Two appetites that turn out to be one. The names come from old phonebooks — I copy out the ones that stop me. The phrases come from the dictionaries. I have nine slang dictionaries and am told this is too many.
| Ottis Cribb Verbena Sligh Hampton Quattlebaum Eulalie Pinckney Cordie Mae Hutto Erskine Vereen |
Lavinia Drawdy Furman Crosby Aldonia Wigfall Pinckney Seabrook Doxie Hiott Wessie Limehouse |
gallinipper · a large mosquito, or any biting thing out of proportion to its size.
dauncy · poorly; off one’s feed; neither sick nor well.
larruping · (of food) so good as to warrant a beating to get more.
squinch · to narrow the eyes; also, to crowd up together.
antigodlin · off true; running diagonal to the square of a thing.