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To: Gasshog

Two strange southern words: buggy and toboggan.

A buggy is a grocery shopping cart and a toboggan - they say - is a hat you wear in the winter.


772 posted on 08/21/2022 7:25:20 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

We used toboggan that way in SW Indiana when I grew up...not just a southern thing, that one.


779 posted on 08/21/2022 7:35:09 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: ladyjane

Tar - a round thing you put on your car


849 posted on 08/21/2022 10:36:28 PM PDT by stylin19a (Why are a "wise man" and a "wise guy" opposites)
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To: ladyjane

Yeah they used those in Texas when i was a kid. Funny.


947 posted on 08/22/2022 9:30:16 AM PDT by Gasshog
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