South Georgiaisms (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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I'm familiar with "tight as Dick's hatband" and "bumfuzzled".

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> My late mother in law (born and grew up in Moultrie GA, in the SW part
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> of the state) used a number of words and expressions I have never
heard
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> anyone else use, either before or since.  She was born in 1908 and was
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> college educated, Wesleyan College in Macon GA and U of California,
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> the only one there was,  was in Berkeley.=20
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> Exx:
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> "Tight as Dick's hatband" for a parsimonious person
> "Tough as whit-leather"...someone we would call hardnosed=20
> "Bumfuzzled"...surprised or disconcerted
> "Pine burr" for what I would call a "pine cone"
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> Google hits on all, but I'm wondering if these expressions still live
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> anywhere or are now just theoretical, or if they are known to anyone
on
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> the list.
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> Bill Palmer
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