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A hated local expression is the way overused 'over yonder'. Never ask where something is in central Alabama....
I do like the 'It's slap your momma good!' expression.
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As nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs
As busy as a one-legged man in an ass-kickin' contest
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As nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
As busy as a one-legged man in an ass-kickin' contest.
Love em! (I've heard the former as a long-tailed cat). Also:
As nervous as a reverend in a cathouse.
As busy as a one-armed wallpaper-hanger.
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Another local word that makes me chuckle is 'youngun'. I recently had a baby and frequently get asked 'how's the youngun' doin'?'. While growing up in Illinois I never thought I'd have a 'youngun'.
There are a couple of odd terms that I've learned since working in manufacturing realm....don't know if they are southernisms or just plain slang.
1) Pisser - word used for a trim squirt (a high pressure stream of water used to cut a trim off a paper machine.
2) Peckerhead - word for a junction box on a motor (this is where the wires from the motor connect to the pump)
Nothing like being female in a male-dominated industry surrounded by peckerheads.
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Hi Chemeng: Without giving away too much of the plot, the "English passengers" are three men travelling to Tasmania in the mid-1800s because one of them (a clergyman) believes the Garden of Eden was actually in Tasmania. The novel is narrated by some 20 characters of whom one is the ship's captain who, like his crew, is a Manxman.
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Gob is also coarse slang for mouth in England
and in northern Ireland (and also Glasgow, I think) a foul-mouthed person is sometimes referred to as "a gob-shite."
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As nervous as a reverend in a cathouse.
Or, as I've heard it recently, the converse:
Sweating like a hooker in church.
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