“Spare the rod, and spile the child.” “Spile” is southwestern dialect for “spoil.” The saying is attributed by Aunt Polly to the Bible, and the original can be found in Proverbs 13:24: “He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.” The wording that Aunt Polly uses comes from the seventeenth-century satirist, Samuel Butler (1612nd1680).
Old Scratch Another name for the devil.
Evening Southern and Southwestern for afternoon.
“’NUFF” A type of contraction for “enough” meaning that the defeated party has had enough of the fight and concedes victory.
