| I know that a few of you will be heading South for a
summer vacation and a few of you may encounter some Southerner's across
the Mason Dixon line. I thought that I would write and update everyone
on a few Southerism's. Of course this ain't
all of em'
Sweetea This
is a glass of tea with sugar. Never add granulated sugar to cold tea, it
won't melt. If you can't get it to the tea pitchur
while it's hot, then you need to make sugar water to sweeten the tea.
Not green tea, mint tea, or flavored tea, just loose leaf or tea bag
tea. Most folks prefer a lemon wedge, not lemon flavored tea.
Sugar Water 2 parts sugar to 1 part water,
boiled until sugar melts and then cooled.
Sugar, Shug, Sweetie, Honey
terms of endearment
Pitchur This is what you mix
tea or a iced drink in. Preferably glass but plastic is ok.
Cat Head Biscuit A hand mixed, hand pressed, homemade
biscuit, about the size of a cat's head.
Greens Can be turnip, collards, spring mix or
spinach.
Taters Potatoes that can be fried, mashed,
boiled, steamed or cooked with meat.
Poke Salad A leafy green weed with a thick stem
that has to be boiled, then mix in with some eggs and scrambled with a
little vinegar.
Fridgedaire Refrigerator
Hen Fruit Eggs
Cow Juice Milk
Grits Ground corn, eaten hot with lot's of
butter
Jam, jelly, preserves Goes on a cat head
biscuit
Sweet tater to be rubbed down in bacon grease
and baked until tender
Biscuits & Gravy self explanatory, gravy is
white in the a.m. and brown in the p.m.
Red Eye Gravy made from ham drippings
Drippings left over grease from fried meat used
to rub down sweet taters, add to beans while you cook them, all around
flavor enhancer
Buttermilk used to make biscuits, drink with
cornbread, or to keep delicate skin from freckling
Ya'll, yawl, you'all
Means more than one, heard in the deep south.
Yun's, you'uns Means more than one, heard in
the southern mountains
Yung'un's children
Naked You have your clothes off
Nekkid You have your clothes off and are up to no good.
Up to no good Something you are doing that you can't
tell your momma
Fixin Going to do something
Clum Description used to describe climbing up a
tree and then climbing down.
Reckon To consider or think
Ill To act hateful of mean "Ill as a
hornet"
Act ugly To misbehave
Coon Huntin hunt raccoons
Coon Hound very expensive dog used to tree a
raccoon
Tree a coon get a raccoon up a tree
Tap A Tree when a raccoon jumps from tree to tree
Crick, Branch, Spring bodies of water
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