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Dear Keiva, Welcome to the Board ... Delighted to have a new entry into the discussion. Do stay with us. (book) titled "Like We Say Back Back Home". ....I remember was, "She's as loose as a bucket of soot."your post reminded me of a few more in similar vein: "Dumb as a bag full of rocks" "Sharp as a bowling ball" That's all I can remember off top of my head. Anyone? Again, Welcome!!! 
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How do I (and many other USA Southerners) pronounce "caramel"?How do you pronounce it at all when the damned stuff has your jaw glued shut?  How do y'all pronounce "pecan?" As a kid in South Carolina, I heard, "PEE-can." all I hear now is "puh-KAHN." Where I now live, in Oregon, they used to grow filberts. Now they get hazlenuts off the same trees. Go figure...
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One of the books I'm currently reading is the Booker Prizewinning 'English passengers' by Matthew Kneale. Here's a fascinating passage of Manx invective (page 32):
"We called Gawne some names that morning, I can tell you. Scrissag. Scrawl. Sleetchy old scraper. Hibernator. Castletown snot. Fat muck of a fritlag. Big slug, all sitting on his shillings with his little crab of a wife, snurly and high as if they thought they were somebody."
There's a whole heap more in the Glossary as well.
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Scrissag. Scrawl. Sleetchy old scraper. Hibernator. Castletown
snot. Fat muck of a fritlag.Ahh, so this is the TRUE source of Jabberwocky! 
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A southernism used in a seminar this week: "Never slap a man who's chawin' tobacco."
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I've now finished 'English passengers' so, before I return it to the library, I thought I'd share with you from the book's glossary some words describing types of character, all of them viewed with disapproval.
Smooth, slippery people: creeper, click, clinker, cluke, crooil, reezagh, shliawn, slebby, sleetch.
Showy, boastful people: branchy, filosher, feroash, gizzard, grinndher, high, neck, snurly, stinky, uplifted.
Large blundering people: Bleih, bleb, dawd, flid, gaping, glashan, gogaw, gorm, hessian, kinawn, looban, ommidhan, slampy, sthahl, walloper.
Peevish people, especially small scolding women: borragh, coughty, crabby, cretchy, corodank, gob-mooar, gonnag, grangan, grinnder, grouw, huffy, mhinyag, pootchagh, scrissy, scrowl, smullagh, spiddagh, targe.
By the way, it's a fascinating book and a great read!
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Peevish people, especially small scolding women: gob-mooar
Intreresting ... gob, in Irish, means mouth.
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Gob is also coarse slang for mouth in England, most often heard in the expression "Shut your gob."
There is also a type of boiled sweet called a gobstopper.
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Gob is also coarse slang for mouth in England
or spit, and gobbing is spitting. Not the Nine O'clock news did a take off of the TV soccer competition "Goal of the Month" showing soccer players spitting (as they frequently do), and called it "Gob of the Month".
French has the words "gober" to swallow whole, and "gobemouche" = literally a fly swallower, someone who stands around with their mouth open. My POD gives gob (spit) from the French goube= a mouthful.
And gobble comes from the same root.
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Sparteye and I could use this list in it's entirety to describe a sloth on the bball board. Just what is the crux of the book, English Passengers??
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