Southern Expression Really Old.

djohns6 · May 27, 2025

Don't none of ya'll come down here and say Pee-cans . People gonna start whispering to each other about you .
And another doggone thing , we don't have any Crayfish , or crawdads either . Gary , help me out on this ..

Mostly Good · May 27, 2025

Watchin a well fed woman in tight pants walk away, "Like two coons fightin in a burlap sack."

Vettepartz · May 27, 2025

"Behind every successful woman is a successful behind"

rwsmith · May 28, 2025

AJ said:
My family has lived in the South from 1745 until today. Started in Onslow County, NC and ended up in Vero Beach, Fla. since 1918. Never really heard them use "southern colloquialisms".

Coastal Florida towns aren't full of southerners.

rwsmith · May 28, 2025

I don't know how 'old' this euphemism is but LOTS of southern women say about a guy, "He's a MESS" where most men would simply say, "He's a real *******!"

swsig · May 28, 2025

Ugly as a mud fence.

swsig · May 28, 2025

rwsmith said:
I don't know how 'old' this euphemism is but LOTS of southern women say about a guy, "He's a MESS" where most men would simply say, "He's a real *******!"

The expression I've heard here in Texas is, "He's/She's a hot mess."

decuerno · May 28, 2025

djohns6 said:
In South Louisiana you'll hear a few people refer to a Crappie but most people call it a Sacalait . Pronounced Sack-uh-lay .

I always heard it “Crop-pee” and “Sock-O-Lay”

My Arkansas “Grand-Maw” would resolve a disagreement with “Well… I guess your pot is blacker than mine!”

A “shivver” up her spine would be announced “A possum’s run over my grave”

My Army Air-Corps Dad would criticize the mustache’s and beards us teen-agers tried to grow with the need to “stand a little closer to the razor.”

His Mother, when accepting an invitation to go out to eat would try to announce that she wanted to pick up the “tab” …and when Dad would reply “No… WE’re taking YOU out!”… Grandmother (we called her grandmother…but called my Mother’s Mom “Grand-Maw”)…. Grandmother (who had attended “Miss Fine’s Finishing-School with Pres. Wilson’s daughters) would reply that if she couldn’t pick up the “tab” ..then she was going to have “Wind-pudding with Air-Sauce”

4BODIDDLEY · May 28, 2025

My Grandmother got mad at me one day (or more) and said:

You're ass is grass and I'm gonna be the lawnmower!

kimporter · May 28, 2025

.38SuperMan said:
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.

I’m old enough to remember scenes like that,remember the smell of those old stores

kimporter · May 28, 2025

One I always liked was “that’ll bring a tear to a glass eye”,meaning something super sad

rwsmith · May 28, 2025

djohns6 said:
Don't none of ya'll come down here and say Pee-cans . People gonna start whispering to each other about you .
And another doggone thing , we don't have any Crayfish , or crawdads either . Gary , help me out on this ..

What do ya'll have there? Mudbugs? And a friend sent us a picture of a pea-can.

djohns6 · May 28, 2025

rwsmith said:
What do ya'll have there? Mudbugs? And a friend sent us a picture of a pea-can.

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Crawfish .

.38SuperMan · May 28, 2025

kimporter said:
I’m old enough to remember scenes like that,remember the smell of those old stores

My grandfather and I used to walk down the alley behind his house to Main Street and on the corner was an old 1800 wooden building with simulated brick tarpaper siding. He’d take me in and set me on one of the burlap bags filled with feed and I’d listen to my grandfather and his old buddies talk politics. To this day I love the smell of burlap and feed. It brings back great memories.

16thVACav · May 29, 2025

"Fair to middlin'"

MOONDAWG · May 29, 2025

Yawoango!
Do you want to go!

L I B!
Well, I’ll be!

Widyadidja
He went “with you did he”?

My Dad’s favorite about taking responsibility for your actions.

“You bought that little wagon, now pull it”.

rwsmith · May 30, 2025

djohns6 said:
Crawfish .

How about craydads?

cndrdk · May 30, 2025

Y'all need to stop making fun of southern expressions, or "I'll show you the what for"!

djohns6 · May 30, 2025

rwsmith said:
How about craydads?

Uummmm....no .

TX-Dennis · May 30, 2025

Those mini lobsters were always crawdads when I was growing up. Just as any small sunfishes - bluegill, redear, pumpkinseed, etc. were perch.

Boy, Ima give you a whoopin your grandkids'll fill.

That ol boy was so tight he'd hang hay up in a tree and just let his sheep get a whiff of it.

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