Words or Phrases From Your Part of America

[Grayfox]

In the South, if a sweet old lady smiles and says 'Well bless your heart!" It ain't a complement.

 

[SaltyMonkey]

“Don’t say I didn’t tell you so.”
“ YaOnYaOn”= You’re on your own.

My dad had a bunch of sayins. To put the fear of God in me and he did, he would say
“ I’m gonna stomp a mudhole in your **** and walk it dry!”

 

[KillerFord1977]

Dont let your alligator mouth overload your hummingbird ass

 

[mikep]

“Don’t say I didn’t tell you so.”
“ YaOnYaOn”= You’re on your own.

My dad had a bunch of sayins. To put the fear of God in me and he did, he would say
“ I’m gonna stomp a mudhole in your **** and walk it dry!”

My dad threatened to, “rip my arm off and beat me with the wet end.”
That was a wake up call for a 10 year old me.

 

[Bassbob]

I can’t repeat a lot of the stuff my dad told me.

One though was “ I brought you into this world boy, I’ll take you out.”

 

[SaltyMonkey]

“I’m so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a skunk.”
“ Grinning like a jackass in a cactus patch.”
Or someone that had a mischievous grin. “ eatin grin”

 

[Talyn]

"Skookum" = Knowledgeable/Experienced

 

[jschmidt]

In Maryland you'll say:

Bawlmer
Amboulance
Warshing machine
Warter,
Ocean Sh**ty and
Down the Shore

 

[powerboatr]

stump water sucker

smiling like a an opossum eating shiit off a barbed wire fence
going to the store DIRECTLY, which could mean sometime in next 24 hrs
a whole bunch more from my black foot indian grandpa that i cannot say here as it will get me in time out
but my irish grandpa...lordy you better sat yourself down rite now,
heard lots of justin wilson growing up

 

[Thrun]

Bubbler - water fountain

Or just listen to anything Charlie Berens says...he's got us down pretty good

That's what I've always called it. A water fountain is something you see spouting water in front of a building

 

[Thrun]

“I’m so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a skunk.”
“ Grinning like a jackass in a cactus patch.”
Or someone that had a mischievous grin. “ eatin grin”

Man, that first one takes me back to my grandpa. He lived most of his life in NC but I'm pretty sure he picked that one up in the army during WWII

 

[papa]

When I was getting on my dads nerves , he would say ," You better go let your pups suck "