These regional words are whoopensockers. If you don’t use them, you’re a bufflehead.
Hmmmm…interestingly, Firefox dictionary recognizes the latter, but not the former.
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These regional words are whoopensockers. If you don’t use them, you’re a bufflehead.
Hmmmm…interestingly, Firefox dictionary recognizes the latter, but not the former.
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I have to tell you, with the exception of ‘chinchy’ [pronounced chin-see or chint-see most places] I’ve never heard any of these before in places listed, where I have the most time spent.
[someone is chin-see if they ride with YOU, fer free ’cause yer goin’ that way, anyway, but when THEY drive, you ‘share’ the gas]
I grew up in and regularly visit KY, I’ve lived in NC for most of the last 40 years, and I’ve worked all over and traveled in the Mid-Atlantic and South in that time. And I worked in more rural places than cities, the kinds of places where I think you’d hear more colloquial, or even old fashioned words. Those words were new to me.
Others, I remember hearing traveling and working. I spent 50 hours in Alaska, 22 of them in jail and court, and I heard mug-up. Larruping, I heard in WY, MT and SD all in about 4 days time. So I’m doubly confused over ‘missing’ the ones from places I’m much more familiar with along life’s paths.
Weirder, and weirder the more I cogitate on it.
I would think the word pronounced “chin-see” was chintzy, which refers I believe to a fabric and means “cheap” in the way that the decor in a greasy spoon diner is cheap. Could this be a borrow-and-adapt pronunciation where the condition of a thing has come to mean how people behave?
I knew “mizzle” for a light drizzle of rain. In northern California, that was what we frequently had for weather where I lived (Eureka, on the coast).
The rest were new to me. Very cool, though. I’ll have to remember some of these.
That’s all a bunch of flapdoodle, if you ask me.
Words are for communication. They should be chosen to convey thoughts to the audience. Not to impress others with your vocabulary. Chucklehead is a better choice than Bufflehead simply because it’s more generally understood.
Moron, idiot, fool, imbecile, cretan, numbskull, asshat, pinhead, airhead, dolt, etc. are all more well understood. What’s needed are variations that include some villainy as well, since evil genius isn’t the only kind of evil.
It’s a chinchy list, because I only recognized one word.