It's time to "P" on the fire and put out the dog! means it's time to sleep!
Acknowledge the corn: To admit the truth; to confess; to acknowledge one's own obvious lie or shortcoming.
Almighty: Huge
Afeared: Afraid
Afore: Before
Agin: Against
Aim: Intend
Ain't: Is not
Air-Up: Admit, confess
Algerine: Pirate
All creation: All nature, all wrath: everything or everybody
All in Three years: Something goes awry
All sh** and no sugar: No fun
Arkansas Toothpick: Large knife
Anglo: White person
Arkansawyer, Arkansan, Arkie: A resident or native of Arkansas.
Argie: Argue
Arroyo: A small valley or gulch, usually with a flat bottom
Ask no odds: Ask no favor.
Backards: Backwards
Bait: A quantity of food. Example: "We ate ourselves a bait of collard greens"
Baited for widow:Used to refer to men,especially if they are sharply dressed for purposes of finding and courting women.
Bam, Bamma, Bammy: Alambama
Bark Juice: Liquor
Been through the mill: Done a lot, wore out
Big blow: Hurricane
Biggo: Big and old. Example, I was standing in the barnyard when a biggo horsefly came and buzzed around my head.
Bile: Boil
Bite the bullet: to stand firm under attack, stick to one's guns (1850's).
Blackleg: A gambler or a swindler.
Blow on him: Tell on him
Blowhard: Braggart
Bluebellies: Union Soldiers
Blue Mass: Men on sick call; named after blue pill.
Bluff: Cheater
Boss dog: The head person or person in charge as in "top dog"
Bothered up: Disturbed or agitated
Bread Bag: Haversack.
Bread Basket: Stomach
Brevet Eagle: Turkey
Brevet Horse: Mule
Brung: Brought
Bub: a fellow or guy
Buck and Ball: A close range musket load having 3 large buckshot bound on top of a .69 calibre, smooth bore musket ball, encased in paper.
Buckaroo: a cowboy. It dates at least from a letter from Texas circa 1827 ("peons and bukharos"].
Buckskin: A Virginian
Bug juice: Whiskey
Bugtussle, Bugtown, Bughill, Bugtressle, Bugscuffle.: A rural or rustic place; an insignificant town.
Buzzard: An elderly male, usually single, who is regarded as less than desirable.
Carryings-on: Frolicking, partying, etc.
Cattycorner/catercorner: diagonally across a square [1700's).
Chicken bossom: Chicken breast, you never say "breast" in mixed company.
Chicken Guts: Officer's gold braiding on his cuff.
Chief Cook and Bottle Washer: Jack of all trades.
Chirk: Cheerful (also means chirp or chirpy)
Chum: intimate companion, crony.
Conniption fit: a fit of violent emotion Cumberland dialect
Copperhead: A northerner against Mr. Lincoln's war.
Dang: Damn
Daid: Died
Devil is beating his wife: Saying that is used when the sun is shining, yet it is raining
Didje: Did you
Draw your furrow straighter: Tell the truth
Druthers: Preferences.
Egg on: To urge someone to do something
well I reckon that there should be enuf for ya!: means my fingers are tired!
2006-06-25 05:22:16
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answered by Jo 6
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Do you mean "kick the bucket".... i.e. die? Hmmm... other American expressions...... "piece of cake" or easy, "take a hike" or go away, "that blows" or that stinks/ not cool. "You best bust a cap in his *** fo' dissin' you like dat, Homie!" which means 'You should shoot him for insulting you like that'. Need anymore.. just "holla @ cho gurl" or.... just lemme (let me) know! K?
2006-06-25 05:07:50
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answered by Brit 1
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'Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining!' (I don't believe you)
'Kiss my grits' (kiss my ***)
2006-06-25 10:08:33
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answered by h0kiegal 5
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