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btw. i love college professors, they always have time for strangers asking stranger questions even if they can't help much.
From:
Robert Morgan <****@cornell.edu>
Subject:
Sigodlin
Date:
Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:09:24 -0400
To:
<dodyskin@**************>
As best I could find out sigodlin is a contraction of "side goggling," very
common in the Southern Appalachians in the 19th and 20th centuries. Robert
Morgan
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Wow. I'm impressed. Not only is he a Cornell prof but also a famous author: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/rrm4/Among his novels is Gap Creek which was on the *gulp* Oprah list a few years ago.
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How exciting! I read Gap Creek and loved it. And how great to know that my inquiry was finally resolved by a native of my beloved state of NC. I'm printing out the thread for my sisters to read. Thanks for the help!
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beanie, don't forget to give tsuwm a little credit too, even if he *isn't from North Carolina. 
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thanx, ASp -- I was beginning to feel like unchopped hominy here.
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Most humble apologies, tsuwm. Guess I was got up in a bit of celebrity ga-ga. I really appreciate the research you did (and in fact all posters on AWADtalk). Wish I had more time to spend here. And thanks to AnnaStrophic for the gentle wrist slap. Are we all in hominy now?
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beanie, you bet your sweet grits we are!
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Are we all in hominy now? Gro-ann-nn! beanie, this word has driven me crazy since you started this thread, because WV is a border state to where I live, and I've never heard that expression, that I can recall. If my mother were still alive, I could ask her--she was raised in eastern Kentucky. I tried a couple of on-line Gaelic dictionaries and had no luck. Just now I looked in my Pocket Scots Dictionary and found, not sigodlin, but close:
sidlin(s), sidlings adverb 1 sideways, side on, to one side. 2 of speech or look indirectly. adjective 1 sidelong, moving or glancing sideways. 2 sloping, on a slope. noun a sloping piece of ground, a hillside.
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And what's Oprah's book list, Jackie, the menu at Sol's Deli?
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> adjective 1 sidelong
sidelong
se+g+o+d+lin
sigodlin
not exactly an anagram but?
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