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Snyder's Hound
Posted by ESC on September 06, 2009 at 12:33
In Reply to: Snyder's Hound posted by Chingwe on September 06, 2009 at 09:59:
: More info on Snyder's Hound sayings. My paternal grandmother and grandfather, born in Ansted, Fayette County, WV commonly said "slower than Snyder's Hound" instead of "faster than Snyder's Hound/Pup." I have no clue to the origin.
Hi! I'm from Raleigh County. I collect words and phrases from West Virginia and would love to get more information on this expression. West Virginia Memories -- wva.homestead.com Back to the subject at hand, "Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English" by Michael B. Montgomery and Joseph S. Hall (University of Tennessee Press, 2004), Page 549, has several variations: Snyder's hound/house cat/pup, as fast/peart/quick/smart as. The earliest date of the phrase in print is 1937 Hall Coll. Emerts Cove TN That plane went over here as fast as Snyder's pup. (Mrs. Will Shults)."Sayings from Old Smoky" by Joseph S. Hall, Cataloochee Press, Ashville, N.C., 1972, Page 127, cites the same Mrs. Shults from Emerts Cove. Also has "take off like Snyder's pup." For good measure, adds "as lazy as Hall's dog." I don't think we will ever know who Snyder or Hall is.
