simmon

Alternative spelling of 'simmon (“persimmon”).

Noun

  1. Alternative spelling of 'simmon (“persimmon”).
    • I'll eat it wi' my simmon cake, To cure the rotten belly-ach[e]. Hoe corn! hill tobacco! Get over double trouble, Juber boy Juber. Raccoon went to simmon town, To choose the rotten from de soun, Dare he sot upon a sill,...
    • Possum up a simmon tree, Raccoon on the ground, Says the Raccoon to the Possum, "Shake them simmons down." - 1904 [????], Thomas William Jackson, Through Missouri on a Mule, page 61:
    • 'Fox and dog and possum like simmons. I decided I'd go down there then; walked up to them simmon trees, the ground was covered with simmons. Said to myself, 'If I set my traps here I might just catch that fox.' So what...

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