BARD - verb. Past tense of the
infinitive "to borrow." (borrowed)
Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

JAWJUH - noun. A highly flammable state just north of Florida (Georgia)
Usage: "My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup truck."

MUNTS - noun. A calendar division (months)
Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I aint herd from
him in munts."

IGNERT - adjective. Not smart (ignorant); See "Auburn Alumni."
Usage: "Them N-C-TWO-A boys sure are ignert!"

RANCH - noun. A tool (wrench)
Usage: "I think I left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother
from Jawjuh
bard a few munts ago."

ALL - noun. A petroleum-based lubricant (oil)
Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck."

FAR - noun. A conflagration (fire)
Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh doesn't change the all in my pickup
truck, that things
gonna catch far."

BAHS - noun. A supervisor (boss)
Usage: "If you don't stop reading these Southern words and git back to
work, your bahs is
gonna far you!"

TAR - noun. A rubber wheel (tire)
Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh doesn't git a flat tar
in my pickup
truck."

TIRE - noun. A tall monument (tower)
Usage: "Lord willing and the creeks don't rise, I sure do hope to see that
Eiffel Tire in
Paris sometime."

HOT - noun. A blood-pumping organ (heart)
HOD - adverb. Not easy (hard)
Usage: "A broken hot is hod to fix."

RETARD - Verb. To stop working (retired)
Usage: "My granpaw retard at age 65."

TARRED - adverb. Exhausted (tired)
Usage: "I just flew in from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms are tarred."

RATS - noun. Entitled power or privilege (rights)
Usage: "We Southerners are willing to fight for out 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.)

LOT - adjective. Luminescent (light)
Usage: "I dream of Jeanie in the lot-brown hair."

FARN - adjective. Not local (foreign)
Usage: "I cudnt unnerstand a wurd he sed ... must be from some farn
country."

DID - adjective. Not alive (dead)
Usage: "He's did, Jim."

EAR - noun. A colorless, odorless gas (unless you are in LA) (air)
Usage: "He can't breathe ... give 'em some ear!"

BOB WAR - noun. A sharp, twisted cable (barbed wire)
Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence."

JU-HERE - a question (Did you hear...)
Usage: "Juhere that former Dallas Cowboys' coach Jimmy Johnson recently
toured the University of Alabama?"

HAZE - a contraction (He's)
Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah ... haze ignert."

SEED - verb, past tense (seen/saw)
VIEW - contraction: verb and pronoun (Have you....)
Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City ... view?"

HEAVY DEW - phrase. A request for action (have you do)
Usage: "Kin I heavy dew me a favor?"

GUMMIT - Noun. An often-closed bureaucratic institution (government)
Usage: "Great ... ANOTHER gummit shutdown!

Ah: The thing you see with, and the personal pronoun used denoting
individuality (eye/I)
"Ah think Ah've got somethin' in mah ah."

Ast: To interrogate or inquire, as when a revenue agent seeks information about illegal moonshine stills (ask)
"Don't ast me so many question. It makes me mad."

Attair: Contraction used to indicate the specific item desire. (that there)
"Pass me attair gravy, please"

Awl: An amber fluid used to lubricate engines (oil)
"Ah like attair car, but it sure does take a lot of awl."

Bawl: What water does at 212 degrees Fahrenheit (boil)
"That gal cain't even bawl water without burnin' it."

Bleeve: Expression of intent or faith (believe)
"Ah bleeve we ought to go to church this Sunday."

Cent: Plural of cent (cents)
"You paid five dollars for that necktie? Ah wouldn't give fiddy cent for it."

Co-cola: The soft drink that started in Atlanta and conquered the world. (Coca-cola/Coke)
"Ah hear they even sell Co-cola in Russia."

Cyst: To render aid (assist)
"Can Ah cyst you with those packages, ma'am."

Dayum: A cuss word Rhett Butler used in "Gone With the Wind." (damn)
"Frankly,my dear, I don't give a dayum."

Everwhichaways: To be scattered in all directions (every which way)
"You should have been there when the train hit attair chicken truck. Them chickens flew everwhichaways."

Far: A state of combustion that produces heat and light (fire)
"Ah reckon it's about time to put out the far and call in the dawgs."

Flares: The colorful, sweet-smelling part of a plant (flowers)
"If yo wife's mad at ya, it's smart to take her some flares."

Fur: Measure of distance (far)
"It's a fur piece ta Etlanna."

Fur: Because of or to indicate possession (for)
"Fur yew ta get attair new car yew gotta go see Bubba bout a loan."

Good ole boy: Any Southern male between age 16 and 60 who has an amiable disposition and is fond of boon companions, strong drink, hound dawgs, fishin', huntin', and good lookin' women, but
not necessarily in that order.
"Bubba's a good ole boy."

Griyuts: What no Southern breakfast would be without - grits. (hominy grits)
"Ah like griyuts with butter and sawt on'em, but Ah purely love'em with red-eye gravy."

Hale (hell): Where General Sherman is going for what he did to Etlanna. (Atlanta)
"General Sherman said "War is Hale" and he made sure it was."

Hep: to aid or benefit (help)
"Ah can't hep it if Ah'm still in love with you."

Idinit: Term employed by genteel Southerners to avoid saying Ain't (isn't it)
"Mighty hot today, idinit?"

Jew: Did you.
"Jew want to buy attair comic book, son, or just stand there
and read it here?"

Kumpny: Guests (company)
"Be home on time. We's havin' kumpny for supper."

Law: Police, or as Southerners pronounce it, PO-leece.
"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 (liquor)
"Does he drink? Listen, he spills more likker than most people drink.'

Mash: To press, as in the case of an elevator button.
"Want me to mash yo floor for you, Ma'am?"

Muchablige: Thank you (much obliged)
"muchablige for the lift, mister."

Nawthun: Anything that is not Southern (Northern)
"He is a classic product of the superior Nawthun educational system." (sarcasm)

Ovair: In that direction (over there)
"Where's yo paw, son?" He's ovair, suh."

Phraisin: Very cold (freezing)
"Shut that door. It's phraisin in here."

Plum: Completely (plumb)
"Ah'm plum wore out."

Retch: To grasp for (reach)
"The right feilder retch over into the stands and caught the ball."

Saar: The opposite of sweet (sour)
"These pickles sure are saar."

Shovelay: A GM car (Cheverolet)
"Nobody could drive a Shovelay like Junior Johnson."

Sinner: Exact middle of (center)
"Have you been to the new shoppin' sinner."

Sugar: A kiss
"Come here and give me some sugar."

Tarred: Fatigued (tired)
"Ah'm too tarred to go bowlin' tonight."

Tar Arn: A tool employed in changing wheels (tire iron)
"You cain't change a tar without a tar arn."

Uhmurkin: Someone who lives in the United States of Uhmurka (American)
"Thomas Jefferson was a great Uhmurkin."

War: Metal strands attached to posts to enclose domestic animals (wire)
"Be careful and don't get stuck on that bob war."

Whup: To beat or to strike (whip)
"OOOEEE!!! Yer mama's gonna whup you fer sayin' a cuss word."

Yankee shot: A Southern child's navel.
"Momma, what's this on mah belly?"
"That's yo Yankee Shot."

Zat: Is that.
"Zat yo dawg?"

WARSH - verb. To clean (wash)
SQUARSH - noun. A vegetable (also verb - to flatten) (squash)
Usage: "Warsh that squarsh, Bubba ... you don't know where its been!"

Cole's Law: Thinly shredded cabbage (cole slaw)


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