A S. Carolina friend used the word cukor to mean nasty, or a mess. Where my Scottish father used a word that sounded like keyarn for the same thing. We each called our "junk room" either the cukor room or keyarn room.
My southern parent used a word pronounced keyarn to mean anything nasty. Example: "What is all this keyarn?" or "That smells keyarny" to mean stinky. I have heard that it is a word derived from the Scottish and my father was of Scottish ancestry. I also have seen this used in the UK in an online post and it was defined as a creamy looking, dirty, smelly substance found in folds and crevices of skin, etc.
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A S. Carolina friend used the word cukor to mean nasty, or a mess. Where my Scottish father used a word that sounded like keyarn for the same thing. We each called our "junk room" either the cukor room or keyarn room.
November 11, 2014
hiraoka4 commented on the word keyarn
My southern parent used a word pronounced keyarn to mean anything nasty. Example: "What is all this keyarn?" or "That smells keyarny" to mean stinky. I have heard that it is a word derived from the Scottish and my father was of Scottish ancestry. I also have seen this used in the UK in an online post and it was defined as a creamy looking, dirty, smelly substance found in folds and crevices of skin, etc.
November 11, 2014