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Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular

Chapter 127: GLOSSARY
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This collection assembles short folktales and tall tales drawn from the coastal rice- and swamp-region oral tradition, rendered in local vernacular speech. The pieces range from animal trickster episodes—featuring a clever rabbit, alligator, wolf, turkey, and other creatures—to human-centered anecdotes about conjuring, superstition, plantation life, and humorous misadventures. Arranged as many brief numbered stories, the volume preserves regional expressions, rhythm, and humor while alternating fables, jokes, and supernatural accounts. Recurrent themes include cunning over brute strength, community memory, survival in marshland settings, and the interplay of practical wit and folkloric belief.

GLOSSARY

  • Abnue, avenue
  • Agg, egg
  • All ob er sutten, quickly and unexpectedly
  • An, and
  • Arter, after
  • Arur, each, either
  • Ax, ask
  • Bactize, baptize
  • Bague, to beg
  • Barruh, barrow
  • Beber, beaver
  • Bedout, without
  • Ben, bend, bent, been
  • Berry, very
  • Bes, best
  • Bex, vex, vexed
  • Bidness, business
  • Biggin, begin, began
  • Bimeby, by and by, presently
  • Binner, was, were
  • Bittle, victuals
  • Blan, in the habit of, accustomed to
  • Blanks, Blants, belongs to
  • Bleebe, believe
  • Bleege, obliged, compelled
  • Bodder, to bother
  • Bode, board, boards
  • Bofe, both
  • Bole, bold
  • Boun, resolved upon, forced to
  • Bredder, brother
  • Bref, breath
  • Bres, breast
  • Bresh, brush-wood, to brush
  • Broke up, to leave, to depart
  • Brukwus, breakfast
  • Buckra, white man
  • Bud, bird
  • Budduh, Buh, brother
  • Buhhine, behind
  • Bun, burn
  • Buss, burst, or break through
  • Cahr, carry
  • Caze, because
  • Ceive, deceive
  • Cept, accept, accepted, except
  • Chillun, children
  • Chimbly, chimney
  • Chune, tune
  • Cist, insist
  • Clorte, cloth
  • Cloze, clothes
  • Cohoot, bargain, agreement
  • Cole, cold
  • Conjunct, agree to, conclude
  • Cote, court
  • Crack eh teet, make answer
  • Crap, crop
  • Crape, scrape
  • Cratch, scratch
  • Cut down, disappointed, chagrined
  • Darter, daughter
  • Day, there, is, to be, am
  • Day day, to be there
  • Den, then
  • Der, was, were, into
  • Dest, Dist, just, only
  • Destant, distant, distance
  • Det, death
  • Diffunce, difference
  • Disher, this
  • Do, door
  • Dout, without
  • Drap, drop, dropped
  • Duh, was, were
  • Dunno, don’t know
  • Dut, dirt
  • Edder, other
  • Eeben, even
  • Een, in, end
  • Eenwite, invite
  • Ef, if
  • Eh, he, she, it, his, her, its
  • Element, the sky, upper air
  • En, end
  • Enty, are you not, are they not, do you not, do they not, is it not
  • Faber, favor
  • Faid, to be afraid
  • Fambly, family
  • Fanner, a shallow basket
  • Farruh, Farrur, father
  • Feber, fever
  • Fedder, feather, feathers
  • Fiel, field
  • Fine, supply with food, find
  • Flaber, flavor
  • Flo, floor
  • Flut, flirt
  • Foce, force
  • Forrud, forehead
  • Fren, friend
  • Fros, frost
  • Fuh, for
  • Fuh sutten, for a certainty
  • Fuss, first
  • Gage, engage, hire
  • Gedder, gather, collect
  • Gelt, to girt
  • Gem, to give
  • Gen, gave, again
  • Gie, give
  • Gimme, give me
  • Glec, neglect
  • Glub, gloves
  • Gooly, good
  • Graff, grab
  • Gree, agree, consent
  • Grine salt, fly round and round
  • Guine, Gwine, going, going to
  • Haffer, have to, had to
  • Hair rise, badly frightened
  • Haky, Harky, hearken to, heed
  • Han, hand
  • Hanker, long for, desire
  • Hatchich, hatchet
  • Head, get the better of
  • Head um, get ahead of him
  • Hebby, heavy
  • Holler, halloo, hollow
  • Hoona, you
  • Hot, to hurt
  • Huccum, how happens it, why, how come
  • Huddy, how d’ye do
  • Ile me bade, grease my mouth
  • Isself, himself, herself, itself, themselves
  • Jew, dew
  • Jist, just
  • Juk, jerk
  • Ketch, catch, reach to, approach
  • Kibber, cover
  • Kine, kind
  • Knowledge, acknowledge, admit
  • Labuh, labor
  • Lass, to suffice for, to last
  • Lean fuh, set out for
  • Led-down, lay down
  • Leek, to lick with the tongue
  • Leely, Leetle, little
  • Leff, to leave, did leave, left
  • Leggo, to let go
  • Leh, let
  • Lemme, let me
  • Lenk, length
  • Libbin, living
  • Lick, to whip, stroke of the whip
  • Lickin, whipping
  • Lick back, turn rapidly back
  • Lief, leave, permission
  • Light on, to mount
  • Light out, to start off
  • Long, with, from
  • Lub, love
  • Luk, Lucker, like
  • Mange, mane
  • Medjuh, measure
  • Mek, make, made
  • Mek fuh, to go to
  • Mek out, fare, thrive, succeed
  • Member, to remind
  • Men eh pace, increase his speed
  • Mine, mind, heed, take care of
  • Miration, wonder, astonishment
  • Mo, more
  • Moober, moreover
  • Mona, Moner, more than
  • Mona dat, more than that
  • Mose, almost
  • Mossa, master
  • Mouf, Mout, mouth
  • Murrer, mother
  • Mussne, must not
  • Muster, must have
  • Nabor, neighbor
  • Narruh, another
  • Nebber, never
  • Nekked, naked
  • Nes, nest
  • New Nigger, a negro fresh from Africa
  • Nigh, to draw near to
  • Notus, notice, observe
  • Noung, young
  • Nudder, another
  • Nuff, enough
  • Nummine, never mind
  • Nurrer, neither, another
  • Nuse, use, employ
  • Nussen, used to, accustomed to
  • Nuss, nurse
  • Nuttne, nothing
  • Obersheer, overseer
  • Offer, off of
  • Ole, old
  • Ooman, woman, women
  • Out, to go out, to extinguish
  • Outer, out of
  • Pahler, parlor
  • Passon, parson
  • Pate, path
  • Pen pon, depend upon
  • Perwision, provisions
  • Pinder, ground-nuts, peanuts
  • Pint, direct, directed, point
  • Pintment, appointment
  • Pit, put, apply
  • Playpossum, to fool, to practice deceit
  • Pledjuh, pleasure
  • Po, poor, pour
  • Pon, upon
  • Pooty, pretty
  • Pose, post
  • Prommus, promise
  • Pruppus, on purpose
  • Pusson, person
  • Quaintun, acquainted with
  • Quaintance, acquaintances
  • Quile, to coil, coiled
  • Quire, to inquire, inquired
  • Rale, very truly, really
  • Range, reins
  • Rastle, to wrestle
  • Retch, to reach, to arrive at
  • Ribber, river
  • Riz, rose
  • Roose, roost
  • Sabe, to know
  • San, sand
  • Sarbis, service, kindness
  • Satify, Saterfy, satisfied, happy, content
  • Scace, scarce
  • Schway, to swear, swore
  • Scuse, excuse
  • Seaznin, seasoning
  • Sebbn, seven
  • Sed, sit, sat
  • Sed-down, sit down, sat down
  • Shet, shut
  • Sho, sure
  • Sholy, surely
  • Shum, to see it, see him, see her, see them
  • Sider, on the side of
  • Sisso, say so
  • Skade, scared
  • Smate, smart
  • Sofe, soft
  • Soon man, very smart, wide-awake man
  • Sorter, sort of, after a fashion
  • Sparruh, sparrow
  • Spec, expect
  • Spose, expose
  • Spute, contest the championship with
  • State, start, begin
  • Steader, Stidder, instead of
  • Straighten fur, run rapidly for
  • Stroy, destroy
  • Sukkle, circle, fly around
  • Summuch, so much
  • Sutten, certain, sudden
  • Suttenly, certainly, suddenly
  • Swade, persuade
  • Swode, sword
  • Tack, to attack
  • Tackle, to hold to account
  • Tan, to stand
  • Tarrify, to terrify, to annoy
  • Tarruh, Turruh, the other
  • Tase, to taste, taste
  • Tay, stay
  • Tek, take
  • Tek wid um, pleased with him, her, or it
  • Tek you foot, to walk
  • Tel, until
  • Ten, attend to
  • Tend, intend
  • Tenk, Tenky, to thank, thanks
  • Ter, Teh, to
  • Tetch, touch
  • Tetter, potatoes
  • Tick, thick, abundant, a stick
  • Ticket, thicket
  • Tickler, particular
  • Tief, to steal, thief
  • Ting, thing
  • Tird, third
  • Titter, sister
  • Togerruh, together
  • Tole, told
  • Topper, on top of, on
  • Tote, carry
  • Trabble, travel
  • Tru, through
  • Truss, trust
  • Trute, truth
  • Tuff, tuft
  • Tuk, took
  • Tun, turn, return
  • Tun flour, to cook hominy
  • Up ter de notch, in the best style
  • Usen, to be in the habit of
  • Vise, to advise
  • Vive, revive
  • Wan, to want, to wish, want
  • Warse, wasp
  • Wase, waste
  • Way, where
  • Wayebber, wherever
  • Whalin ob er, enormous, severe
  • Wid, with
  • Wile, while
  • Win, wind
  • Wine, vine
  • Wish de time er day, to say good-bye, how d’ye do
  • Wud, word
  • Wudduh dat, what is that
  • Wuffer, what for, why, what to
  • Wuh, what, which, who
  • Wuhebbuh, whatever
  • Wuk, work
  • Wul, world
  • Wunt, will not, would not
  • Wurrum, worms
  • Wus, worse
  • Wus den nebber, worse than ever
  • Wut, worth
  • Yad, yard
  • Yearin, hearing
  • Yeddy, to hear, to hearken to
  • Yender, Yent, not, was not, were not
  • Yent day day, is not there, are not there
  • Yeye, eye, eyes
  • Yez, ear, ears
  • Yiz, am, is, to be, did
  • Yuh, here
  • Zamine, examine

NUMBERS

  • One, one
  • Two, two
  • Tree, three
  • Fo, four
  • Fibe, five
  • Six, six
  • Sebbn, seven
  • Eight, eight
  • Nine, nine
  • Ten, ten
  • Lebbn, eleven
  • Twelbe, twelve
  • Tirteen, thirteen
  • Foteen, fourteen
  • Fifteen, fifteen
  • Sixteen, sixteen
  • Sebbnteen, seventeen
  • Eighteen, eighteen
  • Nineteen, nineteen
  • Twenty, twenty
  • Tirty, thirty
  • Forty, forty
  • Fifty, fifty
  • Sixty, sixty
  • Sebbnty, seventy
  • Eighty, eighty
  • Ninety, ninety
  • One hundud, one hundred
  • One tousan, one thousand

MONTHS OF THE YEAR

  • Jinnywerry, January
  • Febbywerry, February
  • Mache, March
  • Aprul, April
  • May, May
  • June, June
  • Jully, July
  • Augus, August
  • Sectember, September
  • October, October
  • Nowember, November
  • December, December

DAYS OF THE WEEK

  • Mundy, Monday
  • Chuseday, Tuesday
  • Wensday, Wednesday
  • Tursday, Thursday
  • Friday, Friday
  • Sattyday, Saturday
  • Sunday, Sunday