"The devil is beating his wife": Dialect maps document U.S.'s many linguistic divides

[pferrin]

Never been ***** faced, but I've been schnockered a time or two back in the day...perhaps lightly toasted...but only on one side.

Here we call being drunk "Drunker that Cuda Brown" the town drunk

Also another saying from the Yankees was "she has her shoes full"

Lol I love the Yankees and married a lovely man from the Bronx or Brooklyn anyway New York City. He had his own dialect. ... Are you talking to me? He was just so cute. MAY he always RIP. I will always love that man.

Sometimes his accent was challenging to understand. He would say "yo" a bunch

 

[pferrin]

Never been ***** faced, but I've been schnockered a time or two back in the day...perhaps lightly toasted...but only on one side.

I have often heard it called "shipped face". Hehe

 

[Justiceforever]

I've heard people refer to being drunk as being "full".

Also, my son's family would say (when they had to use the bathroom), "I gotta use it!" I'd be like, "Use WHAT?" :floorlaugh:

Oh yeah , and having sex was "doin' someone up" :what:

They were from Dyersburg, TN.

 

[pferrin]

Ok a silly story that may bring some nostalgia ... When I was 3 or 4 my granpa was plowing the garden with a mule and he gave me a handful of corn seeds to plant as he worked the field. I made it thru 1and 1/2 rows before I tuckered out and put the rest of the seeds in one hole.

Needless to say in a week or so there was 1 and 1/2 rows of corn and a big ole bush at the end of the half row. Granpa laughed so hard. Lol

 

[wfgodot]

I think the term "tuckered out" is one of my favorite expressions.

 

[oh_gal]

Flicked off = flipped off?

How does that happen?

 

[Justiceforever]

I think the term "tuckered out" is one of my favorite expressions.

Or as Jed would say (on the Beverly hillbillys) "I reckon Jethro's plum tuckered out."

I LOVE me some Beverly hillbilly talk!

 

[pferrin]

I've heard people refer to being drunk as being "full".

Also, my son's family would say (when they had to use the bathroom), "I gotta use it!" I'd be like, "Use WHAT?" :floorlaugh:

Oh yeah , and having sex was "doin' someone up" :what:

They were from Dyersburg, TN.

I will never be able to keep up with today's slang.

 

[oh_gal]

Boy Howdy.

One of my all-time favs.

 

[oh_gal]

My sister (who lives 5 miles from me, and has lived near me all her life), has to get her "earl" changed in her car from time to time.

Where did that come from??

 

[Justiceforever]

Where does slow goin' come from? As in, " This traffic sure is slow goin' '"

 

[my_tee_mouse]

Very interesting. If I am pissed I'm mad as heck and not necessarily drunk.

So if I get drunk, then really mad...am I pissed pissed? Double pissed? Super pissed? Double rope pissed?

Pissed squared? Pissed cubed?

 

[my_tee_mouse]

I've heard people refer to being drunk as being "full".

Also, my son's family would say (when they had to use the bathroom), "I gotta use it!" I'd be like, "Use WHAT?" :floorlaugh:

Oh yeah , and having sex was "doin' someone up" :what:

They were from Dyersburg, TN.

Wow! I'm a Memfus girl born and bred (or so they tell me), and a couple of these are new ones on me!:floorlaugh:

(Oh Lawdy Mercy, I thought "doin' someone up" was getting your hair done!")

 

[my_tee_mouse]

I will never be able to keep up with today's slang.

This is slang?!

 

[my_tee_mouse]

In England, "taking the piss" means taking liberties at the expense of others, or being unreasonable in general.

I think I need to start taking notes.


ETA: Dang! Four posts in a row, dagnabbit, but I needed the amusing interlude, and I thank ya'll for it!

 

[Justiceforever]

Wow! I'm a Memfus girl born and bred (or so they tell me), and a couple of these are new ones on me!:floorlaugh:

(Oh Lawdy Mercy, I thought "doin' someone up" was getting your hair done!")

Don't ask anyone in my son's family to 'Do you up" if you want your hair done! You'll get more than you bargined for! Esp Uncle Ed when he's full! :floorlaugh:

 

[Justiceforever]

Wow! I'm a Memfus girl born and bred (or so they tell me), and a couple of these are new ones on me!:floorlaugh:

(Oh Lawdy Mercy, I thought "doin' someone up" was getting your hair done!")

I've had my hair whipped, but never done up!

 

[my_tee_mouse]

Don't ask anyone in my son's family to 'Do you up" if you want your hair done! You'll get more than you bargined for! Esp Uncle Ed when he's full! :floorlaugh:

:floorlaugh::floorlaugh::floorlaugh:

OK. That snort just downright hurt, dangit!

 

[my_tee_mouse]

I've had my hair whipped, but never done up!

I am afraid to ask.:scared:

 

[pferrin]

This is slang?!

No sugar. I meant doin someone up. To me that means an updo hairdo. Not having sex with someone as stated by another poster.

That is the slang I can't keep up with. To me crack still means a crack in a sidewalk or the road. Or cracking up at a joke.