Crazy words u heard or expressions growing up
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Grew up in NC. And here you go...
"You darn tooten" - translation: you are correct/ positive confirmation
"preciate it"- translation: thank you
"I haven't seen that in 'coons ages"- translation: I haven't seen that in a long time
"that's a hot mess!"- translation: a big problem/ in a large crowd
"you need that (insert item) like you need another hole in your head"- translation: when a kid asks their parents for something and the parents fail to obligue.
"that ain't worth a plug nickle"- translation: poor work/ bad product
"I pitty the fool"- ( I kid, I kid, that was Mr. T.)
"that beats all I'd ever seen"- translation: amazing
"You darn tooten" - translation: you are correct/ positive confirmation
"preciate it"- translation: thank you
"I haven't seen that in 'coons ages"- translation: I haven't seen that in a long time
"that's a hot mess!"- translation: a big problem/ in a large crowd
"you need that (insert item) like you need another hole in your head"- translation: when a kid asks their parents for something and the parents fail to obligue.
"that ain't worth a plug nickle"- translation: poor work/ bad product
"I pitty the fool"- ( I kid, I kid, that was Mr. T.)
"that beats all I'd ever seen"- translation: amazing
A few from my North AL relatives:
"Useless as a screen door on a submarine."
"I swannie!" - a favorite of my Grandmother, to announce bewilderment, dissatisfaction, or disgust.
"Getonfromhere!" - What you yell at a stray animal.
"By Ned" - to add emphasis to a statement.
"Denbo's junkyard" - a term to describe any property in disrepair, or the home of what we now refer to as "hoarders".
There were many others, but those are the ones that come to mind.
"Useless as a screen door on a submarine."
"I swannie!" - a favorite of my Grandmother, to announce bewilderment, dissatisfaction, or disgust.
"Getonfromhere!" - What you yell at a stray animal.
"By Ned" - to add emphasis to a statement.
"Denbo's junkyard" - a term to describe any property in disrepair, or the home of what we now refer to as "hoarders".
There were many others, but those are the ones that come to mind.
When i first came to the US, i lived with this redneck family in central florida. The father had some really funny sayings. Unfortunately, repeating them here would get me banned.
I was 12 yrs old before I figured out that Dayo bread
wasn't a type of bread, it was "day old" bread
In SE MA, soda pop was "tonic" "Bain't" was a contraction of not been. icebox was used for fridges.
cars had three on the tree.
wasn't a type of bread, it was "day old" bread
In SE MA, soda pop was "tonic" "Bain't" was a contraction of not been. icebox was used for fridges.
cars had three on the tree.
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Originally Posted By: Footpounds
When I was a kid in E. Texas, we went to the "picture show" and kept our perishable items in the "ice box". Seems silly now.
Grew up in Chattanooga tn,,we went to the picture show, am 65 now and I still go to the picture show, go figure.
When I was a kid in E. Texas, we went to the "picture show" and kept our perishable items in the "ice box". Seems silly now.
Grew up in Chattanooga tn,,we went to the picture show, am 65 now and I still go to the picture show, go figure.
My father in-law would use the term "lick your calf over again" for having to repeat an action. When I asked him the derivation, he said that a cow licks a newborn calf to get it to stand up the first time. If the process fails, the cow starts it all over from the beginning.
My Dad would occasionally say that something was "a load of Hooey", meaning that it was outrageously incorrect. For him, this was high profanity.
Other sayings - "doesn't blow my dress up" (said by a man, when he wasn't thrilled about something)
"Must a been a case of the dumb-a.. blew in on the wind."
My parents had a back lot which was somewhat separated from the main yard, and my Dad called it the "Back Forty" (probably referring originally to a 40-acre piece)
One that I use when stuck behind a lackadaisical driver - "I wish they would poke a little faster".
My Dad would occasionally say that something was "a load of Hooey", meaning that it was outrageously incorrect. For him, this was high profanity.
Other sayings - "doesn't blow my dress up" (said by a man, when he wasn't thrilled about something)
"Must a been a case of the dumb-a.. blew in on the wind."
My parents had a back lot which was somewhat separated from the main yard, and my Dad called it the "Back Forty" (probably referring originally to a 40-acre piece)
One that I use when stuck behind a lackadaisical driver - "I wish they would poke a little faster".
Two of my favorites are "He couldn't pour pee out of a boot if the directions were on the heel" and "If brains were gas,his couldn't power a [censored] ant motorcycle half way around a BB"
Most of the expressions so far are currently used somewhere everyday in rural Kentucky. Some are very old and yet still survive even with all the cross-culturalization we see today
I grew up with a lot of sayings...forgotten most of them.If my mother wanted me to hurry up she'd tell me to ''rattle y' dags''or ''get my arse into gear''.If I was hyped up she's say I was ''running around like a blue arse fly''.Other times I was ''away with the fairies'',or ''mad as a two bob watch'',my bedroom was ''like a dogs breakfast'' and I was going to get ''a kick up the jacksie'' or a ''clip around the ear'',and I was ''wet behind the ears'' too.Her car was ''a guttless wonder'' and she ''didn't come down in the last shower''.It seems I was ''born in a tent''.
That's all I can remember in two shakes of a lambs tail.
That's all I can remember in two shakes of a lambs tail.
My dad was really old school and now it seems funny but sometimes these things yelled at me when I was a kid did hurt a bit:
"You aren't smart enough to pour p--- out of a boot"
"You aren't smart enough to pull a hair out of a mosquito's a--"
I guess what kept him from permanently damaging my psyche (or whole brain, but that's debatable
) was a) I thought my Dad was insane b) Just why the heck would anyone want to do the above two actions?
"You aren't smart enough to pour p--- out of a boot"
"You aren't smart enough to pull a hair out of a mosquito's a--"
I guess what kept him from permanently damaging my psyche (or whole brain, but that's debatable
If, or I should say when my Dad got mad at someone, instead of calling them an SOB, her would refer to them as "that gentleman". And for some strange reason, he called all of my friends "dickweeds".
And the smart phrase I always heard was "your brain is so small it rolls around like a BB in a boxcar."
And the smart phrase I always heard was "your brain is so small it rolls around like a BB in a boxcar."
Originally Posted By: PRND3L
Upon leaving a door open that should have been shut, I'd be asked, "Were you born in a barn?"
Nobody's mentioned "finda"/"fixin' ta" meaning "fixing to", meaning "I'm getting ready to..." Example: "I'm finda go to the sto."
Probably because that is pretty ubiquitous. I remember boarding a Southwest Airlines plane leaving Dallas, with the pretty gate attendant yelling "Come awn ever-body - We're fixin to GIT!
I remember a work situation when a person from Georgia asked the guy from New York why he always said "Youse Guys". The New York guy said, "What about you? What's with this "fixin"?" "Fixin to do this, fixin to do that....It's like your all-purpose utility verb!"
Upon leaving a door open that should have been shut, I'd be asked, "Were you born in a barn?"
Nobody's mentioned "finda"/"fixin' ta" meaning "fixing to", meaning "I'm getting ready to..." Example: "I'm finda go to the sto."
Probably because that is pretty ubiquitous. I remember boarding a Southwest Airlines plane leaving Dallas, with the pretty gate attendant yelling "Come awn ever-body - We're fixin to GIT!
I remember a work situation when a person from Georgia asked the guy from New York why he always said "Youse Guys". The New York guy said, "What about you? What's with this "fixin"?" "Fixin to do this, fixin to do that....It's like your all-purpose utility verb!"
my dad didnt like to be held up when driving. he would say"dont sit there like a bump on a log" or "dont take your half out of the middle"
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