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Thursday, 14 August 2008
Plumb Tuckered Out
Ann Treneman may have been born in corn-fed Iowa, and even lived for a time in Texas,  but perhaps she should return for a refresher course in our demotic. The True-West (that is, based on the dialogue of movie Westerns) version (west of the Mississippi and south of Amarillo, and she should if she lived in Texas have known it) of "all tuckered out" is "plumb tuckered out" as in "You look plumb tuckered out. Why don't you come on in and set a spell." That “plumb” implies the sagebrush, and the tumbling tumbleweed, and the view of Monument Valley, and being back in the saddle again.

While I don’t have much truck with her last generalization, either, I won't raise a ruckus about it. I am, you see, an American, a real life nephew of my Uncle Sam, and born -- well, born very close to the Fourth of July.

Posted on 8:52 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
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14 Aug 2008
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[Dangnabbit!  Once agin', Hugh done beat me on the draw while I wuz composin'.  Maybe I'll be first the next time -sigh - good gluck mit dat]
 
I Hear The Plummy Voices Calling: Old Union Jack
 
Another annoying British abbreviation or adumbration!!! (sorry 'bout breakin da house rules)  "Tuckered out" seems as incomplete as "muckety-muck" without "high" and/or "Lord". Unlike you Europeans, we Americans have earned the right to be tuckered out; what with our long work weeks and few vacation days, many now spent as stacations involving household chores or home remodeling projects or fixing their own plumbing.  The Wikipedia entry nicely confirms this and throws in some stuff via a commodius vicus or Gabby Lane about a Hayes who's a mite more memorable than any Haze.
 
 
Little Jack Horner
Slouched in a corner,
Put his thumb in a spout,
And said, "Ah'm plumb tuckered out!"
 
 


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