The Swampbillies

How To Talk Swampbilly

  • Aig - what a hen lays

  • Aints - He's got aints in his paints

  • Paints - what cha put on your laigs of a mornin

  • Arn - Ma's tard of arnin

  • Bag - He bagged her to marry him

  • Bobbed - A bobbed wire fence

  • Bresh - He had a bresh with the law, and the law won.

  • Bub - the light bub burned out

  • Cheer - what you set in

  • Cracker- A Real Floridian

  • Crick - a small stream

  • Clum - he sure clum that tree fastern any 'coon

  • Chiny - country over in Asia

  • Church duds - Sunday go-to-meetin clothes

  • Core - He got hisself a new Ford core

  • Cawl - Animal on Farm what gives milk.

  • Deppity - He helps out the shurf

  • Dribbed - He dribbed milk on his shirt

  • Dains - Satidy night social

  • Fanger - what you put your rang on

  • Feeunce - Whats round the hawg lot

  • fixinta- gettin' ready to do something

  • Far - what get the brandin arn hot

  • Farred - He got farred from his job

  • Flar - a rose is a purdy flar

  • Frash - them aigs ain't frash

  • Furiners - Folks that ain't from the South

  • Further - hits ten miles further to town

  • Grain - She was grain with envy

  • gree uts- is good eatin' with some eggs and bacon.

  • Gully Worsher - a medium heavy rain

  • Hail - where bad folks go

  • Hep - Poor George, he can't hep it, he was born with silver spoon in his mouth.

  • Hern - It aint hern, it's his'n

  • Hilbilly - Not us....we's swamp billies

  • Hollar - whats between the hills

  • Hard- got a brend new hard hand

  • Tar - his core blew a tar

  • Lemun - a sour fruit

  • Laig - Most folks have two of them

  • Liberry - where you go to check out books for larnin

  • Meeyulk - what you get from cawls

  • Mere - what you see your self in

  • Minners - Live bait

  • Misrus - Married Woman

  • moon pie- what you eat with a RC cola.

  • nab- cheese cracker with peanut butter in it.

  • Nar - Opposite of wide

  • Nayk - Your head sets on it

  • Nup - NO

  • url - Them hinges need url

  • Ormy - What the sojers go in

  • pallet- what the kin folks sleep on when they come visit.

  • Pank - a light red color

  • Parch - sit out on the parch and watch the grass grow

  • Petition - What separate the rooms

  • Poke - a paper bag or sack

  • Pokey - what the shurf and deppity puts crimnals in

  • Poke Salit -a green vegetable

  • Puppet - what the preacher is in

  • Purdy - She is purdy as a pitcher

  • Purt near - almost; he purt near caught that greased pig

  • Rang - you wear it on your fanger

  • Rah cheer - I was born rah cheer in town

  • Rainch - A big cow farm

  • Rat - Do it rat now!

  • Roont - She plum roont her shoes

  • Salary - A stringy vegetable

  • Sardeens - small canned fish

  • Shar - A light rain

  • Sprang - Water out'n the ground

  • Shurf - The Shurf put Clem in jail

  • Storch - this here apron has to much storch in it

  • Skeered - that plumb skeered me to death

  • Thanks - He shore thanks he's smart

  • Tho -tho me the ball

  • Thoat - I shore got a sore thoat

  • Toad strangler - A heavy rain Sody

  • War - a bobbed war fance

  • Worsh - go worsh your face

  • Warter - what you worsh your face in

  • Yurp - a continent overseas