The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-11-15

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''red" or Grid up'' for clean up;
''turn off" for discharge; to 'turn
off a hand" meant to discharge a
man. School always "took up"
and 'let out" A man with a bad
countenance had a chang dog"
look. The "suck-egg" and ''sheep
KILN +" dog also prevailed as terms
Of "Ornery" was of
course, the universal adjective for
anything d%isreputable, and "mean,'
never meant stingy. "Stob" was
the word for stab, as we're ''stomp'
and ''tromp" for stamp and tramp.
The o was not short, however, as in
''stop,'' but had the" sound OF aw.
1t was coal ''bucket," never coal
scuttle or hod. A small wagon load
of anything was a Gag" Chimney
was "chimley," and flannel was
''tlannen," and ''tremly" or "trimly"
was used for trembling. Sometimes
a man would say his hand "was all
of a trimmed"
Among vegetable it was ''tomat-
tusses,n or ''martisses' for toma-
toes, "cowcumbers'' for cucumbers,
and "ingernsn or 'ingins' for
onions. Walnuts were ''warnuts' or
"~'waruits,' muskmelons were
"mushmellons' or ''mishmillons,"
raisins were ''rezins." a tiger vas
a "tagger," wraps were "%wrops,"
and crops were ''craps.n In calling
pigs we said "seuie :" cows came to
''sook;" horse to scope, cope" or
"quope;' turkeys answered to ''pe,
pc !" sheep to SEQ, co, co-nannie.'
The milking yard was called the
'cuppin', - and the COWS were stead
led by the words ''son or ''saw."
Horses were sometimes called up by
the word"co-boy, co-boy." ''Fotch'
and "kotch'' were common. and
SO netimes for touch "totch" was
used. \ founding was a woods
COLT When children wanted to
crow over each others troubles they
had a verse which went thus:
Gooiy, soody rout,
shirt tails out
Guudy. soody gin,
shirt tails in,
"Goody'' was also the common
expression OF satisfaction owe an
others misfortune.
"Catabiased" was a word used in
the western part OF the state to X
press Il of line. 'MommiXed'
meant mixed up; "yluttcrmeut" in
some families meant confusion, and
one old man used the word
smiticaIl'' TO express what was en-
phatical, An odd word, beard
nearer the mountains, was "kil-
tiggin," meaning a lazy slitternly
woman. On Big Sandy | have heard
stack twisted used. meaning
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-ioot. ,,.t.+od,, r, o,,,. hoor ,aI
.
fer goes" that is, to roll up from
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l,ln .a;adt,,,n o,a ,.n,h, ,ui,
the first play. The marbles in the
,i,r ,ara oou.d ..1ro.s ct, aud .ha
lanai T., ,h. ,a,,,. .os ..,niiaI.
,or,, ~, ..,,,t. 49,. -
u.os , di-rlo, hro,.r, e.,
,ar.,r thar q. oro,,h a,.d - .L.
Dt,Iact S,cietv u-,rts mara !, cor
find ..d.od ondIins,, NJ if MT ION
mil. f.,r, o;,+li,otfo,,. or,ar
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rra.ent herewith sometime moro
of po,.ible interest to the American
/ niaIec, S,c;.,y Tbere ia the word
"Gcetv meaning nsnunkv,, or
.-a.sy" ike-tbe little dog commonly
ralIad . aGra ~ or ufc,t,, rather in
the ..red brusn.m In cbiIdrep,s
games ..king's scnse,, for "kinp,s
~exc1se 80 called ont when the rules
of the oame. are IN he srsnended for
soma car.. SCH sbedu for ..oet
| rid, i q yerv amman Kentnckian-
i.,, : rob uioa,, 10 tba ,a,roor.
lar for diagonal. In the maintains
,~,nop,, and ..crittaru ore nsed in
stead Of horse. Crops are oput in,
instead of planted, and wheat is "got