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HALE: Where
General Sherman is going for what he did to Etlanna. (Atlanta)
Usage:"General Sherman said "War is Hale" and
he made sure it was."
HAZE: - a contraction.
Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah ... haze ignert."
HEAVY DEW: - phrase.
A request for action.
Usage: "Kin I heavy dew me a favor?"
HEIDI - (noun)
- Greeting.
HEP: to aid or
benefit.
Usage:"Ah can't hep it if Ah'm still in love with you."
HIRE YEW - Complete
sentence. Remainder of greeting.
Usage: "Heidi, Hire yew?"
HOD: - adverb.
Not easy.
Usage: "A broken hot is hod to fix."
HOT: - noun. A
blood-pumping organ.
IDINIT: Term employed
by genteel Southerners to avoid saying "Ain't".
Usage:"Mighty hot today, idinit?"
IGNERT: - adjective.
Not smart. See "Auburn Alumni."
Usage: "Them N-C-TWO-A boys sure are ignert!"
IMPOTENT: Distinguished,
well known.
INTERNET: Where
cafeteria workers put their hair
JAWJUH: - noun.
A highly flammable state just north of Florida.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup truck." JEW:
Did you.
"Jew want to buy attair comic book, son, or just stand there and read
it here?"
JU-HERE: - a question.
Usage: "Juhere that former Dallas Cowboys' coach Jimmy
Johnson recently toured the University of Alabama?"
KUMPNY: Guests. "Be
home on time.
Usage:“We's havin' kumpny for supper."
LAW: Police, or
as Southerners pronounce it, PO-leece.
Usage:"We better get outta here. That bartender's doen
called the law."
LIKKER: Whiskey;
either the amber kind bought in stores or the homemade white
kind that federal authorities frown upon.
Usage:"Does he drink? Listen, he spills more likker than
most people drink.'
LOT: - adjective.
Luminescent.
Usage: "I dream of Jeanie in the lot-brown hair."
MASH: To press,
as in the case of an elevator button.
Usage:"Want me to mash yo floor for you, Ma'am?"
MODEM: What
ya did when the grass and weeds got too tall.
MORBID: A higher
bid at the auction.
MOUSE PAD: Where
Mickey and Minnie live
MUCHABLIJE: Thank
you.
Usage:"Muchablige for the lift, mister."
MUNTS: - noun.
A calendar division.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and
I aint herd from him in munts."
NAWTHUN: Anything
that is not Southern.
Usage:"He is a classic product of the superior Nawthun
educational system." (sarcasm)
NETWORK: Scoop’n
up a big fish before it breaks the line
NODE: Was aware
of; to know about something
ONLINE: Where
to stay when taking the sobriety test
OVAIR: In that
direction.
Usage:"Where's yo paw, son?" He's ovair, suh."
PACKET: What you
do to a suitcase or Wal-Mart bag before a trip.
PHRAISIN: Very
cold.
Usage:"Shut that door. It's phraisin in here."
PLUMB: Completely,
Entirely.
Usage:"Ah'm plum wore out."
RATS: -
noun. Entitled power or privilege.
Usage: "We Southerners are willing to fight for our rats." (Today's
Southern Word comes from a school teacher in America's southern
most state: Hawaii. As part of her class's study of the "War
of Northern Aggression" (known to Yankees as the "Civil
War"), she showed her class the movie Gettysburg. The
students wondered why the Confederacy was fighting for their "rats." The
answer, of course, is obvious: Southerners have very friendly
rats ... in fact, you could almost say that we have some downright
civil rats.)
RANCH: - noun.
A tool.
Usage: "I think I left my ranch in the back of that pickup
truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago."
REBOOT: What you
do when the first pair gets covered with barnyard stuff.
RETARD: - Verb.
To stop working.
Usage: "My granpaw retard at age 65."
RETCH: To grasp
for.
"The right feilder retch over into the stands and caught the ball."
SAAR: The opposite
of sweet.
Usage:"These pickles Sure are saar."
SCSI: A name
for 2 week old underwear.
SEED: - verb,
past tense
Usage:“Deed you seed what that gurl deed to him?”
SHOVELAY: A vehicle
made by general motors.
"Nobody could drive a Shovelay like Junior Johnson."
SINNER: Exact
middle of.
"Have you been to the new shoppin' sinner."
SQUARSH: - noun.
A vegetable (also verb - to flatten).
Usage:
SUGAR: A kiss.
Usage:"Come here and give me some sugar."
TAR: - noun. A
rubber wheel.
Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh doesn't
git a flat tar in my pickup truck."
TAR ARM: A tool
employed in changing wheels.
Usage:"You cain't change a tar without a tar arn."
TARRED: - adverb.
Exhausted.
Usage: "I just flew in from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms
are tarred."
THANK - (verb)
- Cognitive process.
Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a bare."
TIRE: - noun.
A tall monument.
Usage: "Lord willing and the creeks don't rise, I sure
do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime."
TUMOR: More than
one
URINE: Opposite
of you're out
UHMURIKA /UHMURIKIN: Someone
who lives int he United States of Uhmurika. Usage:"Thomas
Jefferson was a great Uhmurikin."
VARICOSE VEINS: Veins
that are very close together
VIEW: - contraction:
verb and pronoun.
Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City."
WAR: Metal strands
attached to posts to enclose domestic animals.
Usage:"Be careful and don't get stuck on that bob war."
WARSH: - verb.
To clean.
Usage: "Warsh that squarsh, Bubba ... you don't know where
its been!"
WHUP: To beat
or to strike.
Usage:"OOOEEE!!! Yer mama's gonna whup you fer sayin'
a cuss word."
YANKEE SHOT: A
Southern child's navel.
Usage:"Momma, what's this on mah belly?" "That's
yo Yankee Shot."
ZAT: Is that.
Usage:"Zat yo dawg?"
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