bar-foot

Updated: June 25, 2025

One hears such now and then, mostly from the West, like "Mean enough to steal acorns from a blind hog"; "I take my tea bar-foot," the answer of a backwoodsman, when asked if he would have cream and sugar. Almost every county has some good die sinker in language, who mints phrases that pass into the currency of a whole neighborhood. We picked up two such the other day, both of the same coinage.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859