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Teach us some slang words from wherever you're from.
This challenge is inspired by a series of Youtube videos by Vanity Fair called Slang School where different celebrities teach viewers different slang words from their homeland. So I wanted to see if anyone here had some slang words that they know or have used or have heard of from wherever you live or whatever place you grew up from. Trust me, there's an assortment of slang terms. Try to teach the readers at least 5 to 10 slang terms from your homeland or place that you grew up in and explain the meanings behind those slang terms.
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Southern Slang

What, no Southerners? Well, allow me to present some good ole’ Southern North Carolina colloquialisms.

1- Bless your heart / Ain’t you precious - The polite southern way of saying you try real hard, but you just aren’t the brightest bulb in the box. Or in some cases, you’re just dumb.

2- Britches - Pants

3- Clod-hoppers - Big, clunky, over-sized shoes

4- Colder than a witch’s titty in a brass bra in the middle of January - It’s hell-a cold outside.

5- Slower than mollasses running uphill on a cold day - If you got any slower we’d need to check your pulse to make sure you’re still alive.

6- Fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down (aka - hit with an ugly stick) - You’re just not very attractive

7- lick - A measurement, as in “I was so tired that I didn’t get a lick of work done today”

Or as in an ass-whooping - “My dad gave me a good lickin when I got suspended from school.”

8- poop or get off the pot - Make a choice or get out of the way.

9- Skedaddle - Depart in a hurry.

10- To’ up from the flo’ up - Again, another off-hand way of saying you’re not so pretty. Seems the south has a lot of ways to tell you that you’re ugly.

11- Figure - An unexpected outcome... “He hadn’t figured he’d win the pig wrestling contest at the fair.”

12- Fixin - Getting ready to do something “I was fixin to get ready to go.” Translated literally to, “I was getting ready to get ready to go.”

13- Goober - Double meanings - meaning #1- A peanut. Meaning #2 - A peanut-head/pea-brained/lacking common sense - “I saw that goober tryin to fish in his swimming pool.”

14- Hankering - A strong desire to do or have something. “I got a hankering for a tomato and mayo sandwhich.”

15- Like to - No, it doesn’t mean you’d like to meet Kim Khardasian (bleah). Like to translates to, “I like to have crapped my pants when I saw that bear in the woods.”

16- Purdy - Pretty, as in “You sure do got a purdy mouth” (quote from the movie Deliverance)

17- The South (aka The Southern States) - The states of West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, North & South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Sorry, Florida, no offense, but where I’m from Florida is a state that happens to be in the south where rich yanks go to retire.

18- Yanks - Anyone originally from north of Kentucky and West Virginia, to include parts west to Ohio and Michigan.

19- Reckon - To make an assumption. “Well, I reckon I’ve written enough of these now.”

20- Piddlin - To waste time. “Stop piddlin around reading this and go to work already.”

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