Word: feedin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Household. When a woman drops a dishrag she knows someone dirty is coming; when two roosters fight in the yard, two young men will soon arrive. A child who eats candy in the privy is whipped for "feedin' the Devil an' starvin' God." Soap should be stirred by a member of the family, because "a strange hand skeers the soap." A menstruating woman can't pickle cucumbers and "a bad woman can't make good applesauce...
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