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Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Speech in Mississippi
Green’s Dictionary of Slang ^ | 1893 | H.A. Shands

Posted on 12/10/2023 10:21:38 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom

From H.A. Shands "Speech in Mississippi" published in 1893:

Page 70: All-overs. n. A term employed by all classes to mean a feeling of extreme annoyance or vexation; as, ‘That man is so trifling it gives me the all-overs to look at him.’

Page n.p.: Brief. adj. Used by negros to mean nice, elegant. I once heard a negro tell a young man who had dressed up to go to see his sweet-heart: ‘Boss, you sho looks brief.’

Page 24: Consarned. v. This is a favorite expletive among the lower classes of whites. They say: ‘I’ll be consarned if it ain’t so.’

Page 27: Dropped his bait-can. v. A negro expression meaning made a mistake.

Page 32: Get up and dust, v. An expression, used mainly by negroes, meaning to leave in a great hurry, to go away swiftly. This expression occurs also in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Page n.p.: Lebenty-lebem. n. Negro pronunciation for eleventy-eleven, an expression for an indefinitely great number. Also eleventy-eleven.

Page 30: Flugins, n. ‘It is as cold as flugins.’

Page 43: Lickskillet, n. Used by illiterate whites to mean a contemptible or detestable person.

(Excerpt) Read more at greensdictofslang.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: colloquialisms; mississippi; sayings
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

Both accurate

7th gen Magnolia State native here


21 posted on 12/10/2023 1:36:26 PM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: ken in texas

😎


22 posted on 12/10/2023 1:38:32 PM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

There is a clear distinction amongst southerners from Amarillo to Wilmington and Lexington to Everglades City insofar as dialects and vernacular

Mid south versus Deep South

Appalachian versus Country versus southern accents

I can tell Deep South educated class drawl instantly versus mid south of the same class

Country accent is similar all over here

Texas has a more teeth together country sound except in the park cities or Alamo heights etc


23 posted on 12/10/2023 1:40:31 PM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: wardaddy
ETON MESS is delicious and easy to make.

Every state and and even areas inside each state has their own slang. And some of it goes all the way back to the first people who cane here in Colonial Days.

I'm not certain IF it is still true, but at one time, American Elite boarding schools had their own slang and it didn't matter WHERE they were situated; it was the same. And it didn't matter WHERE the kids came from, nor their race, it was "BOARDING SCHOOL SLANG" ! LOL

24 posted on 12/10/2023 2:01:19 PM PST by nopardons
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To: wardaddy

I wasn’t born there, but in an Army hospital, but my father was, and we go back seven generations there, too. Direct descendents of a Revolutionary War veteran who settled there sometime before 1809 when the town was founded.

Until my grandfather’s generation, all dirt farmers, by the way, who sometimes had to depend on those aquirrels for meat on the table. :-)


25 posted on 12/10/2023 3:10:37 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I like how Johnny Depp, in his more verbose roles, gets away with ad-libbing over written script because his contributions are just better. Like in Pirates: At World’s End his men captured Will Turner and he said “”Send this pestilent, traitorous, cow-hearted, yeasty codpiece to the brig.”, perfectly illustrating my English teacher’s admonition that the English language is too rich with appropriate insults to lazily rely on cursing.


26 posted on 12/10/2023 4:10:57 PM PST by MikelTackNailer (What should we hang from the branches this holiday season?)
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To: wardaddy

You’re too humble, as I saw you correctly identify exactly where people came from time and again based on their accents and speech patterns alone. Like an X-Man know one knows how to utilize.


27 posted on 12/10/2023 4:27:57 PM PST by MikelTackNailer (What should we hang from the branches this holiday season?)
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To: PAR35; ProtectOurFreedom
Cajun Louisiana instead of Mississippi, but “Make Groceries” -going to the store to shop for groceries. Just looked it up and apparently it’s from the French “faire son marché”.

I wonder if "put together a cake" (bake a cake) has Cajun origins too.

28 posted on 12/10/2023 4:48:33 PM PST by thecodont
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

My family mostly farmers with few slaves usually just a family of them

East Mississippi

My wife fam were gentry

10,000 acre cotton plantation

Politically strong

Barksdale killed at Gettysburg

Course lost it all


29 posted on 12/10/2023 5:11:28 PM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

Reach in the poke and get out ya’s fixin’s to roll a smoke. Where I keeps the tabackey.


30 posted on 12/10/2023 8:50:47 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: MikelTackNailer; wardaddy

“You’re too humble, as I saw you correctly identify exactly where people came from time and again based on their accents and speech patterns alone.”

My father had that same ability with Southern accents, it was uncanny. Maybe it’s a skill of Mississippi’s native sons. I have a very slight Tidewater accent from my Virginia youth but wardaddy managed to spot its telltale sign. 99.9% would never notice it at all.


31 posted on 12/11/2023 2:47:34 PM PST by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: Pelham

My dads bestie

His VMI roomie from Richmond

Ran American Filtrona (worlds largest cig filters maker)for years as ceo then chairman

He had distinct “out” accent

I absorbed the sound

It’s a dead tell of lower Virginia folks if out sounds like a sharp “house” sound


32 posted on 12/12/2023 7:49:31 AM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
“Polk Salad Annie” by Tony Joe White. “Polk” was a variation on “poke.” It was a cooked greens dish made from pokeweed eaten by very poor folks.

I know that's what it says on the record, but it's not "Polk salad." Is it named for James K. Polk? And salads are raw.

It's "poke sallet." Sallet is another word for greens (turnip, mustard, collard, spinach, kale, rape) which are cooked good and greasy.

It's "poke" sallet because it's made from pokeweed.

My Mama loves it!

33 posted on 12/12/2023 8:19:07 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (בראשית ברא אלקים את השמים ואת הארץ)
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