Volume 4 Quiz
These terms are all entries in DARE; they are used in various parts of the country. See how many you can match up.
| 1. rain dog | a. a man’s short hairstyle |
| 2. princeton | b. a nickname for an unimportant or out-of-the-way place |
| 3. sailor’s purse | c. a dense growth of dwarf oak |
| 4. shinnery | d. a water faucet placed on the outside of a building |
| 5. pinkie | e. a main dish pie, frequently containing fish and rice |
| 6. pirok | f. a trick, deception |
| 7. railroad | g. a vacant lot or city block |
| 8. shab | h. of ice: crumbling, disintegrating, becoming porous |
| 9. Skunk’s Misery | i. of bread or cake: heavy, dense, soggy |
| 10. poison apple | j. to sneak away, slink off |
| 11. ridy-bob | k. a rascal; critter, varmint |
| 12. sad | l. an atmospheric phenomenon; a small arc of rainbow |
| 13. sill cock | m. a tomato |
| 14. sandy | n. a small sailing vessel with a sharp stern |
| 15. prairie | o. to reprimand; criticize |
| 16. scraper | p. a seesaw |
| 17. read out | q. a work party in which participants make new articles from old pieces of cloth |
| 18. rag bee | r. to hurry; to deal with quickly |
| 19. reina | s. a rockfish (Sebastes elongatus) |
| 20. rotten | t. the egg case of a skate or shark |