(a) body
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body noun Anyone, a person (often with implied reference to oneself). [DARE labels this usage “especially Midland”]
1774 Dunmore’s War (Arthur Campbell) 230 Paddy Brown is an Old Weaver Body, that lives with one of the Doughertys. 1863 Tesh CW Letters (Aug 24) a body would be in adread for fear tha would be punisht or killd or something else a body could not stand. 1937 Hall Coll (Upper Cosby Creek TN) Fever weed breaks the fever on a body. 1969 GSMNP-25:1:30 A body thought about it back then. 1997 Montgomery Coll How can a body live on such piddlin’s? (Brown).