The slang you use....

sashacat421 · Jan 8, 2006

Originally Posted by amitya

down here in Mississippi-- we use alot of words eh, well they really arent words-- but seriously if you have watched the redneck joke guy Jeff Foxworthy or Larry the Cable Guy, what they say is purty much right. dijyaeetjet ( did ya eat yet) yawnto ( you want to) and githerdone ( get her done) is normal everyday slang. Theres alot more but my mind is going nuts with everything else going on. Yall ( you all for the northerners) is a normal everyday word too. we dont say POP ( like a soda pop) heck we dont even say soda-- everything is a COKE down here. It doesnt matter if its coke or pepsi its a coke. New Orleans is Nawlins to us southern folk. yonder is another one-- like something's down yonder way. ( that means its down the road a bit) chillen -- no not what you are thinking -- alot of older folk use chillen to mean children. Git them chillen out that there mater patch. ( get those children out of the tomato garden). Theres a ton more i just cant think of right now considering my chillen are hollering at me to get off my computer. If i think of more ill post again.

Just a normal day in the South.

This is so funny!

HOLLERIN!

We don't have kids but Eric's always hollerin' at something anyway, must be the chillen (kitties) in the there mater patch leavin' flippin' taters all over....and then their buddies from down yonder way come over here, too! I tell Eric go githerdone and put a fence 'round it, but he just chills. Darn! yall want any fertilizer, it's just right here. If you mosey up here, we'll gitya set up and come on in for a coke.

AbbysMom · Jan 8, 2006

Originally Posted by clixpix

Call a water/drinking fountain a "bubbler".

Here in Southeastern Massachusetts, we called it a bubbler too!

menagerie mama · Jan 8, 2006

We say "Awesome" and "Great" a lot, and of course we say stuff like...."Yeah, hey?" We don't say ya der hay...that's even father North...A guy I work with likes to use a phrase when he understands something you said..."I smell what you're steppin in!"

dixie_darlin · Jan 8, 2006

Originally Posted by amitya

down here in Mississippi-- we use alot of words eh, well they really arent words-- but seriously if you have watched the redneck joke guy Jeff Foxworthy or Larry the Cable Guy, what they say is purty much right. dijyaeetjet ( did ya eat yet) yawnto ( you want to) and githerdone ( get her done) is normal everyday slang. Theres alot more but my mind is going nuts with everything else going on. Yall ( you all for the northerners) is a normal everyday word too. we dont say POP ( like a soda pop) heck we dont even say soda-- everything is a COKE down here. It doesnt matter if its coke or pepsi its a coke. New Orleans is Nawlins to us southern folk. yonder is another one-- like something's down yonder way. ( that means its down the road a bit) chillen -- no not what you are thinking -- alot of older folk use chillen to mean children. Git them chillen out that there mater patch. ( get those children out of the tomato garden). Theres a ton more i just cant think of right now considering my chillen are hollering at me to get off my computer. If i think of more ill post again.

Just a normal day in the South.

Im originally from Kentucky and we use alot of those too. When I first moved here when I was 12 EVERYONE made fun of my accent to the point I would almost cry, until I just learned to make fun of myself BEFORE they could... I still do it to this day.. My favorite thing to say to people is " We sleep on pillars ner winders, eat taters and maters and go plum down yonder by the crick"... It absolutly baffles people when I say it really fast with my accent that they look at me like Im crazy as I walk away

katachtig · Jan 8, 2006

Originally Posted by CarolPetunia

Anyone ever heard the phrase, "Hunky dory?" I have no idea where it comes from, but it was used by my mom's family in Ohio to mean "fine," as in "Everything's hunky dory." We've continued to use it, silly though it sounds, because my mom's name is Dorie... so when she asks how I'm doing, I'll say, "Hunky, Dorie."

I use hunky dory - usually paired with "peachy keen".

charcoal · Jan 8, 2006

What ya know good? Meaning what is new with you?

Wicked Meaning awesome

KitEKats4Eva! · Jan 8, 2006

`I smell what you're steppin' in'????

Oh I gotta use that on my brother he'll die laughing!!

Another one I forgot about is when we say, `Killed the pig' to mean, someone really did something well. i.e. - Lance Armstrong winning seven Tours - he definitely `killed the pig' !!!!

katl8e · Jan 8, 2006

Since my family is from the South, I grew up hearing and using a lot of Southern expressions:

In response to "How are you?", one replies "Fine as frog hair."

Someone dishonest or a con man is a "jackleg".

Somebody or something can be "As purty as a picture."

Making a fast getaway is "running like a scalded cat."

If something doesn't pass the smell test: "That dog don't hunt."

dixie_darlin · Jan 8, 2006

How about "Dont look a gift horse in the mouth".... Means be greatful for what ya got...dont know if it's only used in the south though...

zak&rocky · Jan 8, 2006

I grew up in western ct. Over there- NO ONE says wicked- at least not when I was growing up. I would go to summer camp in central mass and come back saying wicked. My friends would laugh at me in September. It's amazing how in the US there are such regional differences, even with a difference of 100 miles. My friends who were originally from the midwest called lollipops "suckers" and soda is "pop". When I went to college in central Massachusetts, I first heard the expression "Sweet". I still can't stand it. Going back and forth between western Ct and central mass for about 10 years, I can distinctly tell the differences between the accents. Now I live about 1/2 way in between. It would probably be such a hoot to get a bunch of TCS people in a room and hear the differences in accents.

cagnes · Jan 8, 2006

Originally Posted by AScat

Being from the deep south, I learned a lot of things that I didnt know were slang until I moved further north 3 years ago. The biggest shock to me was the term "hose pipe". All my life, that is what I called a garden hose. When I first moved here, people laughed at me histerically when I talked about washing my car with the hose pipe. I couldn't believe they didn't know what I was talking about. It had me so puzzled that I told them, I guarantee you can go to Home Depot and find a "Hose Pipe".......but I was wrong. All of the packages said "Garden Hose". I seriously thought I was right.

That's funny!

What part of the deep south are you from?

II'm from SE Louisiana & I wash my car with a hose pipe too!

I'm also Cajun & live in a Cajun community so besides southern slang, a lot of our slang words or terms are Cajun French.

We have an ice box instead of a refrigerator
female underwear is a "step-pin"
male underwear is a "conseon" (sp?)
embarrassed is "hont"
really embarrassed "cood hont"
stupid is "bet"
someone too stupid to get out of the sun is a "bet de sol'"

lilleah · Jan 8, 2006

Originally Posted by clixpix

I lived in Wisconsin from junior high through college, then moved to Chicago. You want people to look at you like you've got two heads, and snicker at you? Call a water/drinking fountain a "bubbler".

Swear to God, that's what it's called in Wisconsin. I've never heard it anwhere else. Also big up there right now (at least amongst my nieces and nephews and their friends) is "Snap!", which you say when something is funny or cool or good.

BTW: The "redneck guy" you're talking about is Jeff Foxworthy

This great stuff. I've always heard that people think it's wierd to call the water fountain a Bubbler. heh..That's just what it is...

"Go get a drink from that bubbler if your so thirsty". lol! Isnt that what it is??
There was a bubbler next to my locker in high school. lol.

Anyhow, My phrases are:

Freakin awesome!! For either something really cool, or something really crappy.

Awesome-O For something that happened that was good

ascat · Jan 9, 2006

Originally Posted by cagnes

What part of the deep south are you from?

I'm from Alabama

ascat · Jan 9, 2006

Originally Posted by DixieDarlin256

How about "Dont look a gift horse in the mouth".... Means be greatful for what ya got...dont know if it's only used in the south though...

I've heard "Dont KICK a gift horse in the mouth"

tilly tiger · Jan 9, 2006

well ive got a freind and his favortie says are for a me is either pet or love and he lives in yorksire UK and far as i know it means a female freind

phenomsmom · Jan 9, 2006

I say "yeah i kno right" all the time. it started i wa making fun of someone and it stuck.

We say cuz a lot, (friend, you,)

my mom says okie dokey smokey (okay)

my dad says oh-ba welba (oh well)

coke is everything except water.

sweetea is the drink sweet tea we dont seperate the words

the county refers to harris county (where did you go to school? i went to school in out in the county , only one high school)

loveysmummy · Jan 9, 2006

Originally Posted by Miss Mew

"What are ya at?" It's an east coast term..(Newfoundland in particular) it's kind of like "how is it going?"

WOW! I used to know these guys from Ontario who used that all the time and I just thought it was "their" thing...So, I started using it...

They say it with extreme emphasis though stressing the "at".. kind of like "Wassup".
now, I know it wasn't just them!

sweets · Jan 9, 2006

Wicked awsome. - absolutely amazing
A-ight - short for all right
My bad - i'm sorry or i did it.
Fuhgedabowtit - yeah, thats really used even tho i spelled it wrong. it means don't worry about it, or no problem
Buzzed - taken for a fool or ripped off as in Oh Man, that guy just got buzzed!
Slammed - too busy to even think about leaving your desk.

sibohan2005 · Jan 9, 2006

Rat ******* - call somone, or somthing when your POed
Like a hurd of turtles - sarcastic when your trying to hurry

I'm sure I know more but I don't realise it's sland until someone points it out to me.

laureen227 · Jan 9, 2006

Originally Posted by amitya

down here in Mississippi-- Yall ( you all for the northerners) is a normal everyday word too. we dont say POP ( like a soda pop) heck we dont even say soda-- everything is a COKE down here. It doesnt matter if its coke or pepsi its a coke. New Orleans is Nawlins to us southern folk. yonder is another one-- like something's down yonder way. ( that means its down the road a bit) chillen -- no not what you are thinking -- alot of older folk use chillen to mean children. Git them chillen out that there mater patch. ( get those children out of the tomato garden). Theres a ton more i just cant think of right now considering my chillen are hollering at me to get off my computer. If i think of more ill post again.
Just a normal day in the South.

Originally Posted by cagnes

II'm from SE Louisiana & I wash my car with a hose pipe too!

I'm also Cajun & live in a Cajun community so besides southern slang, a lot of our slang words or terms are Cajun French.

We have an ice box instead of a refrigerator
female underwear is a "step-pin"
male underwear is a "conseon" (sp?)
embarrassed is "hont"
really embarrassed "cood hont"
stupid is "bet"
someone too stupid to get out of the sun is a "bet de sol'"

i can't believe my fellow southerners forgot "fixin' to" [getting ready to do something]! also, my mom's from southwest louisiana & we use "bookoos" [when i was little, this is how i thought it was spelled

] meaning a lot of [slang version of "beaucoup"]

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