As y'all you ALL know by now...I am a true, Southern gal lady. Oh yes...I am North Carolina born and bred...and darn quite proud of it. Down here in the South, we do things a bit different from our Yankee Northern neighbors. If you're from the South or have ever been here for a visit...you know what I'm talking about. We just have a different way about us. We have good ole Southern cooking...Southern hospitality...Southern Gospel Music...and our very own, charming Southern slang accent. In the event that you are not familiar with our Southern 'WAYS'...I'll give you a little overview.
Good ole Southern Cooking: Basically any meal that you can imagine...as long as it is served with unlimited refills of sweet tea. (Sweetened with anything other than at least 1 1/2 of pure cane sugar per gallon is NOT sweet tea!)
Southern hospitality: When you go into any store, hair salon or restaurant in the South, be prepared for the cashier, hair stylist or waitress to call you 'Sweetie', 'Darlin', 'Suga', 'Baby'...or (as happens fairly often to my hubby) 'Honeybun'...which is usually followed by "cuz yer just so sweet I could gobble ya right up!" Don't be offended. Don't be shocked...even if the woman making the comment is old enough to be your grandmother. This is the South.
Southern Gospel Music: Where else in the world can you go to a restaurant...that actually used to be a barn...eat ALL the pork products and fried vegetables (including unlimited refills of sweet tea, of course) you can muster (an act of assembling)...while listening to the King's Messengers and other local talent...for only $7.95? Folks...in the South we LOVE to combine eatin' with church!
Southern slang: This is far from being a comprehensive list of Southern words and phrases...but these are a few of my personal favorites.
Ornery - Having an irritable disposition.
EXAMPLE: I stayed out all night, and my wife is ornerier than a pit bull that just lost a fight with an electric fence.
Piddlin' - This is a versatile word...used either as an adjective (small or inferior) or verb (to waste time).
EXAMPLE: A waitress might say, "That sorry, no good customer only left me a piddlin' $1 tip, and I refilled his sweet tea five times." [OR] A mother could gently say to her child, "If you don't stop piddlin' around and get yer room clean...I'm gonna go cut me a switch and burn yer butt up (you'll get a spanking)!"
Egg on - To urge to do something.
EXAMPLE: The reason little Johnny stole that candy bar is cuz his friends egged him on.
Chief Cook and Bottle Washer - A person capable of doing many things.
EXAMPLE: At work, I may be the Executive Vice President of the Marketing Division. But at home, I'm the chief cook and bottle washer.
Tore up from the floor up - Broken beyond recognition or repair.
EXAMPLE: They advert
ised that home as needing a little TLC...but that sucker was tore up from the floor up!
Hankering - A strong or persistent desire or yearning -- often used with for or after.
EXAMPLE: I have me a hankering to go see a movie tonight.
Livin' high on the hog - Living the good life.
EXAMPLE: Don't ya think he's living a little high on the hog buying that there new truck? Now that he bought his new truck, he's a might uppity (think more highly of yourself than you ought) if you ask me.
Okay...Okay...I've got ONE more!
Meddlin' - The act of interfering in another's personal business.
EXAMPLE:
Two elderly, excited Southern women were sitting together in the front pew of church listening to a fiery preacher.
When this preacher condemned the sin of stealing, these two ladies cried out at the tops of their lungs, "AMEN, BROTHER!"When the preacher condemned the sin of lust, they yelled again, "PREACH IT, REVEREND!"
And when the preacher condemned the sin of lying, they jumped to their feet and screamed, "RIGHT ON, BROTHER! TELL IT LIKE IT IS... AMEN!"
But when the preacher condemned the sin of gossip, the two got very quiet. One turned to the other and said, "He's quit preaching and now he's meddlin'."
It's Friday afternoon. You've worked hard all week long.
Take time this weekend to really LIVE, LAUGH and LOVE!
Written and Posted by:
Elizabeth Nieves - Broker, REALTOR®
The Elizabeth Nieves Realty Group @ Keller Williams (A Bilingual Real Estate Team serving Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill NC and surrounding areas.)
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