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.

1. Scaredy: afraid. “When I was a girl I was scaredy in the summertime. All the windows were opened at night to let the cool air in and I thought someone might come in through one of them.”

2. Scare out: to startle or cause to run. “There’s so many squirrels around here you can’t walk through the woods without scaring’em out of the way.

3. Scare up: to find. “Matt is the best at scaring up what he needs to fix things around the house without making a trip to town.”

4. Old scratch: the devil. “He’s meaner than ole scratch! I don’t like it when he comes around here.”

5. Devil’s brew: “The way he was stogging around on flat ground I’d say he’s been in the devil’s brew since before dark.”

I’ve never heard anyone use scaredy to mean afraid. I have heard scaredy cat. Four and five are not heard very often here. Two and three are very common.

Hope you’ll leave a comment and tell me how you did on the test!

Last night’s video: My Wild-Hog Claim – From My Highest Hill 13.

Tipper

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