Word: fere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Folks talk a heap concerning progress, yet come to look at pictures of it and 'tis a mess." Maristan Chapman's Tennessee mountaineers think and speak throughout in such pithy proverbialisms. Their language is often outlandish?it takes a 62-word glossary to explain words like "bo-dacious," "fere." "hirpling," "survigrous,"' "smooch." These rough diamonds the author matrixes in a poetic style showing traces of T. F. Powys. J. M. Synge and the translators of the Holy Bible...
Thelma got to be fere (friendly) with the stranger, with his white hands and winning ways: almost consented to marry him. But she could not understand why he employed Lum Morgan. Chad, once deputy sheriff, had jailed Lum's son. Lum had recently shot at Chad, mistaking him for a rabbit. Clayton found Lum useful around the mines, continued to employ him. Lum thought that this meant that Clayton wanted him to take another shot at Chad, mistake him for a barn door...