Posted in Just A Bite, tagged dingbatter, jeffrey reaser, ocracoke, outer banks, talkin tar heel, touron, walt wolfram on October 22, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
“Dingbatter, a term used on the Outer Banks for ‘outsiders and nonnatives,’ is a regionalized word within the state and most concentrated in Ocracoke…. “On the 1970s sitcom ‘All in the Family,’ the term ‘dingbat’ was used by Archie Bunker to refer to his wife, Edith…. It was appropriated and extended by residents of Ocracoke […]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged cackalacky, cherokee, jeffrey reaser, talkin tar heel, walt wolfram, word origins on July 16, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
“At the very least, we can definitively trace the term to 1937, when it was used in a popular song. It is likely that Cackalacky’s etymology runs much deeper, however…. “It may have arisen from a kind of sound-play utterance used to refer to the rural ways of people from Carolina — a play on […]
