Word: whittledycut
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...Letters column is the same today as when we began it in 1924: to bring you extra items of interest about the news you read in TIME. For example, in the cover story on Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper (TIME, July 5), we used the term "whittledycut" and defined it as meaning a real fine horse race. This created a lively ruckus in Kentucky and elsewhere, with readers writing in to challenge the definition (it was correct); others commented on folk slang in general and enclosed clippings from newspapers about TIME'S mention of the word. Every...
...Whittledycut in the Bluegrass
...native Kentuckian . . . I was puzzled with "Hot as hackydam" and " 'whittledycut' -which in Kentucky means a real fine horse race." Would it be unkind to suggest that such expressions may have been used by infiltrators of the Pennyroyal . . . or that your correspondent had been investigating that special flavor the limestone imparts to the bourbon...
...vote in the Senate to carry it through. Barkley will bear down on unemployment in Kentucky. Each will trade heavily on his own immense popularity, and for many a Kentucky voter the choice will be difficult. In the words of a Penny-royalist," It'll be 'whittledycut' "-which in Kentucky means a real fine horse race...
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