Hickophonic to English Dictionary

 

   One of the interesting things to learn about going to the 
south has been trying to understand the conversation which 
goes on around you. I have developed a whole new appreciation 
for language and culture.  
Witness: The Atlanta School Board, sensing that Oakland is 
about to cash in with the "Gummit" by labelling Black slang 
as a language, "Ebonics," has decided to pursue some of 
that endless taxpayer money pipeline through Washington by 
designating Southern slang, or "Hickphonics," as a language 
to be taught in all Southern schools. A speaker of this would 
be a Hickophone.
   Here are excerpts from the Hickphonics-English dictionary:


A:

ABODE: a piece of wood, as "Han me a bode to put on the fire."

AID: noun. what a hen lays

AINTS: noun, insect. He's got aints in his paints

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

ARN: Ma's tard of arnin

ARTERY: The study of painting

AUTO: (should) - "I auto go to work, but ahm tared."

AX: (question) - "Ah ax you this."


B:

BACTERIA: The back door of the cafeteria

BAG: He bagged her to marry him

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!"

BALKS: (a square thaing) - like a "match balks"

BAMMER: noun. The state just west of Jawjuh.  Capital is 
        Berminhayum. Usage: "A tornader jes went through 
        Bammer an' left $20,000,000 in improvements."

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

BARE: noun. An acloholic beverage made of barley, hops, 
      and yeast.  Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a bare."

BARIUM: What the doctors do when patients die 

BARN: (hatched) - "I was barn in nineteen forty and three."

BIT: A wager as in, "I bit you can't spit that watermelon
     seed across the porch longways."

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

BOWEL:   A letter like A, E, I, O, or U

BRAID: (lot braid) - what you eat when u'ins outta biscuits.

BRESH:  He had a bresh with the law, and the law won.

BUB:  the light bub burned out

BYTE:  First word in a kiss-off phrase.


C:

CAESARIAN SECTION: A neighborhood in Rome 

CAD: (to tote) - "I cad ma bride over the threshold."

CAT SCAN: Looking for Fluffy

CAUTERIZE: Made eye contact with her 

CHEER: (whut you sit on) - Pull up a cheer and set down.

CHINY:  country over in Asia

CHUCH DUDS:  Sunday go-to-meetin clothes

CLUM:  he sure clum that tree fastern any 'coon

COLIC:   A sheep dog

CORE:  He got hisself a new Ford core

CRICK:  a small stream

CURSOR: What some guys do when they are mad at their wife 
        and/or girlfriend.

CYOW:  Animal on Farm


D:

D & C: Where Washington is

DAINZ:  Satidy night social

DEPPITY:  He helps out the shurf

DID: (not alive) - as "He's did."

DIGITAL CONTROL: What yore fingers do on the TV remote.

DRIBBED:  He dribbed milk on his shirt


E:

EAR: noun. A colorless, odorless gas (unless your'e in LA).
     Usage: "He cain't breathe ... give 'im some ear!"

ELLUM:  A graceful tree

ENEMA: Not a friend


F:

FAINCE:  Whats round the hawg lot

FANGER:  what you put your rang on

FAR: A burnin' pile of sticks.

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

FAT: noun, verb.  1. a battle or combat.  2. to engage in 
     battle or combat. Usage: "You younguns keep fat'n, n' 
     ah'm gonna whup y'all."

FLAR:  a rose is a purdy flar

FLOPPY: When you run out of Polygrip.

FRASH:  them aigs ain't frash

FUSSED: Whut comes before second?

FURINERS:  All non-'bamans

FURRED:  He got furred from his job


G:

GENITAL: Not a Jew

G.I. SERIES:   A soldiers' ball game 

GRAIN:  She was grain with envy

GULL: A young female human.

GULLY WORSHER:  a medium heavy rain

GUMMIT: Noun. A bureaucratic institution. Usage: "Them gummit 
        boys shore are ignert."


H:

HAIL:  where bad folks go

HANGNAIL: A coat hook

HARD:  got a brend new hard hand

HARD DRIVE: Trying to climb a steep, muddy hill with 3 flat 
            tires and pulling a trailer load of fertilizer.

HAZE: a contraction. Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah ... 
      haze ignert. He ain't thanked but a minnit 'n 'is laf."

HEAVEN: (having) - A'm heaven some folks in foah dinnah.

HEAVY DEW: phrase. A request for action. Usage: "Kin I heavy dew 
           me a favor?  Go bah me that Linnerd Skinnerd tape"

HEIDI: noun.  Greeting.

HEP: Poor George, he can't hep it, he was born with a silver 
     spoon in his mouth.

HERN:  It aint hern, it's his'n

HILLBILLY:  People in the next county

HIRE YEW: Complete sentence.  Remainder of greeting.  
          Usage: "Heidi. Hire yew."

HOD: adverb. Not easy. Usage: "A broken hot is hod to fix."

HOLLAR:  whats between the hills

HOT: noun. A blood-pumping organ.


I:

ICE COOL: A school for younguns befoe college.

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

IMPOTENT:   Distinguished, well known 


J:

JAWJUH: noun. A state just north of Florida.  Capital is 
        Lanner. Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my 
        pickup truck."

JEW HERE: Noun and verb contraction. Usage: "Jew here that 
          my brother from Jawjuh got a job with that bob 
          war fence cump'ny?"


K:

KEYBOARD - Place to hang your truck keys.


L:

LABOR PAIN: Getting hurt at work

LAIG:  Most folks have two of them

LAN: To borrow as in, "Hey Delbert! LAN me yore truck."

LATHER:  what you climb up

LAYMAN:  a sour fruit

LIBERRY:  where you go to check out books for larnin

LOT (undark) - "Jeannie with the lot-brown haar."


M:

MAILK:  what you get from cyows

MEDICAL STAFF:  A doctor's cane

MERE:  what you see your self in

MINNERS:  Live bait

MISRUS:  Married Woman

MODEM: how you got rid of your dandelions.

MUNTS: noun. A calendar division.  Usage: "My brother 
       from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I ain't 
       herd from him in munts."


N:

NAR:  Opposite of wide

NAYK:  Your head sets on it

NETWORK: Activity meant to provide bait for your trot line.

NITRATES: Cheaper than day rates

NODE: Was aware of

NUP:  NO


O:

ORREL:  Them hinges need orrel

ORMY:  What the sojers go in

OUTPATIENT: A person who fainted


P:

PACKET: What you do to a suitcase or Wal-Mart bag before a trip.

PAINTS:  what cha put on your laigs of a mornin

PANK:  a light red color

PAP SMEAR: A fatherhood test

PARCH:  sit out on the parch and watch the grass grow

PELVIS: Elvis' nickname

PETITION:  What separate the rooms

PIN: Whut you keep hawgs in....a hawg pin.

POKE:  a paper bag or sack

POKEY:  what the shurf and deppity puts crimnals in

POP:  a soft drink

PUPPET:  what the preacher is in

PURDY:  She is purdy as a pitcher

PURT NEAR:  almost; he purt near caught that greased pig


R:

RAH CHEER:  I was born rah cheer in town

RAINCH:  A big cow farm

RANCH: noun. A tool used for tight'nin' bolts. Usage: 
       "I thank I left my ranch in the back of that pickup
        truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago."

RANG:  you wear it on your fanger

RAT CHEER: (not there)....(Here) - Like "Lay it rat cheer."

RAT:  Do it rat now!

RATS: noun. Entitled power or privilege.  Usage: "We 
      Southerners are willin' to fat for are rats."

REBOOT: What you do when the first pair gets covered with
        barnyard stuff.

RECOVERY ROOM: A place to do re-upholstery 

RECTUM: Dang near killed `em

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

ROM: Delicious when you mix it with coca cola.

ROONT:  She plum roont her shoes

RUT:  that there tree sure has long ruts


S:

SALARY:  A stringy vegetable

SEED: verb, past tense of see.

SEIZURE: A Roman emperor

SHAR:  A light rain

SHURF:  The Shurf put Clem in jail

SKEERED:  that plumb skeered me to death

SOARDEENS:  small canned fish

SPRANG:  Water out'n the ground

SQUARSH: noun. A vegetable (also verb - to flatten). Usage: 
         "Warsh that squarsh...you don't know where its been!

STORCH:  this here aprn has to much storch in it

STOW: A place that sells stuff.


T:

TABLET: A small table

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

TARRED: adverb. Exhausted.   Usage: "I just flew in from 
        Lanner and boy my arms are tarred."

TERMINAL ILLNESS: Getting sick at the airport 

THANK: verb. Ability to cognitively process. Usage: "Ah 
       thank ah'll have a bare."

THO:  tho me the ball

THOAT:  I shore got a sore thoat

THUD: what comes after second?

TIN-SIN-STOW: (5 & 10) "Let's go to the tin-sin-stow."

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

TUMOR: A total of at least three


U:

URINE: Opposite of you're out

V:

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

W:

WAR: a bobbed war faince

WARSH: verb. To clean.

WARTER:  what you worsh your face in

WORSH:  go worsh your face


Y:

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

YURP:  a continent overseas


 THE UNITED STATES:

 Taixas - Texas
 Ole Missipi - Mississippi 
 Alabamr - Alabama
 Jawjaw -Georgia
 Flawda - Florida
 South Calinah -South Carolina
 Nawth Calinah - North Carolina
 Virginny - Virginnia
 Caintuck - Kentucky
 New Yawk - New York




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