Summer
1998
Summer
1998
This year's theme at Pow Wow is Mountain Man. So let's brush up on our proper ways of speakin'.
“BLACK YOUR FACE AGAINST (TO)” to go to war with, as in the Indian custom of blackening a face with paint before riding out on a raid.
“DARE TO SET?” used in gambling or betting meaning “care to bet?”
“FLATLANDER” Term of contempt for someone that was green or new to the mountains.
“GREEN IS WEARED OFF” when a greenhorn becomes a mountain man.
“HAF FROZE FER HAR or HAF STARVED FER HAR” desire to lift a scalp.
“NAYBOBBIN” chattering or talking.
“OLD EPHRAIM” also “Bar”, “Grizzly”. A Grizzly Bear.
“PAINTER MEAT” something good doings.
“REGLAR HAWKEN” the very best of something.
“SHINES” “that shines” means something is suitable or good. Also something very special. (“Thet there flinter of yourn shines, it truly does.”)
“THROWING BUFFLER” to shoot a buffalo with one clean shot dropping in his tracks.
“UP TO GREEN RIVER” plunge a knife up to the trade mark on the blade near the handle (Russell Green River Works knives).
“WATER SCRAPE” the travel though a dry country without water.