Backer
n. A large cultivated weed you can smoke legally. (Southerners don't get all that excited about the syllables in front of the accented one.)
Backer
Backer barn
n. Where you cure your backer of what ails it (and what don't).
Bag
n. A milk container with four spigots that hangs under the rear end of a cow. For example: "Did you hear about Katie Belle? She wuz amilkin the cow when somebody rolled a
hangernade under it and it went off!"
"Lord a-mercy! Was she kilt?"
"No, the cow was and Katie Belle was left holdin the bag!"
Bammer
n. The state west of
Jawjuh. The biggest town is Buhminhayum, e.g. "A
tore-nader jes tore through Bammer 'n left $20,000,000 in improvements."
Bard
v. Past tense of
borry , as in "My brother bard my pickup truck in never brung it back."
Bare (also byer)
n. An alcoholic beverage made of barley, hops and yeast. Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have anover one of dem der bares (byers)."
Bait
n. A sufficient portion: "He ate a bait a collards and dey tore his stomach up
sump'n awful."
Be-ins
conj. Since, if, so long as: "Be-ins yore a-goin' to duh kitchen, why donchoo git me a glass a warter, too?"
Biddy
n. Baby chicken or a middle-aged female human, as in "old biddy".
Bidnis
n. What you get down to or stay out of other people's, as in, "That ain't none a yore dad-burned bidnis!" (Southerners don't like "s" before "n", do you?).
Bile
v. Boil.
Bless Patsy
int. A pleasant expletive phrase expressing surprise. (Patsy is the saint of Southern euphemisms.)
Bless yore heart!
int. A nice expletive expressing approval and encouragement.
Boat
n. (1) A screw with a nut on it that you tighten with a
ranch, as in, "Pass me dat-air munky
ranch, Homer Joe,
sos'n I can tighten up dis-here head boat." (2) A marine vessal.
Bob war n. A twisted wire studded with barbs. Usage: "Boy, stay away from that-air bob war fence!"
Bobby-Q
n. A delicious meat dish made from pulled pork roasted over hickory wood and doused with red pepper boiled in vinegar: "Pass me some moa dat bobby-Q, Leniel, foh ah stahves to death."
Borry v. (past tense:
bard) To take something with the full intention of returning it someday or other.
Booger
n. Nose stuffing; a rascal, as in "Come here, you little booger!"
Booger man
n. Something or somebody that'll gitcha.
Briarberry
n. The wild blackberry, so called for the briars that afflict their leaves and stems.
Britches
n. Pert much anything worn over the legs: pants, dungarees—trousers? What's that?
Bumfuzzle
v. To confuse, puzzle, or stump, as in "I don't know how that beer cap got in d'carburator; hit's got me plumb bumfuzzled."
Buzzard
n. Horsefly or other variety of large fly. Southerners don't see much of the scavenger bird, so the word was left over and, well, we put it to use.
