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pizer

Dialect

Meaning
An Ocracoke word for a porch.
Type
Dialect Word
Used in
Ocracoke, North Carolina
Source: Ocracoke Island Journal

What does “pizer” mean

On Ocracoke, a pizer is a porch: the sitting, visiting, story-swapping part of the house. The word is local enough that it feels like a doorway into the island’s brogue.

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