This page gathers the 73 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Appalachia” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry.
- airish adj Cool, breezy.
- bald noun A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern…
- blinked adj Sour.
- boomer noun A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).
- britches noun Alternative form of breeches (pants, trousers).
- bugwood noun Cutover scrap lumber.
- cap noun Popcorn.
- care verb To mind; to object.
- casing noun A tire.
- chaw noun Chewing tobacco.
- chunk verb To add wood to a fire or to stoke it.
- commence verb To begin or start.
- cornpone noun A form of cornbread made without milk or eggs.
- cove noun A valley between two ridges, especially one that, opening to the south and east, is protected by ridges on the north and west from common…
- cranberry verb To gather wild cranberries.
- creeker noun A poor rural person.
- creel verb To wrench or sprain.
- cut a shine verb To make a fuss or commotion; to behave unseemly.
- daddy verb To father (a child); to beget, to sire.
- dinky noun A small mine car; especially, a small coal car.
- dope noun A soft drink.
- draft noun A small stream or tributary.
- everwhere adv Wherever.
- feathered adj Badly beaten.
- fireboard noun A fireplace's mantel.
- flatlander noun Any outsider to Appalachia.
- garden noun The grounds at the front or back of a house.
- gaum verb To smear.
- gin conj If.
- git verb Pronunciation spelling of get.
- gorm verb To make a mess of.
- he-ing and she-ing verb Flirting or courting.
- hern pron Hers; her own.
- hoopy noun A person perceived as lower class or an unskilled laborer.
- ill adj Bad-tempered.
- jacket noun A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).
- jasper noun A stranger.
- knob noun A prominent rounded hill.
- larn verb To teach.
- larruping adj (more often as larrupin' or larrupin) Very good or excellent.
- make verb To study or train so as to become (a profession); to grow up to be (something).
- miller noun A moth.
- molasses cane noun A plant, commonly sugar cane, maize or corn, sorghum (maize or milo), or other another fructose-producing grass plant (of the family…
- mommick noun A mess, a disorderly state or thing.
- opry noun Opera.
- ornery adj Disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with; cantankerous.
- peckerwood noun A woodpecker.
- poke noun A sack or bag, especially a paper bag.
- poke salad noun Pokeweed, the leafy plant used to make such a dish.
- polecat noun A skunk.
- quare adj Queer, strange.
- quile noun Pronunciation spelling of coil.
- rabbit trail noun A non-urban area that is challenging to traverse for non-local people.
- ramp noun A promiscuous man or woman.
- sang noun ginseng
- scald noun Poor or bad land.
- scrapple noun A mush of pork scraps, particularly head parts, and cornmeal or flour, which is boiled and poured into a mold, where the rendered…
- skift noun Synonym of skiff (“light shower of rain or snow; light dusting of snow or ice (on ground, water, etc)”).
- smart adj Hard-working.
- sop noun Gravy.
- souse noun Pickled scrapple.
- spigot noun A water tap: a faucet or sillcock.
- springhouse noun A small building constructed over a spring, formerly used for refrigeration (and thus sometimes also serving as pumphouse, milkhouse, or…
- stob noun A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
- swamp verb To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
- tek verb Pronunciation spelling of take, representing dialectal English.
- they-uns pron They (third-person plural subject pronoun).
- throw up to verb To remind someone of a blunder; to insult someone regarding a fault or failture; to throw something in someone's face.
- we-uns pron We.
- wgat adv Appalachia form of where
- whar adv Appalachia form of where.
- y'all pron You (plural).
- yan det Synonym of yonder