sandbugger en · NOUN
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Meanings
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(Southern-US) A patty made from cooked potatoes, seasoned with onions, and fried.
He was torn between his desire for more biscuits and another sand-bugger and the knowledge, born of painful experience, that if he ate them, he would suddenly have no room for pone.
1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, chapter 1, in The Yearling, New York: Scribner, published 1970, page 12:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sand-bugger | alternative | lexicographic | |
| sandbuggers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |