Southernisms

Where's SouthlandShari?? Hell's Belle's woman, I need your help here!

In the south, you can say anything about anyone, no matter how hateful or hurtful if you tack on the phrase "Bless his heart"

"He's dumb as a rock, bless his heart."

"She's uglier than a mud fence, bless her heart."

Anyone got anymore southernisms?

That is so funny. My friend and I have talked about this before. It is so true.

(geological rock and car fender or musical rock and Fender git-fiddle...your choice)

Boy, Howdy. (okay...depends on how southern you count central TX, I reckon)

Can't hardly believe how many southernisms I could come up with if I put my mind to it, but I'm fixin' to head on off to bed now, nearly 'bout.

U-Haul come back now, y'hear?

on your way to bed.

Oh, and "I'm gonna carry mamma to the doctor tomorrow." :)

I'll knock off the lights when I'm good and ready, now. :P

Think I'll head out to the cee-ment pond and rustle me up some....okay, now it's just getting ridiculous. :eyes:

Damn, boy!

Redstone

Whoo, doggie...it sure as hell did!

(okay, maybe the "whoo doggie" bit was gratuitous) :D

also, "I might could go down yonder" or "I might should be fixin' it today."

Born and raised in TX and I have never used that in a sentence, unless I'm making fun of someone.

I always find my self correcting someone when I hear it. I'm like you're so lazy! UGH!!
Duckie

... with "fixin' to".

It is a colloquilialism, that's all. It means, "I'm about to". :)

I'll holler at you later.

Which I always found very odd... :shrug:

Just spent 2 weeks with an Aussie gal who said "I reckon" all the time. She also called me a "whinger" any time I would complain.

An Englishman in Alabama.

... "bless his cotton-pickin' pea-pickin' heart" :)

It the south you get "rekkkkkkin."

"the other day" could be 1 day ago, 1 week ago, 1 year ago,
or 1 decade ago.

:shrug:

Now, mind you some of my best friends are bedbugs... but,
they really get under my skin.

It's funny...I am from Iowa but my momma is from Arkansas and I reckon I picked up a lot of her southernisms...cause a lot of this stuff looks like stuff I grew up with!

I grew up thinking the word "sh!t" had about four syllables. :shrug:

" That really chaps my ass"

and..

" Shoot fire, save matches"!

... no bowdlerizing here. It's Shit Fire, Save Matches :)

"they'all close as white on rice"

New woman at work tends to wear clothing that is a little too tight and my coworker stated "looks like two groundhogs fighting in a gunnysack".

dumber than a box of rocks
ain't ya'll bout had enuff?
over yonder
in a spell
young'ns
down in the holler
around the bend
red-headed step chile
honey chile
cake o' cornbread
lunch is dinner and dinner ain't supper!!!

... when I got out in the real world it took a while to get used to the fact that "dinner" means the evening meal and "lunch" the noon.

Where I grew up "dinner" was lunch and "supper" was dinner. :)

Ont 2? its hotter than a two dollar pistol on the 4th of July. I'm so hungry my back bone is rubbin a blister on my stomach.

No, dju? (Translation - did you eat? No, did you?)

"No" is a northern word. :)

"Hey y'all, watch this!"

:hide:

They're usually the last words uttered...

:rofl:

Would you Light (asking a kid to settle down)
I'd eat bees for you (declaration of love)

Bless your heart....

(Get your minds out of the gutter, usual suspects - it does NOT mean what you think it does!)


Usually said after a big meal when feeling completely full and lazy!

:hi: lizziegrace!! Things going any better for you these days, darlin'?

:hug:

I'm out of cubicle hell and I have an interview back in academics tomorrow. First round had 6 candidates, so I need all the prayers and good wishes y'all can muster.

:hi:

... packed like a tick :)

It is her version of "really?" or "you're kidding!"

"They lawwww...."

Hey Ya'll
Som-bitch
Get er done
You aint right
Beaten with an ugly stick
Down Yonder
Soooo Weeeeee

That just ain't right!

:D

Don't know if it's a 'true' one but a 'good ole boy' friend of mine says it all the time.

"Sure."
"What kind?"

....regardless of brand! :D

Translation: I always tell the truth so if i tell you shit is honey you can....you get the idea.

What is the fascination with biscuits?

lol

Come upside your head like a brick
Fetch me a beer from the ice-box
Run down to the fillin' station and air up the tires
He did a real shit-ass job paintin' his house
you-ins got yeller curtains on the winders
we-ins got a color TV
'Take a BC Powder an COME BACK STRONG!'
STP got spacial ingredients
Motor got too hot an I had to shutter down

Just for a laugh ask a southerner to 'splane the difference between "Supper" and "Dinner".

OMG!!! :rofl: My grandma used to say that all of the time!! :rofl:

And pass the biscuits!

I like... " Gimme some of dat RIPPLE!" Referring to wine... :rofl:

"a long tailed cat in a room full of rockers" or "a whore in church"

A one legged man in an ass kickin contest. or busier than a three peckered billy goat.

I've heard that one numerous times.

that was funny.

"I'll swan."

Means the same as "I'll swear", but some folks are too religious to swear. Might be extended to "I'll swan to Pete," or "I'll swan to goodness."

"I'd just as soon X ya as look at ya."

For example, in the domino game 42, you'd chide your opponents thusly: "I'd just as soon set ya as look at ya."

"Tump"

As in, "Our boat tumped over."

Hot damn gooder'n grits!

Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit!

Chipped-ham sammitch

"Meemaw" and "Papaw" for grandmother and grandfather. (The only place I've ever heard this used is in the South. Not sayin' it hasn't been used anywhere else, though.)

also know as" make up your mind or move on" also"do something or forget about it."

"Shut the light"

As opposed to "Ahhh Ceee"

"I'll slap you like a sleepy hawg"

both "I'm gonna kick your ass" expressions.

Meaning, he likes to play the guitar as often as possible.

:evilgrin:

Scootch over here and siddown.

Gotta see a man about a horse (said by a man who has to pee. I once countered with "Gotta see a lady about a mare" and made my uncle choke on his beer. I was about 12 at the time)

Hode on a minnit!

Frog-stranglin rain

that rain sure was a frog-strangler

(Didn't know it was southern).

"I'll be back after I carry Mom to the store."

Gee, dad... wouldn't it be easier to drive her? :shrug:

instead of Son of a bitch

That reminds me of "scumbum"!!!! :rofl:

This about an embarrassing situation.

I hear it a thousand times a day.

"FIRE! HOLY S**T I'M F**KING ON FIRE!"

Aren't those like famous last words or something?

Back in my college days when a southern belle didn't appreciate my teasing during breakfast.

.... a Texas standard. Comes right after "I'll knock the shit out of you"


:)

;)

and co-workers have been giving me lessons in talking bad about someone but doin' it southern, as in the "bless her heart" that you mentioned, as well as "God love her!" at the end of the sentence.

It's YOU ALL.

:P :P :P :P

As in: "He missed the turn and pertinear went all the way to Shakey's house, before he turned around."

Also: "whole 'nuther" -- as in: "That's a whole 'nuther story."

Warsh: "I did my warsh, yesterday, and got all my duds clean."

she used, "richer'n four foot up a bull".

all i could do was exclaim, "MOTHER!"

:shrug:

...catty-cornered

That a favorite. B-)

He carried me to the store.

rurnt - ruined

blinky - almost spoiled as in "That milk's gettin' kinda blinky."

they ain't no - as in "They ain't no peanut butter in the cabinet."

You mean to tell me - usually used in disbelief over some statement

didn't last till the water got hot - referring to a place that goes out of business quickly

Y'all - group of people

Butter my buns and call me a biscuit - surprise

Next time I tell you a rooster can pull a plow, you better hook him up - when you're not believed and it turns out you're right

Cut my legs off and call me shorty - surprise

Would you like a coke? We got sprite, coke, and pepsi

Ain't got a lick of - doesn't possess much of; as in "That kid ain't got a lick of sense."
**usually followed with bless his/her heart or God love him/her; sometimes both.**

as in a lot. I've heard "shitload" from northern friends, but I only seem to here "shit ton" when I go back to Georgia.

I'm trying to lose it. My whole family talks that way and my friends give me hell about it every time I slip up and say it.