Southern Slang
ARE-pronoun.
     Possessive of "we" used as a predicate adjective.

BAHS-noun.
     A supervisor.
     Ex: "If you don't stop reading those Southern words and git back to work, your bahs is gonna far you!"

BARD-verb.
     Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."
     Ex: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

BOB WAR-noun.
     A sharp, twisted cable.
     Ex: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence."

DID-adjective.
     Not alive.
     Ex: He's did Jim."

FAR-noun.
     A conflagration.
     Ex: "If my brother from Jawjah don't change the oll in my pickup truck, that things gonna catch far."

FARN-adjective.
     Not local.
     Ex: "I cuddint understand a wurd he sed...must be from some farn country."

HEIDI-noun.
     A greeting.

HIRE YEW-complete sentence.
     Remainder of greeting.
     Ex: "Heidi, Hire yew?"

JEW HERE-noun and verb contraction.
     Ex: "Jew here that my brother from Jawjah got a job with that bob war fence cump'ny?"

MUNTS- noun.
     A calendar division.
     Ex: "My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup truck, an I ain't herd from him in munts!"

RETARD-verb.
     To stop working.
     Ex: "My grampaw retard at age 65."

TARRED-adverb.
     Exhausted.
     Ex: "I just flew in from Atlanta, and boy my arms are tarred."

TIRE-noun.
     A tall monument.
     Ex: "Lord willin' and the crick don't rise, I sure do hope to see that Eifel Tire in Paris sometime."

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