Redneck Dictionary

[DrivingMissLazy]

Since a lot of you are apparently going to Jacks get together this winter, and since many of you may be from the northern parts of the country, I am providing a dictionary that may help in your talks with Jack and some of the other good ole boys.

1)    HEIDI - (noun) - Greeting

2)    HIRE YEW - Complete sentence.  Remainder of greeting.  Usage: "Heidi, hire yew?"

3)    BARD - (verb) - Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow".  Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

4)    JAWJUH - (noun) - the state north of Florida.  Capitol is Lanner. Usage:  "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck and took it to
Lanner."

5)    BAMMER - (noun) - the state west of Jawjuh.  Capitol is Berminhayam. Usage:  "A tornader jes went through Bammer an' left $20,000,000 in improvments."  (Correction:  Capitol is Montgomery - thanks, G. MacCrone!)

6)    MUNTS - (noun) - A calendar dvision. Usage:  "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I ain't herd from him in munts."

7)    THANK - (verb) - Cognitive process.  Usage:  "Ah thank ah'll have a bare."

    BARE - (noun) - An alcoholic beverage made of barley, hops and yeast. Usage:  "Ah thank ah'll have a nutter bare."

9)    IGNERT - (adjective) - Not smart.  See "Arkansas native".  Usage: "Them Bammer boys shore are ignert!"

10)    RANCH - (noun) - A tool used for tight'nin' bolts.  Usage:  "Ah thank ah left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago."

11)    ALL - (noun) - A petroleum-based lubricant. Usage:  "Ah shore hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck."

12)    FAR - (noun) - A conflagration.  Usage:  "If my brother from Jawjuh don't change the all in my pickup truck, that thang's gonna catch far."

13)    TAR - (noun) - A rubber wheel. Usage:  "Gee, ah hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don't git a flat tar in my pickup truck."

14)    TIRE - (noun) - A tall monument.  Usage:  "Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, ah shore do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime."

15)    RETARD - (verb) - To stop working.  Usage:  "My grampaw retard at age 65."

16)    FAT - (noun and verb) - A battle or combat; to engage in battle or combat.  Usage:  "You younguns keep fat'n, n' ah'm gonna whup yuh."

17)    RATS - (noun) - Entitled power or privilege.  Usage:  "We Southerners are willin' to fat for are rats."

18)    CHEER - (adverb) - In this place.  Usage:  "Jest set that bare rat cheer."

19)    FARN - (adjective) - Not domestic.  Usage:  "I cuddin't unnerstan a wurd he sed... mus be from some farn country."

20)    DID - (adjective) - Not alive.  Usage:  "He's did, Jim."

21)    ARE - (noun) - A colorless, odorless gas containing oxygen.  Usage: "He cain't breath ... give 'im some are!"

22)    BOB WAR - (noun) - A sharp, twisted cable.  Usage:  "Boy, stay away from that there bob war fence."

23)    JEW HERE - (pronoun and verb) - Contraction.  Usage:  "Jew here that my brother from Jawjuh got a job with that bob war fence cump'ny?

24)    HAZE - (pronoun and verb) - A contraction.  Usage:  "Is Bubba smart? Nah...haze ignert.  He ain't thanked but a minnit'n 'is laf."

25)    SEED - (verb) - Past tense of "to see".  Usage:  "Ah ain't never seed Noo Yawk City."

26)    VIEW - (verb and pronoun) - Contraction.  Usage:  "Ah ain't never seed Noo Yawk City ... view?"

27)    GUBMINT - (noun) - A bureaucratic institution.  Usage:  "Them gubmint boys shore is ignert."

28)    FIXIN' - (verb) - Preparing to.  Usage:  "Ah's just fixin' to do that now."

[Nick Badame Refrig/ACC]

Richard, [Blue Collar Comedy man]

Ya al bring yur diction ary whichyaditchya....

My mutter is gotttin angry at you, cause uaint respectin daway I talkin....

Well, I reccon it'sa time ta reports ta ma new job. [Fixin pickemup trucks]

Gots ta go, da wicksked haags yackin ats me.

[TomC]

Ya myte nos yous a ridnick if y'all tauk bout crack en da mens pulls up der pants!

[JackConrad]

When talkin' to a southerner or redneck, remember that "Ya'll" is singular, "All of Ya'll" is plural.  Jack

[DrivingMissLazy]

I have to believe that 90% of the people I talk to here use #13.
Richard

[Runcutter]

Although I live in Texas now, I'm originally from New England.  So, I qualify to request a little equal time with the following conversation, typical of the Boston area.  Translation follows:

Jeet?
No, Jou?
No, S'go.

Translated:

Have you eaten yet, sir?
No, in fact I haven't.
Actully, I haven't eaten either, so shall we proceed?

Arthur Gaudet   Carrollton, TX

[gumpy]

This is funny.

My kids and I give my wife a lot of crap about her southern drawl. One day she actually said a complete sentence in one word. Actually, it was mostly just a bunch of consonants all strung together. Not many vowels in it.

What was scary was we both understood what she said! 

[DrivingMissLazy]

A few more that are used here in rural WV a lot are:

Woncest= once
Twicest = two times
Tar= tire
Crick= creek
kettle(s)= pots & pans
Stewer= pots & pans

[Ncbob]

When talkin' to a southerner or redneck, remember that "Ya'll" is singular, "All of Ya'll" is plural.  Jack

If that's so, Jack, what tense is "Yu'un's"?

NCbob

[Dallas]

When talkin' to a southerner or redneck, remember that "Ya'll" is singular, "All of Ya'll" is plural.  Jack

If that's so, Jack, what tense is "Yu'un's"?

NCbob

Bob, It's a regional term from Missouri and Northern Arkansas, spelt, "You'uns."

My stepdad has used it from time imemmorial. Although he's only a few years older than you, (he's in his late 80's), he hails from the Show Me State, and as we like to tell him, his home town was "Constipation, Missery." He grew up looking at the used grass end of a fresh grass intake mammal.

[Ncbob]

That might be the origin, Dallas, but they sure use it a lot around here in the Mountains.

The couple who bought our former home are now friends and occasionally I get a note from her.  She writes beautiful poetry of a Christain nature and when she writes a note she uses yu'un's.  It ain't cultrue shock..it's just the way the mountain folks are.

NCbob

[Lee Bradley]

Just a side note. Saw a TV show a while back that traced these speech patterns back to England; where they still speak the same way.

[Jeremy]

You shouldn't believe everything you hear on TV!

Jeremy

PS. Actually, whilst I genuinely don't recognise any Anglo Saxon in any of these speech patterns, there are certainly some strong parallels with the West Indian language and dialect; in the fairly recent past (ie. post war) there have been strong West Indian communities in some areas of Britain, although those communities are disappearing now through intermarriage and reduced immigration.

[Nick Badame Refrig/ACC]

Guy's, Guy's Guy's,

That Dialect is Derived From Rocky Mountain Water......That's a Fact...Not Fiction!...I think....

On a recent trip to Kentucky, I was drinking some local water and I instantly started saying "Ya'll" as I was choking on the worm....

Nick-

[bubbaqgal]

You guys are talkin' about me, ya know.  I'm a rednik from way back and ya gotta larn how to keep the pig in a poke.  I've fout many a guy over pikin at me bout my talkin.  I'll whup eny body that caint talk rite like we'uns.  Cat