In 1770, London's Newcastle Chronicle reported the baking of a nine foot diameter Christmas pie featuring geese, turkeys, rabbit, duck, woodcocks, snipes, partridges, curlews, blackbirds and pigeons. Yum. I guess.
Source: Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words (1914) Walter Skeat
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Pooster: to toil in mud or filth; to splash among water.
Not to be confused with poofters, which reportedly do not exist in such enlightened higher-order nations as Iran. Oh, except for those framed, imprisoned, tortured and/or killed by their enlightened higher-order government. Oops, but we don't talk about that.
Source: Scots Dialect Dictionary (1911) Alexander Warrack
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Pokeweed religion: Seemingly impressive religious excitement which springs up rapidly but without permanent value.
"We're hotter than pokeweed religion on an Ozark Sunday night!" is what John Lennon should have said, rather than the off-hand quip about Jesus Christ. It would have saved him a whole lotta splainin-to-do. Of course, then the Beatles wouldn't have got to re-sell all those albums to temporarily delirious vinyl-burning yankees.
Source: Down in the Holler: A Gallery of Ozark Folk Speech (1953) Vance Randolf
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