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| 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." Back |
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