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HelpRe: Briar (as a feminine name)
in reply to a message by WinterWonderland
Searching briarhopper resulted in information about a radio show from 1935.
https://www.historysouth.org/briarhoppers/
Eventually, I did find an entry in https://www.daredictionary.com/view/dare/ID_00005809 1966 that references the slang term. "Brier hoppers. Poor hill folk (hillbillies) who come into Ohio from Kentucky and West Virginia to make money. Usually live on credit." It sounds like it is Ohio slang rather than broadly Appalachian.
https://www.historysouth.org/briarhoppers/
Eventually, I did find an entry in https://www.daredictionary.com/view/dare/ID_00005809 1966 that references the slang term. "Brier hoppers. Poor hill folk (hillbillies) who come into Ohio from Kentucky and West Virginia to make money. Usually live on credit." It sounds like it is Ohio slang rather than broadly Appalachian.
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No, I don't think Appalachians themselves use the term. It's definitely a term heard mostly in Ohio, maybe parts of Indiana, referring TO transplanted Appalachians. A slang term, I guess. But kind of an ethnic slur. It's not meant affectionately. I did not know about the radio show. That's interesting.
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