gubbers

My children have a better time eating simmons and black haws and digging gubbers and hunting possums than their children do in getting to parties and wearing fine clothes and fussing with one another and doing nothing for a living.

Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903, 1903

Rats eat the corn -- moles eat the gubbers -- hawks eat the chickens -- the minks killed three of our ducks in one night -- cholera kills the hogs and the other night one of my nabor's mules cum along with the blind staggers and fell up a pair of seven steps right into my front gate and died without kickin '.

Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903, 1903