Talking Southern – Stem-Winder

Talking Southern – Stem-Winder

The most recent Talking Southern post was on gumption, that wonderful old Southern-sounding word which describes someone with backbone or courage.  In a similar vein is the term, “stem-winder,” which your compiler has heard the whole of his life, every minute of which has been lived in Georgia, thank the good Lord!   The term is used to describe an interesting and usually entertaining character, as in the following three-sentence story about a f…