🇬🇧Brits Guess Southern Slang! 🇺🇸 | American vs British

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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024

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  • @ThoseTwoBrits1
    @ThoseTwoBrits1  6 лет назад +256

    Thank you so much to everyone who has donated to our KoFi page. It's enabled us to buy more filming equipment and to make more videos for you guys (as well as having the occasional caramel macchiato or glass of prosecco!). You guys are amazing and we really appreciate the support! www.ko-fi.com/joelandlia
    (Also - no pressure if you can't, we are just so grateful for everyone who watches, comments and shares our videos) x

    • @karlsmith2570
      @karlsmith2570 6 лет назад +23

      Being British: Joel & Lia BFE is definitely used a lot in the Southern States of the US
      And for the record, Leslie most definitely didn't prank you guys on this one

    • @karlsmith2570
      @karlsmith2570 6 лет назад +24

      Being British: Joel & Lia BTW: There's a whole lot more of these Southern slang terms that were totally Left out:
      "Damn Yankee" is one of these examples

    • @qwiglydee
      @qwiglydee 6 лет назад +4

      Why don't you use patreon for that? It seems the same thing, but more popular among youtubers.

    • @ThoseTwoBrits1
      @ThoseTwoBrits1  6 лет назад +8

      We also have a Patreon page! :)

    • @Fred_Jones563
      @Fred_Jones563 6 лет назад +9

      I have a whole list of slang terms that are specific to New England. I would love to see a Brits guess New England slang. Where can I email the list?

  • @kennahall4849
    @kennahall4849 6 лет назад +1124

    My family uses “piddlin” as a way to say you are messing around or taking to much Time to do a task. For example, “Stop piddlin around and get in the car!” Anyone else? We are also midwesterners and not southerners, though.

    • @ashawn203
      @ashawn203 5 лет назад +13

      Interesting. I'm Canadian and I think we would say "fiddling around"

    • @totsieruth66
      @totsieruth66 5 лет назад +26

      Yes and idk if it's a Texas thing we say piddlefartin

    • @kennahall4849
      @kennahall4849 5 лет назад +4

      ashawn203 I could see someone in my family also saying “fiddling around!”

    • @kennahall4849
      @kennahall4849 5 лет назад +1

      Chelsea Read oh my gosh, I love that. I’m going to have to bring that to the Midwest lol.

    • @totsieruth66
      @totsieruth66 5 лет назад

      Kenna Hall by all means!

  • @kayq3231
    @kayq3231 6 лет назад +371

    In Oklahoma, "bless your heart," tends to mean, "you poor thing," in a more sincere way.

    • @retha90
      @retha90 5 лет назад +33

      That applies in Mississippi, Georgia and Virginia too.

    • @dkirkby3854
      @dkirkby3854 5 лет назад +4

      That’s how we would use that phrase in Canada as well.

    • @lovedforever0042
      @lovedforever0042 5 лет назад +22

      Same here with Texas. It's never meant sarcastically

    • @KingGemini
      @KingGemini 5 лет назад +6

      Tennessee as well

    • @AndrewLoganJameson
      @AndrewLoganJameson 5 лет назад +10

      I'm from eastern OK, I agree. I think it's applied condescendingly in movies and shows, mostly.

  • @mikemesser4326
    @mikemesser4326 5 лет назад +337

    The term is not Fair to Midland, but rather Fair to Middlin'. It comes from the term fair to middling which was a grade of cotton or various other agricultural products. Middling came from the Old Scots word (about 15th century) which meant average in quality. Midland is a mispronunciation and is often accepted into use ... though a linguist like me finds that lazy. C'mon guys ... the 'g' isn't supposed to be silent.

    • @mikemesser4326
      @mikemesser4326 5 лет назад +5

      @Wendy Hiler lol .. My family is from the South. My Ex was from the South. Ya'll is proper word in my vocabulary.

    • @jennm2736
      @jennm2736 5 лет назад +6

      I'm glad you posted this, as soon as I saw Midland, I went looking for someone to clear this up, cuz I was going too lol...

    • @pcnav4095
      @pcnav4095 5 лет назад +5

      Actually, both are correct depending on where you are from. However, the original phrase was "fair to middling" usually pronounced as the contracted "fair to middlin'". Link has info on it... www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fair-to-middling.html

    • @L4JP
      @L4JP 5 лет назад +3

      I too thought, "Midland? That's not right!" But I decided to make sure. Indeed it's not, but in the process of checking, I learned that there was an obscure rock band called Fair to Midland!

    • @georgiapeach47
      @georgiapeach47 5 лет назад +1

      I've lived in the south my whole life and I never knew this. I feel like a fake😂

  • @beccakirk4367
    @beccakirk4367 4 года назад +52

    I’m from the south & we say “stop piddlin’ around” like stop wasting time and let’s get going lol

  • @savannahsputnik1663
    @savannahsputnik1663 4 года назад +160

    The context of “bless your heart” is very important. It depends on who you’re with and what it’s about. It can be sarcastic, but when older people say it, they truly mean “bless your heart!”.

    • @lakersouthpaw
      @lakersouthpaw 3 года назад +15

      Yeah I was going to say there is a fair chance that in the US south they mean it genuinely and not sarcastically. A lot of the south is very religious still and just say it to be nice. It's part of that southern hospitality :)

    • @peenhead9938
      @peenhead9938 3 года назад +2

      it all depends if they say ah at the beginning "ah bless your heart" it's sacastic. "bless your heart" is genuine unless they saying it sarcastically.

    • @mariahray4666
      @mariahray4666 2 года назад

      I love saying “bless your heart” and some people just look at you confused. 😅

    • @thekillerrox123
      @thekillerrox123 2 года назад

      it either means they genuinely feel for someone who’s going through something bad, sarcastic “poor you”, or “that person is a mess, bless their heart”

    • @davidpressley3451
      @davidpressley3451 2 года назад

      @@lakersouthpaw I'm from the south and when I hear it it's usually if someone gets hurt like a kid they will "bless it's little heart" and stuff like that

  • @nwmonk3105
    @nwmonk3105 6 лет назад +688

    FYI: Texas is in the south but it's not really the south per se. It's Texas. It's its own thing.

    • @patrickmerritt330
      @patrickmerritt330 6 лет назад +5

      Just like David S Pumpkins

    • @spankystar9316
      @spankystar9316 6 лет назад +14

      ... the south isn't "The South"... it is Dixie. Or Dixieland

    • @akal8775
      @akal8775 6 лет назад +2

      Dang right

    • @spankystar9316
      @spankystar9316 6 лет назад +17

      Then there is the "dangnabbit", which is southern for "damn it to hell".

    • @spankystar9316
      @spankystar9316 6 лет назад +11

      I solemnly swear, as a South Carolinian, that Texas is it's own everything that it is. There are not many trees in Texas... but there are a bunch of Cowboys and Indians behind every one of them.

  • @niteranger
    @niteranger 6 лет назад +310

    and we dont say "Catawampus" lol we say "catty wampus"

    • @rebeccalwood5785
      @rebeccalwood5785 6 лет назад +2

      Wankerjawed= crooked

    • @throwingsparks
      @throwingsparks 6 лет назад +11

      Catty wampus = cock eyed = crooked

    • @Phoenixrisn6287
      @Phoenixrisn6287 6 лет назад +1

      That we do!!

    • @leaalexander6672
      @leaalexander6672 6 лет назад +1

      In Washington State we say kitty wampus. It means off kilter or out of wack.

    • @rotcod2886
      @rotcod2886 6 лет назад +4

      Or Catter wampus. Anyone else hear it that way?

  • @ronaldlong2760
    @ronaldlong2760 4 года назад +202

    Honky Tonk is a very specific place. It's where you would go "boot-scootin", AKA Country & Western bar.

    • @isaacspalding5054
      @isaacspalding5054 4 года назад +1

      I've heard mostly around New Orleans.

    • @redneckturtle771
      @redneckturtle771 4 года назад +1

      Dancehall

    • @esfwr17
      @esfwr17 4 года назад +4

      lol yeah, cant say ive seen any poofy dresses or dudes wearing suits at any honky tonk ive been to.

    • @Nv8derz1m
      @Nv8derz1m 3 года назад +4

      Watch “Urban Cowboy”

    • @darrellbaker2895
      @darrellbaker2895 3 года назад +1

      Another name for honky tonk is "juke joint".

  • @bethreed3810
    @bethreed3810 6 лет назад +66

    "Bless your heart" also has several meanings. There's always an unspoken connotation that someone needs divine intervention.
    It can be completely genuine, if you've heard something that arouses your sympathy: "The baby is sick? Bless her heart... I hope she's better soon."
    It can imply someone is doing their very best, but s/he is inadequate to the situation - which can be said sympathetically or sarcastically, determined by tone of voice: "He loves to sing, but couldn't carry a tune in a bucket - bless his heart."
    It is often used to soften an insult, to make it more acceptable: "She's the ugliest child I've ever seen - bless her heart."

    • @carolinezook
      @carolinezook 6 лет назад +2

      Bless her heart, she could eat corn through a knothole in the fence.

  • @SupaYoda
    @SupaYoda 5 лет назад +135

    "Bless your heart" is our aloha. We use it for a lot of things. It's not always sarcastic.

    • @kellygreen2038
      @kellygreen2038 5 лет назад +6

      That's right, I have said "bless your heart" all my life and NEVER meant it with sarcasm!

    • @stillnocouch
      @stillnocouch 5 лет назад +6

      SupaYoda: Yeah, you keep thinking that, Bless your heart. LOL

    • @Elidover
      @Elidover 5 лет назад +2

      Yeh it can mean u stupid poor u i feel bad and lot moor

    • @majones7030
      @majones7030 4 года назад +2

      True, my grandma would use it without a drop of sarcasm, and when I was used as a negative it was always with more concern than sarcasm.

    • @shane013a
      @shane013a 4 года назад +1

      @@stillnocouch Yeah and for a more aggressive attitude it's 'well, bless yer little pea pickin' heart dahrlin'

  • @BIGBLOCK5022006
    @BIGBLOCK5022006 6 лет назад +111

    One thing that Southern kids feared hearing was the words "Go get a switch". If you heard those words you were screwed and God help you if you get a rinky dink switch.

    • @mabellekindle8767
      @mabellekindle8767 6 лет назад +8

      Wait till you hear "Go get a switch......and leave a few leaves on the end." My grandfather and his brother were told by my great grandfather to not only go get "a" switch, but three of them....one for each of them and one for him....he then told them "you two start on each other, and if I don't think you mean it, I'll start in on both of you...." For a very long time afterwards, they treated each other with "brotherly" love!

    • @shayestewart5981
      @shayestewart5981 6 лет назад +4

      I grew up in the SouthWest and those are still terrifying words

    • @whiteshedevil6809
      @whiteshedevil6809 6 лет назад +5

      BIGBLOCK5022006 I'm not southern well south west I guess anyway, I had to pick my own switch a time or two. Never pick the little ones.

    • @nonamemcgillicutty9585
      @nonamemcgillicutty9585 5 лет назад +1

      U ain't shittin

    • @johnnabuzby6103
      @johnnabuzby6103 5 лет назад +6

      Eastern North Carolina here. You got that right! Either a switch or your daddy's belt, you were screwed!

  • @alexhalstead8646
    @alexhalstead8646 4 года назад +64

    My Texan grandmother always says, “I am fixing to go to the store.”

    • @ashleymarietv2
      @ashleymarietv2 4 года назад +9

      I live in Texas and we do use this word all the time lol it’s hard to get out of the habit of it. It comes out a lot when I’m annoyed. If somebody asks me if I’ve done something already, I’ll say “I’m fixing to’!!! Give me a minute!”

    • @redneckturtle771
      @redneckturtle771 4 года назад +7

      Fixin is a Texas thing

    • @wdrauch
      @wdrauch 4 года назад +1

      Fittin to is another variant

    • @Timotimo101
      @Timotimo101 4 года назад +1

      @@ashleymarietv2 It's not incorrect. It's just not used frequently in all English dialects as it is in the Southern dialect(s.)

    • @jordan.fa5592
      @jordan.fa5592 4 года назад

      @@redneckturtle771 We use it in N FL

  • @richardmartin9565
    @richardmartin9565 5 лет назад +345

    Isnt it - fair to middlin'- ? (As in "in the middle")

  • @Emily-dl1sl
    @Emily-dl1sl 6 лет назад +62

    I'm from Texas. Piddling does mean trivial but in my experience has always been used in relation to time. If someone is piddling around, they are wasting time. It is the same as dilly dallying or dawdling - not sure if those are slang words native to the south or if those are more widespread.

    • @ThoseTwoBrits1
      @ThoseTwoBrits1  6 лет назад +2

      Cheers Emily! Worth knowing either way

    • @Emily-dl1sl
      @Emily-dl1sl 6 лет назад

      I love y'all's videos!!

    • @melissablatz6979
      @melissablatz6979 6 лет назад +1

      I remember my grandmother saying that to me when I was young. "Quit piddlin', you're gonna be late for kindergarten!" She was from Oklahoma.

    • @Mejoke84
      @Mejoke84 6 лет назад

      Emily that’s what I was going to say. I always tell my niece and nephew to stop “piddlin’ around and get (fill-in the blank - shows on, dressed, going, etc)”

  • @tabathagrush8293
    @tabathagrush8293 5 лет назад +159

    Bless your heart is something we say in Texas all the time. And it can be sarcastic or sincere.

    • @pcnav4095
      @pcnav4095 5 лет назад +1

      I've only seen it used sarcastically by women. Men don't usually use this term.

    • @EveIsJustMyBlogName
      @EveIsJustMyBlogName 5 лет назад +10

      In Tennessee, we also say it both sarcastically and sincerely :)

    • @averyy04
      @averyy04 5 лет назад

      yes same

    • @drewber565
      @drewber565 5 лет назад

      Men use it all the time. I'm not sure what pcnav is talking about.

    • @pebbleslynnbitches
      @pebbleslynnbitches 5 лет назад +1

      South Carolina here, we say it both ways as well. Depends on the context. Most of the time we use it as a sincere sentence filler.

  • @jordanrivers5825
    @jordanrivers5825 4 года назад +29

    “Quit making all that noise walking around here in them clodhoppers.” Is an example

    • @ArtsyMagic239
      @ArtsyMagic239 3 года назад

      Dude, that is so accurate I just read that in my mom's voice!

  • @haleysimpson528
    @haleysimpson528 6 лет назад +91

    "Bless your heart" isnt always sarcastic. I use it all the time as more of a "i understand youre struggling and God speed."

    • @gabriellerussell8484
      @gabriellerussell8484 6 лет назад +6

      Haley Simpson, agreed. I first heard it used sincerely from my grandmother (a very sweet and sincere southern lady), so it’s definitely not always sarcastic to my mind either.

    • @jenabobenabananafanafofena
      @jenabobenabananafanafofena 6 лет назад +3

      I’d have to say 90% of the bless your hearts I’ve heard didn’t mean god speed. In fact, I’ve heard things like, “He got fired/went to jail/got a DUI again, bless his heart,” a statement with a mixture of disgust and pity. I think this usage is the origin of the sassy bless your heart. Lol.

    • @JS-wv3iy
      @JS-wv3iy 6 лет назад +6

      its all in the tone/delivery... it can mean tons of things lol very versatile phrase

    • @belindagarza3958
      @belindagarza3958 6 лет назад +2

      I've never heard bless your heart used sarcastically.

    • @melissad.
      @melissad. 6 лет назад

      When we say, “Oh, Bless” that’s a bit sarcastic. But usually, “Bless your heart” is more sincere.

  • @chrisl6630
    @chrisl6630 6 лет назад +1581

    Lol it's "middlin" like in the middle- basically means "ok"

    • @ThoseTwoBrits1
      @ThoseTwoBrits1  6 лет назад +39

      oooo thanks Chris!

    • @barbigathright3495
      @barbigathright3495 6 лет назад +99

      She’s right. It’s middlin. But there was a country song that was a play on the phrase called “fair to midland” because Midland is a town in Texas.

    • @chrisl6630
      @chrisl6630 6 лет назад +1

      Being British: Joel & Lia ... love your videos!

    • @chrisl6630
      @chrisl6630 6 лет назад +6

      Barbi Gathright, ah i didn't know about the song- been to Midland, tx, not the most exotic town lol

    • @sadique
      @sadique 6 лет назад +16

      There is apparently a Texas rock band "Fair to Midland" that is also a play on this phrase!

  • @tenshib5951
    @tenshib5951 5 лет назад +117

    Piddlin'... It can also mean like, "doing nothin'" or "wastin' time"...
    Y'all would ask me: "Hey John, what'cha up to??"
    Me: "Nothin' much.. Jus' piddlin' ..."

    • @clintatk
      @clintatk 5 лет назад +2

      In which case it is related to pissing around.

    • @lynniereeves2607
      @lynniereeves2607 5 лет назад +1

      I say “quit piddle farting around”.

    • @nealkirkland6825
      @nealkirkland6825 4 года назад

      You have the meaning right, but three term is “fair to middling,” with middling pronounced “middlin’ “

    • @tenshib5951
      @tenshib5951 4 года назад

      @@nealkirkland6825 No, no.. it is indeed -P-iddlin' with a P. What you are referring to is a totally different meaning and phrase... Fair to middlin' is an answer as to HOW you are doing... But piddlin' is an answer as to WHAT you are doing.
      Clint Atkinson, you are right on the money.
      Lynnie Reeves, I say "quit fiddle-fartin' around", but piddle-fartin' would work, too I think.

  • @athan8320
    @athan8320 4 года назад +19

    When he was describing what he thought a honky tonk was he was describing a sock hop type thing I think. A honky tonk is a country bar

    • @ArtsyMagic239
      @ArtsyMagic239 3 года назад +1

      I immediately thought about the song and "honka tonk ba donka donk" reading this.

  • @natashaboris8654
    @natashaboris8654 5 лет назад +52

    Older English ppl always told me that the southern US accent was the only American accent that they could understand.

  • @Gwenhwyfar7
    @Gwenhwyfar7 5 лет назад +62

    "Bless your heart" is used frequently when you realize someone means well, but it just too dumb to understand anything.

    • @MrPILOTSTEVE59
      @MrPILOTSTEVE59 5 лет назад

      How about "Bless your pea pickin heart?"

  • @americanmorning4035
    @americanmorning4035 6 лет назад +133

    "Bless your heart" is only sarcasm for the cold hearted. In polite circles it means "I'm empathizing with you". Bless your hearts for trying to understand.

    • @Dragon-Believer
      @Dragon-Believer 6 лет назад +3

      Bless your heart is what my grandma who has been dead for 20 years would say.

    • @casemcdonald2152
      @casemcdonald2152 6 лет назад +5

      No. It doesn't.
      "God bless your heart, because I never will." is about as clear as I think it'll get to what it means. The phrase allows "polite" people to still seem classy, when they're actually being catty.

    • @americanmorning4035
      @americanmorning4035 6 лет назад +26

      @@casemcdonald2152 Not true. As a Southerner, I say and hear "Bless your heart" as a statement of empathy often. "Bless your heart, Sugar. I'm really sorry that happened". Very empathetic, very sincere.

    • @casemcdonald2152
      @casemcdonald2152 6 лет назад

      @@americanmorning4035
      You're wrong, and I've heard southern expressions misused by southerners too. It'll probably get a new meaning before long, but that's what it means.
      At the time, it was very important for people to maintain "class". Saying something mean demonstrated one was low class. To be able to say something hurtful without hurting someone's feelings was a sign of extensive education and class.
      Something like, "You must be a very brave person to be able to live with such limitations." Is more acceptable than insulting someone, because it's a compliment. "Backhanded compliment" comes from this.
      So, yeah. Now you're life can be a little bit better, knowing the history of southern phrasing.

    • @americanmorning4035
      @americanmorning4035 6 лет назад +11

      @@casemcdonald2152 As a southerner, I've heard it both way...which was my original point. Your cynicism notwithstanding.

  • @ambernelson3156
    @ambernelson3156 4 года назад +7

    I decided to wear a tux to my prom, and my boyfriend at the time said: 'What, am I supposed to wear, a dress?' And I just told him 'Whatever floats your boat!' So that is a combination comment on the clothing and a type of slang that I was brought up with.

  • @WildWyatts
    @WildWyatts 6 лет назад +50

    Bless your heart isn’t sarcastic per say. It is everything. It is actually meant when said, it is an insult, it is a term of endearment, it is anything. Depends on who says it, the situation, and the look in their eyes.
    Piddlin is like dinking around, taking too long, wasting time, sweating the small details to kill time.

    • @dustykeele
      @dustykeele 6 лет назад

      +Kayla Wyatt "per say" is actually "per se". Just thought you'd like to know!

    • @barbiemurphy1142
      @barbiemurphy1142 6 лет назад

      per se

    • @amaz3624
      @amaz3624 6 лет назад +2

      Kayla Wyatt I agree, Bless your heart isn't sarcastic most of the time. You can say, "He's suffered a lot... Bless his heart."

    • @taranorris3769
      @taranorris3769 6 лет назад +1

      Agreed. It never was sarcastic when I was growing up. It really meant you were sad for someone's misfortune. Maybe just the last 10 years or so the sarcastic became common? But now it's SO OFTEN sarcastic, that you almost can't use it when you're really concerned about someone, for risk of sounding like you're sarcastic.
      And it's not just mildly sarcastic... It usually means you think the person is an absolute idiot.

    • @donnasmith6037
      @donnasmith6037 6 лет назад

      Kayla Wyatt like fuck !

  • @emileclede4510
    @emileclede4510 6 лет назад +146

    "Bless your heart" can be both sarcasm and it can mean exactly what it says. As when a child does something really nice or cute for mama, she may hug the child and say, "Aww, Bless your heart."

    • @dwhetsel695
      @dwhetsel695 6 лет назад +13

      Emile Clede, I was going to say that as well. The term ‘bless your heart’ has to be understood in context. It can be said to a child, as you said, to a person who has been diagnosed with a dread disease, or to a drunk who has just said, “Hold mah beer ‘n watch this...” while he proceeds to do something stupid and gets hurt in the process. It’s all about context😁

    • @GodsGladiator
      @GodsGladiator 6 лет назад +14

      Haha that is so my grandma. Normally when it’s sweet she says “bless your heart”. And when she’s being sarcastic it’s always “well bless your lil heart” lol

    • @32mybelle
      @32mybelle 6 лет назад +5

      If your granny says it when you have a cold, she is being nice. If your enemy says it in church, it's sarcasm.

    • @rinwesley3092
      @rinwesley3092 6 лет назад +3

      Yes! I was just thinking the same. It's not always sarcastic.

    • @johnr7279
      @johnr7279 6 лет назад +7

      Indeed! "Bless your heart" has an interesting dual meaning. It can be genuine...or...be a backhanded insult. I've seen bless your heart delivered in a way that pretty much meant the same as idiot.

  • @49carol
    @49carol 6 лет назад +114

    Bless your Heart is something I say frequently and sometimes I mean it endearing and sometimes sarcastic. Depends on the situation.

    • @mikishealy2849
      @mikishealy2849 6 лет назад +3

      49carol same with me (from S.C.)

    • @ThyGeekGoddessMuze
      @ThyGeekGoddessMuze 6 лет назад

      It's a good way to get thy ass kicked by a Scottish-hybrid from the Midwest. The first World's Fair built the Kansas and Missouri territories and returned to find Levittowns built on our tobacco lands.

    • @amywells8283
      @amywells8283 6 лет назад +4

      exactly! I'm from SC also and it's not always sarcastic!

    • @laureenpearson623
      @laureenpearson623 6 лет назад +4

      sarcastic or endearing here in tx too

    • @JennyG.COW5
      @JennyG.COW5 6 лет назад +3

      Same! 😊👍
      I'm from Utah and I mostly use it as an endearment.

  • @paulwilliams6436
    @paulwilliams6436 4 года назад +2

    Piddlin’ is a verb that means to engage in trivial activities, often to the point of avoiding something, “oh, he’s just piddlin’ rather than doin’ his chores.”

  • @Alan.Endicott
    @Alan.Endicott 6 лет назад +166

    As I understand it "Bless his heart" is used to take a bit of the sting out of a slight or insult.
    "He's sweet, but he's dumb as a box of hair, bless his heart."

    • @destinym6096
      @destinym6096 6 лет назад +8

      Alan Endicott can be. But also, no. It's used more direct most of the time.
      A girl thinks she's some kinda shit, tries to make herself look big and you'd just smile and say "oh honey. Bless your heart"

    • @PaigeWhitleyTBYG
      @PaigeWhitleyTBYG 6 лет назад +10

      Or after you're done gossiping about someone, finish it with "bless her heart" so you don't sound so mean.

    • @mom2hjd
      @mom2hjd 6 лет назад +4

      Someone who tries hard but fails, you don’t want to be too insulting, you say “bless her heart” (for trying)

    • @janineanderson7601
      @janineanderson7601 6 лет назад +6

      Dumb as a box of hair!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @scrubbyismydad2748
      @scrubbyismydad2748 6 лет назад +2

      Bless is heart means like oh bless his heart meaning he’s dumb or crazy or something

  • @FoScoJo
    @FoScoJo 6 лет назад +71

    "Piddlin'" is used as a synonym for "puttering," as in "I was piddlin' 'round with nothing to do."

    • @abbysmith4997
      @abbysmith4997 6 лет назад +3

      That is kind of like saying fiddle farting around. Which means puttering as well.

    • @ambermac77
      @ambermac77 6 лет назад

      Exactly!!

    • @peterwells7700
      @peterwells7700 6 лет назад +1

      To piddle is often to pee! "I just went behind a tree and piddled."

    • @terrimartinez6922
      @terrimartinez6922 6 лет назад +1

      Piddle-fartin' lol

  • @Alan.Endicott
    @Alan.Endicott 6 лет назад +282

    Piddlin should be spelled piddlin'. It's a contraction of piddling, which you correctly said means trivial.
    Midland should be spelled middlin'. It's a contraction of middling, which you correctly said means average.
    Americans generally, but southerners especially, often drop the G from words.
    OK, I'm fixin' to shut-up now. ;-)

    • @Krieghandt
      @Krieghandt 6 лет назад +20

      And 'fixin ta' is also a standard phrase. I'm fixin' ta go to the house now.

    • @wlan246
      @wlan246 6 лет назад +5

      You beat me to it. grammarist.com/phrase/fair-to-middling-vs-fair-to-midland/

    • @samiamisme
      @samiamisme 6 лет назад +2

      Well done!

    • @TheAgentAssassin
      @TheAgentAssassin 6 лет назад +24

      Piddlin can also mean "Quit piddlin around and do your chores"
      Like focus on doing your chores instead of messing about doing trivial things.

    • @tonymullenix9281
      @tonymullenix9281 6 лет назад +16

      Piddlin' also means, messing around with something or.passing the time!

  • @cassafrasstoofly
    @cassafrasstoofly 4 года назад +4

    Bless your heart isn't rude where I'm from. It's more like a considerate way of saying, "You poor thing."

  • @paytonholden2017
    @paytonholden2017 6 лет назад +37

    Love this!! I’m a southern girl!!! I use these every day!!! Southern accent girls click like ❤️❤️

  • @ambereveritt2092
    @ambereveritt2092 6 лет назад +65

    Southerners also judge distance by time. So you’d never say- thats miles away- you just say- it’s 5 minutes down that road or 6 hours south or what have you.

    • @terrymangnall7139
      @terrymangnall7139 6 лет назад +5

      Californians judge distance by time too.

    • @cijmo
      @cijmo 6 лет назад +1

      So do Albertans.

    • @medleyshift1325
      @medleyshift1325 6 лет назад +8

      This is an American thing probably because we all have cars. For instance from my house, it's 30mins to Canada and I'm 8 hours away from New York.

    • @aaronhomer920
      @aaronhomer920 6 лет назад +4

      It's a North American thing, and it drives (heh) Europeans NUTS!

    • @lauralenau590
      @lauralenau590 6 лет назад +6

      Yep! Midwesterner here and "town" is 12min down the road, work is 6min, downtown is 45 🤣
      I think it might be that speed limits vary so much from A to B that saying the miles really doesn't mean much.

  • @brucerobb2120
    @brucerobb2120 5 лет назад +63

    "She takes after her daddy, bless her heart."

  • @fromtopgun3560
    @fromtopgun3560 4 года назад +52

    My family friends and everyone where I’m from replace piddlin with lollygaggin’ and fiddlefartin’

    • @1177kc
      @1177kc 3 года назад

      Mom would tell me not to piddle aground. Probably it originally came from what you guessed first.

    • @jacob.da.snakob
      @jacob.da.snakob 3 года назад +2

      Muckin around

    • @Hermes8A8A
      @Hermes8A8A 3 года назад

      Nah lollygagging means to do something slowly

    • @Hermes8A8A
      @Hermes8A8A 3 года назад

      And piddlin is kinda just playing around and fucking off

    • @jimmyv1233
      @jimmyv1233 3 года назад

      Lollygagging is the one we use.

  • @cfor6260
    @cfor6260 5 лет назад +107

    We said catawampus growing up but we pronounce it more like cattywampus.

    • @jenniferizaguirre8925
      @jenniferizaguirre8925 4 года назад +2

      and then they said BOGIE man, where we say boogie man. this is all great.

    • @loomofmetals
      @loomofmetals 4 года назад +3

      In parts of the south, esp in the mountainous “hillbilly” regions, the soft ‘a’ gets pronounced like a hard ‘e’. Like my mom says “pokey dots” instead of “polka dots”.

    • @nolimit-cvk3533
      @nolimit-cvk3533 4 года назад +1

      @@loomofmetals i live in the more flatter regions and we say pokey dots, cattywampus, and "pank" (pank instead of pink)😂

    • @maybeso1940
      @maybeso1940 4 года назад

      means it's not straight,unlevel

  • @LiveitlikeLauren
    @LiveitlikeLauren 6 лет назад +549

    Alabarrrrrma? We can't be friends.
    Thumbs up this comment to make Joel wear a suit!

  • @kingbovee7349
    @kingbovee7349 5 лет назад +107

    In Georgia, we use "Bless your heart" in a sincere way. It kinda means that we feel genuinely bad for someone.

    • @jenniedarling3710
      @jenniedarling3710 5 лет назад +5

      It's used that way a lot in England too I don't know what thease two are talking about.

    • @boopsy44
      @boopsy44 5 лет назад

      Yes!!

    • @ash-pk9ep
      @ash-pk9ep 4 года назад +4

      i’m from georgia and i use it both ways lol

    • @askywithanalibi4948
      @askywithanalibi4948 4 года назад +3

      Yep same in SC but when we say bless your LITTLE heart then that is a game changer and it really means F you. 😆

    • @deborahklein6774
      @deborahklein6774 4 года назад

      Piddlin is like fiddlin:
      Answer to "Whacha doin"
      Just piddlin around.

  • @samanthaclenney8454
    @samanthaclenney8454 4 года назад +5

    When I was little, my grandma used to say "stop steppin' on my feet with those clodhoopers" everytime I went up a shoe size.

  • @pensnut08
    @pensnut08 5 лет назад +102

    "Clodhoppers" are more like work boots. Big, heavy work boots.

    • @L4JP
      @L4JP 5 лет назад +11

      Agreed. It has nothing to do with the "shoe size" (as in, the length to fit one's foot) but the style of shoe. Heavy soles with deep tread, good for walking around farms or other work areas with lots of clods of dirt.

    • @BethCampbell-b9c
      @BethCampbell-b9c 5 лет назад

      Light For Japan Productions totally agree! Along with “waffle stompers”!

    • @allienoneya4257
      @allienoneya4257 5 лет назад

      pensnut08 true and if your poor you get them hand me downs.

    • @stillnocouch
      @stillnocouch 5 лет назад +4

      Clod-Hopper refers to a backward country person. Example: A farmer in a field stumbling over ‘dirt clods’

  • @boogie0413
    @boogie0413 6 лет назад +67

    I’m from North Carolina and we say pilddlin when someone is going slow or taking their time.

    • @roastedlemon
      @roastedlemon 6 лет назад +2

      Kristy Harkey Same in Texas, but we kinda use both of the actual meaning sometimes too.

    • @owcountrygirl9877
      @owcountrygirl9877 6 лет назад +10

      There's also piddlin around as in tinkering with a hobby

    • @majwor3763
      @majwor3763 6 лет назад +1

      Exactly

    • @FeMcBride
      @FeMcBride 6 лет назад +1

      Kristy Harkey yes this exactly

    • @carolinatxan
      @carolinatxan 6 лет назад +2

      We say it in Texas too.

  • @theclimbto1
    @theclimbto1 6 лет назад +121

    Bless your heart, that depends on the inflection. It CAN be genuine.
    Some Southerners simply do not possess Sarcasm. With them, a 'Bless your heart' would be sincere.
    Other Southerners have mastered Sarcasm... from them it would be more of an insult.

    • @BrittainDix
      @BrittainDix 6 лет назад +2

      Awww, bless your heart dear

    • @libertarianguy5567
      @libertarianguy5567 6 лет назад +14

      In general, if an older woman is saying Bless your Heart, it's probably sincere, if anyone else is saying it, it probably is sarcasm.

    • @davidpeterson2022
      @davidpeterson2022 6 лет назад +5

      Exactly. Depends on inflection. Get a gift you really you like..."bless your heart." Get a gift you don't like..."bless your heart."

    • @jesswriggs7205
      @jesswriggs7205 6 лет назад +4

      When you see an ugly baby or ugly child. Or if someone is incredibly stupid, you say "bless their little hearts!"

    • @kaleahcollins4531
      @kaleahcollins4531 6 лет назад

      TheClimbTo1 its funny in

  • @macytucker8964
    @macytucker8964 3 года назад +7

    Piddling: messing around, wandering
    "I'm just piddling around"
    I'm from the midlands in South Carolina

  • @sarahhardy1344
    @sarahhardy1344 5 лет назад +186

    It’s not “ Fair to Midland” it’s “Fair-to-Middlin’.” Middlin’ is actually “Middling,” which means Average. So the phrase means fair-to-average.

  • @alabamabeauty1312
    @alabamabeauty1312 6 лет назад +202

    In South Alabama we use piddlin' as wasting time. I'm just piddlin' around the house.

    • @skovol007
      @skovol007 6 лет назад +3

      I'm from Indiana and we use it too. Sometimes w'ell use "putzin'" instead.

    • @alabamabeauty1312
      @alabamabeauty1312 6 лет назад

      skovol007 "putzin" is a new one on me. :)

    • @hisbean
      @hisbean 6 лет назад

      We use both in MN as well.

    • @LoriCrabtree31
      @LoriCrabtree31 6 лет назад

      Same in Ohio

    • @keileybentley9875
      @keileybentley9875 6 лет назад +1

      In Kentucky we use “swarpin’ ” as well! Like, “quit swarpin’ around” or “we’re just swarpin’ around.” Which we also use piddlin’ in the same sentences, just depends on circumstance or what you’re used to saying.

  • @renayconner7030
    @renayconner7030 6 лет назад +479

    Clodhopper is like a chunky shoe... Or if you trip over someone's shoes in the middle of the floor you could yell "move your clodhoppers!!".

    • @dwhetsel695
      @dwhetsel695 6 лет назад +30

      Clodhopper also can be a derogatory term, meaning a big doofus, stupid, ignorant, naive in a goofy sort of way

    • @Lellobeetle
      @Lellobeetle 6 лет назад +15

      The last is how my kin always used it. A clodhopper meant an uncoordinated person, usually of large stature.

    • @karlsmith2570
      @karlsmith2570 6 лет назад +8

      The most common use of the term "Clodhoppers" was basically used like if someone took off their shoes, especially if They have really big feet, and had left their shoes in the middle of the floor:
      "Would you get your Clodhoppers out of the middle of the floor, so I'm not tripping over them"

    • @emilyb5307
      @emilyb5307 6 лет назад +6

      Yeah, it helps to remember that it's sort of related to "clods" of dirt. So, like work boots up here in the north. (Or at least, to me) :)

    • @Lellobeetle
      @Lellobeetle 6 лет назад +15

      Also, it helps to note whether singular or plural. I would automatically know you meant shoes if you used the plural - clodhoppers. But if you used the singular, clodhopper, I would naturally think it related to a person.

  • @handmaidmd
    @handmaidmd 4 года назад +10

    “Get your clodhoppers off the couch!”

  • @panamamama6
    @panamamama6 6 лет назад +196

    Piddlin I would say means messing around like in your garage - I was piddling around in my garage working on a project. I didn't know herding cats was a southern phrase. I say that all the time about my kids. :) Ha Yes BFE was used like 20 years ago...not sure if it's still around.

    • @AllieSierdsma
      @AllieSierdsma 6 лет назад

      Panama Mama or just kinda slow

    • @AllieSierdsma
      @AllieSierdsma 6 лет назад +6

      Slowly doing something

    • @TheLaceyphillips
      @TheLaceyphillips 6 лет назад +5

      Panama Mama It definitely is still around. I use it all the time 🤷‍♀️

    • @amypowell7753
      @amypowell7753 6 лет назад +5

      Lol me and my folks use bfe to describe a no name town way aways that we're driving to for a derby 😆

    • @jessevoidswarranties8335
      @jessevoidswarranties8335 6 лет назад +1

      I agree

  • @Flynbrd68
    @Flynbrd68 6 лет назад +70

    I'm originally from rural Ohio...piddlin means going slow at getting ready or just messing about. We'd say "stop piddlin around"

  • @springpodcaststudios5495
    @springpodcaststudios5495 6 лет назад +81

    Clodhopper means a boot like you would wear about the farm. While hopping over overturned clods of dirt in the field.

    • @VernCrisler
      @VernCrisler 5 лет назад +1

      It has a sort of derogatory meaning, too. Saying someone is a clodhopper is saying someone's a rube.

    • @lorahassani7728
      @lorahassani7728 5 лет назад +5

      I can also be used as, "get your clodhoppers off the table." Meaning to remove your enormous feet from the table.

    • @pcnav4095
      @pcnav4095 5 лет назад +1

      True. They were usually large work boots with high tops. Clods were the clumps of dirt you see after a field is plowed and harrowed.

    • @taimoc
      @taimoc 5 лет назад

      I believe clodhoppers would be analogous to your Wellies. Wellington boots.

    • @saraarnett2557
      @saraarnett2557 5 лет назад

      I’ve only used it when annoyed like “come get your big ole clodhoppers out of the way!” When shoes are left in the hall.

  • @notarobot638
    @notarobot638 4 года назад +14

    Arkansas we say “kindly”. Like “ thank ya kindly” or “ he’s kindly makin’ his way”

    • @mwblackbelt
      @mwblackbelt 4 года назад +1

      That's the way NC mountain people say it too

    • @celestetheking
      @celestetheking 3 года назад +1

      Finally another Arkansan, I swear they're extinct online. But yeah we do do that.

  • @mrmoocher777
    @mrmoocher777 6 лет назад +77

    Piddlin' means "wasting time" or "messing around." Doing something pointless and small.

    • @michelleperkins3237
      @michelleperkins3237 6 лет назад

      Feel it still

    • @JacklesSpeedy
      @JacklesSpeedy 6 лет назад

      mrmoocher777 Yup! My mom will still tell my siblings and I to "quit piddlin around!" Haha!

    • @crystalklein8888
      @crystalklein8888 6 лет назад +1

      mrmoocher777 Pudderin' can also be used for the same meaning

    • @odemusvonkilhausen
      @odemusvonkilhausen 6 лет назад

      Also "piddle-farting". Similar to "lolly-gagging".

    • @tiffanydavis9403
      @tiffanydavis9403 6 лет назад

      mrmoocher777 yes!!! We say piddlin too in Missouri

  • @emileclede4510
    @emileclede4510 6 лет назад +28

    Clodhopper does mean a heavy shoe or boot, like something worn on the feet for farming. It can also be slang for a farmer or field worker. The word "Clod" means a lump of firmly packed soil, like when you break up hard soil it breaks into large clumps or clods. So, A Clodhopper would be someone who walks over broken ground, or Hops over the Clods.

    • @zeeklily
      @zeeklily 6 лет назад +3

      Emile Clede, haha. I live in Cali, I use this to say someone is clumsy. Lol!!

  • @dlishs3
    @dlishs3 5 лет назад +96

    "Clod hopper" to me is boots. Like mud boots. Or water boots. Because when you wear them out in the mud they collect mud clods. Hence the name clod hoppers.

    • @gone2bch
      @gone2bch 4 года назад +2

      Me too

    • @vinnylashley7394
      @vinnylashley7394 4 года назад +2

      This is correct.

    • @mikimeadows
      @mikimeadows 4 года назад

      @@vinnylashley7394 nope

    • @Brandon-ez4yy
      @Brandon-ez4yy 4 года назад +3

      Yea cause I’ve never heard this meaning actually large shoes always boots

    • @donnathompson2138
      @donnathompson2138 4 года назад +3

      We also often use it here in Tennessee to refer to an actual person who's a country bumpkin, i.e "He was such a clodhopper, he had never seen a grocery store."

  • @emilyroberts8653
    @emilyroberts8653 4 года назад +8

    I love it when y'all slip into a southern accent.😂 Leia you put on such! a southern bell accent, and it just makes my day!

  • @tomnewman7586
    @tomnewman7586 6 лет назад +76

    Not cattawampus. Catty-Wampus

    • @dandearman2871
      @dandearman2871 6 лет назад +2

      Something that is upside down, backwards and crooked. It's Catty-Wampus.

    • @amorky8391
      @amorky8391 6 лет назад

      Yep! This was the one I was going to correct lol

    • @msanthropea13
      @msanthropea13 6 лет назад

      This. It's cattywampas.

    • @danparker1976
      @danparker1976 6 лет назад

      All i know somethings f'ed up if its that word no matter how you spell it

    • @pngn69
      @pngn69 6 лет назад

      It's actually both.

  • @Football__Junkie
    @Football__Junkie 6 лет назад +62

    You missed out on the saying “fixin’ to”. Like “I’m fixin’ to go to the grocery store” or someone asks if you have completed a task and your response is “I’m fixin’ to do it”

    • @iximilkshake4586
      @iximilkshake4586 6 лет назад +1

      FootballJunkie one of my best friends lives in Alabama (I am in Minnesota) and she’s got me saying “fixin’ to” now XD

    • @johnpusztay
      @johnpusztay 6 лет назад +2

      FootballJunkie I've also heard it said as finna gonna... I'm finna gonna go to the store.

    • @ashleyhunter5223
      @ashleyhunter5223 6 лет назад +1

      FootballJunkie "fixin' ta rain" translates to: "it's about to rain" out in North Carolina

    • @stevenhoskins7850
      @stevenhoskins7850 6 лет назад +2

      All these out of staters had me believing "fixin' to" was just a Texas thing. Lol.

    • @billbaxter3800
      @billbaxter3800 6 лет назад

      FootballJunkie I say that all the time. In fact im fixin' to ssy it now.

  • @sarahsimms9713
    @sarahsimms9713 6 лет назад +31

    Piddlin' means 'wasting time' "Stop piddlin' around! Get ready to go!":

    • @SarahHunt
      @SarahHunt 6 лет назад +1

      Exactly!!

    • @ZedF86
      @ZedF86 6 лет назад

      I've heard it used as an adjective as well. If something is piddlin', it's not worth worrying about. E.G. "That shit is piddlin', forget it." In the case of the verb, it is essentially used to say stop doing things that are unimportant.

  • @marciadodd1412
    @marciadodd1412 3 года назад +3

    In Arkansas we used "clodhopper" to mean a person who was clumsy, tending toward one whose manners weren't refined.

  • @laratroy390
    @laratroy390 6 лет назад +45

    Greetings from South Carolina, definitely a very southern state. The expression is "fair to middlin'" , as in the middle. Not Midland.

    • @fayehightower9815
      @fayehightower9815 6 лет назад

      Well duh it means different thing s in different states

  • @davidpurina3821
    @davidpurina3821 5 лет назад +52

    Knee high to a grasshopper it usualy references when someone is talking about their childhood or youth. Example , my grandfather told me he was working the farm when he was knee high to a grasshopper. He started work at a young age

  • @catgreenthumbs7687
    @catgreenthumbs7687 5 лет назад +34

    When I trip over my husband’s shoes that are in the middle of the floor, “Move your clodhoppers!”

  • @ko.g.1104
    @ko.g.1104 4 года назад +18

    I’ve never heard “bless your heart” sarcastically😭

    • @thecomorbiditycurator8018
      @thecomorbiditycurator8018 4 года назад +5

      yes, you have

    • @laescalera747
      @laescalera747 4 года назад +11

      You just didnt know it. Bless your heart.

    • @chelleroberson3222
      @chelleroberson3222 4 года назад

      Come to Texas

    • @chance2smoke
      @chance2smoke 4 года назад +2

      Oh bless your heart.

    • @Lilo-A
      @Lilo-A 3 года назад

      Think of it this way: it’s what you when you can’t think of anything nicer to say. It’s not necessarily negative, but it can be.

  • @heddajenn
    @heddajenn 6 лет назад +35

    What makes 'Bless your heart' such a special phrase is it can be BOTH sincere and sarcastic. Example - If we hear someone is in the hospital and the family is struggling, we would say 'bless their hearts' and mean it very sincerely. Or in a positive way - if a child brings their mother a flower (or you hear they did so) you would say 'bless your heart'. On the flip side, if someone bad happens to an asshole, instead of saying something directly nasty, you say 'bless their heart' as a way of being more politely/indirectly nasty, lol.
    BFE is really common, especially with those who prefer not to say fuck. It's also faster to say than the full phrase. Bumfuck Egypt, just means out in the middle of nowhere and far away. Egypt because it's both far away and famous for it's desert landscape, Bumfuck because the area being referenced is so remote it doesn't have a real name. Of course, many remote small towns WITH names get referred to as BFE. It's not inherently insulting, though, unless the speaker is using a nasty tone. An example of usage might be 'I'd like to visit my grandparents more often, but they live way out in BFE.'

    • @KHZ20244
      @KHZ20244 6 лет назад +2

      The Canadian version would be "Armpit, Saskatchewan"

    • @abbysmith4997
      @abbysmith4997 6 лет назад +1

      That is very true because my mom always says bless your little heart when I do something she asked or I was being considerate and thought ahead about something and did it for her or got an item for her.

  • @killrade4434
    @killrade4434 5 лет назад +101

    "Put on your clod hoppers it raining cat and dogs outside."
    And Bum F Egypt is a real thing that is said.

    • @shanewendell1569
      @shanewendell1569 5 лет назад +2

      Indeed! We typically shorten it to just “BFE”

    • @krisb5695
      @krisb5695 5 лет назад +1

      I have heard butt F of nowhere as like middle of no where

    • @paigecat9104
      @paigecat9104 5 лет назад

      YEE HAW!

    • @justinwilder3514
      @justinwilder3514 5 лет назад

      Or “East buddah” in Alabama, bfe is pretty common too lol

  • @theclimbto1
    @theclimbto1 6 лет назад +40

    Lost in the middle of BFE! Yes, it's an actual phrase. We can be up a creek... we can be up a creek without a paddle, but despair doesn't set in until we are in Bum-Effed Egypt.
    Why is it Egypt? I have no clue. And yes, the Bum-Effed portion would literally mean "I'm so lost I'm in a region of Egypt where I fear being sodomized". The reason this is funny/ironic is because we have our own 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'Deliverance' type areas in our Desert and Mountain areas... low populated places, potential in-breeding, and the fear of strangers being raped and murdered. So the idea that we have such places we could reference right here in America ourselves, that are absolutely stereo-typed in the same way... but then I guess Egypt is even further away than those places, lending to an 'even more lost' tone.
    So one could be 'up a creek where the hills have eyes', 'up a creek without a paddle in Deliverance'... and those would be BAD... but when you're in BFE, you're not even on the right Continent anymore.
    Oh, and you always seem to be IN THE MIDDLE of BFE. There's no taking two steps one way and being out... you're IN THERE. So, good luck to you!

    • @zaillonarbogast2874
      @zaillonarbogast2874 6 лет назад +1

      TheClimbTo1 the way my family and the people I know use it is more in the sense that your so lost you could be in Egypt for all you know it's never had the sexual contexts behind it, the bum f**ked bit was always just to Emphasize exactly how lost you were and nothing more. But hey that might have just been my family and friends

    • @williamlucas4656
      @williamlucas4656 6 лет назад

      TheClimbTo1 I actually think BFE is an old Brit military term copied by American soldiers.

    • @theclimbto1
      @theclimbto1 6 лет назад

      Which would make a ton of sense, as Colonialization would have Brits familiar with Egypt.
      Just makes it curious as to how this is a Southern expression and not something used across all of America.

    • @edcoolidge
      @edcoolidge 6 лет назад

      BFE is at least understood in the US, but not commonly used outside of the South apparently.

    • @kevinbergeman4069
      @kevinbergeman4069 6 лет назад

      BFE originated as US military slang. Probably during WWII, by soldier fighting in North Africia.

  • @IceMetalPunk
    @IceMetalPunk 4 года назад +6

    I'm not from the South, but I think the term "honky-tonk" is more used for country western bars, the kind you'd see real Southern cowboys in boots and ten-gallon hats attending regularly. With the occasional square dancing and mechanical bull. At least, that's what comes to my mind when I hear it.

    • @keithedwards9953
      @keithedwards9953 2 года назад

      Yeah, it's any type of hangout, (bar, club, etc.) that plays old style country music.

  • @sammytheturtle5307
    @sammytheturtle5307 6 лет назад +84

    That’s not what piddlin means in Tennessee. “I’m not doing much today. Just piddlin around in the garage.”
    Bless your heart can be when you feel sorry for someone too. “She broke her ankle? Bless her heart.”
    Clodhopper is used when you’re laying on the couch and someone lays on the other end, and hits you with their clodhopper. “Get your clodhopper off of me!”
    Honkytonk is a country music party or bar.
    Never heard of skew wiff lol maybe it’s here?
    BFE the f isn’t pronounced like the dirty word. Everybody around me says “Bum fuct Egypt” no k. I think it came from the Army? Idk lol

  • @DevilCruz13
    @DevilCruz13 6 лет назад +21

    And BFE is not offensive. It has to do with distance. Egypt is like 10,000 miles away from the States. So when the we say we're in BFE it means we are far from where we need to be....in other words we're most likely lost! lmao

  • @rosered235
    @rosered235 5 лет назад +182

    Everyone uses BFE. North and South. “I’m not coming to your house. You live in BFE.”

    • @paigecat9104
      @paigecat9104 5 лет назад +1

      We say the SAME THING!

    • @uniquelykarebear1917
      @uniquelykarebear1917 5 лет назад +2

      Same.

    • @matrixmary
      @matrixmary 4 года назад +1

      I know the phrase and have used it many times but I have never said BFE and honestly didn't know until they said it.

    • @Jidjdjj
      @Jidjdjj 4 года назад +5

      I’ve never heard of it til this video

    • @gone2bch
      @gone2bch 4 года назад +1

      There is a small town in Egypt named Bumfok

  • @adriarey
    @adriarey 4 года назад +5

    her : its like texas slang
    me , a texan : *smiles evilly*

  • @kymberlishea2036
    @kymberlishea2036 6 лет назад +56

    Just piddlin around. Just messin around not doing anything in particular

  • @stanlivengood9500
    @stanlivengood9500 6 лет назад +33

    "Fair to Midland " should actually be "Fair to middlin' (middling)," as in not great, not bad, but in the middle.

    • @CKG68
      @CKG68 6 лет назад +1

      I have found that it's usually used in response to, "How's the weather?"

  • @TheArtemis07
    @TheArtemis07 6 лет назад +16

    I’m from Georgia, and I live in Alabama,. I’ve never heard “mucking and gumming.” However, I do love the expression that we do something for “shits and giggles.” That means you do it just for the hell of it. No real reason.

    • @mikishealy2849
      @mikishealy2849 6 лет назад +1

      Artemis Chemistry I'm from s.c. and I've never heard it either.

    • @cameroncross4223
      @cameroncross4223 6 лет назад +1

      I’m from Alabama and I have never heard it but, I have heard mucking around or mucking about and also “shits and giggles”(my personal favorite).

  • @lisazinna1694
    @lisazinna1694 4 года назад +3

    My gramaw from Virginia always said, "bless your heart" when speaking compassionately about folks; especially children. Y'all seem to think the term is derogatory.

  • @505LandOfEntrapment
    @505LandOfEntrapment 6 лет назад +82

    Fixin is a thang! Fixin to go home! Fixin to go over to see my friend! Fixin lunch! Heard fixing more in Texas!!

    • @zephiernetecke7922
      @zephiernetecke7922 6 лет назад

      Yes because Southerners, especially Texans drop their g's, & make up their own contractions...

    • @skelatonking953
      @skelatonking953 6 лет назад

      I'm from Texas and until this I didn't realize fixin was it's own thing in the south I had thought everyone said it

    • @happyhoney3433
      @happyhoney3433 6 лет назад

      It's not just Texas. It's anywhere in the South

    • @kenadimcelroy5119
      @kenadimcelroy5119 6 лет назад

      @@skelatonking953 yeah I also thought others talked like that for awhile
      Until my friend told me

  • @dezzieb5935
    @dezzieb5935 6 лет назад +39

    Piddlin to us is wasting time

  • @FlatWorld_Jomhuri_Regime
    @FlatWorld_Jomhuri_Regime 6 лет назад +34

    “What you doing right now?”
    “Just piddling around my house”

  • @starcrafsf7101
    @starcrafsf7101 4 года назад +3

    Use of the phrase Clodhopper:
    “You are such a clodhopper”

  • @jesseMadoo
    @jesseMadoo 6 лет назад +42

    Frequently pronounced "catty-wampus"

  • @Stuie299
    @Stuie299 6 лет назад +26

    Clodhopper can also refer to someone who is awkward and clumsy.

    • @katvtay
      @katvtay 6 лет назад

      Stuie Malan Yeah, a bumpkin! I’ve never heard of it to describe shoes.

  • @heyokaempath5802
    @heyokaempath5802 5 лет назад +120

    Bless your heart is a Southern polite way to say "Aren't YOU special? 🤪"

    • @andreadelong2811
      @andreadelong2811 4 года назад +16

      Someone once told me it was southern for f***you

    • @sarayasanchez839
      @sarayasanchez839 4 года назад +6

      Andrea Delong lmao yup if you translate the passive aggressiveness in it than, basically. haha

    • @jessicasimeone8828
      @jessicasimeone8828 4 года назад

      I'm not from the south but I often say "Bless your stupid little heart" when I'm arguing with someone who is very ignorant and rude.

    • @TheTravelingCamper
      @TheTravelingCamper 4 года назад +1

      Lol, or a polite way of saying F’ you depending on circumstance and tone on which it was said.

    • @naptime7053
      @naptime7053 4 года назад

      LMAO I've always used it to insulate I'm shocked they are walking around and aren't drooling on themselves. 😂

  • @peachyedwards
    @peachyedwards 4 года назад +14

    There’s a lot of other ones too! Like eat corn through a picket fence, madder than a wet hen and living on high cotton 😂

    • @the.real.Deano.
      @the.real.Deano. 3 года назад

      Here in the south Va and the Carolinas we say "shittin in tall cotton" which is the same thing u know like u know comfortable or high class or nice. Also like eating high on the hog. Haha.

    • @tony_m_km6mzp
      @tony_m_km6mzp 2 года назад

      Don't forget about "i am as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room of rockin' chairs." or "I could 'poop' through a screen door right now" meaning I have liquid poop. I can't spell the correct word due to a disability i have.

  • @HomesteadingWays
    @HomesteadingWays 6 лет назад +145

    Bfe is used all over the states...

    • @graphiquejack
      @graphiquejack 6 лет назад +10

      Homesteading Ways I’ve heard of bum fuck nowhere, but not Bum fuck Egypt. Weird

    • @shannonberryhill9153
      @shannonberryhill9153 6 лет назад +7

      Definitely, BFE is real.

    • @haley_castle5265
      @haley_castle5265 6 лет назад +6

      I can 100% promise that bfe is not used in Tennessee. I haven't heard of half of the phrases they mentioned

    • @tylermac70
      @tylermac70 6 лет назад +8

      I'm from TN. BFE is common slang among the young.

    • @theartsywitch9811
      @theartsywitch9811 6 лет назад +4

      You know live in "Bfe" when you have to drive more than 15 to 20 minutes to go to a store or anything...growing up the nearest town that had any sort of amintities was 30 minutes or more down the road.. So when i move to the big city when people ask where your from most people have never heard of it.... Its also like saying out in the boondocks or boonies.....bc your literaly miles/kilometers from many necesities...

  • @samanthapayne77
    @samanthapayne77 6 лет назад +37

    hey y'all from Tennessee... clodhopper also means a clumsy ungraceful person, prone to accidents lol...

    • @drpaddi
      @drpaddi 6 лет назад +2

      and a country bumpkin. (Chattanooga)

    • @codyofathens3397
      @codyofathens3397 6 лет назад

      Hello fellow Tennesseeans!
      Country bumpkin is one of my favorite phrases (and songs). Lol.

    • @BarredCoast0
      @BarredCoast0 6 лет назад

      I've also heard that a clumsy ungraceful person, prone to accidents is called a "codknocker" at least in my part of Tennessee.

    • @CreechFamilyFavs
      @CreechFamilyFavs 6 лет назад

      Clodhopper means without any class or grace in my “neck of the woods” 😉

  • @neelycrombie1263
    @neelycrombie1263 6 лет назад +96

    But did you know the american southern accent comes from the British accent. Also , we totally say bless your heart. it can be sweet or totally mean and sarcastic

    • @RivetGardener
      @RivetGardener 6 лет назад +12

      Oh don't I know! A syrupy "bless your heart " from an angry Georgia girl can cut hotter than a steel knife .

    • @SwampRattler08
      @SwampRattler08 6 лет назад +5

      Actually the american southern accent comes mainly from scots and irish, or if you’re from Louisiana like me its a lot of french (which is why we sound the best)

    • @gretabruno2817
      @gretabruno2817 6 лет назад

      @@SwampRattler08
      Tennessee uses old English words and sayings
      Such as I sweaggy( means I declare)

    • @SwampRattler08
      @SwampRattler08 6 лет назад

      Greta Bruno are you sure thats what it means because i cant find that phrase anywhere

    • @gretabruno2817
      @gretabruno2817 6 лет назад

      @@SwampRattler08
      It is cause I may not have spelled it right.

  • @andreasamo7759
    @andreasamo7759 4 года назад +1

    Honky Tonk is like a dive bar where people country dance

  • @mkshffr4936
    @mkshffr4936 5 лет назад +87

    Kilt Joel.
    Herding cats is almost as difficult as nailing jello to the wall.

    • @jessicalaurin3064
      @jessicalaurin3064 5 лет назад +1

      Mk Shffr lmao... there is a South African wine called Herding Cats .... I first heard it from a dispatcher. He said I feel like I’ve been herding cats all day... Me I’m stealing that. Lol

    • @paigecat9104
      @paigecat9104 5 лет назад

      First i've heard of the jello part I LIKE IT!

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel Год назад

      OK I just flashed on comedy skits on TV, doing some of these things ..... nailing Jello to wall, herding cats etc..

  • @shannonlogue5585
    @shannonlogue5585 6 лет назад +32

    BFE = farther away than "yonder" We say B.F.E. to keep from saying the F-word. It's more polite. The F-word is for emphasis to imply that you have to drive so far to get there and so far away from any known landmarks that you could be in Egypt by the time you get thefe and not know the difference. "Where the "F" am I? Did I miss my turn?"

    • @cynthialuvlight2480
      @cynthialuvlight2480 6 лет назад +1

      Shannon Logue, Best answer, loved your comment. 💖👍👍

    • @cynthialuvlight2480
      @cynthialuvlight2480 6 лет назад +1

      Steve Slade, yup! That too!

    • @amystevlingson4409
      @amystevlingson4409 6 лет назад

      BFE basically means in the middle of nowhere and we actually also sometimes say “bum f*** nowhere” instead - which is nice if one wishes to avoid, you know, OFFENDING anyone in/from Egypt 😉 But no one ever abbreviates that phrase to BFN

    • @codyofathens3397
      @codyofathens3397 6 лет назад

      Just curious, did anyone else grow up hearing "halfway between BFE and you gotta purty mouf"? I mentioned it in my comment, but I haven't seen anyone else mention it. Born SC, raised Virginia, unsuccessfully adulting in TN. Have lived in Florida, NC, too, and I've heard this my whole life.

    • @m.graham2057
      @m.graham2057 6 лет назад

      BFE = Timbuktu

  • @tangerinefizz11
    @tangerinefizz11 6 лет назад +46

    "Piddlin' around" can also refer to idling.

    • @3headedpuppy
      @3headedpuppy 6 лет назад +5

      Delilah Hart that's how I always heard it too "quite piddlin' around"

    • @SternLX
      @SternLX 6 лет назад +7

      "What'r you up too?"
      "Oh, just piddlin' around."

    • @dandearman2871
      @dandearman2871 6 лет назад +3

      Doing something but not accomplishing much of anything, "Piddlin around".

    • @mr.beepers2119
      @mr.beepers2119 6 лет назад +1

      I swear I've heard Karl Pilkington say piddlin'.

    • @danparker1976
      @danparker1976 6 лет назад

      Delilah Hart you are correct

  • @houston3987
    @houston3987 4 года назад

    I’m from rural North Carolina, maybe I can elaborate a little bit for you guys. Firstly, ab half of these words or phrases never get brought up in conversation; And a couple I’ve never heard. The ones I list and talk ab get brought up occasionally.
    Piddling: Pid•len - To mess around, or do something at a leisurely pace. “He’s just piddling around in the yard.”
    Gumming (guam/ guammed) Ga•um - If something is “guamed” up, then its cluttered or stopped up. “Call the plumber, the sink is all guammed up”
    Bless your heart : Y’all we’re right on this one. However, the context was wrong. It can be said snarky for sure, but a lot of sweet old ladies around here will say the phrase sincerely.
    Catawampus : Yes you got this one right too, but it’s a pretty dated term. Only gonna here it from old timers. Another word for “catawamus” is si-goggling. Means to be off to the side, or just not straight. “That old road starts si-goggling after you get up the hill.” This is another term you’ll still only here old timers say.
    Bonus terms, one you’ll actually here in frequent conversation if you head to the more rural south.
    Plumb: something drastic, or bolding. “My neighbor wasn’t paying attention on his lawnmower, and ran it plumb through my fence!”
    Kindly: Though this is already a word with it’s own definition. Some w thick enough accents when saying “kind of / kinda” will say kindly in place. “I don’t quite know how to explain what I saw, it was kindly unworldly.”
    And btw, NASCAR sucks. It’s only somewhat enjoyable if your plastered. If I’m gonna sit around and watch loud cars turn left for hours, best believe I’ll be drunk off my ass.

  • @susanfluck2538
    @susanfluck2538 6 лет назад +30

    BFE is used all over and not just in the south. You should do a secret vlog where you use these phrases in like a restaurant or a bar and record the reactions of people. I think that would be hilarious.

    • @DarkstarGamingLive
      @DarkstarGamingLive 6 лет назад

      yea my parents and i both grew up saying it and i'm from new york

    • @cherokeeMamaw
      @cherokeeMamaw Год назад

      Another version of that would be out in the boonies.

  • @samanthapayne77
    @samanthapayne77 6 лет назад +121

    we are not offended by "the Bible belt".. most southerners are hard to offend because we don't give a shit what people think LOL

  • @qwerty5843
    @qwerty5843 6 лет назад +41

    I've always used piddlin' to mean wasting time. So you would say for example "quit piddlin' and hurry up!"

    • @Reyn_Roadstorm
      @Reyn_Roadstorm 6 лет назад +1

      I've heard that and the definition they used. Something like "a piddlin' amount of money" comes to mind, like if you find 3 cents on the ground. It's just about not even worth bothering with.

    • @bufordtjustice4362
      @bufordtjustice4362 6 лет назад +2

      Qwerty 88 that's exactly what it means. I live in south alabama and have never ever heard it used by their definition.
      "Quit piddlin and get in here. Im fixin to goto the store and need you to watch the baby."

    • @michaelguido478
      @michaelguido478 6 лет назад +1

      piddly (sp) means small amounts of something piddlin means you're pissin off somewhere when you probably should be doing something better

    • @urthboundmisfit
      @urthboundmisfit 6 лет назад

      It definitely derives from "piddling" or peeing. The notion of something being worth less than a pot of piss is definitely there somewhere in the cultural matrix.

  • @FrankFomby
    @FrankFomby 4 года назад +2

    Just discovered this channel. Loved it. Subscribed. And yes, BFE is absolutely used in Georgia and South Carolina, and it predates cell phones. Usually used by southerns as to avoid actually verbally being vulgar.

  • @jordan84
    @jordan84 6 лет назад +38

    Texas is its own thing because it’s so big, but culturally Texas is VERY MUCH southern. Anyway states like North Carolina have different southern dialects, like Appalachian, to Outer Banks Brogue(which almost sounds British).

    • @WyndeDancer
      @WyndeDancer 6 лет назад +3

      You're exactly right regarding the different dialects in North Carolina. Virginia has diverse southern dialects as well. I love hearing them all and guessing which part of NC or VA people are from.

    • @lunarplexus2997
      @lunarplexus2997 6 лет назад +2

      us north carolinians do sound different

    • @jeninthemorning1256
      @jeninthemorning1256 6 лет назад +1

      I'd say that there are several distinct cultures in Texas due to it's size. East Texas and the gulf are more like the south but when you are west of 75, it feels a lot more like the southwest with more native and Mexican culture blending in.

    • @sayUlumme79
      @sayUlumme79 6 лет назад

      We do ? I know alot of people from other places in NC that I think sound so country and I think I don't sound like that.😂 I lived in Virginia for a while when I was really young, I thought maybe that's why I think I sound different. Well, I lived in VA again when I was older and everyone thought I was from Georgia !! I guess I sound more country than I thought.

  • @Bageera63
    @Bageera63 6 лет назад +194

    BFE is not a prank. Many people say it. Another saying is...He lives so far out he has to pay for his sunshine. Or how about this one...He lives way out in the boonies.

    • @BigBossTussBall
      @BigBossTussBall 6 лет назад +8

      Bageera Sixtythree In Missouri, which, yes, we are a southern state, we just say "Bum Fucking nowhere" or "Bum-fuck nowhere" probably in reference to the film "Deliverence".

    • @pennywize2894
      @pennywize2894 6 лет назад +20

      Or out in the sticks

    • @MrOneandlonley
      @MrOneandlonley 6 лет назад +12

      I grew up in the boonies.

    • @lidlett9883
      @lidlett9883 6 лет назад +8

      Out where God lost his tennis shoe.

    • @comandermcgarrett7795
      @comandermcgarrett7795 6 лет назад +2

      Bageera Sixtythree i just looked up what bfe meant today.

  • @chuckvt5196
    @chuckvt5196 6 лет назад +47

    So, it is not "Fair to Midland" but rather, "Fair to Middling." It has morphed into many folks now saying "Fair to Midland", but the original phrase using "Middling" goes back to the early 1800s, and the expression using "Midland" is something much more recent and stems from folks originally just not hearing the correct work "Middling." The nicer alternative to being in the middle of nowhere is "We were out in East Japeepee!"

    • @gretchensmith2852
      @gretchensmith2852 6 лет назад +5

      How interesting. I've only ever seen "fair to middling" shortened to "fair to middlin.'"

    • @themoviedealers
      @themoviedealers 6 лет назад +2

      East BF is always the construction that I heard in New York, never Egypt.

    • @shaneg9081
      @shaneg9081 6 лет назад +1

      Thanks for typing it out before me.

    • @blacksatinelove
      @blacksatinelove 6 лет назад +1

      I live in England and we use fair to middling

    • @chuckvt5196
      @chuckvt5196 6 лет назад

      Very true, Gretchen! I myself say "Fair to Middlin;"! The actual text is "middling", but "Middlin" is an acceptable abbreviation of "middling"! Midland came about originally from folks mishearing the correct version.