Wednesday’s Word

Word: Give for (V. phrase)

Definition: to pay

Usage:

“What’d you give for that new car?”

“More’n I should of. Half of it’s plastic, and what’s metal you could shoot a BB gun through. I wish they’d bring put out the old Model A again.”

“Who don’t?”

(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)