Words of the Wise

It’s mind-boggling why these words are not in the dictionary.  Enjoy.

1. Lollygag: you’re just bullshitting.  You’re procrastinating.
2. Around your ass to get to the elbow: you go completely out of your way to get where you’re going to.
3. Y’all: you all. the diamond phrase of the south.  “It’s the most beautiful word you’ve ever heard”
4. Yins: “y’ins”—translates as “your things”
5. Youngins: your children or your babies
6. Yur: you are
7. Bo: you can say that could be your friend.  It could be an acquaintance.  Like “hey you!”  It’s an attention grabber.
8. Boondocks (boonies): in the middle of nowhere
9. Twisted: drunk
10. Yankees: talking about anyone above the Mason-Dixon line.  This word can also pretty much refer to anyone who doesn’t live in the South.
11. Like pea’s and carrots: you have a lot in common or you go well together.
12. Bar-b-que: Unlike most Americans, Southerners refer to a BBQ as the very slow process of cooking food.  An example would be of pulled pork.
13. Cookout: cooking event of hotdogs and hamburgers
14. Bless your heart or God bless you:  Translation: I’m sorry that you have so many problems but I have no sympathy for you.
15. Stupider: dumber
16. Deddy: daddy. 
17. Mamma: mom
18. I’m gonna take her home: you know what that means
19. Flippers: what little baby pageant girls wear to make it look like they have a full set of teeth
20. Tennessee Tea: whiskey
21. Sweet tea: Tea with LOTS of sugar
22. Wudder: Water
23. Shooting shotguns: the 4^th of July
24. Hush puppies: breaded cornbread to eat
25. Moonshine: homemade liquor
26. Blue gums: racist term for black people
27. “Pretty is what pretty does”: if you don’t act pretty, you’re not.
28. Man upstairs: God or Jesus
29. Code blue: coors light, which you call “vintin’”
30. Ain’t: do not
31. War of northern aggression: civil war
32. Redneck: need I explain?
33. Rib: girl
34. Lady girl: girl
35. “Bouss”: boss
36. Magnolia free: “dime piece”—a really hot girl, a “10”
37. “Meh”: I don’t know, but southern people say it a lot.  It’s non-committal
38. Buggy: shopping cart
39. “The business”: sex
40. M’erican: an American
41. “Aess-hole”: asshole