Shakerag

shakerag English Etymology Probably from en shakerag, although some authors propose other etymologies such as the use of rags to cover the nose and mouth during the Spanish flu. Proper noun A common nickname given to a poor rural town. en 1882 History of the 72d Indiana Volunteer Infantry of the Mounted Lightning Brigade Benjamin F. McGee; William Ray Jewell We passed a little place to-day called Shakerag, which reminded us very much of a little town we passed through in Kentucky called Dogwalk. en 1883 History of Alexander, Union and Pulaski Counties, Illinois William Henry Perrin Almost every cross-roads, that had a cabin and a man who could read and write enough to become Postmaster for the monthly pony mail, was at once a New London, Pekin, Liverpool or Shakerag. en 1958 Georgia Mineral Newsletter - Volume 11 102 it reaches a village that is properly called Sheltonville but which has long been known to the facetious-minded as “Shakerag.” The spot is not the only Shakerag in the state; there are some half-dozen other communities and spots in Georgia with the name, but the first locality mentioned seems to be the only such place that has a road with the same tab. A nickname sometimes given to the slum area of town in the Southern United States. en 1993 Elvis: The Sun Years : The Story of Elvis Presley in the Fifties Howard A. DeWitt 53 Shakerag's nondescript shacks were alive with music day and night, a sharp contrast to the dreary, monotonous routines of work-a-day life. en 2012 Tupelo Man: The Life and Times of George McLean Robert Blade 150 In the fall of 1946, when George was serving as the Chamber of Commerce president, Keirsey hired a new cook, an angular, twenty-six-year-old, Viceroy-smoking woman named Essie Howard, who lived in the black slum Shakerag with her husband, Seaphus, a janitor at the North Mississippi Community Hospital. en 2014 Elvis Presley: A Southern Life Joel Williamson The rundown wooden structure they occupied on Mulberry Alley lay on the eastern edge of town in a mostly black neighborhood called “ShakeRag.”