CARRUTH: DIALECT WORD-LIST. 97 



gumbo: a peculiar, putty-like dark soil. (Kansas.) 



hen: feminine, as in, hen-party; comp. stag-party, a gathering of 

 men only. 



honey: a fine fellow, generally ironically. 



hump: to bestir, as, Hump yourself. 



hole: bad condition financially; as. He is in the hole, i. e. he has lost. 



huckleberry: indifferent, in, a huckleberry Christian. 



huckleberry: the right person, as in. You're my huckleberry. 



hornswoggle: to discomfit, as in, I'll be hornswoggled if I'll do it. 



in it: on the successful side, as. He is not in it, i. e., He has no 

 prospect of success. This phrase is universal in 1891. 



infare: the reception after a wedding. 



in: on the credit side, as, I was in five dollars. 



jay: a green, conceited fellow. 



jag: a bit of anything; a spree, a brief drunk. 



jack mosquito, a large insect of the mosquito family, three times 

 the size of the pestiferous kind; this one does not bite. 



jimmy: to meddle, as, to jimmy with a thing or person, to 'fool 

 with.' Comp., to 'monkey with.' 



jump: to leave without notice, as to jump the town, to jump bail; 

 to jump a board-bill is to leave it unpaid. 



joint: an illegal saloon. What is the origin of it? 



jigger or chigger: a minute red mite, which frequents weeds 

 and lawns, burrows beneath the human skin and causes excruciating 

 itching. 



keep: board and lodgings, as. He works for his keep. 



lay over: to surpass, as, That lays over anything I know. 



larofamedlers, a phrase used generally as equivalent to. It's 

 none of your business. (Maryland, Penn., Ohio, Arkansas.) The 

 word is a corruption of Lay-over for medlers, a lay-over being a bear- 

 trap consisting of a pit covered with boughs. 



light out: to start on the run, as. He 'lit' out for home. 



lagniap: the extra in a bargain, as, Five dollars, and a hat for 

 lagniap. (Louisiana.) 



lush: to drink heavily, to 'swill.' 



mog: to move, as, Mog along with you. 



mogle: the same. 



main: very, as. It's main strange. (Worcester county, Mass.) 



mosey, to move along with a strut. 



move: motion, as in, Get a move on you. ' 



mealer: one who takes only meals at a boarding-house. 



mind off: to ward off (flies, etc.). 



meet up with: to meet. (Tennessee.) 



