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07-14-2007, 07:48 PM | #1 |
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Stove up
My brother-in-law arrived today to attend my granddaughter's christening tomorrow.
He was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area and has lived for many years in Minnesota. I mentioned that after going diving and bouncing around in the boat yesterday, I was "all stove up" meaning that I am stiff and sore. He said he had never heard the term before, but we Googled it, and it does mean what I meant by it. I'm just curious- is there anyone else who hasn't heard it, or maybe I should ask if there is anyone else who has heard it? Is it a Southern term? I have no idea where I picked it up. |
07-14-2007, 07:51 PM | #2 |
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Re: Stove up
Never heard before POPS
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07-14-2007, 07:55 PM | #3 |
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Re: Stove up
We use it all the time here in the south, Bill.
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07-14-2007, 08:24 PM | #5 |
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Thanks. Maybe I got it from being born and raised in Florida and/or going to college in Alabama. Of course 20 years in the Marine Corps exposed me to terms from all kinds of people, so I'm never quite sure where I got some of my vocabulary.
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07-14-2007, 08:34 PM | #6 |
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Re: Stove up
...lived in Florida all my life and still haven't heard it...Pops.
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07-14-2007, 08:41 PM | #7 |
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Re: Stove up
Never heard of it.
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07-14-2007, 08:44 PM | #8 |
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I grew up in the panhandle with some alabama folks and it was quite common.
"Dammit Bonnie Sue, if you don't get dinner ready right this second, I'm going to shove that stove up your ass" Just kidding. I have heard it since a kid with the country folks, and it means exactly what bill said. |
07-14-2007, 08:46 PM | #9 |
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It's common here in CoonAss country too.
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07-14-2007, 09:18 PM | #10 |
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Re: Stove up
I thought it was a corruption of a nautical term. "Stove" referring to the smashed hull of a ship after hitting something.
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07-14-2007, 09:23 PM | #11 |
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Re: Stove up
Heard it all the time in TX w/ bird dogs and bird hunting - old dogs and men would get stove up after hunting all day....
Not too common near Toronto where I am now
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07-14-2007, 09:44 PM | #12 |
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It's amazing some of the stuff you say and have no idea what it means.
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07-14-2007, 10:04 PM | #14 |
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Re: Stove up
"Stove up" is new to me but "stove in" meaning bashed to Hell and gone is familiar . . . and I'm a native SoCalidonian!
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07-14-2007, 10:09 PM | #15 |
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Stove pipe meant a really huge bong when I was younger....not anymore though.
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