I came across this word last night reading the short story Riding the bullet by Stephen King:
Meanwhile, I was out here in the williwags and I was suddenly tired out ~ my feet felt as if they had been dipped in cement.
The narrator is in a cemetery in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night, so I took it to mean about the same as boondocks. It's not in M-W or at dictionary.com.
What a brilliant word!!!!
Do any of our esteemed AE colleagues know it? use it? know where it came from? Has Mr.K. made it up as a faux 'Maine-ism'?
Meanwhile, I was out here in the williwags and I was suddenly tired out ~ my feet felt as if they had been dipped in cement.
The narrator is in a cemetery in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night, so I took it to mean about the same as boondocks. It's not in M-W or at dictionary.com.
What a brilliant word!!!!
Do any of our esteemed AE colleagues know it? use it? know where it came from? Has Mr.K. made it up as a faux 'Maine-ism'?