A physician in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, shares some of the vocabulary of his patients from Appalachia. There, a misery is anything painful, such as a misery in my jaw if they have a painful tooth or a misery in my back if they have lumbar pain...
Jerry in Reno grew up hearing older relatives say don’t get your bauber in the dirt or keep your bauber out of the dirt, meaning don’t be discouraged or pout. Related forms, usually dobber and sometimes dauber, appear in slang and dialect...
Downton Abbey, a program featured on Masterpiece Theater, provided a handful of colorful expressions that date surprisingly far back. “Like it or lump it,” meaning “deal with it,” is found at least as early as 1830 and takes...
