Southern Slang
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My Southern partner used to say shit like "git your goofy ass up there and commence to drillin' holes."
He also called hands "dirty dickbeaters" but I think that was a USMC thing.
He also called hands "dirty dickbeaters" but I think that was a USMC thing.
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I came here to learn about southern slang, which would be unique words used in place of mainstream terminology. Instead, all I got was imitation Andy Griffith and Jeff Foxworthy lines.
Fuck, not even a good mention of "spider" (i.e., a cast-iron frying pan, optionally with legs).
Fuck, not even a good mention of "spider" (i.e., a cast-iron frying pan, optionally with legs).
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Yeah, I thought of the 'whoda thunk it' one when I said it to one of the kids, and realized it's something I picked up from K.
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A buddy of mine married a woman from North Carolina. She's got that adorable lilt thing goin' on, and she smiles and teases and calls me damn yankee all the time. But I've never heard her say any of the stuff posted on this thread.
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Awww you be in a heap of trouble!
Had to contribute, I'm in Georgia!
Had to contribute, I'm in Georgia!
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Being from the deep south, here's a few I've heard growing up...
"That boy's three sheets to the wind."
"He don't know shit from Shinola."
"He couldn't pour piss out of a boot with directions wrote on the heel."
"He's hangin' in there like a hair in a biscuit."
"I'm fucking this goat... You just hold the horns."
"He sure is a tall drink of water."
"He'd steal the quarters off a dead man's eyes."
"He'd steal stink off shit."
"I'm all over that like a duck on a june bug / like white on rice / like stink on shit."
"He's more low-down than a snake's belly."
"If you were a horse, I'd wouldn't even look at your teeth before I bought you."
And you can't go ANYWHERE without people asking, "How's your momma and "em?"
"That boy's three sheets to the wind."
"He don't know shit from Shinola."
"He couldn't pour piss out of a boot with directions wrote on the heel."
"He's hangin' in there like a hair in a biscuit."
"I'm fucking this goat... You just hold the horns."
"He sure is a tall drink of water."
"He'd steal the quarters off a dead man's eyes."
"He'd steal stink off shit."
"I'm all over that like a duck on a june bug / like white on rice / like stink on shit."
"He's more low-down than a snake's belly."
"If you were a horse, I'd wouldn't even look at your teeth before I bought you."
And you can't go ANYWHERE without people asking, "How's your momma and "em?"
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Can somebody carry me to the store?
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See, I was thinking about that too. But a lot of that kind of stuff has gone to the graveyard, with the older "We lived IN the Great Depression" generation. So we are mostly left with "country grammer" as it were, because most redneck slang terms and turns of phrase aren't limited to the south anymore. It's more of a rural way to speaking, which means "not in the city", which can happen anywhere, like Washington state, deep south Georgia, or California.
That being said, I have an interesting story from my youth that I'd like to share.
I was about 12 or 13 and I was visiting with my maternal grandparents and two of my aunts when they, the four of them, started asking me if I knew any of the "old words" for stuff. I was confused. I had no idea what they were talking about. So, they started naming stuff, like chair, swing, porch, ball, dirt, creek, but they were using words that I have never ever heard, and haven't heard since. I asked my mom about it when she came to pick me up, but she claimed to not know what I was talking about. At the time I thought they were just teasing me, but later on I really started thinking about it. Now, I'm not sure if this is true where you are from, but around this part of the backwoods everyone is kin, related, to the Creek Indians in some way, even if it's only in their imaginations. So I put 2 and 2 together. What if my grandparents were speaking a Creole-like mix of Irish, English, and Creek Indian? That would explain why the words they were saying were so alien to me, why it sounded like pure gibberish. Anyways, that's my little theory, and I like it.
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K lived in Texas from 9 years old to 24. His dad and aunt were born in Mississippi, and his aunt has the most awesome accent. Like the old southern school marm she is. Everything I've put up is stuff that K actually, routinely, says. And when he says them his accent gets heavier, which cracks me up. LOL
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Actually, I think what you are referring to would be "vernacular" words. If the topic was "Southern Vernacular" then I'd agree with you. Use of the word "spell" to mean to give someone a break, as in, "Gimme the shovel, I'll spell you" would fall into vernacular. But by naming the thread Southern Slang, I think it gets into more modern, even contrived rednecky, usage, including the goofy Foxworthyesque sayings, such as "He's dumber'n a box of creek rocks" (which I've heard firsthand by someone who wasn't trying to be goofy.)
One of my longtime favorites is the word "haints" which means ghosts (presumably a derivation of 'haunts'). I also like the phrase "There's you a _____" As in "There's you a truck", said to me by a very intelligent and well educated woman, who looked mortified when I raised my eyebrows, knowing exactly what just came out of her mouth.
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Actually, I'm referring to slang, which is most typically comprised of individual words or very short phrases. T
From dictionary.com:
1. very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language, as Hit the road.
2. (in English and some other languages) speech and writing characterized by the use of vulgar and socially taboo vocabulary and idiomatic expressions.
3. the jargon of a particular class, profession, etc.
4. the special vocabulary of thieves, vagabonds, etc.; argot.
The whole sentences that make up most of the posts in this thread are not slang, per se; in fact, they are more properly described as vernacular speech.
Vernacular has a broader meaning than slang (again, dictionary.com):
1. (of language) native or indigenous (opposed to literary or learned ).
2. expressed or written in the native language of a place, as literary works: a vernacular poem.
3. using such a language: a vernacular speaker.
To make my point more plainly: slang includes such things as replacement words such as "rod" for gun and replacement phrases, such as "hit the bricks" for "get out of here." What distinguishes slang from vernacular speech is that virtually all slang references some word or phrase in mainstream usage while vernacular does not always do so. Vernacular often creates its own reference within the common language of the group where it originated.
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I have lived in the deep south my entire life,and I have to say that most of the people that use these terms are on t.v. Yes, the older generation uses Bless her heart quite often. I'm not sure how you "Yanks" are, but down here we do call everyone by an endearment, such as sweetie and sugar.
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I know a couple people in the north and on the west coast who regularly use endearments, but they're few and far between. Where I'm at (and of most of my southern friends elsewhere), everyone uses it, and it drives me up the wall.
I will admit it, I'm in the south, but being from the west coast, I'll be damned if I let myself pick up the accent completely or use any southern word or phrase other than "ya'll". A cola is either a Coke or a soda, not a pop!
I will admit it, I'm in the south, but being from the west coast, I'll be damned if I let myself pick up the accent completely or use any southern word or phrase other than "ya'll". A cola is either a Coke or a soda, not a pop!
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To me a Coke is just that, Coca-Cola. A soda is any carbonated drink. Ya'll is standard, but to me it beats you alls any day. As far as the accent goes, there's no helping it. That's like asking a New Yorker to lose thiers. Not going to happen.
