Original by Greg DeLange

One of KORD's great listeners, Sheri, shared an amazing list of redneck slang with us! Nothing more for us to do than to let you enjoy. 

* (to) be too big for one’s britches – to think too highly of oneself

* britches – pants

* can’t carry a tune in a bucket – to be unable to sing at all

* clod-hopper – large, heavy shoes like those worn by farmers

* (gosh) dang/darn/dern – a cleaner version of a well-known, blasphemous expletive

* dang/darn/dern tootin’ – an expression of agreement, as in, “Louella, you make the finest biscuits this side of the Mississippi.” “Dern tootin’.”

* fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down – if someone is unbelievably unattractive, looking as though they’ve been hit with several ugly sticks, this is the proper way to express that ugliness

* fixin’ to – getting ready/preparing to, as in, “I’m fixin’ to go to the Wal-Mart. Do y’all need anything?”

* get up with – to contact or get together with

* granny-slappin’ good (so good, it makes you want to slap your granny) – very good, usually delicious

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* gussied up – cleaned up and dressed very nicely (perhaps formally)

* a hankerin’ for – a desire/craving for

* happy as a puppy with two peckers/peters – very happy

* high cotton – wealthy; successful (and maybe snobby)

* hit with the ugly stick – if someone is quite unattractive, you can say they look like they’ve been hit with the ugly stick

• honky-tonk – a bar, perhaps where country music is played live for folks to dance

* hotter than a goat’s butt in a pepper patch – very hot

* how-do – shortened form of “How do you do?”

* If I had my druthers – if I had my way/my preference

* kin/kinfolk – family, especially extended family

* knee-high to a grasshopper – very young and small, as in, “The last time I saw you, you were knee-high to a grasshopper, and look how grown-up you are now!”

* lick – (noun) any amount at all, usually used in negative sentences such as, “I didn’t get a lick of work done today because my boss kept calling me in for meetings.” (verb) To beat up, as in, “I licked him good that time.”

* like herding cats – anything that is difficult to do, but especially anything that requires organizing difficult people (like small children)

* mash – to press or push, as in, “Mash that green button and turn on the computer.”

* (to) need something like one needs a hole in the head – Obviously you do not need a hole in your head; it’s even bad for you. Thus anything you definitely don’t need, and that might be detrimental to you in some way is described by this phrase.

* ornery – difficult to deal with; stubborn; finicky

* piddly/piddlin’ – a small amount (negative connotation)

* poop or get off the pot – make a decision and take action

* reckon – suppose, guess, as in, “I reckon we’ll see you at the reunion.”

* right – very (often surprisingly); an adverb usually used to modify adjectives, as in, “You wouldn’t know it to look at him, but he’s a right good ball player.”

* rough talk – to speak harshly

* rubber-neck – to drive slowly so as to get a good look at a wreck or disabled vehicle on the side of the road. Those who rubber-neck are rubber-neckers.

* skedaddle – to leave hurriedly

* snug as a bug (in a rug) – very comfortable

* sugar – affection, as in, “Come here and give me some sugar.”

* sweet talk – to speak nicely, usually in order to get something you want

* tater – potato

* (to) think one’s s*** don’t stink – to think too highly of oneself

* tore up – broken/destroyed, as in, “I came home to find the curtains all tore up,” or, “My knee has been tore up since that skiing accident back in ’93.”

* uppity – snobby

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* used to could – used to be able to, as in, “I can’t do a cartwheel any more, but I used to could.”

* useless as tits on a bull – utterly useless

* varmint – an animal (usually wild)

* Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. – an expression of surprise, shock and/or disbelief

* y’all – a contraction of you + all. This is the informal 2nd person plural in Southern English.

* yankee – a person from the North

* yapper – mouth

* younguns – young people

* you’uns – y’all

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