Are you ready for another lesson in Southern Ebonics? (If you missed it, here's a peek at the previous lesson). How many of the following words look familiar? If you think you know the definition of one or more of these words, let me see you use it/them in a sentence. Any takers? Any additions?
1) et
2) illy-formed
3) sweet milk
4) touched
5) coat or court
6) jack-leg
7) sap-sucker
8) pecker-wood
The following are my definitions of the words and phrases I mentioned in a previous post. So when my novel After The Dance hits the shelves in April of 2008, don't forget you already have a reference guide here at the Old School Mix (smile).
1) bourgie: a less than flattering way of describing the middle-class; derives from the word "bourgeois."
2) chillren / chilluns: children
3) Christmas gift: a friendly Christmas greeting, like "Merry Christmas." The hubby swore only the old folks in my family used this particular expression until I showed him this reference in the Dictionary of American Regional English.
4) deef: deaf
5) haint: a ghost
6) hainty / haintey: stuck-up; haughty; uppitty
7) hey: hi; hello; how are you?
8) holped: helped (a couple of weeks ago, the hubby came home all excited about an NPR program he'd heard in which the word "holped" was actually discussed **LOL**)
9) knee baby: the next to the last child
10) main / mane: how many Black males in Memphis commonly pronounce the word "man"; this was one of the few things Brewer got right in the movie "Hustle & Flow."
11) mama 'nem: mama and them; one's relatives
12) mannish: a boy who isn't yet an adult, but who acts like one
13) roguish: bad; mischievous
14) sadiddy / saditty: stuck-up; self-righteous; arrogant
15) scound-bugga: a soundrel
16) sho' nuff: sure enough; also this is quite frequently used as a question or a version of the word "really" (Sho'nuff, girl?)
17) slobbed: slobbered
18) Sunday week: To be honest, I still don't know what this means (LOL). It refers to either this coming Sunday or the next.
19) trifling: shiftless; lazy; shady; no good
20) you (s) a tale/tail: you're a liar; you're lying
I appreciate all those who commented on the previous post. You all aren't as bourgie and sadiddy as I thought you were (smile). Seriously, thanks for sharing. I even learned a couple of new words and as we all know knowledge is truly power.
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