Geographic Maps
Time
To fool around, loaf
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fuss  |
futz  |
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loafer  |
monkey  |
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piddle  |
putz  |
To waste time, idle
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deadbeat  |
rat  |
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soldier  |
Time between the half hour and the hour: “It’s a quarter _____ 12.”
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quarter of  |
quarter till  |
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quarter to  |
Dusk, twilight
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dusk dark  |
dusky dark  |
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sundown  |
Weather
A heavy rain
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frog-strangler  |
goose-drownder  |
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gully washer  |
toad-strangler  |
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trash mover  |
To rain heavily: “It’s raining _____.”
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buckets  |
bullfrogs  |
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frogs  |
pitchforks and hammer handles  |
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pitchforks and nigger babies  |
tadpoles  |
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toad-frogs  |
Of wind: to decrease
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cease  |
go down  |
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lay  |
lull  |
Kinds of wind
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blue norther  |
chinook  |
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northeaster  |
norther  |
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Santa Ana  |
A killing frost
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black frost  |
jack frost  |
A light or brief snowfall
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powder  |
skift  |
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skim  |
Flexible or thin ice
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bendy-bow  |
rotten (ice)  |
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rubber ice  |
Topography
Nickname for a part of town, especially a poor neighborhood
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Coon Bottom  |
lickskillet  |
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nigger town  |
Possum Hollow  |
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quarter  |
Scuffletown  |
Low or wet ground
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bottom  |
bottomland  |
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crawfish (land)  |
low ground(s)  |
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slough  |
swale  |
Local soil types
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adobe  |
buckshot  |
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caliche  |
dobe  |
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gumbo  |
muck  |
A small stream
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bayou  |
branch  |
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brook  |
creek  |
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crick  |
run  |
A rock or stone
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cobblestone  |
dornick  |
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gooney  |
hardhead  |
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niggerhead  |
A steep-sided valley
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arroyo  |
canyon  |
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gorge  |
gulch  |
Houses
The upper balcony of a theater
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buzzard roost  |
nigger heaven  |
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peanut gallery  |
peanut heaven  |
A roof gutter; occasionally a downspout
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eaves spout  |
eaves trough  |
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gully  |
gutter  |
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guttering  |
leader  |
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rain gutter  |
rainspout  |
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rainspouting  |
spouting  |
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trough  |
An outside cellar entrance with sloping doors
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bulkhead  |
cellarway  |
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hatchway  |
Basement or cellar
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basement  |
cellar  |
An underground shelter
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cave  |
cyclone cellar  |
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storm house  |
storm pit  |
Small pieces of wood used to start a fire
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chip  |
splinter  |
House siding
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boxing  |
clapboard  |
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weatherboard  |
A porch or veranda
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gallery  |
piazza  |
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portico  |
An attic or storage room
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garret  |
loft  |
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plunder room  |
Furniture
A covering for a bed
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comfort  |
comfortable  |
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comforter  |
counterpin  |
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coverlet  |
puff  |
Utensils
A large burlap bag
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bran sack  |
burlap bag  |
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crocus sack  |
croker sack  |
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grass sack  |
guano sack  |
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gunny sack  |
tow bag  |
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tow sack  |
A chamber pot
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bed pot  |
chamber mug  |
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night glass  |
slop jar  |
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thunder jug  |
thunder mug  |
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vessel  |
A large, folding pocket knife
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barlow knife  |
dirk  |
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frogsticker (knife)  |
toadstabber  |
Kinds of brooms
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corn broom  |
kitchen broom  |
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push broom  |
scrub broom  |
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stick broom  |
yard broom  |
A circular metal lid on a wood-burning stove
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cap  |
cover  |
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damper  |
eye  |
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griddle  |
Kitchen tool for turning fried food
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cake turner  |
egg turner  |
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flipper  |
hot-cake turner  |
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pancake turner  |
turnover  |
A metal pan for frying food
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frying pan  |
frypan  |
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skillet  |
spider  |
A large kettle for boiling food
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boiler  |
kettle  |
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pot  |
stewer  |
Fuel used in a lamp
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coal oil  |
kerosene oil  |
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lamp oil  |
An iron for pressing cloth
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sadiron  |
smoothing iron  |
A kitchen match
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barn burner  |
brimstone match  |
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farmer match  |
A container for fruits or vegetables
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hamper  |
lug  |
A small paper bag
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poke  |
sack  |
Dishes
A dish towel
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cup towel  |
dish wiper  |
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drying cloth  |
tea towel  |
Foods
Gravy
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dip  |
dressing  |
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red-eye gravy  |
red gravy  |
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sawmill gravy  |
sop  |
Favored local foods or foods others might not know
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Brunswick stew  |
catfish stew  |
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chicken corn soup  |
chitterlings  |
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chowder  |
country ham  |
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crab cake  |
enchilada  |
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German potato salad  |
gumbo  |
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jambalaya  |
jowl  |
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knepp  |
kraut  |
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lutefisk  |
okra soup  |
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pasty  |
pepper cabbage  |
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pepper pot (soup)  |
pilau  |
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polenta  |
Polish sausage  |
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schnitz  |
scrapple  |
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she-crab soup  |
shepherd’s pie  |
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taco  |
tamale  |
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tamale pie  |
tortilla  |
Cheap candies for children
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chocolate mouse  |
hardtack  |
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hot ball  |
nigger baby  |
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shoestring  |
silver bell  |
Kinds of pastries
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bear claw  |
bismarck  |
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cruller  |
Danish pastry  |
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doughnut hole  |
fastnacht  |
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friedcake  |
hot cross bun  |
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jelly doughnut  |
kolacky  |
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kuchen  |
long john  |
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maple bar  |
schnecke  |
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sinker  |
snail  |
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twister  |
A round, jelly-filled pastry
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bismarck  |
jelly doughnut  |
Candy on a stick for children to lick
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lollipop  |
sucker  |
Bacon, salt pork
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fatback  |
fat meat  |
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flitch  |
middling  |
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salt meat  |
salt side  |
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side meat  |
side pork  |
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sowbelly  |
streaked meat  |
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streak of lean  |
white bacon  |
Foods made with parts of the head and internal organs of animals
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haslet  |
headcheese  |
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head meat  |
hog-head souse  |
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hog’s head cheese  |
panhas  |
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press meat  |
scrapple  |
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souse  |
souse meat  |
Kinds of cornbread
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batter bread  |
corn dodger  |
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cornmeal bread  |
corn stick  |
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crackling bread  |
egg bread  |
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hoecake  |
johnnycake  |
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pone bread  |
spoon bread  |
Fried cornbread
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fritter  |
hush puppy  |
Bread not made at home
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baker’s bread  |
bought bread  |
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boughten bread  |
Special kinds of bread
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brown bread  |
lefse  |
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limpa  |
pão doce  |
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saffron bread  |
Sally Lunn  |
A pancake
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battercake  |
flannel cake  |
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flitter  |
griddle cake  |
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hot cake  |
slapjack  |
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wheat cake  |
Breads made with wheat flour rather than cornmeal
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biscuit  |
flour bread  |
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light bread  |
loaf bread  |
A sandwich in a long bun that’s a meal in itself
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Cuban sandwich  |
grinder  |
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hero  |
hoagie  |
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Italian sandwich  |
poor boy  |
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submarine sandwich  |
torpedo sandwich  |
A poached egg
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dropped egg  |
porched egg  |
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proached egg  |
Kinds of fried potatoes
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American fried potatoes  |
cottage fried potatoes  |
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fresh fried potatoes  |
German fried potatoes  |
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home fried potatoes  |
pan-fried potatoes  |
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raw-fried potatoes  |
Cooked cereal
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grits  |
mush  |
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oats  |
porridge  |
Cottage cheese
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clabber cheese  |
cream cheese  |
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curd  |
Dutch cheese  |
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pot cheese  |
smearcase  |
Milk that is just starting to turn sour
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blinky  |
blue john  |
Thick sour milk
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bonnyclabber  |
clabber  |
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lobber  |
thick milk  |
Kinds of desserts favored here
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ambrosia  |
chess pie  |
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cobbler  |
cottage pudding  |
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Indian pudding  |
jam cake  |
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mince pie  |
Montgomery pie  |
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rommegrot  |
shoofly pie  |
A soft drink
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bottled drink  |
cold drink  |
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dope  |
pop  |
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soda  |
soda pop  |
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soda water  |
tonic  |
Sweet topping on a cake
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frosting  |
icing  |
A potluck
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basket dinner  |
carry-in  |
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covered-dish meal  |
dinner on the ground(s)  |
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pitch-in dinner  |
potluck meal  |
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tureen (dinner)  |
The last bit, especially of food
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last button on Gabe’s coat  |
last pea in the dish  |
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manner  |
old maid  |
To prepare a meal
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fix  |
get  |
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make  |
Vegetables and Fruits
A rutabaga
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baga  |
hanover  |
A self-seeding or perennial onion
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evergreen onion  |
multiplying onion  |
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seven-year onion  |
winter onion  |
A small-bulbed, long-necked onion
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green onion  |
potato onion  |
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rareripe  |
salad onion  |
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scallion  |
shallot  |
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spring onion  |
winter onion  |
Of root vegetables: old, tough, not good to eat
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peth(y)  |
woody  |
Names for potatoes
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Irish potato  |
white potato  |
The covering of peas, dry beans
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hull  |
pod  |
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shuck  |
Beans you eat in the pod
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green bean  |
snap bean  |
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string bean  |
A lima bean
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butter bean  |
lima bean  |
Kinds of beans and peas grown locally
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bunch bean  |
cornfield bean  |
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crowder  |
half-runner bean  |
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lady pea  |
marrowfat (bean)  |
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October bean  |
pea bean  |
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stick bean  |
whippoorwill pea  |
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yellow-eyed bean  |
A large sweet pepper
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bell pepper  |
green pepper  |
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mango  |
Greens, eaten raw or cooked
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creece  |
cress  |
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poke salad  |
pussley  |
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Shawnee (lettuce)  |
Corn suitable for eating
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roasting ear  |
sweet corn  |
The thick outside covering of a walnut
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burr  |
hull  |
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husk  |
shuck  |
The edible part of a nut
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goody  |
kernel  |
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meat  |
A peanut
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goober  |
goober pea  |
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groundnut  |
ground pea  |
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pinder  |
The green leaves on a strawberry
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cap  |
hull  |
The hard center of a peach
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kernel  |
pit  |
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seed  |
stone  |
A peach with a hard center that comes out easily
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clearseed  |
clearstone  |
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freeseed  |
freestone  |
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open peach  |
A peach with the hard center tight to the flesh
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clingstone  |
plum peach  |
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press peach  |
Farm Animals
If one quarter of a cow’s udder does not give milk, she’s _____.
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slack  |
spoiled  |
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three-titter  |
A cow that has never had horns
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buffalo  |
butt-head  |
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muley  |
muley-head  |
Milk with a taste from something the cow ate
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bitter  |
garlicky  |
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grassy  |
leeky  |
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oniony  |
A mark to identify a cow
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earmark  |
ear tag  |
Noise made by a calf taken from its mother
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blat  |
blate  |
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bleat  |
low  |
A calf sold for meat
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bob calf  |
butcher calf  |
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monkey  |
The sound of distress made by a cow or calf; to make such a sound
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bawl  |
bellow  |
The noise a horse makes
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nicker  |
whicker  |
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w(h)inner  |
Of a horse: short of breath
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heavy  |
wind-busted  |
Noise made by a sheep
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blat  |
blate  |
A call to cows
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boss  |
co-boss(ie)  |
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co-wench  |
soo  |
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sook  |
To castrate an animal
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change  |
clamp  |
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dress  |
fix  |
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mark  |
nut  |
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trim  |
work on  |
A call to sheep
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co-day  |
co-sheep(ie)  |
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sheepie  |
Farming
A hay-handling machine
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swather  |
tedder  |
The crop from a second growth of hay
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rowen  |
second cutting  |
A small pile of hay standing in the field
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cock  |
doodle  |
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heap  |
shock  |
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tumble  |
A wagon or wagon frame used to carry hay
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hay frame  |
hay ladder  |
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hayrack  |
hayrig  |
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rack wagon  |
Manure used in fields
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dressing  |
fertilize  |
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honey  |
litter  |
Kinds of plows
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bull tongue  |
double shovel plow  |
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Georgia stock  |
hillside plow  |
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middlebuster  |
rastus  |
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scooter  |
shovel plow  |
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sidehill plow  |
sweep  |
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turning plow  |
turnplow  |
Cut grain is tied up in _____.
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bundle  |
sheaf  |
A hand tool for digging out roots
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grubbing hoe  |
grub hoe  |
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mattock  |
A hand tool for cutting brush and weeds
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brier hook  |
bush hook  |
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bush scythe  |
kaiser blade  |
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sling blade  |
swing blade  |
The shaft for hitching horses to a wagon
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neap  |
pole  |
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tongue  |
A singletree
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singletree  |
swingletree  |
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whiffletree  |
whippletree  |
A doubletree
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doubletree  |
evener  |
Leathers or ropes that a horse pulls by
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trace  |
tug  |
The time to feed livestock, clean stalls, etc.
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chore time  |
feeding time  |
A framework for sawing wood
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jack  |
rack  |
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saw bench  |
sawbuck  |
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trestle  |
workhorse  |
A wheelless vehicle for dragging heavy loads, especially for dragging stones from a field
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drag sled  |
dray  |
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flat  |
mud boat  |
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sled  |
slide  |
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stoneboat  |
stone drag  |
A small or partial load
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jag  |
piece  |
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shirttail  |
A stone wall made without mortar
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dry wall  |
rock fence  |
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rock wall  |
stone fence  |
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stone wall  |
Farm Buildings
Names or joking names for an outdoor toilet building
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biffy  |
chic sale(s)  |
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garden house  |
johnny house  |
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Roosevelt  |
The fenced or open area around a barn
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barn lot  |
barnyard  |
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corral  |
cow lot  |
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cow yard  |
lot  |
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night pasture  |
pound  |
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trap  |
A place for keeping root vegetables through the winter
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bank  |
cave  |
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cold cellar  |
fruit cellar  |
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hole  |
kiln  |
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potato hill  |
The place in the barn for storing hay
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loft  |
mow  |
Vehicles and Transportation
An old or broken-down car
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clunk  |
hoopy  |
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junker  |
A semitrailer and truck
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semi  |
tractor-trailer  |
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trailer truck  |
transfer truck  |
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transport  |
Gasoline—the expensive kind
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ethyl  |
extra  |
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high-test  |
special  |
The separating area in the middle of a four-lane road
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boulevard  |
esplanade  |
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mall  |
medial (strip)  |
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medium (strip)  |
neutral ground  |
Words to designate roads named with letters or numbers
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highway  |
route  |
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trunk  |
A junction where traffic moves in one direction around a circular island
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rotary  |
traffic circle  |
An electric car that runs on tracks in the city
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streetcar  |
trolley  |
Horse-drawn vehicles to move heavy loads
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freight wagon  |
log wagon  |
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lumber wagon  |
road wagon  |
One whose job is to take care of local roads
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caretaker  |
maintainer  |
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overseer  |
pathmaster  |
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patrolman  |
surveyor  |
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trustee  |
A ditch along the side of a graded road
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bar ditch  |
bar pit  |
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barrow ditch  |
barrow pit  |
Sleighs for moving loads or people
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bob  |
bobsleigh  |
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cutter  |
pung  |
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traverse  |
A vehicle for a baby
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baby buggy  |
baby cab  |
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baby carriage  |
baby coach  |
The strip of grass between the sidewalk and the curb
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berm  |
boulevard  |
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curb strip  |
grassplot  |
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neutral ground  |
parking  |
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parking strip  |
parkway  |
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sidewalk plot  |
terrace  |
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tree belt  |
tree lawn  |
Boats and Sailing
A rowboat holding no more than two people
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bateau  |
dory  |
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duckboat  |
flatboat  |
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joeboat  |
johnboat  |
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pirogue  |
pram  |
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skift  |
Fishing, Hunting, Wildlife
The common worm used as bait
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angleworm  |
bloodworm  |
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dew worm  |
earthworm  |
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fishing worm  |
garden worm  |
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Georgia wiggler  |
night crawler  |
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night walker  |
red wiggler  |
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wiggler  |
Kinds of snakes around here
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black racer  |
black runner  |
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blue racer  |
blue runner  |
Ways of fishing
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gig  |
grabble  |
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jug fishing  |
mud  |
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telephone  |
tight line  |
Fishing devices
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fish basket  |
fyke  |
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limb line  |
setline  |
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throw line  |
tip-up  |
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trotline  |
A crayfish
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crab  |
crawdad  |
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crawfish  |
crayfish  |
A very young frog
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pollywog  |
tadpole  |
Small frogs that sing in the spring
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peeper  |
rainfrog  |
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tree frog  |
tree toad  |
A toad
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dry-land frog  |
hoptoad  |
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land frog  |
toad  |
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toad-frog  |
warty toad  |
A treefrog
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cheeper  |
grass frog  |
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knee-deep  |
peeper  |
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rainfrog  |
spring frog  |
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spring peeper  |
tree frog  |
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tree toad  |
Kinds of turtles
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cooter  |
dry-land turtle  |
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gopher  |
hard-shell turtle  |
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land turtle  |
loggerhead  |
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skillpot  |
snapper  |
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stinkpot  |
terrapin  |
Nicknames for the wildcat
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cougar  |
mountain lion  |
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panther  |
A woodchuck
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groundhog  |
whistle pig  |
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woodchuck  |
Illegal night-hunting
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fire-hunt  |
fire-lighting  |
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headlighting  |
jack  |
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jacklight  |
night-hunting  |
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shine  |
spotlight  |
A hunter’s nervous excitement at the sight of game
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buck ague  |
buck fever  |
Birds
Kinds of owls
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billy owl  |
booby owl  |
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hoo-owl  |
hooting owl  |
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prairie-dog owl  |
prairie owl  |
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saw-whet owl  |
scritch owl  |
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scrooch owl  |
shivering owl  |
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squinch owl  |
Kinds of hawks
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blue darter  |
field hawk  |
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fish hawk  |
goshawk  |
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hen hawk  |
marsh hawk  |
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rabbit hawk  |
tilly hawk  |
A meadowlark
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fee lark  |
field lark  |
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meadowlark  |
Joking names for woodpeckers
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cock of the woods  |
high-holer  |
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lord god  |
Kinds of swallows
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chimney sweep  |
chimney swift  |
Insects
The insect that flashes a light at its tail
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firebug  |
firefly  |
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lightning bug  |
A tiny fly or similar insect that bites
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black fly  |
no-see-um  |
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oats bug  |
punkie  |
A mosquito larva
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wiggler  |
wiggletail  |
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wiggleworm  |
wriggler  |
A large mosquito
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gallinipper  |
Jersey mosquito  |
A dragonfly
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darning needle  |
devil’s darning needle  |
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mosquito hawk  |
sewing needle  |
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snake doctor  |
snake feeder  |
A wasp that builds a nest of mud
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dirt dauber  |
mason wasp  |
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mud dauber  |
mud wasp  |
A chigger
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jigger  |
redbug  |
The mayfly
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Canadian soldier  |
fish fly  |
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shad fly  |
willow fly  |
Wildflowers, Weeds
A mayapple
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mandrake  |
mayapple  |
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umbrella plant  |
Prickly seeds that cling to clothing
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beggar’s lice  |
burdock  |
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cockleburr  |
cuckleburr  |
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goathead  |
grass burr  |
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pitchfork  |
sandspur  |
|
Spanish needle  |
sticktight  |
Quack grass
|
quack grass  |
witchgrass  |
A black-eyed Susan
|
bull’s-eye daisy  |
niggerhead  |
|
nigger navel  |
oxeye daisy  |
Trees, Bushes, etc.
Where sugar-producing trees grow together and sap is gathered
|
sugar bush  |
sugar camp  |
|
sugar orchard  |
Pine needles
|
spills  |
straw  |
|
tags  |
The sticky stuff that comes from pine trees
|
pitch  |
rosin  |
Buying and Selling, Money
A little extra from a seller
|
boot  |
lagniappe  |
|
pilon  |
A silver dollar
|
beau dollar  |
hard dollar  |
|
hog dollar  |
An abundance; (something) in abundance
|
beaucoup  |
going to bed  |
|
oodlins  |
Clothing—Men’s and Women’s
A headscarf
|
babushka  |
head rag  |
A man’s work jacket
|
frock  |
jump jacket  |
|
reefer  |
wamus  |
Long underwear
|
long drawers  |
long handles  |
|
longies  |
long jeans  |
|
long john  |
Soft shoe worn only indoors
|
bedroom shoe  |
house shoe  |
Your slip is showing
|
Charlie’s dead  |
cotton is low  |
|
it’s snowing down South  |
your daddy loves you best  |
Parts of the Body
A man’s haircut
|
Afro  |
brush  |
|
burr  |
heinie  |
|
whiffle  |
False teeth
|
store-bought  |
store teeth  |
Having prominent eyes
|
buck-eyed  |
bung-eyed  |
Funny bone
|
crazy bone  |
funny bone  |
|
tickle bone  |
Pigeon-toed
|
parrot-toed  |
pin-toed  |
A knot on the head caused by a blow
|
hickey  |
pumpknot  |
To fart
|
crack  |
fizzle  |
|
poop  |
poot  |
|
toot  |
Physical Actions
To throw (something)
|
chuck  |
chunk  |
|
heave  |
peg  |
To move or act in a way that makes people notice you
|
priss  |
show out  |
To squeeze or crush: “I _____ my finger in the door.”
|
jammed  |
mashed  |
Of a liquid: to scatter in all directions
|
spew  |
spritz  |
To put out (a fire or light)
|
cut off  |
out  |
|
outen  |
To poke or pierce with something sharp
|
jag  |
pick  |
|
run  |
To move over
|
scoot  |
shove  |
|
slip  |
Family Relationships
A mother
|
mamma  |
mammy  |
|
mom  |
mum  |
A grandfather
|
big daddy  |
granddaddy  |
|
pa  |
papa  |
|
pa-paw  |
pop-pop  |
A grandmother
|
big mamma  |
mam-maw  |
|
mee-maw  |
mom-mom  |
Blood relatives
|
kinfolk  |
relation  |
A child of unmarried parents
|
catch colt  |
outside child  |
|
woods colt  |
Courtship, Marriage, Childbearing
A noisy neighborhood celebration after a wedding
|
belling  |
callithumpian  |
|
horning  |
serenade  |
|
shivaree  |
skimmelton  |
Pregnant; to be pregnant
|
big  |
break one’s leg  |
|
eat dried apples  |
have a bun in the oven  |
|
p.g.  |
up a stump  |
|
wear the hatching jacket  |
Eager to marry
|
on the carpet  |
red in the comb  |
Health and Disease
Sick _____ one’s stomach
|
at  |
on  |
|
to  |
To vomit
|
heave up Jonah  |
spew  |
|
toss one’s cookies  |
urp  |
|
vomick  |
Diarrhea
|
flux  |
Lucy Bowles  |
|
running off (at the bowels)  |
runs  |
|
scours  |
skitters  |
|
squirts  |
A hard, painful swelling, often on a finger
|
bone felon  |
felon  |
|
runaround  |
Skin diseases
|
ground itch  |
heat  |
|
Indian fire  |
tetter  |
|
toe itch  |
The yellowish stuff that comes out of a boil
|
corruption  |
matter  |
To discharge pus
|
fester  |
gather  |
|
matter  |
matterate  |
Not feeling quite right
|
all in  |
donsie  |
|
down-and-out  |
draggy  |
|
logy  |
low-down  |
|
ornery  |
puny  |
When yellowish stuff comes out of a person’s ear, he has a _____.
|
bealing  |
rising  |
Joking words for a dentist
|
tooth dentist  |
tooth doctor  |
The gathering before a funeral at the place where the body is
|
calling hours  |
viewing  |
|
visitation  |
visiting hours  |
Religion and Beliefs
Names or nicknames for religions or religious groups...Jew:
|
hebe  |
kike  |
|
sheeny  |
Yid  |
Names or nicknames for religions or religious groups...Protestant:
|
deep-water Baptist  |
Dunkard  |
|
foot-washing Baptist  |
hard-shell Baptist  |
|
holiness  |
Primitive Baptist  |
|
Sanctified (Church)  |
shouting Methodist  |
|
whiskey-palian  |
Names or nicknames for religions or religious groups...Catholic:
|
cat-licker  |
cross-back  |
|
fish-eater  |
mackerel-snapper  |
|
Mick  |
red-neck  |
The Devil
|
bad man  |
Beelzebub  |
|
boogerman  |
Old Boy  |
|
Old Scratch  |
A forked stick used to find water underground
|
dowsing rod  |
water witch  |
|
witching stick  |
A person who uses a forked stick to find water
|
dowser  |
water witch  |
|
water witcher  |
To cast a spell on a person
|
conjure  |
hex  |
A spell or charm
|
hoodoo  |
jomo  |
|
mojo  |
voodoo  |
An imaginary creature, monster, or animal
|
Bigfoot  |
catawampus  |
|
elbedritsch  |
Jersey devil  |
|
wampus  |
Tobacco, Liquor
Favorite card games
|
bid whist  |
cribbage  |
|
euchre  |
five hundred  |
|
five-up  |
forty-two  |
|
hasenpfeffer  |
pedro  |
|
pinochle  |
pitch  |
|
Rook  |
rummy  |
|
schafskopf  |
setback  |
|
sheepshead  |
smear  |
A bar selling liquor illegally
|
blind pig  |
blind tiger  |
|
gin mill  |
hole  |
|
speakeasy  |
Nicknames for wine
|
dago red  |
sneaky Pete  |
|
Sweet Lucy  |
vino  |
Delirium tremens
|
maniportia  |
monkey  |
|
rams  |
Bad or illegal liquor
|
hooch  |
moon  |
|
mountain dew  |
popskull  |
|
shine  |
stump-hole liquor  |
|
stump juice  |
white lightning  |
|
white mule  |
wildcat  |
Very drunk
|
dog drunk  |
loop-legged  |
|
plastered  |
skunk-drunk  |
One who drinks steadily or a great deal
|
boozer  |
rummy  |
|
soak  |
sot  |
|
souse  |
toper  |
A cigarette
|
coffin nail  |
coffin tack  |
A cigarette butt
|
duck  |
snipe  |
|
stump  |
One who takes snuff
|
dipper  |
snuffer  |
Forms of chewing tobacco
|
fine cut  |
scrap  |
|
snoose  |
twist  |
Children’s Games
Games with a hidden object
Mumblety-peg or a similar game
|
jackknife  |
knife  |
|
stick-frog  |
stick-knife  |
Kinds of playing marbles
|
alley  |
middleman  |
|
shooter  |
taw  |
|
toy  |
The line toward which players roll marbles to determine the order of shooting
|
lagging line  |
lag line  |
|
taw line  |
toe line  |
|
toy (line)  |
Marbles by size or composition
|
aggie  |
boulder  |
|
chalk  |
commie  |
|
crockery  |
dobe  |
|
glassie  |
king  |
|
mib  |
mig  |
|
nib  |
nick  |
|
pee-jib  |
pee-wee  |
Marble games
|
dob in the ring  |
knuck  |
|
purgatory  |
rolly-holey  |
A somersault
|
flip-flop  |
somerset  |
|
tumblesault  |
tumbleset  |
A game in which a stick on the ground is flipped in the air and hit with a longer stick
|
catty  |
cricket  |
|
knick-knock  |
one old cat  |
|
peggy  |
whipstick  |
A call to pause play or demand an exception
|
king’s ex  |
time out  |
I give up!
|
holler calf-rope  |
uncle  |
Bat-and-ball games
|
cat  |
cork ball  |
|
flies and grounders  |
flies and skinners  |
|
move-up  |
one-eyed cat  |
|
one old cat  |
round-town  |
|
scrub  |
stickball  |
|
town ball  |
work-up  |
What the one who is “it” calls out when he catches one who was hiding
|
all-ee all-ee (all) in free  |
all-ee all-ee out(s) in free  |
|
all-ee all-ee oxen (all in) free  |
home free  |
|
Ole Ole Olson all in free  |
Where the one who is “it” has to wait while the others hide
|
base  |
goal  |
To skip stones over the water
|
scale  |
skate  |
|
skeet  |
Game in which a ball is thrown over a building to a player on the other side
|
Andy-over  |
anti-i-over  |
|
Antony-over  |
hail-over  |
|
haily-over  |
handy-over  |
To run with a sled and throw oneself down on it is a _____.
|
belly-bump  |
belly-bumper  |
|
belly-buster  |
belly-flop  |
|
belly-gut  |
belly-whopper  |
A bad dive that lands flat
|
belly-buster  |
belly-flop  |
|
belly-smacker  |
belly-whopper  |
A seesaw
|
joggling board  |
ridy-horse  |
|
seesaw  |
teeter  |
|
teeter-totter  |
Outdoor games
|
black man  |
bull-in-the-ring  |
|
duck duck goose  |
fox and geese  |
|
giant steps  |
granny wants a grunt  |
|
jump-the-rope  |
lay low sheepie  |
|
pom-pom-pullaway  |
pretty girls’ station  |
|
ring-a-levio  |
run sheep run  |
|
slinging statues  |
squat tag  |
|
statues  |
whoop-and-hide  |
|
wolf over the river  |
To climb a tree trunk by holding on with your legs while pulling yourself up with your hands
|
shinny  |
skin  |
|
skinny  |
Tick-tack-toe
|
cat and mouse  |
old cat  |
|
tick-tack-too  |
tit-tat-toe  |
|
tit-tat-too  |
X’s-and-O’s  |
A hobgoblin used to make children behave
|
booger  |
boogerman  |
|
hant  |
spook  |
Entertainments and Celebrations
A meeting called a ‘social’ or ‘sociable’
|
basket social  |
box social  |
|
box supper  |
ice-cream social  |
|
ice-cream supper  |
A harmonica
|
French harp  |
harp  |
|
mouth harp  |
mouth organ  |
When a firecracker doesn’t go off, and you break it and light it in the middle, that’s a _____.
|
cat-and-dog fight  |
hisser  |
|
shoo-shoo  |
sizzer  |
|
spewer  |
Types and Attitudes of People
Meaner than _____
|
cat shit  |
dirt  |
|
pussley  |
a snake  |
A rustic or countrified person
|
Arkie  |
brier hopper  |
|
country jake  |
countryman  |
|
cracker  |
farmer  |
|
hoosier  |
mountaineer  |
|
Okie  |
red-neck  |
|
ridge runner  |
stump-jumper  |
Terms for a Canadian
|
bluenose  |
Canuck  |
Terms for a French person or French Canadian
|
Frenchy  |
frog  |
|
pea soup  |
Terms for a Cornish man/woman
|
cousin Jack  |
cousin Jenny  |
Terms for a Mexican, Puerto Rican
|
beaner  |
greaser  |
|
pepper belly  |
Terms for a Czech, Bohemian, or Hungarian
|
bohunk  |
Hunk (occasionally other ethnic groups)  |
Terms for an English person
|
jickey  |
John Bull  |
|
limey  |
Terms for a Native American
|
bow-and-arrow  |
Siwash  |
Terms for an Irish person
|
harp  |
Mick  |
|
Paddy  |
Terms for a Pole
|
Polack  |
Polander  |
Terms for an Italian
|
Guinea (occasionally other ethnic groups)  |
Tally  |
|
wop (occasionally other ethnic groups)  |
Terms for a Scandinavian
|
Norski  |
Scandihoovian  |
Terms for a German
|
Dutchman (occasionally other ethnic groups)  |
heinie  |
|
kraut  |
sauerkraut  |
Terms for an African-American
|
blackbird  |
burrhead  |
|
chocolate drop  |
coon  |
|
jigaboo  |
shine  |
People of mixed blood
|
brass ankle  |
Croatan  |
|
hapa haole  |
high yellow  |
|
mestizo  |
red bone  |
Relationships among People
When people don’t get along together, they don’t _____.
|
gee  |
gee-haw  |
|
hitch  |
jibe  |
|
set horses  |
When someone behaves without manners: “You’d think he was _____.”
|
born in a barn  |
born in a sawmill  |
|
brought up in a barn  |
had no raising  |
|
raised in a barn  |
I wouldn’t know him from (a) _____.
|
Adam’s apple  |
Adam’s housecat  |
|
Adam’s off-ox  |
bale of hay  |
|
hole in the ground (or wall)  |
side of sole leather  |
Thank you
|
appreciate  |
danke schoen  |
|
gracias  |
Schoolgoing, Mental Actions
To stay away from school without an excuse
|
bag  |
ditch  |
|
lie out  |
skip  |
|
slough  |
The part of a pen one holds
|
staff  |
stock  |
One’s signature
|
John Hancock  |
John Henry  |
Not enough sense to _____
|
bell a buzzard  |
carry guts to a bear  |
|
grease a gimlet  |
pound sand down a rathole  |
|
pour piss out of a boot  |
A person who seems very stupid: “He doesn’t know _____.”
|
B from (a) bull’s foot  |
one’s ass from one’s elbow  |
|
sic ’em  |
split beans from coffee  |
|
straight up  |
Manner of Action or Being
To perfection: “Done to a _____.”
|
gnat’s bristle  |
gnat’s eye  |
|
gnat’s eyebrow  |
gnat’s heel  |
Wood that’s decaying inside is _____.
|
doty  |
dozy  |
|
punky  |
If a machine is out of order, it’s _____.
|
kaput  |
on the fritz  |
|
out of fix  |
A compliment given in exchange for one about oneself
|
last-go-trade  |
trade-last  |
To do something in an indirect and complicated way
|
go (all) around one’s elbow  |
go (all the way) around Robin Hood’s barn  |
|
go (all the way) around the world  |
Something that has gotten out of proper shape
|
catawampus  |
skew-gee  |
|
skew-haw(ed)  |
skew-jaw(ed)  |
|
skew-wampus  |
whomper-jawed  |
|
whopper-jawed  |
wopsided  |
Coffee without cream or sugar
|
barefooted  |
clear  |
Size, Quantity and Number
Too small to be worth much; shriveled, dried up
|
swivel(ed), swivelly  |
weasly  |
|
wizzled (up)  |
All gone
|
all  |
out  |
|
pau  |
To do the least bit of work
|
hit a lick  |
stitch  |
|
turn a hand (over)  |
To stack (firewood)
|
rack  |
rank  |
|
rick  |
This cake tastes _____ good.
|
lapping  |
larruping  |
|
licking  |
mighty  |
Position
The wrong way round
|
ass-end-to  |
backside-to  |
|
hind-part-before  |
hindside-before  |
Askew; out of line
|
antigodlin  |
catabias  |
|
catawampus  |
galley-west  |
|
one-sided  |
skew-gee  |
|
skew-wampus  |
sky west and crooked  |
|
slaunchwise  |
squawed  |
Diagonal, diagonally
|
catty-corner(ed)  |
kitty-corner  |
Exclamations
After someone sneezes, people say, “_____!”
|
gesundheit  |
scat  |
Exclamations like “I swear”: “I _____.”
|
swan  |
swanny  |
|
vum  |
Son of a _____
|
biscuit  |
biscuit-eater  |
|
buck  |
sea cook  |