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me pronoun [as a reflexive (the so-called personal dative) = (for) myself]. [DARE labels this usage “especially South, South Midland”]
1834 Crockett Narrative 157 I then cut me a pole and crawled along on my sapling till I got to the one it was lodged against. 1862 Martin CW Letters (March 2) yester day we drawed Money So I went yester day & bought Me Som pens. 1939 Hall Coll (Proctor NC) I got me a pole and got up on this drift, laid down my gun, and commenced punching down through where the drift was hollow. 1952 Giles 40 Acres 49 Them’s the purtiest shoes ... I wisht I had me a pair. 1977 Shackelford et al Our Appalachia 20 I’d pick me out some red ears [of corn] and when I got ready to go to a corn shucking I’d stick me a red ear or two in my pocket and a stewball. 1985 Kiser Life and Times 85 Then I had me another thought. 1993 Page and Smith Foxfire Toys and Games 116 I had me a little chimney and I’d build me a little fire in there. 2008 Rosie Hicks 4 I want me a pair of mules. Ibid. 4 All I cared for was get me a gizzard.