dirtbag
n.— «Turn on a baseball game any night and you’re liable to see stars not running out every groundball. The guys who run through walls and dive for balls—the “dirtbags,” as they are affectionately known—are celebrated but not always emulated.» —“Working hard for his money” by Brian Bennet Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) Apr. 21, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A Kentuckian named Sheila moved out of state for several years, but now that she’s returned to work at Western Kentucky University, she finds that many students no longer seem to have a stereotypically “Southern” accent...
Andre from Campbellsville, Kentucky, says his mother won’t watch a movie if it’s ary a bit violent. What does the word ary mean? Spelled airy, ara, arey, or ery, this dialectal term a shortening of ever a, and means “any” or...