MY KINFOLKS OF KY AND BEYOND
POEMS, JOKES & TIDBITS
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COUNTRY TAWLK
Author Unknown
Tawlk: That's what we do when we say words.
Tar: What goes on your car. Most cars have four of them-unless they're up on sinner blocks.
Sinner: I just told you sinner blocks, but it's got another meaning, like in the Middle of something.
Flares: What you give a girl or put on graves.
Share: A kind of bath.
Shore: Of course.
Mere: What you look in when you get out of the share.
Barred: We had two bankers that barred money from folks and never did pay it back.
Shurf: Who you call if you have a flat tar in the country. The local constable.
Please: Who you call if you have a flat tar in the city.
Testes: That’s what you take to get a grade. You sit at deskes and take testes.
Noed: To be aware of. "I noed she was going to give us testes today!"
Adder: At a later time. " I'll get a job adder hunting season is over."
Brang: Fetched. As in bring, brang, brung.
Flash: Not like lightning, but like flash and blood. "There he was in the flash."
Far: The hot stuff you have in Hale.
Hale: A place you're sent to if you're bad, where all the far is.
Hale far: An expletive. "Well, hale far, I never noed I's going that fast.
Fartar: What you get up in to look for fars.
Bobwar: That what they put around fartars to keep people from stealing copper pipe out of the toilets for 4-H projects, so something, out in the woods.
Wranch: Several meanings. You can wranch you knee jumping bobwar fences. It's also a tool you work on a '47 Ford with.
Ranch: What you do to clothes after you warsh them. You ranch them out a little bit.
Clim: This is the past tense of climb. "I clim that ridge 'til my tongue lolled out. Sometimes Clum.
Nem: As when you're driving down the road, you see your neighbor, and you roll down the window and yell, "How's your Mom a’nem doin'?"
Yale: How you get somebody's attention. You Yale at them.
Bale: Something that rangs.
Cheers: That's what you set on.
Lag: A cheer has four lags.
Bubs: What you plant to get flares. Another kind of bubs is them that light up, iffen you got 'lectric pare.
Pare: What the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) brung.
Shed: Like divorce. "She done got shed of him."
L-I-B: What people say when they hear she done got shed of him. "L-I-B, I didn't know that!"
Air: A unit of time. "He's done been gone a air."
Ort: As in, "You ort to go see your Mama."
Wangs: Them's what birds use to fly.
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