Ashley in Danville, Kentucky, says that if she’s looking pale or wan, her mother will say You look like a haint. The dialectal term haint is used throughout much of the American South to mean “ghost” or “evil spirit”...
Full as a goog is Australian English for completely stuffed, as after a big dinner. Ashley in Danville, Kentucky, learned it while living in Australia and still uses it when her twin daughters eat until their little bellies are taut. A goog is an...
Cutting a rusty, heard in parts of the U.S. South, means acting up or doing something mildly outrageous, such as pulling a prank or shouting a naughty word. Fawn from Danville, Kentucky, learned it from a sister-in-law from Selma, Alabama. The noun...