Southern United States to English Dictionary

BARD - verb. Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."
Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

JAWJUH - noun. A highly flammable state just north of Florida. Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck."

MUNTS - noun. A calendar division. 
Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I aint herd from him in munts."

IGNERT - adjective. Not smart. See "Auburn Alumni."
Usage: "Them N-C-TWO-A boys sure are ignert!"

RANCH - noun. A tool. 
Usage: "I think I left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago."

ALL - noun. A petroleum-based lubricant. 
Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck."

FAR - noun. A conflagration. 
Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh doesn't change the all in my pickup truck, that things gonna catch far."

Y'ALL - noun. A degree of rotation. 
Usage: "There are three degrees of Southern rotation: Pitch, Roll, and Y'all."

BAHS - noun. A supervisor. 
Usage: "If you don't stop reading these Southern words and git back to work, your bahs is gonna far you!"

TAR - noun. A rubber wheel. 
Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh doesn't git a flat tar in my pickup truck."

TIRE - noun. A tall monument. 
Usage: "Lord willing and the creeks don't rise, I sure do hope to see that Eifel Tire in Paris sometime."

HOT - noun. A blood-pumping organ.  HOD - adverb. Not easy. 
Usage: "A broken hot is hod to fix." 

RETARD - Verb. To stop working. 
Usage: "My granpaw retard at age 65."

TARRED - adverb. Exhausted. 
Usage: "I just flew in from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms are tarred."

RATS - noun. Entitled power or privilege. 
Usage: "We Southerners are willing to fight for out rats." Southerners have very friendly rats ... in fact, you could almost say that we have some downright civil rats.)

LOT - adjective. Luminescent. 
Usage: "I dream of Jeanie with the lot-brown hair."

FARN - adjective. Not local. 
Usage: "I cudnt unnerstand a wurd he sed ... must be from some farn country."

DID - adjective. Not alive. 
Usage: "He's did, Jim."

EAR - noun. A colorless, odorless gas (unless you are in LA). 
Usage: "He can't breathe ... give 'em some ear!"

BOB WAR - noun. A sharp, twisted cable. 
Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence."

JU-HERE - a question. 
Usage: "Juhere that former Dallas Cowboys' coach Jimmy Johnson recently toured the University of Alabama?"

HAZE - a contraction. 
Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah ... haze ignert."

SEED - verb, past tense. VIEW - contraction: verb and pronoun. 
Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City ... view?"

HEAVY DEW - phrase. A request for action. 
Usage: "Kin I heavy dew me a favor?"

WARSH - verb. To clean. SQUARSH - noun. A vegetable (also verb - to flatten). 
Usage: "Warsh that squarsh, Bubba ... you don't know where its been!" "Bubba, Squarsh that bug!"

GUMMIT - Noun. An often-closed bureaucratic institution. 
Usage: "Great ... ANOTHER gummit shutdow!"