For the sake of a Laugh Southern (South speak) to English dictionary:
* HEIDI (noun) — Greeting.
* HIRE YEW (noun with verb) — Complete sentence. Remainder of greeting.
Usage “Heidi, hire yew?”
* BARD (verb) — Past tense of the infinitive “to borrow.”
Usage “My brother bard my "pick up truck.”
* JAWJUH (noun) — The state north of
Florida. Capitol is Lanner.
Usage “My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck.”
* BAMMER (noun) — The state west of Jawjuh. Capitol is Berminhayum.
Usage “A tornader jes went through Bammer an’ left $20,000,000 in improvements.”
* MUNTS (noun) — A calendar division.
Usage “My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I ain’t herd from him in munts.”
* THANK (verb) — Cognitive process.
Usage “Ah thank ah’ll have a bare.”
* BARE (noun) — An alcoholic beverage made of barley, hops and yeast.
Usage “Ah thank ah’ll have a bare.”
* IGNERT (adjective) — Not smart. See ”
Arkansas native.”
Usage “Them bammer boys sure are ignert!”
* RANCH (noun) — A tool used for tight’nin’ bolts.
Usage “I thank 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 don’t change the all in my pickup truck, that thing’s gonna catch far.”
* TAR (noun) — A rubber wheel.
Usage “Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don’t git a flat tar in my pickup truck.”
* TIRE (noun) — A tall monument.
Usage “Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise, I sure do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime.”
* RETARRED (verb) — To stop working.
Usage “My grampaw retarred at age 65.”
* 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.”
* RATS (noun) — Entitled power or privilege.
Usage “We Southerners are willin’ to fat for are rats.”
* CHEER (adverb) — In this place.
Usage “Just set that bare rat cheer.” .
* FARN (adjective) — Not domestic.
Usage “I cuddint unnerstand a wurd he sed. Must be from some farn country.”
* DID (adjective) — Not alive.
Usage “He’s did, Jim.”
* ARE (noun) — A colorless, odorless gas. i.e., oxygen.
Usage “He can’t breathe. Give ‘IM some ARE!”
* BOB WAR (noun) — A sharp, twisted cable.
Usage “Boy, stay away from that bob war fence.”
* JEW HERE (noun and verb) — Contraction.
Usage “Jew here that my brother from Jawjuh got a job with that bob war fence cump’ny?”
* HAZE (noun and verb) — Contraction.
Usage “Is Bubba smart?” “Nah … haze ignert. He ain’t thanked but a minnit’n is laf.”
* SEED (verb) — Past tense of “to see.”
Usage “I ain’t never seed
New York City.” VIEW (pronoun and verb) — Contraction Usage “I ain’t never seed
New York City. View?”
* GUBMINT (noun) — A bureaucratic institution.
Usage “Them gubmint boys shore is ignert.”
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