From the Internet TourBus:
In each of my TOURBUS posts, I try to include a
"Southern Word of the Day." Here is a list
of all of the Southern Words so far.
7/13/95
BARD - verb. Past tense of the infinitive "to
borrow."
Usage: "My brother bard my pickup
truck."
7/20/95
JAWJUH - noun. A highly flammable state just north of Florida.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup
truck."
7/27/95
MUNTS - noun. A calendar division.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and
I aint herd from him in munts."
8/3/95
IGNERT - adjective. Not smart. See "Auburn
Alumni."
Usage: "Them N-C-TWO-A boys sure are
ignert!"
8/10/95
RANCH - noun. A tool.
Usage: "I think I left my ranch in the back of that
pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts
ago."
8/17/95
ALL - noun. A petroleum-based lubricant.
Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in
my pickup truck."
8/21/95
FAR - noun. A conflagration.
Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh doesn't change the all
in my pickup truck, that things gonna catch far."
8/24/95
Y'ALL -- noun. A degree of rotation.
Usage: "There are three degrees of Southern rotation:
Pitch, Roll, and Y'all."
9/1/95
BAHS - noun. A supervisor.
Usage: "If you don't stop reading these Southern words
and git back to work, your bahs is gonna far you!"
9/14/95
TAR - noun. A rubber wheel.
Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh
doesn't git a flat tar in my pickup truck."
TIRE - noun. A tall monument.
Usage: "Lord willing and the creeks don't rise, I sure
do hope to see that Eifel Tire in Paris sometime."
9/19/95
HOT - noun. A blood-pumping organ.
HOD - adverb. Not easy.
Usage: "A broken hot is hod to fix."
9/26/95
RETARD - Verb. To stop working.
Usage: "My granpaw retard at age 65."
10/12/95
TARRED - adverb. Exhausted.
Usage: "I just flew in from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms
are tarred."
10/19/95
RATS - noun. Entitled power or privilege.
Usage: "We Southerners are willing to fight for out
rats."
(Today's Southern Word comes from a school teacher in America's
southern most state: Hawaii. As part of her class' study of the
"War of Northern Aggression" (known to
Yankees at the "Civil War"), she showed her
class the movie Gettysburg. The students wondered why the Confederacy
was fighting for their "rats." The answer,
of course, is obvious: Southerners have very friendly rats ... in
fact, you could almost say that we have some downright civil
rats.)
10/26/95
LOT - adjective. Luminescent.
Usage: "I dream of Jeanie in the lot-brown
hair."
11/2/95
FARN - adjective. Not local.
Usage: "I cudnt unnerstand a wurd he sed ... must be
from some farn country."
(Special thanks goes to Alan Ross Goddard for today's
"wurd")
11/9/95
DID - adjective. Not alive.
Usage: "He's did, Jim."
(Special thanks goes to Todd Bratcher for today's
"wurd")
11/13/95
EAR - noun. A colorless, odorless gas (unless you are in LA).
Usage: "He can't breathe ... give 'em some
ear!"
11/16/95
BOB WAR - noun. A sharp, twisted cable.
Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war
fence."
(Special thanks goes to Annabel Henley for today's wurd).
11/23/95
JU-HERE - a question.
Usage: "Juhere that former Dallas Cowboys' coach Jimmy
Johnson recently toured the University of Alabama?"
(Special thanks goes to my dad, the Rev. Bob
"Bob" Crispen, for today's wurd).
12/05/95
HAZE - a contraction.
Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah
... haze ignert."
(Special thanks goes to Jack Dohme for today's wurd)
12/12/95
SEED - verb, past tense.
VIEW - contraction: verb and pronoun.
Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City ...
view?"
(Special thanks goes to Jack Dohme for today's wurd)
12/19/95
HEAVY DEW - phrase. A request for action.
Usage: "Kin I heavy dew me a favor?"
(Special thanks goes to Marilyn Sallee for today's wurd)
01/02/96
WARSH - verb. To clean.
SQUARSH - noun. A vegetable (also verb - to flatten).
Usage: "Warsh that squarsh, Bubba ... you don't know
where its been!"
(Special thanks goes to Barb Fogg for today's wurds)
01/11/96
GUMMIT - Noun. An often-closed bureaucratic institution.
Usage: "Great ... ANOTHER gummit
shutdown!"
(Special thanks goes to Rick Snyder for today's wurd)
01/18/96
JUICY - Contraction. A question.
GUFF - Noun. A deep chasm.
Usage: "Juicy the Guff of Mexico?"
(Special thanks goes to Donna Griffin and Owen O'neil for today's
wurds)
01/25/96
MARKINS - Noun. Citizens of the United States.
Usage: "My fellow Markins..."
(Special thanks goes to Larry O'Glasser for today's wurd)
01/27/96
PROSS - Noun. The value or cost of an item.
Usage: "That there prom dress sho is purty, but it is
not worth the pross."
(Special thanks goes to A. Bo Cooley for today's wurd)
02/08/96
PARAMOUR - Noun. An automated device for cutting grass.
Usage: "What kinda deal you gonna make me on that
paramour?"
(Special thanks goes to Michael S. Borries for today's wurd)
02/15/96
RICE - Noun. A contest of speed.
Usage: "Y'all going out to Talledega to see the
rice?"
(Special thanks goes to John Munroe for today's wurd)