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English
sand-bugger
Noun
sandbugger (plural sandbuggers)
- (Southern US) A patty made from cooked potatoes, seasoned with onions, and fried.[1]
1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, chapter 1, in The Yearling, New York: Scribner, published 1970, page 12: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.
References
- ^ Mildred Jordan Brooks, Southern Stuff, New York: Avon, 1992, p. 132,