Here is dictionary designed to help translate some of the adorable Tammy Tyrees words and expressions!
- "A Pretty For Your Mouth"..Fish Bait
- "All My Remembering Days"..childhood memories
- "All-Overs"...feeling nervous
- "Amsterdam"...a curse word
- "Betwixt"...between
- "Book-lernin'"...going to College
- "Bornin' a Babe"....having a baby
- "Bolderdam"..see "Amsterdam"
- "Busted into such a Swither"...upset
- "Call A Turnip A Turnip"...Making Oneself Clear
- "Chinaberry Beads".. used to fancy up a dress
- "Cleanly -smell"...The way a Hospital smells
- "Companion One another"..befriend a person
- "Cotched up"..something is caught, such as drawers on a tree
- "Dersent"..doesnt
- "Eat a-plenty of the fruit of knowledge"..being smart
- "Enlodgement"..where a person lives
- "Entitlement"..name
- "et"..eat
- "Fair'n a Frenzy"..excited
- "Fermentin' In the same barrel of mash"..sharing a problem
- "Forever after kind of love"..getting married
- "Full of Forbodden"..worried
- "Fully-growed"..grownup,having cleavage
- "Funny peculiar"..Feeling strange,falling in love
- "Forespent"..worried
- "Gibble-gabble"...Medical terms
- "Gone To Glory"...Passing away(Grandma)
- "Hang It On the Wall To Dry"..Make official
- "Hunger-bit"..hunger, satisfied by Cat-fish
- "Hooty Owl"...the owl in the song "Tammy"
- "Iffin"..if
- "Join-up".become friends
- "Kilt"......as in making something dead
- "Knawwin' at my innards"..home-sickness
- "Ladyfied...Propah Lerned and Propah Spoken !"..College Educated
- "Lie down On the floor and die of pure gratefulness"..thankful
- "Leeches","Leechcraft"...doctors
- "Lickety-split"..fast
- "Like A nail In a shore place"...secure
- "Like Goin'Up To Heaven In A Whirlwind"..Flying In A Airplane
- "Lie-berry"..a room full of books
- "Lost a Power Of Poundage"..Lost weight
- "Medicine Man"..see "Leeches","Leechcraft"
- "Meet-up"..going out on a date
- "Monsterous Kind"..very kind
- "Muchly beholden"..very grateful
- "Naked as a Jaybird on a Horse".. very naked
- "Nells Bells !"...a exclamation used in surprise or fear
- "Nigh'n plum distracted"..worried
- "Nigh to Bustin'"..Happy
- "Noble callin'"..career
- "Notional..grouchy
- "Ofttimes"..often
- "Paper-Markin'est Man"..Tom Freeman, Instructor at Seminola College
- "Plain discombobbled"..confused
- "Propah"....dignified
- "Proud And Pleasured"...happy
- "River Water"..used for drinking.(Good for the Bowels)
- "Rotterdam"..see "Amsterdam","Bolderdam"
- "Sassafras"...good for purifying the blood
- "Smooth as Molasses Porin' out of a jug"....sweet words
- "Sour as a green persimmon"...grouchy
- "Sweet as honeydrip"...very sweet
- "The Big one for tastin' From The Pot"....Tablespoon
- "The Little One For Stirrin'In The Cup"...Teaspoon
- "Tetherside highmost"....Upside down
- "Unpaid road"...The Freeway
- "Vittles"....food
- "Well Spring Of Pure Joy"...A baby
- "What the Baby sits On"...A Babysitter
- "Work prickle".. ambitious
- "Womanish kind of feelin'"..Falling in love
- "Woman Time"..giving birth
- "Writ".....writing, as in "My Mind is like a Virgin Page,waitin to be writ on!"
- "Your Excellancy","Your Worship"..A Judge
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