Country-speak

[john250]

http://www.dailyyonder.com/rural-langua ... 08/22/7495
I regard the Daily Yonder as insufferably liberal, but this one is pretty good. We've talked old time sayings before on here. And it was interesting. My mother, now 89, surprised me once by stating that a woman we knew casually was "driving her chickens to a poor market" when she married a man mom did not approve.
So, got any good country speak?

 

[greybeard]

Yeah, but I can't post them all now, cause I'm stove up.

 

[john250]

:lol2:

Yeah, but I can't post them all now, cause I'm stove up.

:lol:

 

[Shanghai]

She don't know if she is washing or hanging out

 

[Shanghai]

He landed on his head and scattered his chickens

 

[Shanghai]

She's spent too much time sitt'n the milk stool (to describe a women with a wide rear end)

 

[greybeard]

Heard my grandmother say this about some wannabe socialite in our home town:
She just acts highfalutin--I'd like to buy her for what she's worth and sell 'er for what she thinks she is.

 

[tamarack]

My dad used to say about something taste bad " had to lick cats arse to get taste out of my mouth"

 

[greybeard]

Nearly 100 views but only a few participants? Must be lots of people just reading.
"Hey, you boys gonna jump in here and help out or just sit around like a bucket of stale pizz all night?"

 

[Chuckie]

My Grandmother always said, "We are going to eat dreckly." Or, "I'll be over at your house dreckly."

 

[tamarack]

I don't know if this is country speak but does anyone else remember when mom or grandma would stand on the step waving a dish towel and whooping that suppers ready.

 

[greybeard]

My Grandmother always said, "We are going to eat dreckly." Or, "I'll be over at your house dreckly."

Mostly mine would point that crooked old finger at me and scowl, saying "I'll get your good eye boy!!"

50 years later, I still don't know what that meant and never want to find out.
dang ol witch

 

[tamarack]

If we had dislikes at meal time my grandmother would say do without supper and then " Your proud guts will come to, by tomorrow"

 

[hillsdown]

My mom never cursed and still doesn't but when she got PO'd she would always say "horse feathers" .

I guess I was feeding my doll one time in her high chair when I was about 4 yrs old and made the doll say 'but mommy you gave me too much " I replied "horse shytt I did " apparently my dad said that quite often and never got the feather memo :lol: .

I am sure I use country speak to my nephew according to him . I will ask him tomorrow what unusual phrases I say and post them . Bet y'all say them too . ;-)

 

[Chuckie]

Hillsdown, when they got through with you, could you have applied for a job at the Lawrance Welk show? (blowing bubbles) :lol2:

 

[Chuckie]

greybeard, I bet you were a mean little kid with her wanting to poke you in the eye! :lol2:

 

[hillsdown]

Hillsdown, when they got through with you, could you have applied for a job at the Lawrance Welk show? (blowing bubbles) :lol2:

I think my mom was speechless as it was quite unexpected , and she says that after the shock she had quite a good laugh (after scolding me of course). ;-)

I think my punishment was making me watch the Lawrence Welk show .

Btw I am related to him by marriage , he is married to my cousins cousins husband or something . :lol:

 

[trappersteve]

My grandma always said when you snitched on a cousin "boy you need tend to your own knitting" . I still don't get into other peoples problems I got enough of my own

 

[wv mud river]

pert near. its pert near dark

 

[greybeard]

greybeard, I bet you were a mean little kid with her wanting to poke you in the eye! :lol2:

I gave what I got towards her.
I "did" get up in the middle of the night when she stayed with us in the winter, (she came riding in on her broom according to my Dad) and I'd sneak over and turn her electric blanket controls down a couple of notches when she wouldn't let us listen to the ball games on radio or watch any TV because "I have to watch my programs--yall know that" (soap operas).