"loblolly pine"

[Wilson Gray]

The "loblolly" that I know is closest to 1: a kind of food for keeping
children out from underfoot made by breaking up several rounds of a
kind of cookie-like bread called "teacakes" into a mixture of cream,
beaten egg, vanilla flavoring, and sugar and steerying it up (as we
say down home) into a kind of hog slop called a "loblolly" and feeding
it to said children/chiddrin/chilrun/chirrun/chirrin, etc. I loved
this when I was a kiddie down in Texas. Now, it sounds somewhat gross.

-Wilson

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> Subject:      Re: "loblolly pine"
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> At 9/2/2008 11:32 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>Content-Disposition: inline
>>
>>I know a word, "loblolly," but I can't see how it could connect to
>>"loblolly pine.' What does your word, "loblolly," mean?
>
> Several things:
> 1. a. Thick gruel or spoon-meat, freq. referred
> to as a rustic or nautical dish or simple
> medicinal remedy; burgoo. {dag}Hence, a ship-doctor's medicines.  [from 1597]
> b. U.S. colloq. A mud-hole.  [from 1865]
> 2. A bumpkin, rustic, boor.  [from 1604]
> 3. = loblolly pine.  [from 1819]
> 4. attrib. and Comb., as ... loblolly pine, the
> tree Pinus Tæda, growing in swamps in the southern United States; [1760]
>
> Joel
>
>
>>-Wilson
>>
>>On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>> > ---------------------- Information from the
>> mail header -----------------------
>> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>> > Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
>> > Subject:      "loblolly pine"
>> >
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > How did "loblolly pine" arise fom "loblolly"?
>> >
>> > Joel
>> >
>> > ------------------------------------------------------------
>> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
>>come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>>-----
>>-Mark Twain
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------
>>The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>



--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-----
-Mark Twain

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org