It’s Ooshie!
A good while back Blind Pig reader Lorie Thompson left the following comment: I read your blog with delight! Your…
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New Ground
Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English New ground noun [ sometimes with stress on ground ] An area newly cleared for cultivation…
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Appalachian Sayings – Tough as a Pine Knot
The saying tough as a pine knot means, well it means you’re tough! It’s a saying I’ve heard all my…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 85
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test take it and see how you do! Agg Aggravatingest Akinned Amind Astraddle…
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Appalachian Sayings – Gussied Up
The girls got gussied up on Christmas day for me to take their picture in the sweaters Granny made them. Hopefully…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 84
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test take it and see how you do! Weak trembles Whoop and a…
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By-Words
by-word noun A favorite expression of an individual, esp a mild oath or exclamation used to avoid profanity. Examples collected…
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Twinkle = Pine Needle
twinkle noun A pine needle. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 285 In some places pine needles are called twinkles. 1929…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 83
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test take it and see how you do! Take on Tangle-foot Tore down…
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Usage of the Word Cemetery
I’ve been reading an interesting book recently, Tarheel Talk. It was published in 1956 by The University of North Carolina Press…
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Logging Vocabulary
I often come across words related to logging in my Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English. Most of the time its…
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Is Your Nose Clean?
“Tipper where did all those old sayings come about? England or Ireland or from the American natives, the Indians? I…
