Time for this month's Vocabulary Test:
- Gall
- Gander
- Give out
- Give in
- Go devil
- Gall-nerve. "The gall of her to talk about me after I bent over backwards to help her!"
- Gander-look, stare. "Take a gander at that set of woods and see if you don't think it'd be a good place to hunt."
- Give out-tired. "After a long day at work I'm usually give out."
- Give in-to announce or submit. "I went ahead and give in and gave her the money she wanted to borrow."
- Go devil-used to split wood. "I went to the shed to split some wood and couldn't find the go devil. I bet Henry Wade borrowed it."
I use all of this month's words and phrases on a regular basis. Hope you'll leave me a comment and tell me which ones you are familiar with.
Tipper
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Gall reminds me of my mother in law saying someone torques (sp?) her jaws.
She also will say they have the brains of a pissant, but my yankee mom used that phrase, too, so maybe it just follows me around. . .
Posted by: Marie | November 22, 2009 at 09:10 AM
Tipper: Fun words, but it takes a lot of gall to consider that first one special. LOL
Posted by: Fishing Guy | November 21, 2009 at 09:18 AM
Oh yeah, I speak this language :)
Growing up with Appalachian Scottish heritage and a mother from Louisiana was an interesting dialect! I understand some creole as well, since that is what my mom's father spoke, a french dialect
Posted by: CheE | November 20, 2009 at 05:15 PM
Never heard of a go-devil but I have used them waaay too many times to be happy about it!
Posted by: warren | November 20, 2009 at 02:43 PM
I've heard and used all but Go Devil.
I might think someone was calling me a name if they said something about a Go Devil to me. tee hee
Posted by: Becky | November 19, 2009 at 05:48 PM
we actually use all of these except the go devil--didn't have a clue on that one.
i think you made it up . . .
;)
Posted by: trisha too | November 19, 2009 at 02:13 PM
Know them all...use them all. I recently gave the Deer Hunter my go-devil cause it's too heavy for me to use anymore. It's a fine tool beatin' and brailin' as well as splitting wood. Ha ha!
Posted by: Miss Cindy | November 19, 2009 at 11:44 AM
I've listened to several songs this morning as I tried to catch up. Where have I been? I'm give-out now. I enjoyed every post. You do such a great job. Hope all is well in the mountains. Tell the family the flatlanders send greetings. Pappy
Posted by: Pappy | November 19, 2009 at 08:53 AM
Me too. Part of my everyday vocabulary.
Posted by: Annie | November 19, 2009 at 07:40 AM
What's a Go devil? I knew all the rest. I love these!
Posted by: wkf | November 19, 2009 at 06:47 AM
Know each and every one of them. Don't have a go-devil, but know what it is.
I haven't taken all of your tests, so some of these may be repeats...
Froe (tool used in woodworking)
Psygoggling (sygogglin')[I never saw it in writing, only heard it used, so I don't know how to spell it--it means going off at an angle to the right, like a car out of alignment]
Antigoggling (opposite of Psygoggling--going off at an angle to the left)
Adze--an ax-like tool used in squaring up timbers
Frail (tool used in threshing by hand, and a verb, as in 'he frailed the life out of that other boy in the fight')
Shivaree (this was more used in rural Kentucky than here in GA--it's folks sneaking up to your house at night and making a lot of noise to try to scare or aggravate you. Often done to couples on their wedding night. Can also be a general term for a frolic.)
Battling stick (used in washing clothes, after soap's been applied, to beat the dirt loose)
Light a shuck (to leave in a hurry, from the practice of using cornshucks lit at the fireplace as a small torch to light your way to the Johnny house)
Done run off (they've left, usually without permission..."They run off to North Carolina and got married")
Wrench (an action, not the tool, and not 'sprained' either--to rinse something in water. "I'll use the battlin' stick if you'll wrench these here overhauls")
Not worth the powder it'd take to shoot him (old saying)
Posted by: Keith Jones | November 19, 2009 at 05:16 AM
Use them all most any day except for go devil. Haven't even thought about one in years! How funny.
Are there really people that don't use these words? They seem pretty common but I guess it's just where yer from.
I like the topics you come up with.
Posted by: PictureGirl | November 18, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Same here, I've used them all except Go devil. Now I'm all give out and I'm going to bed. :)
Posted by: Janet | November 18, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Well, you got me on the go devil. Is it just a splitting maul? I never heard that term. I have used all the others.
Posted by: GrannyPam | November 18, 2009 at 09:27 PM
Ditto - know and use all but go devil. As a matter of fact, the others don't even sound exotic to me. But then again, I used the phrase "the bee's knees" today.
Posted by: Greta Koehl | November 18, 2009 at 08:37 PM
i use them all except for godevil..never heard that one before
Posted by: Sallie Covolo | November 18, 2009 at 05:46 PM
"Go devil" is a new one for me, too. My mom's favorite was "give out." After a day in the cotton patch, she was "plum give out."
Thanks for sharing, Tipper.
:)Marilyn
Posted by: Marilyn | November 18, 2009 at 04:47 PM
I'm from Mississippi and was familiar with each of the terms but "go devil." I have to admit, that's a new one on me.
Posted by: Paul Chaney | November 18, 2009 at 03:56 PM
I know them all except the last one, never heard of go devil.
Posted by: Nancy M. | November 18, 2009 at 03:53 PM
Know and use them all except go devil. That is a new one to me.
Posted by: barbara gantt | November 18, 2009 at 02:05 PM