I've never heard "bessiebug" but I've heard "Crazy as a bedbug." and "Crazy as a box of bedbugs."
Bedbugs do scoot and skitter when exposed to full daylight.
Perhaps at one point "crazy" was PC, but "bed" was not?
Which reminds me of . . .
Cozy as a bug in a rug
Never used any of these and I live in the South. ^_^
Finally, an expert arrives to save us further embarassment. Please, your best example, sir.
Joe
Hey, I live in the south and I don't use these sayings much either, isn't that strange... :wink:
well shut mah mouth , we got us a convoy
set yerself down neighbor , youall want some ice tea?
TAke me home
My heart is heavy an my feet are sore
Take me home
cuz I doan wanna rome no more
I can see us all now just a gatherin aroun
Roun momma supper table when the sun goes down
An my dear ole pappy
when the blessins said
fillin up his plate with
black eyed peas
and all that stuff
an side meat
an a great big hunk a my dear sweet mommas hot buttered corn bread
Take me home etc etc...
(One of Johny Cashs lesser known efforts but a goodie none the less
"That ole boys got more degrees than a thermometer"
Dr. Zoidberg said, "Never used any of these and I live in the South"
Yeah, right. Like, we are going to believe a crustacean. :wink:
BTW may I be the first (of many) who will wish you a Big Howdy. Now, lets give those Yankee's waat fer.
Daints: A more or less formal event in which members of the opposite sex hold each other and move rhythmically to the sound of music. "You wanna go to the daints with me Saturday night, Bobbie Sue?"
Danjuh: Imminent peril. What John Paul Jones meant when he said, "Give me a fast ship, for I intend to put her in harm's way."
Deah: A term of endearment, except in the sense Rhett Butler used it when he said to Scarlett O'Hara, "Frankly, my deah, Ah don't give a damn."
Didn't go to: Did not intend to. "Don't whip Billy for knockin' his little sister down. He didn't go to do it."
Dollin: Another term of endearment. (darling) "Dollin, will you marry me?"
Dreckly: Soon. "He'll be along dreckly."
Effuts: Exertions. "Lee made great effuts to defeat Grant."
Everthang: All-encompassing. "everthang's all messed up."
Everhoo: Another baffling Southernism - a reverse contraction of whoever."Everhoo one of you kids wants to go to the movie better clean up their room."
Fahn: Excellent. "That sure is a fahn-lookin' woman."
Farn: Anything that is not domestic. "Ah don't drink no farn liquor, specially Rooshin vodka."
Fetchin: Attractive. "That's a mighty fetchin' woman. Think I'll ask her to daints."
Fixin': to About to. "I'm fixin' to go to the store."
Foolin: around Can mean not doing anything in particular or sex, usually of the extramarital variety. "Sue caught her husband foolin' around, so she divorced him."
Fummeer: A place other than one's present location. "Where do we go fummeer?"
I have a friend in Tennessee who uses a lot of these expressions. I love 'em! Once when he told me I was "smarter than the average bear" (someone mentioned that phrase), I didn't know whether it was a compliment or an insult (so much for being smarter than the average bear). My favorite expression he uses is "The War of Northern Agression". I think ya'll can figure that one out.
re my earlier post: Actually it's rather astonishing how many of these sayings with which I am not only familiar but hear used not infrequently. Must be a southern thing...
chatoyant wrote:Once when he told me I was "smarter than the average bear" (someone mentioned that phrase), I didn't know whether it was a compliment or an insult (so much for being smarter than the average bear).
That's no "southernism"--he's quoting Yogi Bear in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon.
smiling like a mule eatin briars thru a barbwire fence
grinnin like a possum eatin green persimmons
'hat man is like Elvis...he'z evahwhar
Good stuff and dammit...we needed som'n from mississip'...welcome
...dumber than a barrel of hair....
LOL! I just got off the phone with Mom. When I asked her how the weather was therre she said...
"Today it rained like a cow peein' on a flat rock."
Dang! Now there's an image.
I, of course, thought immediately that I had to remember that one for this thread. (Does that make me an A2K junkie?)
"as useless as tits on a boar" - sory if that one has already been said.
a) Yes, you need professional help
and
b) No Good one!
thankee...thankee very much
