New England.
CHOWDER-HEAD: muddle-brain. New England.
COHEES (accent on the last syllable): term applied to the people of
certain settlements in Western Pennsylvania, from their use of the
archaic form, _Quo' he_.
TO COTTON TO.
DON' KNOW AS I KNOW: the nearest your true Yankee ever comes to
acknowledging ignorance.
GANDER-PARTY: a social gathering of men only. New England.
LAP-TEA: where the guests are too many to sit at table. Massachusetts.
LAST OF PEA-TIME: day after fair.
LOSE-LAID (loose-laid): weaver's term, and probably English; means
weak-willed. Massachusetts.
MOONGLADE: a beautiful word for the track of moonlight on the water.
Massachusetts.
OFF-OX: an unmanageable fellow. New England.
OLD DRIVER: } euphemistic for the
OLD SPLIT-FOOT: } Devil.
ONHITCH (unhitch): to pull trigger.
ROTE: sound of the surf before a storm. Used also in England. New
England.
SEEM: I can't _seem_ to see, for I can't see. She couldn't _seem_ to be
suited, for couldn't be suited.
STATE-HOUSE. This seems an Americanism. Did we invent it, or borrow it
from the _Stad-huys_ (town-hall) of New Amsterdam? As an instance of
the tendency to uniformity in American usage, we notice that in
Massachusetts what has always been the _State-House_ is beginning to be
called the _Capitol_.
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