ADDLED...Tongue-tied or confused: Them's purely addled when hasta speak.

AIMING...Planning to do, maybe: Ahhs aiming to fix that step, cum first rainy day.

ALL FIRED: Very: She's all fired het up..

A NEED'N SHEWS....Formal event: I'd gone cept a need'n shoes to come.

AFIXIN...Getting ready: Ize afixin to go uptown way

AFORE...Before

AHANKERN....Wanting after or needing: Ize ahankern fer house corn.

AIR...there: Right purt dog ya got air./there are: Air sartin all uns caint cum.

A-PARE...Seems nothing down-ear, allus up-air.

BIGGETY...Cocky or show-off:

BULL FROG WALLOW....Flooded farm field

BIDDABLE...Tractable, manageable worker: Hank's biddable, drunk or sober

CANDLES TIME...Twilight: Come candles he's aready hugg'n feathers.

CAINT....Cannot or often will not. Ah caint cum wiz yuz all.

CHIMBLY....Chimney: atAir chimbly got sartfied fahr, cummn twixt the brick.

CLUM...Climb or climbed: A'fore he clum tha hill

COMING UP A CLOUD...Getting ready to rain or storm.

CORN FED....Pampered or spoiled: He wuz corn fed and never sweated.

COUNTRY MILE....Any long distance:

CRACK A'DAY...Dawn:

CUB TRYING TO BE A BEAR...Rushing adulthood, presuming to be ready:

CUZZIN....Everyone who haint a stranger.

DIRTY UP...Get dirty: Ah feered you'd dirty up afore church.

DOINS...A social function or gathering. Ah mussed th doins, afore she wuz sartfied smart. (before she graduated)

DRINKN POND WATER...Thirsty: I be drinking pond water soon.

D'RECKLY....To the point: Brother Peters dreckly sez Hell is filln up

EATN COBS....Starving, no food: They's poor and eatn cobs.

EAT'N HIGH ON THE HOG... Eating fancy or good:

EGG'N ON....Nagging or urging action:

EVER...Always: He wuz ever egg'n me on.

EVERWHICHWAY...In all directions at once or in a confused state:

FALL'N OUT...A lasting disagreement. As opposed to "ticked me"

FAVORS...Resembles or looks like:

FEISTY.... Contrary or argumentative: Well haint you feisty?

FETCH....bring

FETCHN'S ...What you brought:

FIRST LIGHT....Dawn or daybreak:

FIXEN...Preparing: Ize fixen to get ticked to you.

FRET....To worry:

GANDER TORDS ..Take a look at:

GET GONE...Take off: I'd better get gone.

GET ABOUT...Function or move around: Too sweated to get about.

GIVE OUT....Exhausted: I be plumb give out.

GOLLY'D....Commiserated together or expressed surprise: We golly'd ore his

skalla waggin afore he cum.

GULLY WARSHER...Hard rain, a sartfied frog strangler

HAINT...n. A scary or haunted place.

HAINT...v. I have not: I haint askeered.

HANKERIN...A desire or want: Ize hankering fir iced water

HALOOD... Hollered loudly: Sow belly sizzled, and Mammy halood

HISN...Taint mine, its:

HET UP...Angry or upset:

HOLLER...A valley big enough to holler over:

HOUSE CORN...Sweet corn, as opposed to field corn:

HUGGING FEATHERS...In bed, asleep:

KEERED...Cured/also Liked: Nary keered for tootn' o'r a fiddle.

KISS'N FROGS...Girls flirting: She skeedaddled offen town, kissn frogs.

LEFT'M SNUFFING HEEL DUST: Ran off, hurriedly: They's had guns, ah left'm snuffing my heel dust.

MONDAY HOLY....Hypocrisy:

MOTHER WIT...Common sense: He's a lack'n mother wit.

MOUNTAIN OYSTERS....roasted pig testicles: Bellyfull of mountain oysters and hush puppies.

NARY...None or never:

NEKKID...Nude: Nekkid as a plucked hen/rooster (what fits)

NO ACCOUNT....Worthless:

NOODL'N...Catching caved catfish by hand:

NOWD...Knew: He nowd the words but fergits their mean'n.

PARTS....Neighborhood: What parts you from, cuzzin?

PEAKED...Sick or sometimes, nervous:

PECKERED...Pregnant or big family: She peckered young and nary quit.

PEEL'N SPUDS...Married: Tother day he wuz agaggling and noodling and now he's a-peel'n spuds.

PIDDL'N....Insignificant or less than deserved:

PIZEN....Poison:

POKE....Paper bag:

PRIT NEAR....Almost, (pretty near done):

PURELY....Totally, without dissent:

RIGHT...Accenuated or Very: His wife's right purt, his'n young air clock stoppn ugly

ROASTNERS....Ears of corn for Roasting.

SARTFIED...For certain or authentic: Now airs a sartfied

SARTIN...Certain

SCRAGGLY TAILS....Need haircut: took my scraggly tails to town

SEED....Past tense of saw:

SHED...Took off or got rid of.

SKEERED SHEETLESS....Really scared!: He's skeered sheetless

SKEEDADDLED....Beat it: Mammy sooey'd yet the pigs skeedaddled.

SHUCKING CORN....Getting things done: They's a talking but I wuz shucking corn.

SIMPLES...Befuddled or puzzled: Yer letter set me simples.

SMARTS...Hurts: It be broke, it shore smarts.

SOMMERS...Somewhere: She's a hid'n here sommers.

SPELL...Undefined period of time: Haint rained, nary a drap, since cum Sattiday

SQUEEZINS...Likker from pressings. Ya bury a jug in corn silage, fer great corn squeezins.

SMIDGIN...The tiniest amount added: Ye draps in a smidgin of

SWEATED...Worked hard. I sweated munts fir thot heap o'wheels..

SOOOEYED: Hallooed loud, for pigs:

TAINT:  Food not fit to eat or drink.

TIT SQUISHER...Dairyman, or someone keeping a cow:

TICKED ME...Made me angried.

TECHED....Crazy or mentally unstable:

TOTHER DAY.... Not today: I seed him tother day

USN'S... We:

WEEZ....We gathered here: Weez about to eat, keer to sop a plate?

WINDER....Window:

YALL...You all

YONDER...Over there:

YOUNGUNS...Children:

YOUS or YUZ...All of you: I be jin'n yuz air.

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