southern words or phrases...
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From: Starkville Mississippi
MN you got that right. Many a hillbillys last words were "hey yall watch this!"
-"We're gona tear out 'bout mornin."--We shall leave in the morning.
- "Tore up"- Torn up
-"Move that over a fuzz" -- Move that over a little
-"Nope, we're slap out" -- Were all out
- "Rat cheer" -- Right here
- "Ko Cola"--any type of soda
- "It come up a toadstrangler"--There was a heavy rain
- "He run away like a scaled dog"--He must've really been runing!
- "You eat up with ugly"--youre really ugly anotherwords
-"That girls wiggles better'n a dog tryin to pass a peach pit"
- "We caught a mess'a fish today." We caught alot of fish.
- "He's drunker'n Cooter Brown." There is no Cooter Brown that i know of but its a common saying meaning very drunk.
-"He had a flyin duck fit."-- he was very angry
- " Shes so dam ugly, it look like her face done caught on fire and someone put it out with an ax."-- nuff said
My favorite!!!--
"That Cheby wouldnt pull a greasy string out of a cats ***!!"
Theres many many more i aint thinking good now
-"We're gona tear out 'bout mornin."--We shall leave in the morning.
- "Tore up"- Torn up
-"Move that over a fuzz" -- Move that over a little
-"Nope, we're slap out" -- Were all out
- "Rat cheer" -- Right here
- "Ko Cola"--any type of soda
- "It come up a toadstrangler"--There was a heavy rain
- "He run away like a scaled dog"--He must've really been runing!
- "You eat up with ugly"--youre really ugly anotherwords
-"That girls wiggles better'n a dog tryin to pass a peach pit"
- "We caught a mess'a fish today." We caught alot of fish.
- "He's drunker'n Cooter Brown." There is no Cooter Brown that i know of but its a common saying meaning very drunk.
-"He had a flyin duck fit."-- he was very angry
- " Shes so dam ugly, it look like her face done caught on fire and someone put it out with an ax."-- nuff said
My favorite!!!--
"That Cheby wouldnt pull a greasy string out of a cats ***!!"
Theres many many more i aint thinking good now
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From: whitesboro n.y.
i have something i need answered...
now a while back when i was young there was a family that moved in upstairs from my house(the 2nd flr apt)and they previosly lived on a farm and were what you would consider country folk.
now the father would use a term "blat",or in the active form"blattin"in a sentence like ..."you better quit youre blattin or you will go to bed without supper" and it was used referring to what i call crying.but where do people get words like blattin and ballin associated with crying???
now a while back when i was young there was a family that moved in upstairs from my house(the 2nd flr apt)and they previosly lived on a farm and were what you would consider country folk.
now the father would use a term "blat",or in the active form"blattin"in a sentence like ..."you better quit youre blattin or you will go to bed without supper" and it was used referring to what i call crying.but where do people get words like blattin and ballin associated with crying???
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From: MN
LMAO at this thread. I havent laughed this hard in quite awhile.
Pop is definitely a northern, midwest kind of thing. I say pop all the time and Im a Swede/Norwegian Minnesota farmboy.
Coke is definitely a southern thing. I went down to Georgia last year and I was in a restaurant...the waitress asked me what I wanted to drink. I said Coke as in Coca Cola. She asked me what kind? I said I wanted a Coke...and again she asked me what kind and again I said Coke. She then said what kind of Coke do you want? I said what do you mean, theres only one kind of Coke isnt there? It was then that my fiancee's aunt, who was nearly busting a gut laughing at this problem I was having in ordering my beverage of choice, came to my aid and explained what Coke meant down there. She lives in a suburb of Atlanta but she grew up in MN so she knew what I was talkin about the whole time and decided to let me sweat it out a little.
As for other southern sayings...I dont know if this is real or not. But I heard it in "The Green Mile," which was set down south.
"I think the cheese done slid off his cracker" implying that the guy had gone nuts.
Pop is definitely a northern, midwest kind of thing. I say pop all the time and Im a Swede/Norwegian Minnesota farmboy.
Coke is definitely a southern thing. I went down to Georgia last year and I was in a restaurant...the waitress asked me what I wanted to drink. I said Coke as in Coca Cola. She asked me what kind? I said I wanted a Coke...and again she asked me what kind and again I said Coke. She then said what kind of Coke do you want? I said what do you mean, theres only one kind of Coke isnt there? It was then that my fiancee's aunt, who was nearly busting a gut laughing at this problem I was having in ordering my beverage of choice, came to my aid and explained what Coke meant down there. She lives in a suburb of Atlanta but she grew up in MN so she knew what I was talkin about the whole time and decided to let me sweat it out a little.
As for other southern sayings...I dont know if this is real or not. But I heard it in "The Green Mile," which was set down south.
"I think the cheese done slid off his cracker" implying that the guy had gone nuts.
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From: SouthWest Ohio
More;
"A bit" or "A spell"......a while.
"Taters"......potatoes
"Maters"......tomatos
"RC Cola and a Moon Pie".....lunch
"Ya hear?"......understand?
"Eye tallion"......like in "Italian" sausage.
"Chew" or "Chaw"......Mail Pouch, Red Man, etc.
"Git".......get.
"Mother" or "Father"......instead of "My mother" or "My father".
"A passle of"........A lot of. (What's a passle, anyway?)
"Yaught 2".....Instead of "You should".
"A bit" or "A spell"......a while.
"Taters"......potatoes
"Maters"......tomatos
"RC Cola and a Moon Pie".....lunch
"Ya hear?"......understand?
"Eye tallion"......like in "Italian" sausage.
"Chew" or "Chaw"......Mail Pouch, Red Man, etc.
"Git".......get.
"Mother" or "Father"......instead of "My mother" or "My father".
"A passle of"........A lot of. (What's a passle, anyway?)
"Yaught 2".....Instead of "You should".
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From: Richmond, VA
Originally posted by clonetek
looks like someone watched a little too much "alice" on tv whilst growing up.
a real southerner doesn't use the word "pop" instead of soda.. thats a yankee thing. everything is called "coke" down here.
looks like someone watched a little too much "alice" on tv whilst growing up.
a real southerner doesn't use the word "pop" instead of soda.. thats a yankee thing. everything is called "coke" down here.
In VA we call most all soft drinks Coke, if we are referring to them in general.
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From: Starkville Mississippi
Here some more from a southern-rooted family:
-"She stuck to him like white on rice"
- "Yo-uh-peein"---European
-"Chicargo"--Chicago
-"RC Cola and a Moon Pie"--BREAKFAST and lunch
-"He's a real hummdinger."--
----More to come later-----
-"She stuck to him like white on rice"
- "Yo-uh-peein"---European
-"Chicargo"--Chicago
-"RC Cola and a Moon Pie"--BREAKFAST and lunch
-"He's a real hummdinger."--
----More to come later-----
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From: N. Florida
Growin up in a little ol' town down here in the south, that's how everybody talks 'round here.
Let me see.......
"com'on back now ya hear"----Come back later
"I ain't goin, how's bout you"-----I am not going, How about you
"Git on outta here, now"------Telling someone to leave
Theres many more but ya'll done said most of them.
Whenever some one talks to a southerner in person, They always have to ask what the southerner just said, especially if they are from another part of the country. Oh yeah, most of us always have a hard time in english classes. Dang, teachers tying to teach us how to write and talk correctly, My English instructer always gives us vocab words. I cain't even say have of 'em.
HAHAHA
Let me see.......
"com'on back now ya hear"----Come back later
"I ain't goin, how's bout you"-----I am not going, How about you
"Git on outta here, now"------Telling someone to leave
Theres many more but ya'll done said most of them.
Whenever some one talks to a southerner in person, They always have to ask what the southerner just said, especially if they are from another part of the country. Oh yeah, most of us always have a hard time in english classes. Dang, teachers tying to teach us how to write and talk correctly, My English instructer always gives us vocab words. I cain't even say have of 'em.
HAHAHA
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From: Hammer Lane
Ar-right or Aiiite..... Alright (My favorite.)
You guys have it all wrong with the Coke thing. The combination word "Sodee-pop" is much more common.
You guys have it all wrong with the Coke thing. The combination word "Sodee-pop" is much more common.
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