I would love to know the origin of this part of my great-grandmother's idiolect. According to Mom, her grandmother was also prone to malapropisms (for example, often remarking, "It's as plain as the note on your face!") . . . so perhaps this expression was an Ozark hillbilly original, or a corruption of a regular English word? Or was it a leftover fragment from German, Scotch, Irish, or Native American "roots"?
Has anyone ever heard of a similar expression?
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