Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-04
SOME POPULAR EXPRESSIONS.
of American Speech Ac-
cOrding to n Dialect Society.

SOME POPULAR EXPRESSIONS.
Curiosities of American Speech Ac-
cOrding to n Dialect Society.
From the New York Sun.
Is a pancake fried or baked, or simply
cooked? Is 1t, after all, really pancake
and Iot rather :As1griddle cake, a fannen
| cake. buckwheat or flapjack? What
is a doughnut? When you tear your
trousers on shafp point what is the first
word You instinttively apply to the req
| tangular rent; trap patch, bern door, or
weewary, as says the New Highlander, or
is it winklehawk or nicklehawk, as New
Workers say? What do you mean by ding
bats? How widespread is the use of the
shimmy? Such are the problems set by
the American Dialect Society in part eight
of it's notes, which will be published in a
few days.
Three distinct recipes for the prepara-
ton of doughnuts are promulgated by the
society. Dough, raised with yeast, sweet
ened and spiced, cut into cubes, which,
when fried in q deep vessel with hot fat
become round Jumps, forms the doughnlt
of Connecticut By substituting soda or
saleratus for yeast and cutting the paste
| into circles or twists. you have the dough-
nut of Massachusetts,, which the Dutch set
tier calls the olykoek and others the crul-
Ter: while the native of Connecticut dis
tinguishes between the twisted billed cake
md the round tumble. If merely unsea-
soned dough be used, you have the fried
bread of Massachusetts. called on Cape
Cod seventyfours. and elsewhere. 1t seems
doughnuts. The dingbat has had an ad-
venturous career. Starting as a ball of
dirt on the legs of sheep in Vermont 1t
becomes smart spank to the northern
New Highlander, squabble. flying mis-
sile and money to the Maine 1umberman
the biscuit of the New England boarding
school. while in Georgia it has turned to
| a mothers KISS ana you may say of the
girl you admire: "She is a regular ding
bat"
1t must not be inferred that culinary
and domestic matters alone engross the
society's attention, though it is at home
that the careless words and phrases are
most likely to be used which deviate from
literary forms, but have passed from
mouth to mouth since man first spoke
This part of dialect notes contains no less
| than 900 new words and usages, collected
| throughout the land, some poetical, many
picturesque. and all curious and interest
ing.
In the Tennessee mountains. streams
flowing from the east are sunrise waters
mule that you can trust is confidential
| mule railr DAD train is a smoke wagon,
a kiss is a Smouch, cheese is plural with a
singular chez, sugar Is sweetening but
| mOlasses Is lLng Sweetening, a man subject
to fits Is fitifed. and very much is heap
sight. or good few. or some several, or
way yander. A man points to hillside
and tells you that he Elves on yon coast
and has good scope of land;' he greets
you with How do you come on?" and
asks you to Come in and rest your hat"
toothbrush to him means snuff stick.
ill means cross. juberous timid, fisty mean.
popular Stylish his past lenses are fotch
| and holp and seed and squez and swole; he
tells you that Sickness is mighty inter-
ruptin'," that it is "a gosh wet SPELL" and
hits too-my-goodness cold" that he has
1.-The beatenest boy and talkenest old wo-
man ever you see.' and that that young
irf IL, - tt,f Nerif III
The sty-baked or stay-at-home Jersey
Tatron ccosters or potters around the
house. calls her preserves do-ups, pork
spack. her husband. if need be, lobscouse
or loper. meaning worthless fellow. She
sides up or cleans up or goes strulling,
wasting time about the village, but she
cares not a Dutch cuss about going down
country, tat is, TO New York city.
Coof is the name for an off-islander in
Nantucket. on Mt" Desert the summer
visitor is a rustitrsta, a stupid Verlnon:cr
is dodunk. gooher srubber digs peanuts
in Tenness ee When a man is confused
he Is mommixed In Kentucky he is muxed
up In Otsego countya galleyied in New Bed
ford. stodSed in Indiana. and wuzZed in
New York. II don't hurt fer it; means Il
don't care in Mississippi, while 81 don't
mind it a Bit implies terror in North Car
DINA. where great calamity is scandalous.
The sunset is day down on the Virginia
coast A man hastiarge money in Cincin
natl. he has ds4of it in Missouri. and
session of it in.Georgia. When a Terre
hauto citizen is sul4en he is putchky. and
if too weak to get out of bed is on the lift,
while pawky 0hioan is one in poor
health and mentally weak Kentucknn ia
slack twisted. Hogo is strong smell in
New Hampshire. where a severe storm Is
tan toaster. Missouri slush is .sposh. Green
corn remains rOast'n ear in Florida. even
when it is canned. and there COW may
give birth to "a yearling
The farmers 'of Orange and Sullivan coun-
ties have the reprehensible practice of max
ing their maple strip by melting the sugar:
this they call ak: ma goozleum. On Staten
Island. splendid is galoptious. titbits are
manavelins, and to turn is to tarve Pat
chcgue says noink and SUNK for nothing
and something. In the northwestern part
of the state, when two young hearts begin
to beat rs one they are said to be scamulju-
gated. Tho Ithacan on entering the house
hangs up his shock. his hat and coat. The
Otscgo thief when caught looks meecking
or guilty. even when he has stolen a mere
smitch. a very small quantity. Quarter
eagles must be more common in the CEN
trail part of the state than in the city, for
they are still known twenty-shilling
pieces. and silver dollars bareback.
There souchy is loplolly, sticky is tacky.
you are pushed when you are tired. you
change off when you move, you go large
when you are eXtravagant, you pronounce
hoax as a disSyllabe, you pooster about
when you are fussy, you are in a yang
when in A hurry, and when violent you do
things kabang, kachunck. kaflop. kaslam.