Words Lost Over Time or Just Used Locally

[dvldog]

I don't hear "Gallivant" anymore.

That show was cancelled I think

 

[dayhiker]

Dear friend of mine - landscaper like me - recently passed away from pancreatic cancer. Very sad...only in his 50's and one of the best humans I have ever known.

He used to use the word 'tote" when referring to bringing something from one place to another.

He's the only one I ever heard use that word.

That was a common usage where I grew up in NW Alabama.

 

[GrayTide]

In the SC low country, people used to say, when wanting to see an object some one had "let me hold it".

 

[GrayTide]

Old folks home
Sugar diabetes

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Old folks home
Sugar diabetes

Yes, my mother used it and finally developed it...

 

[Tide1986]

I love all the code words for swearing. My grandaddy would say, "I sewanee", instead of "I swear".

 

[Chukker Veteran]

When I was young I used to work summers with two old black guys that worked for my Dad...general maintenance on properties and moving furniture and such.

They were rural, old school types, neither could read. Both would give you the shirt off their back. Solid gold guys I had known all my life.

Whenever I would do something that would jinx them, they would say "Boy, I ain't stuttin' you."

 

[TIDE-HSV]

I love all the code words for swearing. My grandaddy would say, "I sewanee", instead of "I swear".

Mom pronounced it more like "I swanny." Also - doggone it, rotten on it, dadgummit, etc. Incidentally, some of these expressions date back to colonial times...

 

[Aledinho]

"Toboggan" for a hat.

 

[Relayer]

Dear friend of mine - landscaper like me - recently passed away from pancreatic cancer. Very sad...only in his 50's and one of the best humans I have ever known.

He used to use the word 'tote" when referring to bringing something from one place to another.

He's the only one I ever heard use that word.

When I was in the Boy Scouts you had to earn your Totin' Chip card before you were allowed to carry (or use) a knife, hatchet, or other such tool.

I think they still have that.

 

[Relayer]

Remember when a really long time was "a month of Sundays" or "forty forevers" ?

 

[danb]

Mom pronounced it more like "I swanny." Also - doggone it, rotten on it, dadgummit, etc. Incidentally, some of these expressions date back to colonial times...

My grandma and mom used to pronounce it "I swanny" also, and would occasionally say the other sayings. My dad otoh, would never beat around the bush when he was upset, and often made up some interesting sayings that would be "non TideFans" approved for me to list!!


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[4Q Basket Case]

When I was young I used to work summers with two old black guys that worked for my Dad...general maintenance on properties and moving furniture and such.

They were rural, old school types, neither could read. Both would give you the shirt off their back. Solid gold guys I had known all my life.

Whenever I would do something that would jinx them, they would say "Boy, I ain't stuttin' you."

For those not familiar with the usage, that's the phonetic pronunciation of, "studying."

As in, "I'm not studyin' on you."

Translation: "You're actin' a fool. I'm no longer paying you any attention."

 

[formersoldier71]

Mom pronounced it more like "I swanny."

My Grandmother said that.

She would also say, "I'll be John Brown!"

 

[formersoldier71]

Deader than Hector's pup.

 

[GrayTide]

Tin foil
"Rabbit Ears"
Jr. High

 

[PattheCatinSaudi]

Happier than a dead pig in the sunshine
Can you carry me to the store?
I believe I've got it all figured out.
Put on your Sunday clothes
Don't be ugly to your sister!
Crazier than Cooter Brown
He's got more money than Carter has little liver pills
We're cookin' with gas now! (Things are going great)
Crazy as a Betsybug
Goin' to hell in a hand basket
Workin' from can to can't
Cut off the lights
Doohicky (anything you can't remember the name of)

 

[cbi1972]

Gadzooks

 

[DzynKingRTR]

It is colder than a welldigger's destination.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

My Grandmother said that.

She would also say, "I'll be John Brown!"

I had a fifth grade teacher who would use a variation of this when she'd gotten "fed up" with us talking while she was talking. She would call us up to her desk, pull out a ruler and as she was poppin' our hand would say "I'll be John Smackums Brown Mule if you gone sit-up in here and run yo mouth while I'm running mine."