CARRUTH: DIALECT WORD-LIST. I39 



drive: a venture, speculation, also a covert witticism, a 'hit.' 



drivS: go, in 'I let drive with both barrels,' i. e. fired. 



drop: to lose in gambling or speculation. 



dust: to whip, in, to dust one'^s jacket. 



dust: to run, as 'Get up and dust.' 



Ely: success, in 'My name is Ely.' Comp., IJennis. 



fall down: to make a blunder, as 'He fell down badly.' 



fizzle or fizzle out: to fail, to 'Peter out.' 



flip: pert, as 'He's too flip for me.' 



fiub-dub: a snob, a pretender. (Boston.) 



fiy: alert and a little 'fast,' as, a fly young man. 



flyer: a venture, as ' How's that for a flyer?' (on 'change) B. 



gag: local hit, used by variety actors. 



gas (v. andn.): unnecessary or insolent talk, as 'He's been gassing 

 away all the evening.' 



get away with: to overcome, and to get possession of, as 'He 

 got away with me,' and 'They got away with his tin.' 



gob: mouth, ' Hit him on the gob.' 



gobble up: to snatch or appropriate greedily, as 'The back seats 

 were soon gobbled up.' 



go-devil: a kind of large rake used for drawing cocks of hay, sev- 

 eral at a time, to the stack. It is pulled by two horses, each mounted 

 by a boy; also, a work wagon used in street railway construction. 



gone: empty, weak, as 'I had such a gone feeling.' 



gone on: smitten with, as 'I'm gone on your neck-tie,' Comp., 

 stuck on, mashed on. 



gone Democratic: failed, gone against one, as 'The game went 

 Democratic,' i. e. the other side won; or 'Things have been going 

 Democratic all day.' (East Tennessee negroes.) 



grouty: pouty, cross. B. 



grub-stake (v. and n.): to furnish board or support to a worker, 

 especially prospector, on condition of a share in the results. 



guff: banter, 'Give me none of your guff.' 



hair-pin: person, as 'That's the sort of a hair-pin I am.' 



hand-me-down: ready-made, as, a hand-me-down suit of clothes. 



heapy: very. (Indiana.) 



herd book: a kind of local universal biography in which glory is 

 meted out in proportion to the number of copies the subjects sub- 

 scribe for. 



high: a spree, as, ' He's off on a high.' 



hold up: to rob, by physical force or by solicitation. 



horning: a 'chivaree.' 



hook up: to harness up, 



