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