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Wholesome" - no, not in reference to food. At one time this word might be applied to a young, fresh looking, well behaved but rather plain girl--one that was not quite "pretty" but if a parent or another adult wanted to compliment her, he would say she looked "wholesome".
Wholesome" - no, not in reference to food. At one time this word might be applied to a young, fresh looking, well behaved but rather plain girl--one that was not quite "pretty" but if a parent or another adult wanted to compliment her, he would say she looked "wholesome".
"tipple" - to mildly overindulge in alcohol
My mother still refers to such people as "wholesome".
My mother used to call me or my sister a bos duyvil (which sounds sort of like bo-stewvil), applied if one's hair was wild or you were messy looking. Her mother-in-law called her that.
It means "woods devil" in one of the Dutch dialects.
My grandpa will say: "Look at that over yonder!" and I sit there and think "how far is a yonder?"
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