qohee

Joan Houston Hall jdhall at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU
Tue Jun 4 18:07:03 UTC 2002


It's in DARE at "cohee," thought by many to come from "quoth he."  We've
defined it as 'An inhabitant of the mountains of western Virginia or
Pennsylvania."

At 01:08 PM 6/4/02 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:40:44AM -0700, Brad Beaty wrote:
> > I need some help.  I am an attorney in Virginia who gets email from
> >another Virginia attorney who uses "qohee" as her email name.  My
> >client has asked me what it means.  I have some vague thought that it
> >was some sort of colonial slang for hillbilly.  I haven't found
> >"qohee" anywhere.  Can anyonyone help?  Thanks
>
>Is there any reason you can't just ask the other attorney? It
>seems the best way in this case and nothing about your
>description has suggested that doing so would be embarrassing,
>personal, or the like.
>
>Jesse Sheidlower



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