Southern Expression Really Old.

[sheepdawg]

Slicker than greased owl ****.
Elevator doesn't make it to the top floor.
He was so fast he could turn the bedroom light out and make it to bed before the room got dark.

 

[dben002]

oh my, I had an aunt that would say that. It still gets me PO'd if I hear that....

My mother used to say "Well bless your pea picking heart" which meant that person in my mothers opinion had a IQ below 50 but mother would never insult someone directly so that was the code phrase......

 

[mick1213]

Hang in there like a hair in a biscuit , LA here.

 

[TX-Dennis]

He wouldn't hit a lick at a snake if it was fixin to bite him.

You don't want no dealins with him. He's crookeder than a dog's hind leg.

No sir, that feller is as honest as the day is long.

 

[dben002]

directions....
it's a fir peace up I-85

go about 4 miles and turn right at the big oak tree...

Oh, yes you’re goin’ to stay on that road a little ways maybe 5 minutes or so then take a left. If you reach that pull off where Harrison’s hardware use to be you’ve gone to far.

you’re almost there. Just keep goin’ on this road. It’s goin’ take you over the mountain. The road is so curvy it’ll make your head spin, but you just keep on goin’ till you get down the other side. Then you’re goin’ to turn at Miss Lacy’s house. It’s the green one without a stitch of grass, but she grows the prettiest tomatoes. Lord they’re pretty.

 

[Onomea]

Real Estate Agent: "This is a house without a flaw!"

Southern Client: "What ya'all walk on?"

 

[djohns6]

I'm beginning to think some of ya'll have never been to the South .

 

[dben002]

The north is just as bad......when I lived in Boston, we took a weekend to drive up into Vermont and New Hampshire...Got lost as a goat off his rope....stopped at a small country store with a guy sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch....he turned out to be the owner....

Told him we were lost and asked if he had a road map I could buy....
He rocked back and forth a few times saying nothing...I guess he was thinking....


Then he said...."Mite....mite not...don't rightly know...have a go inside and see what you can find.......

 

[S-W4EVER]

“She’s ugly enough to make a freight train take a dirt road.”

 

[THE PILGRIM]

City Guy to Country Rube -
Have you lived here all your life?
Rube. - not yet!

 

[oink]

I grew up in FL but both of my folks were from N.C. for many generations. It was always peecans.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Beauty is only Skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
I thought that was a Southern saying cause that where’s I heard it!
Looking online, it appears to have a long and disputed lineage.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Even Emeril, Yankee Boy who moved to the Big Easy,
Says- Pee Can is something used by truck drivers.
Deep South it’s usually like Pea-Caan.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Slicker than greased owl ****.

I read somewhere that Ponsness-Warren's STOS grease was an acronym for Slicker Than Owl ****.

 

[smitholdtimer]

I had a friend from Kentucky who always liked to tell folks he went to UCLA - Upper Corner of Lower Alabama.

We have a Member who actually claims to be from there!

 

[65Whelen]

Not from the south but being brought up in a WI tavern.
"He's three sheets to the wind"
or something appropriate for this forum
"If gun powder were brains he wouldn't have enough to blow his nose"

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Mostly in the Eastern US there is this fish which is fun to catch and delicious to eat.
The Crappie! Not always pronounced the same everywhere.
Knew a local Radio Announcer up in Indiana, he was originally from Detroit.
So he fires up the local AM station at sunrise, plays some music, reads some news and the local fishing reports.
At a nearby lake, they caught some!
He pronounced them Crap-ies, first part rhymes with ‘Trap.’
His phone started ringing. Apparently in that part of Indiana they pronounce it Crop- pee, same as I’ve always heard.
Could be different where you live!

 

[.38SuperMan]

I’ve lived in East Tn all but three years. A lot’s changed in 73 years including the dialects. At one time I could tell if you were from Knoxville, or Chattanooga or upper ET by the dialect but now thanks to the influx of folks from other areas you rarely hear those dialects. You hear it occasionally from the old timers and if you go to a couple of the more remote counties you’ll hear it. The dialects derived from old English and actually I miss them.

Here are a few I love:

If you’re going to peal some potatoes you’d “ pail some taters”.

If you want your coke in a bag you’d ask for your “dope in a poke”.

If you live in a little valley between two hills you’d “live in a holler”.

If someone was a bum or worthless individual you might say “ he didn’t mount to uh hill of beans”.

If something was worthless or of little value you’d say it “ain’t worth a nubben”. A nubben is an ear of corn that didn’t develop fully.

If you’re eating a slice of country ham and red eye gravy and you still have gravy on your plate you’d use your biscuit to “sopp it up”.

We had “frog stranglers” when it rained hard too.

Here are a few photos from the past around where I live.

 

[oldbrownhat]

A couple of those have migrated into regular English- and I've lived in British Columbia all my life aside from a brief time in the UK. Years ago I dated a gal who was originally from Lousiana but it was long enough ago that I can't remember any of her "regionalisms."

The loss of small distinctions in regional dialects and expressions is well known in the UK as well, and began when BBC radio and TV evolved as it exposed people who had been relatively isolated to how others spoke in other partrs of Britain.

I remember a story of the police in northern England solving a serial murderer who had been operating in the Newcastle area. He had taunted the police by sending cassette recording and they found a specialist in regional dialects of the ares who pinpointed his likely location - within three or four streets - by minute details of how he spoke!

I must dig out my copy of the Dictionary of Regional American English

I’ve lived in East Tn all but three years. A lot’s changed in 73 years including the dialects. At one time I could tell if you were from Knoxville, or Chattanooga or upper ET by the dialect but now thanks to the influx of folks from other areas you rarely hear those dialects. You hear it occasionally from the old timers and if you go to a couple of the more remote counties you’ll hear it. The dialects derived from old English and actually I miss them.

Here are a few I love:

If you’re going to peal some potatoes you’d “ pail some taters”.

If you want your coke in a bag you’d ask for your “dope in a poke”.

If you live in a little valley between two hills you’d “live in a holler”.

If someone was a bum or worthless individual you might say “ he didn’t mount to uh hill of beans”.

If something was worthless or of little value you’d say it “ain’t worth a nubben”. A nubben is an ear of corn that didn’t develop fully.

If you’re eating a slice of country ham and red eye gravy and you still have gravy on your plate you’d use your biscuit to “sopp it up”.

We had “frog stranglers” when it rained hard too.

Here are a few photos from the past around where I live.

 

[seasoldier85]

If my grandmother "warshed" something with soap, she would have to "wrench" it out (born in Kentucky in the late 1800's). My father would always admonish the kids to not 'Wrassle" in the house.