juvember

See also: Juvember

English

Etymology

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Noun

juvember (plural juvembers)

1. (North Carolina Lumbee dialect) A slingshot.
   • 1889, Laws and Resolutions of the State of North Carolina, chapter 194, section 6, page 857:

     […] and that said section be further amended so as to include and make it unlawful for any person to use sling juvembers or other contrivance by which to throw or project rocks, pebbles, shot or other missiles.

   • 1978, Roy Wilder, a letter in The State (North Carolina magazine), volume 46, page 5:

     Your issue of February, 1975 has a photo (see cut) and caption by Erwin D. Stephens describing this longish beanshooter as a "juvember." Please fill me in on the derivation of "juvember." At first glance it appears to be a synthetic word, a contraction of either June or July and either November or December.

   • 2002, William Walker, Walker Family History, →ISBN, page 96:

     The nuts were little round balls, hard as granite, and […] there was hardly any meat in them, so we mostly shot them in our "juvembers", (a kind of slingshot).