drylongso

[Barnhart]

In Clarence Major's Juba to Jive shows the form "dry long so" and
glosses it "plainly; without ornamentation or frills."

The following example is given: "Every day was the same.  We was going
dry long so."  It is designated as Souther use.

Cited printed sources include: Zora Neale Hurston, _Dust Track on a
Road_ (1942) and _Their Eyes Were Watching God_ (1937); Ambrose E.
Gonzales, _The Black Border: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast_
(1922).

There is a variant "dry so long."

Regards,
David Barnhart

David K. Barnhart, Editor
The Barnhart Dictionary Companion [quarterly]
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