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What exactly is a "croppie house"?

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vkm91941:
It's just a little cabin like structure usually on a lake but sometimes like a trailer where you can hang out and fish and sleep and cook all day or all weekend while you go after the elusive crappie

littleguitar:

--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 25, 2006, 11:09:29 pm ---
--- Quote ---Well the word crappie is pronounced croppie,
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Not in Central Pennsylvania it isn't, which was sort of part of my point. Up here it's pronounced CRAP-PEE, with the first syllable pronounced, well, like crap.

But thanks for the input!

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Really? Wow, I had no clue! here I was thinking that croppie was just the normal pronunciation, I had no clue it was a regional/accent thing... huh, you learn something new every day! LOL

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: vkm91941 on April 25, 2006, 11:34:42 pm ---It's just a little cabin like structure usually on a lake but sometimes like a trailer where you can hang out and fish and sleep and cook all day or all weekend while you go after the elusive crappie



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Maybe drink a little whiskey, too?  :D

Thanks, Victoria! Kinda figgered that's what it was, but it's nice to have confirmation.

Actually, the eleventh edition of Webster's, which we have here at work, has an entry under crappie, but not croppie. The crappie entry further cross-references to black crappie and white crappie, and both are evidently a variety of sunfish, not bass. Maybe I should ask my dad about this. He tried and failed to make a fisherman out of me. I didn't have the patience to sit on a stream bank all day and wait for something to bite!

Kd5000:
We fished for the same thing, in East Texas except we called it a sacalait, the best fish to eat. I looked it up at google and it's the same thing as a crappie. I think sacalait sounds better.
From google
Sac´a`lait
n. 1. (Zool.) A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie.

I never heard of anything called a crappie house. In the resoviers around East Texas, they were merely called fishing camps, just a trailer parker near a lake.   If the most modest structues was referred to as a fishing camp, as that particular word choice covered a wide variety of very very modest fishing camps to some nouveau riche structure with a large pier and boats tied up to it.

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: Kd5000 on April 26, 2006, 03:59:12 pm ---We fished for the same thing, in East Texas except we called it a sacalait, the best fish to eat. I looked it up at google and it's the same thing as a crappie. I think sacalait sounds better.
From google
Sac´a`lait
n. 1. (Zool.) A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie.

I never heard of anything called a crappie house. In the resoviers around East Texas, they were merely called fishing camps, just a trailer parker near a lake.   If the most modest structues was referred to as a fishing camp, as that particular word choice covered a wide variety of very very modest fishing camps to some nouveau riche structure with a large pier and boats tied up to it.

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Well, then, "I think my dad wuz right!" A crappie is a bass.

Interesting point about the use of the term "fishing camp." Those same relatives of my dad who fish with him for crappies use the term "camp" for the kind of small house that might elsewhere be termed a cabin. As in "hunting camp" rather than "hunting cabin." Put another way, where Ennis speaks of "Don Wroe's cabin," my dad's cousins would probably say, "Don Wroe's camp." But they would mean a cabin.

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