mud
n.— «I am up early because the workers are supposed to be here soon to begin pouring our new concrete driveway. The “mud” as they call it is supposed to arrive at 7 am. » —“New Driveway Updates” by Robert T. Musings from the Mothership Mar. 26, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Barbara Kingsolver’s book Demon Copperhead is a retelling of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield set in today’s Appalachia. Martha shares memories of a long-ago visit to Kingsolver’s family farm in Virginia, where they...
When Marilyn from Boston, Massachusetts, used the expression Them’s the berries! with neighbors in her hometown of nearby Arlington, Massachusetts, she was surprised they were unfamiliar with it. The phrase means something like “That’s...