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

[pferrin]

One of our sayings was "Son of a biscuit eater"

 

[my_tee_mouse]

I'm not sure what that gesture means, but if someone was to do that to me, I'd think "They want to hump my leg?" :floorlaugh: :floorlaugh: :floorlaugh:

Snort!!!

Yes, oh_gal I remember that gesture! My grade school teachers used it a lot.

 

[my_tee_mouse]

One of our sayings was "Son of a biscuit eater"

Yes!!! Yes!!!!!!

 

[my_tee_mouse]

Can't really claim this one as purely southern because I've just recently heard "other folks" use it, but:

You're a hoot!: "You are belly-wobblin', knee-slappin', nose-snortin', drink-spewin', britches-wettin' funny as all get-out." OR "Man! You beat all I've ever seen!"

 

[Elley Mae]

Can't really claim this one as purely southern because I've just recently heard "other folks" use it, but:

You're a hoot!: "You are belly-wobblin', knee-slappin', nose-snortin', drink-spewin', britches-wettin' funny as all get-out." OR "Man! You beat all I've ever seen!"

Reading that made me think of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt9lErsLafw

It's a hoot

 

[pferrin]

Instead of "go ahead" we say "gord head"
Bolognie, aigs, taters, maters, naners(bananas)

Mom always said Hiwayah(Hawaii)

 

[my_tee_mouse]

Reading that made me think of this.

Wild Women of Whippoorwill - YouTube

It's a hoot

:floorlaugh::floorlaugh::floorlaugh: Breathe :floorlaugh::floorlaugh::floorlaugh:

That is intend a hoot!!! And hy-larious to-boot! :floorlaugh::floorlaugh::floorlaugh:


And pferrin, we have "aigs" around here too!!! lol

 

[pferrin]

:floorlaugh::floorlaugh::floorlaugh: Breathe :floorlaugh::floorlaugh::floorlaugh:

That is intend a hoot!!! And hy-larious to-boot! :floorlaugh::floorlaugh::floorlaugh:


And pferrin, we have "aigs" around here too!!! lol

Boy Howdy.

 

[pferrin]

4 lane. A highway that has 4 or 5 lanes but not an interstate. Here we have a highway 70 ..it is a 2 lane but it goes north south east and west. Ya gotta be very specific which highway 70 you want someone to drive.

 

[ATasteOfHoney]

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First place - only place, maybe - I heard it was in one of my favorite movies: "Local Hero," with Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster. I adopted it forthwith and it's been in my vocabulary ever since, waiting for the occasion to justify it. I have no idea what it literally means; perhaps nothing. It's sense is all in the sound it makes maybe, and the impossibility of the act involved. But its usage is definitely in the context of "not pleased"!

Well, when you think of it visually and literally, "pissing up a rope" is an act in vain because gravity brings it back down.

Therefore, I think the expression denotes a useless, futile, nonsensical act.

moo

 

[Dewey2Me1MoThyme]

Instead of "go ahead" we say "gord head"
Bolognie, aigs, taters, maters, naners(bananas)

Mom always said Hiwayah(Hawaii)

My best friend back home always said "dough head" :floorlaugh: and people would think he was saying go ahead and thank him. :floorlaugh:

 

[wfgodot]

Well, when you think of it visually and literally, "pissing up a rope" is an act in vain because gravity brings it back down.

Therefore, I think the expression denotes a useless, futile, nonsensical act.

moo

Yes! Sort of a "pissing in the wind" thing. But with rope.

 

[pferrin]

I was riding with a southern coworker one day and we passed and we passed a young woman jogging on the sidewalk. His statement was " it looks like 2 bulldogs fighting in her drawers.

Years later it might look like 2 bulldogs fighting in my drawers from behind. Lol

Also one that I heard on occasion was that someone was lower than whale poppie

 

[AlwaysShocked]

Oh, no, pissing in the wind would have much more dire consequences than pissing up a rope. 'Cause the wind would maybe blow that wetness back all over you. Whereas, depending on what the rope is made of, it could possibly absorb the wetness. Seriously.

And speaking of the wind, how about "three sheets to the wind" for being inebriated? The origin of that one I do know. The "sheets" are the sails on a sailboat. With three sheets up in a wind, the boat would be at an angle to the water. Leaning over, so to speak. As a drunk person might do.

And in England, "being pissed" = "being drunk"

Last but surely not least, in the history of medicine there were once (long, long, long ago) "Pisse Prophets". They were medicine men who gathered the urine of a patient, took it outside and dumped it on the ground. Then they waited to see if any ants came to it. If the ants gathered, the patient was indeed sick. (Diabetes mellitus is what it is called today. Glucose accumulates in the urine.)

 

[Dewey2Me1MoThyme]

I was riding with a southern coworker one day and we passed and we passed a young woman jogging on the sidewalk. His statement was " it looks like 2 bulldogs fighting in her drawers.

Years later it might look like 2 bulldogs fighting in my drawers from behind. Lol

Also one that I heard on occasion was that someone was lower than whale poppie

BBM: I've heard lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut

When one is very busy we use "Busier than a one armed paper hanger"

For those who are thinking challenged, "If brains were trains he'd be going nowhere fast"

For someone who is extremely lazy my dad would say "they are too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work"

One day a young man of about 23 came to our house to chat, or should I say brag. They were opening a large building supply store in the nearby town. He said he knew he was going to get a job there because of all the experience he had. He then went on to list a long resume' of who he had worked for in the past, what he did, and claiming to be an expert in all fields. When he finally got done explaining why he is so sure of landing a job there, I looked him in the eyes and said "So, what you are saying is, you can't hold a job" He decided to go visit my neighbours after that. :floorlaugh:

 

[tlcya]

being drunk equals being ***** faced here

also toasted, or schnockered

 

[Dewey2Me1MoThyme]

Oh, no, pissing in the wind would have much more dire consequences than pissing up a rope. 'Cause the wind would maybe blow that wetness back all over you. Whereas, depending on what the rope is made of, it could possibly absorb the wetness. Seriously.

And speaking of the wind, how about "three sheets to the wind" for being inebriated? The origin of that one I do know. The "sheets" are the sails on a sailboat. With three sheets up in a wind, the boat would be at an angle to the water. Leaning over, so to speak. As a drunk person might do.

And in England, "being pissed" = "being drunk"

Last but surely not least, in the history of medicine there were once (long, long, long ago) "Pisse Prophets". They were medicine men who gathered the urine of a patient, took it outside and dumped it on the ground. Then they waited to see if any ants came to it. If the ants gathered, the patient was indeed sick. (Diabetes mellitus is what it is called today. Glucose accumulates in the urine.)

BBM: We call that a newfoundland shower back home. :floorlaugh:

 

[my_tee_mouse]

being drunk equals being ***** faced here

also toasted, or schnockered

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

 

[Show Me]

Oh, no, pissing in the wind would have much more dire consequences than pissing up a rope. 'Cause the wind would maybe blow that wetness back all over you. Whereas, depending on what the rope is made of, it could possibly absorb the wetness. Seriously.

And speaking of the wind, how about "three sheets to the wind" for being inebriated? The origin of that one I do know. The "sheets" are the sails on a sailboat. With three sheets up in a wind, the boat would be at an angle to the water. Leaning over, so to speak. As a drunk person might do.

And in England, "being pissed" = "being drunk"

Last but surely not least, in the history of medicine there were once (long, long, long ago) "Pisse Prophets". They were medicine men who gathered the urine of a patient, took it outside and dumped it on the ground. Then they waited to see if any ants came to it. If the ants gathered, the patient was indeed sick. (Diabetes mellitus is what it is called today. Glucose accumulates in the urine.)

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?

 

[wfgodot]

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