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holped verb Past tense and past participle of help. [according to DARE], this form in both usages is “chiefly South, South Midland”]

1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 283-84 In mountain vernacular the Old English strong past tense still lives in begun, drunk, holped, rung, shrunk, sprung, stunk, sung, sunk, swum. 1937 Hall Coll (Big Creek NC) I’ve holped set fire and fight fire too. 1957 GSMNP-23:1:11 My daddy holped old Samuel Wear drive them through this country, went up through Wears Cove. 1971 AOHP/ALC-260 Well, yeah, it’s holped. It’s holped plenty of people, that welfare has. 1976 GSMNP-113:10 The good Lord holped me that way, you know, had plenty of money and just went on. 2003 Gibson Sthn Mt Dialect In the early 1990s ... one day a group of us were sitting outside having coffee during a break between classes. A lady made the statement that her mother had “holped” her with taking care of her children. A split second after saying the word “holped” she quickly said the word “helped” ... She was embarrassed and very relieved when she realized no one had picked up on the word “holped.” I had not heard this word used in many years. As a child in the 50s I heard this word used by an elderly couple in the West Robbins community ... I look back now and realized this couple used many words and phrases which is considered today as a Southern mountain dialect which can be traced back to the Elizabethan period.