on his situation. I believe I might could help him if he’d let me.”
All the usages of put are common to me. Hope you’ll leave a comment and tell me if they are to you.
Last night’s video: Nehis & Trip to Town for an Auger.
Tipper
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“Put out the light and go to sleep.”
“She acted like she was put out about something when she left.”
“If it won’t put you out, can we stop at the hardware store?”
We use all freely but quietus. I’m not familiar with it. Love these tests.
Prayers for Granny!
Howdy from central Oklahoma
Well I can say my parents used a lot of those sayings. With 3 girls there was always schnigans and I mean always.
I love it today when a person is sooo upady…and they think they know it all. That’s when I pull out…and say “I have my PHD”…they just look at me!
As I’m walking away and they can’t hear me…I’ll say…yeppers I have my Post Hole Diggers!! Living on a farm you develop all type of skills!! Lol
Everyone have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the sunshine .
Tipper, please give your mom a huge hug and kisses for me!! She is in my prayers .
I like when people say they “put up” some kind of food item. I remember the first time I heard some tell a child to “put something down or away” when my mother always said, “Put that up!”
I grew up with a different definition for ‘quietus’. They way I always heard it used was to mean to put a stop to. Of course, Pap probably was putting a stop to rowdiness in twin girls which also quieted them down.
If’n I was put to it, I’ve a mind to think that it’s better to receive a quietus than a hex.
i’m familiar with quietus from Hamlet. since shakespeare lived closer the time your folk probably came over, that would make sense, “ Quietus is a poetic, old-fashioned word that comes from the Medieval Latin phrase quietus est, which means “he is quit”. It was originally used as a receipt or discharge for debts.
In Hamlet, Shakespeare uses quietus to describe the idea of settling one’s debt to God. Since God gives life, the debt can only be settled by ending life.” (hamlet was trying to decide what to do about the king his uncle having murdered hamlet’s father.)
Elithea-that is fascinating! Thank you 🙂
I know and use them all. I really enjoy it the vocabulary test!
I have never heard “put the quietus on” but I like it. It’s always fun to learn something new from Appalachia!
I’m familiar with all these except quietus.
“They are good people who don’t put on airs, but one of their boys put in with some car thieves and landed in prison.”
The only one I am not familiar with is put no store by. My ex-husband used to say quietusangus which meant a spanking, beating, or as he said to put the hurt on. It’s a weird word made up by a weird and violent man.
I like the “vocabulary test” as well.
I and most people I know use those or some variation regularly. It is good to find kindred souls that speak the same lingo.
Below are a few variations, but the meaning and intent are the same.
“I am sickened out” or “It is sickening”
“They put me to a mind to”
My daddy said all my life: “I am about to put a quietus to it” (to stop, halt, or cease whatever usually involving me).
“I put no stock” or “I don’t have any faith in……”
It has rained since about midnight of last and a steady dose of liquid sunshine is coming down now at about 8AM. I’ll take it. The high fifties seem like a heat wave compared to what we have experienced the last few weeks. The forecast is for warmer temps the next few days and warm days are a very good thing this time of year. If this keeps up, “pastures will go to greening up” before long! You might want to add that phrase to the lexicon. LOL
God Bless
Jeffery
He/She is just a big “put on”.
we use all those here in Oklahoma—at least my family does
These sayings remind me of my Pappaw Coleman. I’m sure he used all of these, but the one I remember most is “put the quietus on”. Probably because my sister and I were on the receiving end of it most of the time!
I ain’t never heard not nary one of them words!
If I’d been put to gluing, I’d have got plumb put out over it!
I have heard all except “put the quietus on”. I love it! I’m going to use it with my kids at some point today. They need some “quietus” put on them around mid afternoon!
❤️☺️
One we used a lot when our daughter was growing up: “We’re not going to put up with your shenanigans”.
My parents didn’t put up with my shenanigans either, they would put a quietus on my rear end quick, fast and in a hurry! I think the Lord for my parents teaching me the correct way to live my life, even though the lessons were sometimes taught with a hickory switch or leather belt!
“ He put me down in the meeting, it hurt my feelings “. I say “ put “a lot and don’t even realize it.
Just in case some think otherwise, I meant my comment about the auger in a teasing manor, in no way was it meant in any other way. It was common when I was a teenager in the 60’s for farmers to hire boys to dig post holes for them with those old time hole diggers and pay them 10 cents for each 18-24 inch hole. When you didn’t have any money like most of us boys, you were glad to do it. Nowadays, I bet you wouldn’t have many takers at a dollar a hole.
I’m very familiar with the ‘put’ in my family. I had an aunt and my late maternal grandmother that said it with an R…’Purt’ That was just them, it never caught on with anyone else that I’m aware of. I love the vocabulary posts!!
Blessings!
I’ve heard them all except “put the quietus on”.
I have heard and will use all of these “put” expressions. The only auger I have ever owned was a set of old time style manual powered hole diggers powered by by arms. I didn’t have the money to buy a high class auger and my old tractor didn’t have a three point hitch even I did! With my hole diggers you could dig as deep and large a hole as you wanted until the handles ran out or your arms wore out! I love pork rinds, but never cared much for the Nehi orange or grape drinks. Anyone remember Orange Crush? Tipper does Matt’s truck have a manual transmission, the picture of the inside and gear stick made me think it did. Nowadays, a manual transmission is the best anti theft device you can have on a vehicle. With yesterday’s post about the soft ground, now would be the time to use those manual hole diggers, later on you will have to pour water in the hole to help make the digging easier.
Randy-it is a manual 🙂
I would love to still have a manual transmission in a truck but can no longer work a clutch because of my arthritis knees. I learned to drive and passed my drivers license test while driving a manual transmission. When students 16 years old up drove the school buses in SC , the buses all had 4 speed granny gear transmissions and no power steering. I drove one for two and a half years. My tractors have clutches but you only have to work them one time.
I used a garden auger on a battery powered drill to break up the red clay and rock soil I have here. Then I use my post hole diggers. Makes it a lot easier. Not easy, just easier.
I never read or say “put up” without thinking about Winston Churchill’s humorous comment on avoiding sentences ending in a preposition: “That is something up with which I will not put.”
We say “puts me in the mind of” all the time, but I haven’t really even heard the others before. It’s a rainy day here in NC West Virginia. Our partially snow-covered yard looks like a soupy mess this morning. The good news is that the temperature is 45…the air is so refreshing…we haven’t felt this warm for ages…really only a month.
Yup, I’m familiar with and use all of those “puts”.
The vocabulary test is my favorite post I think, love them all but this one seems to always put me in my mind of my growing up. I often use put to say something like … I am not puttin up with that…
Have a great day!
Yep, all five and likely several more. I would not have a brain hitch if I heard any one of these. Then there is “put out” meaning aggravated with or offended by. Or “put down” and “put off” and “put up” as in canning and bunches more. I saw a map a friend sent the other day that I think would interest you, Tipper, and other BP&A readers. It was a colored-coded map of the US with the colors being what most people said their ancestors were. Kentucky and Tennessee stood out from all the others with the answer “American”.
“Have a mind to”
The one I wasn’t familiar with is “put the quietus on”. I like that one!