From: Petr Hrubis
Message: 63951
Date: 2009-05-28
> You don't have to go that far. Appalachian English uses "poor" to meanI was just stupid, Rick. I'm doing too many things at once, you know,
> "(chronically) sick, bedridden." "Feeling poorly" means "to be/feel sickly."
> And there's the stock phrase "poor an' hard-up."