You know of course Sheeet is not found on a bed right?
Oh heavens yes.
I dated a young thang from the Great State for a couple of years before meeting wooing and marrying Mrs. Chas.
She schooled me in many facets of the lanquage, including special pronunciation such as:
Chile - Pronounced like 'Child' without the 'd.' Means any person of any age.
Rot - Opposite of Left.
Stars - things that take you from floor to floor in a building.
Heeya- where you currently are, as in "Get yer butt over heeya Rot now"
Pious - as in "Please pious the grits Heeya honey'chile"
Sheet - see above
Fanger - digit on one's hand, as in, "You best not be pointin' your dang fanger over heeya.."
And then she taught me a whole range of new and exciting words and phrases:
hissy fit - state of extreme agitation. Not a pretty site...very common on some spa boards.
eat up ( or sometimes 'et up') - eaten up, destroyed, oxidized. Also: consumed by jealousy as in, "He was et up by the fact that Chas didn't respond to his hissy fit.
fess up - admit to something.
fit to be tied -really upset.
fixins - special food; the rest of the meal, excluding the main dish.
fixin' ta - getting ready to do something.
fix - a tight spot, as in, "With the revelations of his brother, he's in a real fix now."
frog-strangler - an extraordinary amount of rain.
galoot - Non-friendly. Sometimes used to describe an irascible character who may actually be admired, as in, "Terminator is such a dad-gum galoot."
go ahead on - "You go ahead, I'll catch up later."
go to the house - go in for dinner/supper.
gully-washer -an extraordinary amount of rain. Not to be confused with "Gully Warsher" which would be the Midwest Version.
howdy - How do you do?
lit out - took off, started out, or absconded across some terrain. As in - Mike yelled at the would-be spa thieves, fully expecting they would have lit out by then.
looker - a pretty girl. My gf at the time was one of these.
maverick - a loner, an independent cuss, wild.
norther -a storm; not as bad as a blue norther.
nu-uh - no. Most common response from Texas women.
ole cuss - My former gf is most likely one of these now.
over yonder - a directional phrase meaning "over there." May or may not be combined with a quick, barely noticeable jerk of the head in no particular direction.
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