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Social Maps

Age

add-iron [An andiron]	Afro [A haircut]
baker’s bread [Bread that is not made at home]	barn raising [A social gathering to erect a barn]
bat hide [A paper dollar]	bealing [An abscess or boil]

not to know beans when the bag’s open [To be very stupid]	blast [A raucous party]
blink [Milk that is beginning to sour]	bologna [A poor quality beef animal]
bonnyclabber [Thick, sour milk]	boob [A woman’s breast]

bottled drink [A soft drink]	breastbone [A wishbone]
brimstone match [A kitchen match]	brownie [A brownnose]
brownie [To brownnose]	buck [A male goat]

bugeye [A type of boat]	bulldog toe [A shoe]
bum [Under the weather]	bushwa [Nonsense]
buzz [A nickname for a brother]	cake turner [A spatula]

callithumpian [A wedding night escapade]	cat’s-paw [A stooge]
chalkie [A cheap marble]	chamber mug [A chamber pot]
change [To castrate]	chewers [Teeth; false teeth]

consarn [To damn]	continental [Something worthless]
cool [Composure]	crack up [To laugh very hard]
dauber [A wasp that builds its nest of mud]	dig [To appreciate]

dip [Gravy]	in a dog’s age [In a long time]
donsie [Under the weather]	dope [A dessert topping]
drag [A boring event]	dressing [A dessert topping]

dropped egg [A poached egg]	dugout [A rough cellar]
earscrew [An earring]	emptins [Homemade yeast used as starter]
everlasting yeast [Homemade yeast used as starter]	fainty [Weak from fear]

fascinator [A head scarf]	feeder [An access road]
the fidgets [Feelings of nervousness]	fine cut [A type of chewing tobacco]
fix [To set (a table)]	flea in one’s ear [A hint, warning]

(the) flux [Diarrhea, dysentery]	freshet [A flash flood]
fuss (up)/fussed (up) [To annoy; annoyed]	full of ginger [Full of energy]
gone by [Spoiled; past its prime]	godmother [A midwife]

gum [A beehive]	gunshot wedding [A shotgun wedding]
hark [Listen!]	herth [Pronunciation of hearth]
hellfire [Hell]	hen tracks [Handwriting that is hard to read]

het up [Angry, excited]	hinder [The buttocks]
hindside-before [Backwards; inside out]	get a hump (on) [To hurry, exert oneself]
hydrant [An indoor faucet]	hippo [Pronunciation of hypo]

hy spy [Hide-and-seek]	hy spy [I spy]
icky [Sticky; unpleasant]	igg [To snub]
Indian pudding [A dessert]	jerk [To preserve (meat)]

heave up Jonah [To vomit]	not by a jugful [By no means]
kerosene oil [Kerosene]	knock down [To introduce (someone)]
knockdown [An introduction]	la grippe [Grippe, influenza]

last button on Gabe’s coat [The last piece of food]	leader [A downspout, roof gutter]
lousy [Rich]	lung fever [Pneumonia; tuberculosis]
mackerel-snapper [A Roman Catholic]	mad ax [A hand tool]

merry widow [The black widow spider]	motte [A grove of trees]
mush(e)roon [Pronunciation of mushroom]	nasty-neat [Overly tidy]
nasty-nice [Overly tidy]	natural [A haircut]

nix [Definitely not!]	(down) to the last notch [To perfection]
Old Boy [The devil]	Old Harry [The devil]
at outs [At odds]	outlaw [A crude person]

overseer [A road supervisor]	pap [A father]
pass out [To die]	passion mark [A mark on the skin caused by sucking]
phiz [The face or mouth]	piece [A snack]

piece [To snack]	piggery [A pigsty]
pill [A cigarette]	pilon [A bonus included with a purchase]
take the pipe [To commit suicide]	play off [To shirk responsibility]

play-party [A kind of party]	Podunk [A small, out-of-the-way place]
pop call [A short or unexpected visit]	princeton [A haircut]
some pumpkins [Someone or something important]	pussley [A wild green]

to the queen’s taste [To perfection]	quick consumption [Tuberculosis]
quill [A toothpick]	quill pig [A porcupine]
quitting stick [A toothpick]	racket store [A variety store]

get the rag out [To hurry, start working]	ramshackledy [Dilapidated]
reefer [A jacket]	(the) rheumatics [Rheumatism]
roost [The upper balcony of a theater]	rowen [A second crop of hay]

born in a sawmill [Unmannered, uncouth]	scalawag [A good-for-nothing]
schafskopf [A card game]	shakedown [A makeshift bed]
throw up one’s shoes [To vomit]	shoofly pie [A dessert]

not to amount to shucks [Not to be worth anything]	not to know sic ’em [To be ignorant]
sinking spell [A fainting spell]	sit-down [The buttocks]
sitter [The buttocks]	skate [A bony horse or cow]

skate [To skip a stone]	skimmelton [A shivaree]
slaunchwise [Crooked]	snakes in one’s boots [Delirium tremens]
soldier [To waste time]	spit image [Spitting image]

splay [To spay]	spondulicks [Money]
spoon [To court, show affection]	spouting [A downspout, roof gutter]
stake-and-rider fence [A type of fence]	stanchel [A stanchion]

stand in with [To side with]	stick-frog [Mumblety-peg]
stogie [A work shoe or boot]	stone drag [A stoneboat]
stook [A shock of grain]	suck-egg dog [A dog that steals eggs]

sup [To sip]	suspicion [To suspect]
tad [A child]	take down with [To come down with (an illness)]
tea up [To drink to excess]	teeter [A seesaw]

tick [Credit]	touched [Offended]
umbershoot [An umbrella]	unsight unseen [Without examination]
V [A five-dollar bill]	vessel [A chamber pot]

vum [To declare, swear—used as a mild oath]	wen [A lump or swelling under the skin]
wheel [A dollar]	work-brittle [Eager to work]
yelk [Pronunciation of yolk]	yulk [Pronunciation of yolk]

Sex

the curse [Menstruation]	drat it/dratted [To damn; damned]
duck bumps [Gooseflesh]	Dutch rub [To rub someone’s head with the knuckles]
not to know one from Eve [Not to recognize one]	fall off the roof [To menstruate]

field-bred [An unintentionally bred horse]	finger towel [A small towel]
fudge [An expression of annoyance]	G.I.’s [Diarrhea]
granny [Menstruation]	gunshot wedding [A shotgun wedding]

her [Used for it, as in whooped her up]	hole-in-the-wall [A place where liquor is sold illegally]
hooker [A drink of liquor]	icky [Sticky; unpleasant]
where the Indian(s) shot you [The navel]	not to give a kitty [Not to care at all]

keep one’s lather down [To be patient]	mother dear [One’s mother]
pasture-bred [Conceived unintentionally]	pasty [A meat and vegetable pie]
pee ant [A euphemism for piss ant]	peepers [Eyeglasses]

pill [A cigarette]	pimp stick [A cigarette]
take the pipe [To commit suicide]	pismire [An ant]
piss ant [An ant]	piss elm [An elm]

potlicker [A nondescript or worthless dog]	not enough sense to pour piss out of a boot [To be very stupid]
powder room [An indoor toilet]	punkie [A tiny fly]
putz [To waste time]	rat [A muskrat]

rent [A tear in fabric]	rum [A card game]
rummy [An alcoholic]	scratcher [A scouring pad]
ride shank’s pony [To walk]	shine [Moonshine]

shine [A Black person]	meaner than shit [Very mean]
skate [To skip a stone]	skull orchard [A cemetery]
in the street [Gadding about]	ta-ta [Thanks!]

tip [To tiptoe]	togs [Clothes]
upchuck [To vomit]

Race

Afro [A haircut]	is [Used in place of are]
beau dollar [A silver dollar]	behind a dime [At all]
bid whist [A card game]	broken vein [A varicose vein]

buck-eyed [Characterized by unusual eyes]	cool [Composure]
country [Uncultured, rustic]	crab-apple switch [A large pocket knife]
crack one’s side(s) [To laugh very hard]	dead cat on the line [Something suspicious]

fix [To cast a spell on]	football [A dance step]
footstool [A stooge]	funky chicken [A dance step]
hickey [A bruise or bump from a sharp blow]	house party [A kind of party]

igg [To snub]	keen [Sharp, pointed]
little Sally Walker [A children’s game]	mother dear [One’s mother]
Mr. It [A self-important person]	natural [A haircut]

outside child [A child of unwed parents]	peacebreaker [A troublemaker]
pitty-pat [A card game]	play-toy [A toy]
proach [Pronunciation of poach]	not to set horses [Not to get along]

siditty [Conceited]	spade [A Black person]
in the street [Gadding about]	swish broom [A small broom]
swizzled [Shriveled]	tetter [A skin disease]

tip [To tiptoe]	tonk [A card game]
Uncle Tom [A submissive Black man]	waste [To spill]

Education

boob [A woman’s breast]	brownie [A brownnose]
brownie [To brownnose]	buck ager(s) [Buck fever]
buck up [To take courage, apply oneself]	cat’s-paw [A stooge]

chic sale(s) [An outhouse]	chimney [A heavy smoker]
cig [A cigarette]	cool [Composure]
cribbing [Cheating on an exam]	deef [Pronunciation of deaf]

dog drunk [Very drunk]	east [Pronunciation of yeast]
herth [Pronunciation of hearth]	mackerel-snapper [A Roman Catholic]
mush(e)roon [Pronunciation of mushroom]	mushmelon [Pronunciation of muskmelon]

outlander [An outsider]	outside child [A child of unwed parents]
overhauls [Overalls]	passion mark [A mark on the skin caused by sucking]
porch [Pronunciation of poach]	Podunk [A small, out-of-the-way place]

princeton [A haircut]	quitting stick [A toothpick]
red-neck [A Roman Catholic; an Irish person]	rest room [An indoor toilet]
(the) rheumatics [Rheumatism]	Roman cannon [A Roman candle]

rooter [A hog’s snout; a human nose]	Sally Lunn [A sweet, yeast bread]
salt shake [A saltshaker]	suppender [Pronunciation of suspender]
upchuck [To vomit]	wheelbar [Pronunciation of wheelbarrow]

yellow [An egg yolk]

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yelk [Pronunciation of yolk]

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Community Type

not to know one’s ass from one’s elbow [To be ignorant]	bughouse [A jail]
crack up [To laugh very hard]	dog drunk [Very drunk]
head [The hair on the head]	hellfire [Hell]

hippen [A diaper]	lunch [A snack]
nauseous [Nauseated]	overhauls [Overalls]
pap [A father]	pappy [A father]

quitting stick [A toothpick]	raise up [To rear (a child)]
red gravy [A type of gravy]	rest room [An indoor toilet]
(the) rheumatics [Rheumatism]	Roman cannon [A Roman candle]

salt shake [A saltshaker]	snakes in one’s boots [Delirium tremens]
whang [To sew up quickly]	widow [A widower]