03/19/21 Grif.Net - ABC's of Speaking Southern (part 4)
Robert Griffin
[This week it is J-K-L at which to marvel]
JAWJUH (proper noun). Highly flammable state just north of Florida.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup truck."
JEET (interrogatory). An inquiry of if someone is hungry.
Usage: "Jeet?" "Nah .. didju?"
JUICY (phrase).
Usage: "Juicy the Guff of TEX-ass?"
KILT (verb). Past tense of exterminate.
Usage: "Davey Crockett kilt him a bar when he wuz only three."
KWATTA (noun, adj). One-fourth of something.
Usage: "Put another kwatta in the juke box, Bubba!"
LAIG (noun). A limb or appendage.
Usage: "That there hound dog done bit me in the laig!"
LAR (noun). A dishonest person
Usage: "Lar, lar, paints on far!"
LAY-UMB (noun). A wooly mammal.
Usage: "May-uh-ree had a little lay-umb."
LAYMAN (noun). A tart fruit.
Usage: "Hunny, git me some more of that thar layman aid!"
LEASE (adj). The smallest amount of.
Usage: "Nah, that's the lease of my problems."
LESSON (adv).
Usage: "Ah'm gonna be dead tarred tomorrow lesson I git me some sleep."
LINE (verb). Making untrue statements with the intent to deceive.
Usage: "You knew Bear Bryant? Boy, you line!"
LORE (verb). Allow to descend.
Usage: "Lore that net inta tha water, Bubba!"
LOWERED (noun). A diety.
Usage: "Lowered, bless this pick-up truck."
LOOM-NUM (noun). An element with the same two-letter abbreviation as my beloved home state of Alabama.
Usage: "Hoo-boy! That's some nice loom-num sidin'!"
[credit: “The Southern Word Homepage”, favorite of mine]
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Dr Bob Griffin
"Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!"