Citations:pinder

English citations of pinder

peanut

• 1919, Thomas Whipple, Penetrating by Truck Train, in Implement & Tractor Trade Journal, volume 33, number 39:

  […] chief amusement for men, masticating the wonderful weed; c. a. for women, "dipping snutt;" c. a. for children, eating pinders, catching lizars and imploring the inobtrusive doodle-bug to come out of his hole; […]

• (Can we date this quote?), Scott Dunbar, quoted in 2009 by William R. Ferris in Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues →ISBN, page 39:

  Some men was eating pinders [peanuts]—just like a hog eat corn—and dropping them hulls down on the ground. They made us come back and pick up the pinder hulls. That got me. I say, "Man, you oughta be shamed eating them pinders, and us got to pick them up."