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Southernisms
« on: August 08, 2008, 06:43:12 PM »
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."
I can see November 2 from my house!!!

Spread my work ethic, not my wealth.

Forget change, bring back common sense.
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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2008, 06:46:31 PM »

something that is annoying:

"that gives me a case of the roarin' red ass"

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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2008, 07:11:05 PM »
"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)
I can see November 2 from my house!!!

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Forget change, bring back common sense.
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No, my friends, there’s only one really progressive idea. And that is the idea of legally limiting the power of the government. That one genuinely liberal, genuinely progressive idea — the Why in 1776, the How in 1787 — is what needs to be conserved. We need to conserve that fundamentally liberal idea. That is why we are conservatives. --Bill Whittle

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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2008, 07:13:39 PM »
Box your ears.

Playin' 'possum.

Don't just stand there lookin' like a tree full of owls.
"Hell is full of good wishes and desires"~St. Bernhard of Clairvaux

"Brave men are found where brave men are honored."~Aristotle

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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2008, 07:26:06 PM »
"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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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2008, 07:27:08 PM »
Ain't seen hide nor hair of _____.
"Hell is full of good wishes and desires"~St. Bernhard of Clairvaux

"Brave men are found where brave men are honored."~Aristotle

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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2008, 07:30:04 PM »

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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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2008, 07:33:34 PM »

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".
"Hell is full of good wishes and desires"~St. Bernhard of Clairvaux

"Brave men are found where brave men are honored."~Aristotle

"Generally speaking, the "Way of the Warrior" is resolute acceptance of death."~ Miyamoto Musashi

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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2008, 08:22:43 PM »
 Bird Dog jokes are better than Aggie jokes ...

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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2008, 08:38:32 PM »

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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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2008, 08:42:39 PM »
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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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #11 on: August 08, 2008, 08:45:04 PM »
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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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #12 on: August 08, 2008, 09:28:28 PM »
"Well"..... a deep subject for shallow minds.
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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #13 on: August 08, 2008, 09:42:20 PM »
"Well"..... a deep subject for shallow minds.

that would depend on the interlocutors.

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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2008, 01:28:57 AM »
"Yer ass is grass and I'm the lawn mower!"


Something I heard too often.  :( :-)



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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #15 on: August 09, 2008, 03:06:03 AM »
"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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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #16 on: August 09, 2008, 07:32:43 AM »
"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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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #17 on: August 09, 2008, 08:06:39 AM »
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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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #18 on: August 09, 2008, 10:12:09 AM »
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.

I can see November 2 from my house!!!

Spread my work ethic, not my wealth.

Forget change, bring back common sense.
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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #19 on: August 09, 2008, 10:23:22 AM »
 "Well dog bite my Pecker" :rotf:

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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #20 on: August 09, 2008, 12:32:52 PM »
She's smellier then a dead pig in the sunshine
There will always be "Battles" to fight.

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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #21 on: August 09, 2008, 01:06:50 PM »
If I had a nickle for ever beer I have drank I could have bought tha horse.
There will always be "Battles" to fight.

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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #22 on: August 10, 2008, 08:28:44 AM »
"Hey y'all, watch this."   :uhsure:

"Dumber than a bag 'o hammers'
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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #23 on: August 10, 2008, 09:03:51 AM »
"that makes my ass wanna dip of snuff"

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Re: Southernisms
« Reply #24 on: August 11, 2008, 07:31:01 AM »
"Who licked the red off your candy?"

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