Appalachian Vocabulary Test 88
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos in this test to let you hear some…
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Green Up Time
“Have you noticed? It’s greening up!” That was a common expression among my Scots-Irish folks in the mountains of Choestoe…
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Appalachian Sayings – Hemmed and Hawed
Quit hemming and hawing and play something! —————– If you look in the dictionary for hem and haw you’ll find…
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Do You Know What the Word Make Means?
Jan Sullivan left the following comment on yesterday’s April in Pigeon Roost Post: “I love the Foxfire books, and I…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 87
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos in this test to let you hear some…
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Do You Know What a Brush Arbor is? Cause Chitter don’t!
Photo from Fentress County Family Photos brush arbor noun A frame shelter, sometimes temporary, constructed of vertical poles secured in…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 86
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. In this test I’m going to try something I told you about…
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Breaking New Land
break new land, break up new ground verb phrase To clear an area of trees and brush so it can…
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Appalachian Sayings – I Gave Him What For
“That burned me up! I went right down there and told him what for and I made sure he understood…
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Appalachian Sayings – Scarce as Hen’s Teeth
Scarce as hen’s teeth = very rare I still hear the saying scarce as hen’s teeth in my part of…
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Have you been Hearing the Frogs?
The recent talk of spring cheepers and peepers here on the Blind Pig and the acorn reminded me of the…
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The Big Eye
big eye noun Insomnia (esp in phrs have the big eye, take the big eye). Cf moon eye. 1976 Garber…
