[Southern slang, or Y’allbonics, as a language to be taught in all Southern schools. The following
are excerpts from the Y’allbonics/English dictionary…]
ALL - (noun) - A petroleum-based lubricant.
Usage: “I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck.”
ARE - (noun) - A colorless, odorless gas containing oxygen.
Usage: “He cain’t breathe ... give ’im some ARE!”
BAMMER - (noun) - The state west of Jawjuh. Capitol is Berminhayam.
Usage: “A tornader jes went through Bammer an’ left $20,000,000 in
improvements.”
BARD - (verb) - Past tense of the infinitive “to borrow.”
Usage: “My brother bard my pickup truck.”
BARE - (noun) - An alcoholic beverage made of barley, hops, and yeast.
Usage: “Ah thank ah’ll have a bare.”
BOB WAR - (noun) - A sharp, twisted cable.
Usage: “Boy, stay away from that bob war fence.”
CHEER - (adverb) In this place.
Usage: “Just set that bare rat cheer”.
DID - (adjective) - Not alive.
Usage: “He’s did, Jim.”
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.”
FARN - (adjective) - Not domestic.
Usage: “I cuddint unnerstand a wurd he sed ... must be from some farn country.”
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.”
GUBMINT - (noun) - A bureaucratic institution.
Usage: “Them gubmint boys shore is ignert.”
HAZE - A contraction.
Usage: “Is Bubba smart?” “Nah ... haze ignert. He ain’t thanked but a
minnit’n ’is laf.”
HEIDI - (noun) - Greeting.
HIRE YEW - Complete sentence. Remainder of greeting.
Usage: “Heidi, Hire yew?”
IGNERT - (adjective) - Not smart. See “Arkansas native.”
Usage: “Them Bammer boys sure are ignert!”
JAWJUH - (noun) - The state north of Florida. Capitol is Lanner.
Usage: “My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck and took it to Lanner.”
JEW HERE - (noun) and (verb) Contraction.
Usage: “Jew here that my brother from Jawjuh got a job with that bob war fence
cump’ny?”
MUNTS - (noun) - A calendar division.
Usage: “My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I ain’t herd from him in
munts.”
RANCH - (noun)- 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.”
RATS - (noun) - Entitled power or privilege.
Usage: “We Southerners are willin’ to fat for are rats.”
RETARD - (verb) - To stop working.
Usage: “My grampaw retard at age 65.”
SEED -(verb) - Past tense of “to see”.
Usage: “I ain’t never seed New York City”.
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.”
THANK - (verb) - Cognitive process.
Usage: “Ah thank ah’ll have a bare.”
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.”
VIEW - Contraction (verb) and pronoun.
Usage: “I ain’t never seed New York City ... view?”
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