Tuesday, January 31, 2017

A pig in a poke . . .

Poke
Let the cat out!

. . . or a piglet in a pocket?

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At 3:54 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I used to hear teen age boys (when I was one) say about a girl who had just walked by, "When she walks, it looks like two two shoats fighting in a gunny sack." aim nor sure what that means...

Cran

 
At 3:57 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Should have said I'm not sure what that means...(my fingers hit the wrong keys)... Sorry!

Cran

 
At 9:33 AM, Blogger Horace Jeffery Hodges said...

Never heard that one before.

Jeffery Hodges

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At 11:06 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

It was the Viola crowd, and your father used it now & again.

 
At 11:12 AM, Blogger Horace Jeffery Hodges said...

I suppose Salemites of some previous generation would've known the expression, too.

Jeffery Hodges

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At 5:17 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

CPH here--When my family first moved to Horseshoe Bend (I was six), Hook Langston's grocery store in Salem was 'it' for groceries in the reasonably-near vicinity. My mom's first visit (with me in tow) passed into family lore, when, as we were checking out, the girl at the register asked my mom (she of the megalopolis of Little Rock her whole life) if she wanted her purchases "in a poke". Needless to say, she did NOT know what in the world the girl was talking about! But we got with the program pretty quickly after that...

 
At 9:55 AM, Blogger Horace Jeffery Hodges said...

That's the story I heard when I first heard of "poke" as "bag" or "sack," which means that this traditional meaning was already passing out of use even in the Ozarks.

Jeffery Hodges

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