Totally Southern Expressions

[Detroitgator]

And?

Unrelated comment: Your USCG team didn't do half bad at the sniper competition at Benning this last week.

 

[B52G8rAC]

Two just popped to mind when I saw the picture in the Box. 1. I wouldn't walk across the street to piss on him if he was on fire. 2. He's not smart enough to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the sole. Followed by the previous entry of "Bless his heart."

 

[deuce]

Don't let your Alligator mouth overload your Mocking Bird Azz!

 

[gardnerwebbgator]

 

[G. Gordon Gator]

Say there @cover2 I don't know about you, but I been to TWO county fairs, a rodeo AND a goat Fuchsin', and I ain't NEVER seen a thread like this before!

 

[PCGatorAlum]

Sorry is between shyte and syphilis in the dictionary.

 

[cover2]

Say there @cover2 I don't know about you, but I been to TWO county fairs, a rodeo AND a goat Fuchsin', and I ain't NEVER seen a thread like this before!

A truer expression of southern incredulity there’s never been!

 

[Gulfstream]

“Hey y’all, watch this……”

At which 50% of the time is followed by mayhem.

 

[cover2]

At which 50% of the time is followed by mayhem.

Absolutely! I was gonna say “followed by ‘Oh Shti!’”

 

[Loogis]

Ok here’s one I remember and I wonder if anyone can relate. Whenever someone would ask you a question, and you take longer than 5 seconds to answer, they will follow up with “say?”.

Southern friend or family: “Hey you goin’ up town today?”
Me: …
Friend/family: “Say?”

 

[Loogis]

One more. High Heaven. I only heard this one concerning a bad smell.

“Boy you stink to high Heaven!”

 

[AlexDaGator]

Not sure if this is Southern or just really old fashioned...

...anybody ever heard a Yankee use the word "caterwauling"?



Alex.

 

[Nalt]

When describing food that is especially bad tasting: It'd drive a maggot off a gut wagon.

 

[B52G8rAC]

That stuff will gag a maggot.

 

[CDGator]

I just bought some beautiful flowers even though we have a few more weeks of cold nights. A gentleman in the parking lot made the comment “I hope we are not jumping the gun! “I totally understand what he means but I really don’t know why we say that.

edit: maybe races when they shoot the gun to start

 

[B52G8rAC]

Not really all southern but a lot of our expressions come from the arms production process. Made from scratch comes from scratching the nitrates off the cave wall to make gunpowder. "Lock, stock and barrel" refers to a whole firearm. "Going off half cocked" refers to a flintlock rifle misfiring when the hammer is in the intermediate position. "Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn" originated with musket practice. Our system of gauge measurements (10 gauge, 12 gauge, etc.) refers to the number of musket balls of a certain size that add up to a pound. "Keep your powder dry" is not from a Maybelline commercial.

 

[deuce]

ya et yet?

o ver yonder

 

[Nalt]

ya et yet?

o ver yonder

Yont to?

Aight!

 

[stephenPE]

When describing food that is especially bad tasting: It'd drive a maggot off a gut wagon.

smelled so bad it would knock a buzzard off a shttt wagon.

ya et yet?

dgeat yet

 

[CGgater]

smelled so bad it would knock a buzzard off a shttt wagon.

dgeat yet

Not only is the “dgeat yet” part of Jeff Foxworthy’s comedy, but the phrase - I kid you not - was used as an example in a case study in my business communications class, covered in Ch 2, international business comms. The Honda assembly plant in tinerc trained their Japanese execs to understand southern dialect, because understanding English just wasn’t enough. I would love to know if anyone ever told Jeff Foxworthy.