Helpful redneck dictionary

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A collection of common redneck terms and usage from the southerner's dictionary.

AH: The thing you see with, and the personal pronoun used denoting individuality.
Usage:"Ah think Ah've got somethin' in mah ah."

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

ARTERY: The Study of Paintings

AST: To interrogate or inquire, as when a revenue agent seeks information about illegal moonshine stills.
Usage:"Don't ast me so many question. It makes me mad."

ATTAIR: Contraction used to indicate a specific item of desire.
Usage:"Pass me attair gravy, please"

AWL: An amber fluid used to lubricate engines.
Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts awl in my pickup truck."

BACKUP: What you do when you run across a skunk in the woods

BAMMER - (noun) - The state west of Jawjuh. Capitol is Berminhayam.
Usage: "A tornader jes went through Bammer an' left $20,000,000 in improvements."

BAR CODE: Them’s the fight’n rules down at the local tavern.

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

BARIUM: What you do when CPR Fails.
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BAHS: - noun. A supervisor.
Usage: "If you don't stop reading these Southern words and git back to work, your bahs is gonna far you!"

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

BAWL: What water does at 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
Usage:"That gal cain't even bawl water without burnin' it."

BIT: A wager as in, "I bit you can't spit that watermelon seed across the porch longways."

BLEEVE: Expression of intent or faith.
Usage:"Ah bleeve we ought to go to church this Sunday."

BOBWAR: - noun. A sharp, twisted cable.
Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence.

BYTE: What your pit bull done to cousin Jethro

CENT: Plural of cent.
Usage:"You paid five dollars for that necktie? Ah wouldn't give fiddy cent for it."

CESEAREAN SECTION: A District in Rome

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

COCA-COLA: The soft drink that started in Atlanta and conquered the world.
Usage:"Ah hear they even sell Coca-cola in Russia."

COLE'S LAW: Thinly shredded cabbage

COLIC: A sheep Dog

CYST: To render aid.
Usage:"Can Ah cyst you with those packages, ma'am."

DAYUM: A cuss word Rhett Butler used in "Gone With the Wind."
Usage:"Frankly,my dear, I don't give a dayum."

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

DILATE: To live long

EAR: - noun. A colorless, odorless gas (unless you are in LA).
Usage: "He can't breathe ... give 'em some ear!"

EVERWHICHWAYS: To be scattered in all directions.
Usage:"You should have been there when the train hit attair chicken truck. Them chickens flew everwhichaways.
One way, misdirection, can't go back

FAR: - noun. A conflagration.
Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh doesn't change the all in my pickup truck, that things gonna catch far."

FARN: - adjective. Not local.
Usage: "I cudnt unnerstand a wurd he sed ... must be from some farn country."

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

FESTER: Quicker
Usage: I'll bet that Leroy is Fester than you are.

FLARES: The colorful, sweet-smelling part of a plant.
Usage:"If yo wife's mad at ya, it's smart to take her some flares."

FUR: Because of or to indicate possession.
Usage:"Fur yew ta get attair new car yew gotta go see Bubba bout a loan."

GOOD OLE BOY: Any Southern male between age 16 and 60 who has an amiable disposition and is fond of boon companions, strong drink, hound dawgs, fishin', huntin', and good lookin' women, but not necessarily in that order.
Usage:"Bubba's a good ole boy."

GRIYUTS: What no Southern breakfast would be without - grits.
Usage:"Ah like griyuts with butter and sawt on'em, but Ah purely love'em with red-eye gravy."

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

GUMMIT: - Noun. An often-closed bureaucratic institution.
Usage: "Great ... ANOTHER gummit shutdown!