Mountain Talk

[Hillbilly]

<font color=red>A-FIXIN</font color=red>------ Getting ready "We're a-fixin' to go to the store"
<font color=red>PEAKED</font color=red>------ Pale or sick looking "He's lookin' mighty peaked today."
<font color=red>ASKEERED OF</font color=red>---Frightened or afraid of "He's askeered of his shadow."
<font color=red>DOIN'S</font color=red>----A function "Are you goin to the church doin's tonight?"
<font color=red>DAST</font color=red>------Dare "Don't you dast ask Zeke to the doin's."
<font color=red>HOLLER</font color=red>------A small valley "She comes from over in the holler."
<font color=red>FETCH</font color=red>---- To bring "Go fetch the doctor."
<font color=red>VITTLES</font color=red>---Food or victuals "I hope ma's got the vittles on when I git home."
<font color=red>PUT OUT</font color=red>-----Angry, annoyed "He shore was put out 'bout the meetin'."
<font color=red>SMART</font color=red>--To hurt "It shore smarts where I got hit."
<font color=red>YOU'NS</font color=red>-----You or you all "You'ns ain't gonna git no vittles."
<font color=red>AIM</font color=red>----To intend or to plan "I aim to buy some land."
<font color=red>CUTTIN' UP</font color=red>----Acting a fool "Maud shore was cuttin' up last night."
<font color=red>BOOK READ</font color=red>---Educated or well informed "We aim for little Flossie to git book read someday."
<font color=red>FUR PIECE</font color=red>---A great distance "He lives a fur piece from his kin folks."
<font color=red>GULLY-WASHER</font color=red>---A hard rain "We shore had a gully-washer last night."
<font color=red>HESH UP</font color=red>----Become quiet "Make Jamie hesh up."
<font color=red>HET</font color=red>----To become heated or upset "Don't let that get you all het up."
<font color=red>LOLLYGAG</font color=red>---To loaf or loiter "Why's Clem always lollygagin around?"
<font color=red>PIZEN</font color=red>----Poison "I seen lotsa pizen snakes in these parts."
<font color=red>AWFUL POORLY</font color=red>----Very ill "He's been lookin' awful poorly."
<font color=red>CRICK</font color=red>---A stiffness "Marvin has a crick in the neck."
<font color=red>AIRISH</font color=red>----Breezy or drafty "Shet your window,.It's too airish."
<font color=red>BIGGETY</font color=red>----Stuck up or acting big "She's been actin' awful biggety these days."
<font color=red>CLUM</font color=red>-----Climbed "I clum thet hill for the last time."
<font color=red>PLUMB</font color=red>-----Completely "I'm plumb upset with her lollygagin' around.
<font color=red>KIVVER</font color=red>------Covered "Them young-uns is kivvered with the pox.
<font color=red>SHED OF</font color=red> ------Get rid of or unload "You got to get shed of that old mule."
<font color=red>SMACK-DAB</font color=red>-------On the dot, exactly "I shot him smack-dab thru his heart."
<font color=red>POKE</font color=red>------Paper bag "He put the chicken in a poke."
<font color=red>RED</font color=red>-----To clean or tidy up "Red up your room before you fetch Grandma."
<font color=red>WHUPPED</font color=red>---Whipped or spanked "Pa shore whupped me when I fibbed to the widder woman."
<font color=red>SKITTISH</font color=red>-----Nervous "Them mules git kinda skittish when his dogs howl."
<font color=red>ET</font color=red>-----Eaten "Have they et?"
<font color=red>GANDER</font color=red>---To look at "Take a gander at her new outfit."
<font color=red>NAW</font color=red>----No "Naw, I never fetched the syrup."
<font color=red>PARTS</font color=red>------Area or neighborhood "What's he doin' in these parts?"

 

[DrDan]

No matter what you say to them older ladies over there they always say, "Why". It's not used as in a question. It's just an explaination. Maybe an abbeviation for "Why I declare".

Forgot Mess Like in he didn't even give me enough beans for a mess.

 

[ChrisR]

Hi Hillbilly

About thirty years ago, I was working as a surveyor on a large project in Pennsylvania, we were mapping an area stretching between State College and Williamsport, and I remember going to this little restaurant in a tiny little settlement and on the wall was a poster showing a list of 16th and 17th century English words that they still used locally unchanged . Now of course I can't remember any, but I know I found it fascinating at the time.

Anyone know what I'm talking about ?.

Regards

Chris

 

[SmokyMtnMan]

My grandmother would always say...like if she was going to 'Help" someone do something, she would always say..."I'm going to go 'hope' them.

Chaucerian English....will find some of same spellings in reading Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

 

[jdrotert]

My mother-in-law kills me with her:
cuzint (cousin)
zink (sink)
worsh (wash)
fo (four)
all-timers (Alzheimer's)
hammik (hammock)
Steinfield (Seinfield)