Saturday, January 04, 2014

word of the day: holler

The word of the day is holler:

U.S. colloq.
Variant of hollow n. 2. (OED)


"Some varieties survived only on isolated family farms or in the hidden hollers that Roberts found in his wanderings."

 - Burkhard Bilger, "True Grits: In Charleston, a quest to revive authentic Southern cooking", 31 October 2011 The New Yorker

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