Informal English : Puncture ladies, egg harbours, Mississippi marbles, and other curious words and phrases of North America
Author(s): Jeffrey Kacirk
Gleaned from antiquated dictionaries, dialect glossaries, studies of folklore, nautical lexicons, historical writings, letters, novels, and miscellaneous sources, Informal English offers a captivating treasure trove of linguistic oddities that will not only entertain but also shed light on America's colloquial past. Among the gems are:
- Surface-coal: cow dung, widely used for fuel in Texas
- Bone-orchard: in the Southwest slang for a cemetery
- Chawswizzled: "confounded" in Nebraskan idiom. "I'll be chawswizzled!"
- Leather-ears: to Cape Cod inhabitants, a person of slow comprehension
- Puncture lady: a southwestern expression for a woman who prefers to sit on the sidelines at a dance and gossip rather than dance, often puncturing someone's reputation
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