hycoprite

Updated: May 15, 2025

In a little while, however, she grew serious again, and although she still seemed to have trouble with her shoulders, that insisted upon expressing merriment, she said: "I 'clare, I talks like a plumb hycoprite, missy I sho' does. But I ain't. No, 'm, I ain't. Of co'se I grieves for Sis' Sophy-Sophia.

Ruth McEnery Stuart - Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches