hoe-down in the OED

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Feb 7 03:55:51 UTC 2014


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> "surprisingly, the term is not included in the usually
> magisterial Dict. American Regional
> English."
>

"Hoe-down" is only a regional term?

Youneverknow.


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