Timeline for What is "the tit of trouble" in Demon Copperhead?
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| May 15, 2023 at 19:54 | history | reopened |
Heartspring Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_ Peter Shor |
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| May 15, 2023 at 19:37 | comment | added | Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_ | Maybe this belongs in literature.stackexchange.com | |
| May 15, 2023 at 17:50 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| S May 15, 2023 at 17:13 | history | closed |
MarcInManhattan KillingTime FumbleFingers |
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| S May 15, 2023 at 17:13 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I’m voting to close this question because Google Books finds just 5 written instances of tit of trouble where those words can be read in context, and they're all from the same source as cited by the OP here. The sequence has no currency, and no obvious meaning either. | |
| May 15, 2023 at 15:23 | answer | added | Heartspring | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 15, 2023 at 15:03 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Barbara Kingsolver was raised in Appalachian Kentucky, and she still lives in Appalachia. They speak a distinctive dialect of English in Appalachia, and the language of the book is heavily influenced by it. I doubt this tit has anything to do with boobs, but the only way to figure out what it actually means is to find a reference on Appalachian English or to ask somebody who knows it. Kingsolver can write perfectly in standard english when she wants to. | |
| May 15, 2023 at 14:49 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 15, 2023 at 14:31 | history | edited | Heartspring | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 15, 2023 at 14:29 | comment | added | MarcInManhattan | The author may be alluding to the fact that she is a new mom, but such a link seems fairly tenuous. (The author's mother "pesters the tit of trouble" on "any other day", not on the day of the author's birth, so there seems to be little direct connection to that event, also.) | |
| May 15, 2023 at 14:27 | history | edited | MarcInManhattan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Used a block quote to set off the long quotation instead of double asterisks. Added author's name and book title. Fixed grammar error.
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| May 15, 2023 at 13:48 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | The reader could associate the mild vulgarity of the word with the vulgarity of trailer trash the writer mentions | |
| May 15, 2023 at 9:02 | comment | added | Stuart F | I can't really give a conclusive answer without knowing more about the source, but words like "breast", "teat", or "tit" are often used metaphorically in English, to mean e.g. a source of nourishment or source of other things. | |
| May 15, 2023 at 8:10 | history | asked | user330039 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |