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[kimberly40]

Here are some Appalachian words and phrases that you or your family uses if you’re a longtime local, or that surprised you most when you arrived here:

•A might spell – a little while

•A scosh – a little

•Acting ugly – acting mean

•All tore up – broken down or bereft; “as in the car is broke down or someone is all to pieces upset about somethin’”

•All y’all – you and your extended group or family; a way to add emphasis to “y’all.” “Used interchangeably with, ‘you’ins.’”

•Airish – breezy

•Booger – a boogeyman or Bigfoot-type creature; also a Boojum

•Bowed up – to stop suddenly. “He bowed up in front of me.”

•Branch – creek

•Britches – pants

•Buggy – shopping cart

•Busier than a one-eyed cat watchin’ two mouse holes

•By and by – eventually

•Come down to the house – Come over and visit

•Cove – “Here, a cove is a small valley – like a holler, just from a different county.

•Cuss – use curse words

•Cut on/off – turn on/off. “Cut on the hose pipe.”

•Cypookus (sypookus) – “a really bad thunderstorm”

•Dad dern it – “Kinda like Dad Gum it, sorta cussing but not really”

•Dark thirty; dusty dark – just after sunset

•The Devil’s beating his wife – “This means it’s raining but the sun is shining. Quite un-PC, but very colorful!”

•Dinner – used for “lunch”

•Dreckly (Directly) – an indeterminate period of time; soon. “Heard it all my young life. Then much to my surprise I saw in a shop window in Penzance, Cornwall, a sign ‘back dreckly.’ – Martha L.; used by my grandmother…“‘He will be here dreckly.’” Meaning soon.

•Fixin’ to – about to. “The phrase I like best, that enchanted me, is ‘It’s fixin’ to rain.’ You can say it’s fixin’ to do anything.

•Fixins – condiments

•Gap – “A gap is a low spot in a mountain ridge. National Geographic Society says gaps are similar to passes, but more rugged and difficult to navigate.”

•Guam (or gom) – gummed up; a mess. “2020 has been a gom.”

•Gully washer – “heavy downpour of rain”

•Hanging in there like a hair in a biscuit

•Hide nor hair – to describe when you haven’t seen someone or something in a while; “if you haven’t seen someone in a while you haven’t heard ‘hide nor hair of ‘em’”.

•Hit’s – “As in ‘what’s hit’s name;’ non-gender specific reference to a live thing, like a child, cat, or dog, who you don’t know the gender of.”

•Holler – a small valley

•Honchu – I want you. “Honchu look at that.”

•I don’t care to – I don’t mind.

•I reckon – I guess

•I swanee – A mild oath or swear

•I’ll get to it directly – I’ll do it eventually

•I’m all covered up – I’m busy

•Jeet – “Did you eat? or Have you eaten yet?”

•Just a tidgh – A little bit

•Kindly, kindly like – kind of; sort of

•Might could – to suppose one could, “I might could do that.”

•Momanem (mom an’ ‘em) – one’s family or someone else’s family. “How’re your momanem?”

•Off kilter – not right

•Oh my ‘lanta – “OMG.”

•Onced or twiced – “It happened onced or twiced.”

•Pipe down – be quiet

•Ratpurddy – “Lovely; pleasing to the eye.”

•Right quick – next; sooner than later

•Spittin’ snow – just starting to snow; snowing lightly but getting heavier

•Spell – period of time. “She’s been a might ill for quite a spell now”

•This un – this one

•Toboggan – a winter hat

•T’ords – “In the direction of.”

•Whole ‘nother – Another

•Winder – window

•You uns – you all

•Young’un – young person; child

(From https://avltoday.6amcity.com/southern-appalachian-dialect-nc/)

[madison-county-nc-blog]

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[egoproof]

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[beautyparadeasheville]

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[evankafka]

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[steelcowgirl]

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[winstonhcomedy]

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[hopicecream]

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[madison-county-nc-blog]

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[egoproof]

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[beautyparadeasheville]

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[verygoodphotographer]

There's a stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway in between Highways 25 and 74 around Asheville that folks in the area use pretty regularly. Most probably don't even realize that Sweeten Creek starts in a little cove just beside the parkway, runs underneath the road, and downhill to run alongside Sweeten Creek Rd. The creek eventually flows into the Swannanoa River and the road runs right up to the front gate of the Biltmore Estate. When the water flow is high you might see something like what's pictured here, but if you're in a car you can blink and miss it. If the flow is low you might only see a trickle. There are several spots like this one along that stretch and I challenge you to spy a few if you're ever riding along the parkway near Asheville, but be sure to keep your eyes on the road if you're driving! #verygoodphotographer #sweetencreek #ashevilletrails #visitasheville #asheville #avltoday #blueridgeparkway #blueridgemoments #naturalnorthcarolina #naturenc #visitnc #creek #waterfall #optoutside (at Sweeten Creek) https://www.instagram.com/verygoodphotographer/p/BukrosKAX50/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=182uj5ssfyckw

[metalthread]

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[hemp-pot]

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[hayleymelliott]

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