Southern Thangs

ran across these on a fellow southern's cooking website and i though it would be something worth sharing. if your from the south i am sure you have heard most if not all of the following:

A FEW SOUTHERN EXPRESSHUNS:

1. Too lazy to hit a lick at a snake

2. So tired ah’m dead on mah feet

3. Crooked az a dawg’s hind laigs

4. Grinnin’ like a baked possum

5. Fastah than greased lightnin

6. Slow az molasses in January

7. High az a kite

8. Dry az a bone

9. Wild az a buck

10.Blind az a bat

SUTHERN DEFINITIONS

Airish – cool
Biggety – hauty
Buzzard Bait – worn out hoss
Cow grease – buttah
Fahunah – not a native southernah
Hoppin Mad – angry
Jump the broom – marry
Kitchen safe – cupboard
Lunk haid – dumb
Mitey nigh – almost
Marble orchard – cemetary
No a’count – good for nothing
Persnickity – strange or peculiar
Pig Trail – small side road
Rot Gut – bad liquor
Shet – close
Tolerable – feelin pretty good
Well heeled – well off