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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: DixieBelle on August 08, 2008, 06:43:12 PM
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Some of these I use all of the time. A few I've never heard before. Feel free to add.....
Classic Southern Expressions
Exclamations:
"Well knock me down and steal muh teeth!"
"Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit."
Threats:
"I'll slap you so hard, your clothes will be outtastyle."
"This'll jar your preserves."
"Don't you be makin' me open a can o' whoop-ass on ya!"
Good Things/Compliments:
"Cute as a sack full of puppies."
"If things get any better, I may have to hire someone to help me enjoy it."
"Gooder than grits."
The Weather:
"It's so dry, the trees are bribing the dogs."
"It's been hotter'n a goat's butt in a pepper patch."
Wintry roads are said to be "slicker than otter snot."
Descriptions:
A bothersome person is "like a booger that you can't thump off."
When something is bad then you say, "that ain't no count."
If something is hard to do, it's "like trying to herd cats."
"He ran like his feet was on fire and his ass was catchin."
A hectic schedule keeps you "Busier than a cat covering crap on a
marble floor."
Insults:
"She's uglier than homemade soap."
"Your momma's so fat, when she stepped up on the scale to be weighed, it said 'To be continued.'"
"He fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down."
"Uglier than a lard bucket full of armpits."
"The wheels still turning, but the hamsters dead"
Any insulting statement is always followed by "bless his/her heart."
Example: "She's dumber than a door knob, bless her heart."
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something that is annoying:
"that gives me a case of the roarin' red ass"
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"madder than a wet cat"
"I'm going to tan your hide"
"That boy could tear up an anvil" (my grandmother said that about my cousins and brother)
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Box your ears.
Playin' 'possum.
Don't just stand there lookin' like a tree full of owls.
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"madder than a wet cat"
"I'm going to tan your hide"
"That boy could tear up an anvil" (my grandmother said that about my cousins and brother)
"son, you could break a hammer"
an actual quote from my dad when I was 11. :-)
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Ain't seen hide nor hair of _____.
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we are forgetting the most famous of all southernisms, certainly the most famous of all single syllable
southernisms. and by that, I mean a single word. the word is . . . .
"well"
from a simple inflection in the voice, it can mean anything from "I am about to kick your ass", to "are
you going to get me out of my bra, or not?", and everything in between.
it is often a gender specific sort of thing, of course. :-)
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we are forgetting the most famous of all southernisms, certainly the most famous of all single syllable
southernisms. and by that, I mean a single word. the word is . . . .
"well"
from a simple inflection in the voice, it can mean anything from "I am about to kick your ass", to "are
you going to get me out of my bra, or not?", and everything in between.
it is often a gender specific sort of thing, of course. :-)
Also, there's "I'm fixin' to".
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Bird Dog jokes are better than Aggie jokes ...
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another famous southernism . . .
I would ask my grandfather "what day is it?" (as in monday or tuesday), and he would say . . ..
"it's (whatever day) . . . all day long"
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Hangin' in there like a hair in a biscuit.
I'll have to mull this over. I picked up a few Southernisms living in TN, but I really got involved in serious redneck slang when I moved in next door to my neighbor from Lewisburg, NC. Man, talk about some hillbilly blather. He had it all.
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Hangin' in there like a hair in a biscuit.
I'll have to mull this over. I picked up a few Southernisms living in TN, but I really got involved in serious redneck slang when I moved in next door to my neighbor from Lewisburg, NC. Man, talk about some hillbilly blather. He had it all.
I am sorta the other way around. I was born out of the south, but from a very southern family, and educated in the south.
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"Well"..... a deep subject for shallow minds.
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"Well"..... a deep subject for shallow minds.
that would depend on the interlocutors.
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"Yer ass is grass and I'm the lawn mower!"
Something I heard too often. :( :-)
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"Busier than a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest"
"If I was doing any better I'd be illegal in at least five states"
"Finer than frogs hair"
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"kiss my grits"
"happier than a dead pig laying in the summer sun"
"you got a hard row to hoe"
"I'll slap you into next week"
"colder n a witches tit"
"ya"ll come back"
"maters"
"she's as pretty as a speckled pup"
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Is a frogs ass watertight?
Does a fat baby fart?
you could **** up an anvil (heard by many people)
evidamndently
Bring me a pack of nabs...............which ones?? Round or square
And as the manny hating Diamondbacks fan WE pointed out........................Well?? :hyper: WELL!!! :hammer:
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That dog won't hunt
Lickedy split
Plumb tuckered out
In all my born days. . .
Lord have mercy!
Land sakes alive!!
I ain't seen you in a month of Sundays
Born on the wrong side of the blanket (bastard)
Don't have the good sense God gave a mule
Don't let your mouth overload your tail
That dog won't hunt
Gone back on your raisin'
"Tacky" - a common word used most often by Southern women describing someone's behavior or appearance.
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"Well dog bite my Pecker" :rotf:
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She's smellier then a dead pig in the sunshine
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If I had a nickle for ever beer I have drank I could have bought tha horse.
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"Hey y'all, watch this." :uhsure:
"Dumber than a bag 'o hammers'
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"that makes my ass wanna dip of snuff"
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"Who licked the red off your candy?"
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"You can root hog and die poor!"
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Dumber than a box of rocks.
Slicker than owl shit.
Bless your heart.......can either be meant literally....or a muli-syllabic **** you.
His/her elevator doesn't go all the way to the top.
Tea.....is sweet tea. Otherwise ask for unsweetened tea.
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*Colder than a well diggers ass in the Yukon.*
Yup, I heered it, once.
Not for the faint of heart, this is from "Redneck Rampage" (video game)
"I'm so hungry I'd eat the ass end of a menstural skunk."
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WHAT! No one has mentioned this yet.
"Here, hold this."....usually spoken just prior to some dumb stunt.
"You ain't gotta hair."... also usually spoken just before some wild stunt....and is short for "You ain't got a wild hair on your ass if you don't do it"
"Did you get a wild hair up your ass or sumthin?"....usually spoken right after some dumb stunt.
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"I feel like I was shot at and missed, shit at and hit" Also used as "You look...."
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"I'm plum wore out!"
"Lord willin' and the creek don't rise." (I hope things work out)
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"He clipped my plow on that one" Did better
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"rode hard and put away wet."
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That dog won't hunt. (your idea is stooopid)
If'n you can't run with the big dogs, git back on tha porch.
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I've lived in E TN for 25 years, and while I have heard many of these and used a bunch.....close friends from Arkansas who have lived here about 30 years.....use more of them.
Maybe it's where you live in the south?
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Proper use of the term y'all:
y'all- any number of people
Plural form - all y'all
Plural possessive - all y'all's
Singluar form - one a y'all
:-)