'simmon

See also: simmon and Simmon

English

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Noun

'simmon (plural 'simmons)

  1. (US dialectal, colloquial) Persimmon.
    • 2004 September 1, Coleen Salley, Why Epossumondas Has No Hair on His Tail, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:
      "Persimmons, 'simmons, high up in the tree. Plenty enough for Stomach and plenty enough for me!" Hare yelled louder.
    • 2009 May 20 [????], Herbert C. Covey, Dwight Eisnach, What the Slaves Ate: Recollections of African American Foods and Foodways from the Slave Narratives, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:
      Anthony Abercrombie (AL) described how persimmons were harvested: 'One day I went to dem same woods to get some 'simmons. Another nigger went wid me, and he clumb de tree to shake de 'simmons down whilst I be pickin' 'em up […] why den I makes 'simmon beer.
    • 2015 February 15, Julia Ellen Rogers, Trees for Everyone - Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the Year, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 46:
      "Possum an' 'simmons come together, and bofe is good fruit." Better divide the 'simmons with the 'possum and his family. Then get the fat 'possum for the Christmas dinner. There is no 'possum like the one that is fattened on persimmons […]
    • 2023 [original, quoted text: ????], When We Were Slaves: Hundreds of Recorded Interviews... (Work Projects Administration):
      […] the 'simmon tree just helpin' hisself to them good old ripe juicy 'simmons. We'd catch the possum an' then we'd help ourselves to the 'simmons. Mentionin' 'simmons, my mammy sure could make good pies with them.
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