"gimme some skin", "righteous" (Burley, 1940)

[Wilson Gray]

My point exactly, dInIs. Thanks for posting the clarification.

-Wilson

On Feb 4, 2008 10:51 AM, Dennis Preston <preston at msu.edu> wrote:
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> I doubt if this was the context in which you heard or saw it. A much
> better-known and more widespread version  of "Geechee" is its
> reference to the Gullah people of the Georgia and South Carolina
> coast and sea islands.
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> >Ah ha. Thanks. I have seen "Geechee", though I don't remember where, and I
> >didn't understand it.
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> >On Feb 4, 2008 2:41 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>  my mother once told me that, when she was in college ca.1930 at the
> >>  same Wiley College featured in The Great Debaters (she used to babysit
> >>  James Farmer), it was whatever word that they used for "hip" in those
> >>  days to say, "Gimme some skin, frien'!" "Righteous" is probably as old
> >>  as water. But, of course, it takes time for these things to get into
> >>  print and some never do and some remain local, such as the East-Texas
> >>  use of "Geechee" to describe a Creole-French-speaking black
> >>  Louisianians or merely one with a French surname.
> >>
> >>  -Wilson
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