Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Wednesday's Word
Word: Quee-uh (Adj.)
Definition: tetched, balmy, not quite right in the head, queer

For example, “woods quee-uh” is said of someone who has spent too much time in the woods without human companionship.

(Definition from: "How To Talk Yankee", by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)

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