Good list, Prof.

 

I've always used "scrounge" as a verb, meaning to search or dig around looking for something.

 

You might scrounge around in the garage looking for a screwdriver. Or you might scrounge through the refrigerator for a snack.

You're correct.

I spelled the word wrong. It should have been scroudge.

 

I looked it up in a book written by the late Professor Cratis Williams (from Lawrence County and a Harvard graduate) called Southern Mountain Speech. This from page 51:

 

"He (the mountaineer) is able to give particular meaning to certain words by prefixing s to them: scroudge (s+crowd), scrooch (s+crouch), slounge (s+lounge), slurk (s+lurk), slurch (s+lurch), snab (s+nab),snibble (s+nibble),etc..."

 

 

So, scroudge means to crowd or pack together, as in "Could ya scroudge one more person in the backseat of your car?"

You're correct.

I spelled the word wrong. It should have been scroudge.

 

I looked it up in a book written by the late Professor Cratis Williams (from Lawrence County and a Harvard graduate) called Southern Mountain Speech. This from page 51:

 

"He (the mountaineer) is able to give particular meaning to certain words by prefixing s to them: scroudge (s+crowd), scrooch (s+crouch), slounge (s+lounge), slurk (s+lurk), slurch (s+lurch), snab (s+nab),snibble (s+nibble),etc..."

 

 

So, scroudge means to crowd or pack together, as in "Could ya scroudge one more person in the backseat of your car?"

 

Jim Wayne Miller, the late Berea grad and WKU professor, also touched on stuff such as this in his classes and in some of his books.

fur piece: long distance. "It's a fur piece to Lexington."

 

One time me and some of my family from NKY were down in Clay County visiting some family and we were getting ready to go somewhere down there and my cousin from NKY asked my aunt how far away the place was. She told him it was a fur piece down the road. He said well how long is a fur piece and she would just keep saying well its a fur piece away. He got upset because he couldnt ever figure out how far it was. It was pretty funny.

 

 

One time I was in Manchester visiting family and I asked my younger cousin what his dogs name was. He said Burr. Not understanding what he was saying I asked him a few more times until he said Burr. B-E-A-R, Burr. :lol: