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> >WEBSTER'S SOUTHERN DICTIONARY, 1ST EDITION
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> > BARD - verb. Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."
> > Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."
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> > JAWJUH - noun. A highly flammable state just north of Florida.
> > Usage: "My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup truck."
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> > MUNTS - noun. A calendar division.
> > Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I aint herd
> > from him in munts."
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> > IGNERT - adjective. Not smart. See "Auburn Alumni."
> > Usage: "Them N-C-TWO-A boys sure are ignert!"
> >
> > RANCH - noun. A tool.
> > Usage: "I think I left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my
> > brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago."
> >
> > ALL - noun. A petroleum-based lubricant.
> > Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup
> > truck."
> >
> > FAR - noun. A conflagration.
> > Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh doesn't change the all in my
> > pickup truck, that things gonna catch far."
> >
> > 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!"
> >
> > TAR - noun. A rubber wheel.
> > Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh doesn't git a
> > flat tar in my pickup truck."
> >
> > TIRE - noun. A tall monument.
> > Usage: "Lord willing and the creeks don't rise, I sure do hope to
> > see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime."
> >
> > HOT - noun. A blood-pumping organ.
> > HOD - adverb. Not easy.
> > Usage: "A broken hot is hod to fix."
> >
> > RETARD - Verb. To stop working.
> > Usage: "My granpaw retard at age 65."
> >
> > TARRED - adverb. Exhausted.
> > Usage: "I just flew in from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms are tarred."
> >
> > RATS - noun. Entitled power or privilege.
> > Usage: "We Southerners are willing to fight for out rats."
> >
> > LOT - adjective. Luminescent.
> > Usage: "I dream of Jeanie in the lot-brown hair."
> >
> > FARN - adjective. Not local.
> > Usage: "I cudnt unnerstand a wurd he sed ... must be from some farn
> > country."
> >
> > DID - adjective. Not alive.
> > Usage: "He's did, Jim."
> >
> > EAR - noun. A colorless, odorless gas (unless you are in LA).
> > Usage: "He can't breathe ... give 'em some ear!"
> >
> > BOB WAR - noun. A sharp, twisted cable.
> > Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence."
> >
> > JU-HERE - a question.
> > Usage: "Juhere that former Dallas Cowboys' coach Jimmy Johnson
> > recently toured the University of Alabama?"
> >
> > HAZE - a contraction.
> > Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah ... haze ignert."
> >
> > SEED - verb, past tense.
> > VIEW - contraction: verb and pronoun.
> > Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City ... view?"
> >
> > HEAVY DEW - phrase. A request for action.
> > Usage: "Kin I heavy dew me a favor?"
> >
> > GUMMIT - Noun. An often-closed bureaucratic institution.
> > Usage: "Great ... ANOTHER gummit shutdown!"
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