Hillbilly Slang

[kybearfuzz]

Pop quiz! Do you know what the following things from my neck of the woods are?

1. A Thunder Bucket?
   
2. White Lightning?
   
3. A holler?
   
4. A winder?
   
5. Poke?
   
6. Corn Squeezin's?
   
7. A lick?

The Answers!

1. A Thunder Bucket is essentially a chamber pot. The "Thunder" part, according to my dad, was because when you went #2 in it, it sounded like roaring thunder.
   
2. White Lightning is another word for moonshine hooch.
   
3. A Holler is a hollow, the valley between two hills where folks live.
   
4. A winder is a window. Heavy Scots-Irish influences made words like window and hollow pronounced like "winder" and "holler"...
   
5. Poke is a leafy herb/vegetable that grows wild and folks will cook to eat. It was often heard from my mom, "Your Aunt Beverly is bringing over a mess of poke for me to cook tonight." I was never that big a fan.
   
6. Corn Squeezin's is also a term for moonshine, usually the corn grain alcohol variety.
   
7. A lick is a small stream, smaller than a creek. Here in Northern KY there is a park called Big Bone Lick State Park, which is due to Mammoth bones being found near a stream, and not what you're probably thinking of, but it is good for a laugh...

Comments

[canowhupass.livejournal.com]

Okay, I grew up in the midwest and had some difference:

3. Holler: What Gwen Steffani does in response to other girls?
5. Poke: Abbreviation for cow poke or cowboy
6. Corn Squeezin: no idea although I have heard tales about how folks have used corn cobs before the invention of toilet paper...
7. Lick: small quantity as in "He didn't have a lick o' sense in his head:


Here's some for you:

1. Crik: small stream or creek as in "He's down by the crik fishin'"
2. Malarkey: nonsense as in "That's a bunch of malarkey"
3. Piss n' vinegar: mischieviousness as in "Lordy, that boy is full of piss n' vinegar today".
4. Tan: process to cure leather also spanking as in "son, if you don't cut that out I'm going to tan yer hide."
5. Mess: a large quantity as in "I've got to go cook up a mess of chicken for the church social tonight"

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

LOL.. I've heard of those too.. especially the use of corn cobs for toilet paper (I can't imagine how clean they'd get you) and "crik's"...