pizer
Dialect
- Meaning
- An Ocracoke word for a porch.
- Type
- Dialect Word
- Used in
- Ocracoke, North CarolinaSource: 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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