Southern Diva

It wasn’t until I traveled outside the South that I realized just how often I say words and phrases unique to the South. We can really string full sentences together comprised of our slang and idioms. Here are ten below, but there are so many more.

1. “Bless your heart” – Another popular phrase is “Bless It”. It is used to express sympathy, empathy, or understanding, or to mock. The intention behind the phrase depends on the person saying it and the situation.
2. “Fixin’ to” – means “about to” or “planning to”.
3. “Something in the milk ain’t clean” – used to describe when something about a situation does not seem quite right.
4. “Hold your horses” or “Hold ya mule” – meaning wait a moment of be patient.
5. “You know what burns by biscuits” – used to describe when something causes annoyance or anger.
6. “Madder than a wet hen” – meaning someone is very angry.
7. “I’ve got the itis” – Used to describe someone sleepy or lethargic after eating a large meal,
8. “Sounding like the Hatfields and the McCoys” – used to convey an increased level of noise and or conflict referencing the historical decades-long feud between the Hatfields and McCoy families (They’ve since called a truce).
9. “If it was a snake, it woulda bit me” – said when someone overlooks something obvious. This was a phrase my mom used to tell me all the time as a child.
10. “He/she was drunk as Cooter Brown” – used to convey the extreme drunkenness of someone.