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afeared
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afraid
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ah
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personal pronoun, oneself, "I"
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airish
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breezy, chilly
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bald
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treeless mountaintop
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bluff
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cliff, usually facing a river
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boomer
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red squirrel indigenous to the Smokies
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bottom
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flat land along a stream or riverbed. Usually the most fertile and level, thus the most desirable for farming
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branch
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a small tributary to a creek or an arm of a river
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bream
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pronounced "brim", any of a variety of sunfish especially blue gills
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britches
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pants
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cut a shine
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to dance
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dope
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soft drink, soda pop as in, "Ah'm a fixin ta go fetch me a bottle o' dope."
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eh law!
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Oh well!
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fair up
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when rainy weather clears up
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fetch
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to get
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fixin
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Preparing to do something as in "Ah'm a fixin ta fetch some poke salat."
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fount
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past tense of find as in "Ah fount a mess o poke on the hill."
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haint
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ghost
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holler
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valley surrounded by mountains
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jasper
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outsider, stranger
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kilt
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past tense of kill
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knock his head off
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take advantage of; get a great bargain as in "When you sell him that mule, knock his head off. He's cheated everbody in the holler!"
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liketa
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almost, nearly as in "That bar liketa kilt him!"
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mash
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the fermenting corn mixture used in the distilling of moonshine or a verb meaning to press or push as in "Just mash that button and the light'l come on."
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mess
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an indeterminate quantity, usually enough for a meal as in, "He brung home a big old mess of bream." Also, an undesirable group or family as in "That worthless mess that lives up on Gopher Bald ain't worth spit!"
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might could
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it's a possibility as in "Ah might could whup a painter if'n Ah was a mind to!"
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a mind to
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of a particular inclination (see above)
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painter
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a mountain lion; from the word "panther"
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pick
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to play a stringed bluegrass instrument, like a banjo, guitar or mandolin
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plait
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to braid or the braid itself such as a girl's hair or a rope
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poke
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bag or sack
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poke salat
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often pronounced poke salad - wild greens boiled to leach out poisons; often mixed with eggs and fried or eaten like collard greens
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ramp
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strong smelling and flavored small wild onion
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razor back
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wild hog
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right smart
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large quality, quantity, or number as in "That's a right smart price fer a mule."
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soup beans
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soupy pinto beans cooked slowly with salt pork and always eaten with cornbread
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tote
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verb: to carry adjective: a kind of sack like the one used to carry home a mess o poke salat
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y'aw or y'all
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the entire group or sometimes used in conversation to indicate just the single person being spoken to as in "Yore kiddin y'all!"; you all
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yonder
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there in the distance (usually with over) as in Over yonder 's whur my Daddy lives; also a large amount or quantity as in "That's way yonder more'n it's worth. You really knocked his head off!"
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yore
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contraction for "you are"
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young'un
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child
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whup
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defeat in combat; vanquish (see might could)
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