For lilboo .......let's have some southernisms!

[olena]

Personally, I'd love to have some cool Southern slang to shock the socks off my blue-blooded Northern Yankee friends!

So let's hear some! Be sure to include what they mean.....



'It's comin' up a cloud'= It looks like it might rain.

 

[lilboo]

Yay! The slang scene up here seems a little stale to me...

Yes, please, stuff that'll take the starch out of our shorts.

 

[cmbelle]

My stepfather (born and raised in Western NC) once said - "Faster than a scalded dog." Hmm... Of course you have "arn" for "iron" and "tar" for "tire".

 

[browneyes]

I'm no help. My SO's uncle told me tonight I must not be a true southerner because I refuse to eat boiled turnip greens. I told him if that's a sign of a true southerner, he can call me a Yankee.

 

[J&D]

Translation: Hello Everyone!

 

[lilboo]

Oh,also- disclaimer-I know there's a thread on the DB regarding discrimination against and stereotyping of Southerners. I hope no one is offended by any comment I made, no harm was ever intended . I think there's great material both North and South of the M-D line and I'd personally be happy to laugh at myself and the stereotypes of where I come from.

 

[cmbelle]

Sorry, Browneyes, but let your SO's uncle know that a true Southerner eats collard greens fried in bacon grease.

 

[yensid1071]

"I'm fixin to...." = you're about to do something. No, you're not actually fixing anything. As in, "I'm fixin' to go to the store." Or say the word "ta" instead of "to". And say it kinda fast, like one word, "fixinta". Then it would become, "I'm fixinta go to the store."

 

[Buckalew]

"Finer than a frog's hair" means you are doing great!

Oh and don't worry about that prejudice stuff. There's good and bad people everywhere. I've lived in both places and heard it all...
Southerners are this, Yankees are that... I think we're all different and much the same.

 

[Beauty]

Doesn't bother me in the least! I'll be the first one to tell you we have some weird sayings down here and we are a little slow but I won't ever regret being a true Southern Bell. Hummm lets see...

Yaeatyet? (all together) Have you eaten yet.

awwight (yes or okay)

My grandmother calls Peach Cobbler "Puddin Pie" and then there are goobers (Peanuts)

This may be too much information but to use the restroom and do #2 is to "Hockey" (yes just like the sport!)

These are all from a little 87 year old. I'm sure there are more I'll think of later.

 

[Buckalew]

Are you ready to go?

"Has a cat got climbing gear?"

Does Dan like to talk?

"He could talk the ears off a brass monkey"

Are you nervous?

"As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs."

Whatcha bet?

"I'll bet you pigs to polecats."

 

[lilboo]

You guys -did I say 'take the starch out of our shorts?'

To hockey?
Like, "I've got to hockey."
Or, like, "I've got to GO hockey."

I'm blushing just TYPING that.

"long tailed cat...rocking chairs"

 

[annemariec]

My brother in law from SC calls a spanking "Top Dressing". When their little one acts up, he'll say "Alright, looks like someone is asking for some top dressing...". And the little guy shapes up.

Annemarie

 

[Buckalew]

annemariec,
My DH calls that "heat on the seat".

These are all his BTW. Being from NJ, I'd never heard such phrases and didn't know what a polecat was.

Are you busy?

"Busier than a short tailed cow in fly season."

 

[annemariec]

Hi Buckalew,

I like "heat on the seat"!

My best friend and I share one we made up...when someone is,
"working on my bad side", they are conjuring up "Lady B.". (Lady B. is the one we made up.) We try to keep her locked up, but when someone is asking her to come out and keeps ringing the bell --- well, out she comes!!

Hee hee.

Annemarie

 

[Buckalew]

Lady B. hmm, annemariec, I think I've met her around here too! I'll have to remember that one...

 

[annemariec]

Just a nice way to put it.

Annemarie

 

[annemariec]

Oh, Buckalew, I hope it wasn't my Lady B.! I try to keep her in check.

Annemarie

 

[AZKathy]

Know what a Yankee Dime is?

It is a kiss.

 

[KathiWithAnI]

This one really threw me the first time I was asked "Do you have a case quarter?"
It means do you have a QUARTER, not 2 dimes and a nickel or such, but actually a quarter... guess the 25 cents is all in one case that way! LOL

"That's all she wrote"
It means that's the end of it... like I wanted to go to the store, but my car was out of gas, so that's all she wrote on that!

and ending a sentence with AT.. this one makes me crazy! ( and my DH is the worst for using it LOL)
"Do you know where Steven is at?" aaahhhh I can hear him saying it now
and did you know that you can "cut the light off?" or "carry someone to the store?"
which means turn the light off and can you take me to the store.....

So let's see now.....
Do you have a case quarter? I need to cut the light off so you can carry me to the store... Oh you aren't going right now? well I guess that's all she wrote. Do you know where my keys are at?

heheheheheeh
Kathi