This Mothers' day, I wanted to post about my own mother. I decided to pick one small aspect of my mother that I love: her dictionary. My mom has her own personal repertoire of words at her disposal, words that others seldom use, and words that no one else ever has used. Although we often tease her about her vocabulary, this is a very unique trait that makes her who she is. I'm sure my siblings will agree that we enjoy getting to know my mother better as we try to decipher the Alice Page Dictionary.
Here are just a few entries:
Supiy Money - Extra cash saved up for an emergency. The Quechua Indian word supiy means "fart" and originally was used in the Denny family to describe money that one sat on to hide during a board game so others would not know how much they had. Now it can be applied to any object saved and hidden.
Drape - A person who loves to put heavy curtains over all their windows, leaving their house dark and musty.
Chinsey - Cheap, lacking quality
Hoity-toity - higher-class, or unnecessary extravagance
White Patty/ Heifer - a derrogatory term for a white girl
Joelly-Bolly - a nickname for Joel. (occasionally Paully-bally)
Ouchywawa! - an exclamation reserved for when a child gets hurt. Often the child will stop crying and laugh at the word.
Oblong - Not a square, not a circle, not a triangle. Sometimes used to describe rectangles.
A Couple - two or three
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