The Pressley Girls point blank got to quit carrying their instruments around upside down! point blank A variant forms pime blank, pine blank, pint blank, plime blank, plum (b) blank. [DARE pime blank chiefly sAppalachians, esp eastern Kentucky, pine blank chiefly S Midl, esp sAppalachians; pint blank chiefly South Midland; plime blank chiefly sAppalachians, esp eastern Kentucky] B adjective phrase Exact, precise. 1937 Hall Coll. Cades Cove TN Pint blank proof [of illicit liquor making] was necessary for an arrest…
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Appalachian Dialect
Do you turn the light off or cut it off? I cut it off and I cut it on too.…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
Have you ever cooked something that looked like it ought to be throwed out, but tasted great? I’m going to…
A few weeks back Blind Pig reader Dana Wall left the following comment: “I am fairly new to this site.…
Tipper backward adjective Reserved, shy, bashful. 1862 (in 1999 Davis Civil War Letters) 49 if that should be the result…
Qualmish, adj. Sick at the stomach; inclined to vomit; affected with nausea. ~Virginia Folk-Speech 1899 —- Several years ago I…
“Although you can buy jelly bags, they are easy things to improvise. I always use the washed and bleached out…
Chatter and Chitter often needed a quietus put on them when they were little. Looks like Chatter put a quietus…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…