A ‘smidget’ of regional terms: from ‘squirrel load’ to ‘whoopity
scoot’  There are some things I love to an unhealthy degree,
such as The Shield, Russian imperial stouts, George Carlin’s
comedy, mint chocolate chip ice cream, and Evil Dead 2. My heart
beats equally fast for the Dictionary of American Regional
English, which recently published its long-awaited final volume.
I wrote about euphemisms from DARE—which documents terms from
every nook and cranny of the U.S.—in my Evasive Maneuvers column
for Visual Thesaurus, but I didn’t come close to plumbing the
depths. Here are a few more terms I find useful, amusing, or
just flat-out wonderful. They are as American as apple pie and
Richard Nixon, but better for your health. Use them in your
tweets, toasts, and testimony as needed.   Like smidge, this
southern word always means a tiny amount of something, often
food. Citations show people discussing smidgets of corn, cake,
cream, trouble, and other delicacies.   When delving deep into
regional terms, slang, or