Brit Reacts to Guessing What These Southern US Words Mean

[@LadyCarol77]

Depending on the context, "bless your heart" can be a polite-ish way to say eff you.

[@Anonymously-speaking]

Or to make it seem like you’re not insulting somebody when you are like, for instance “she’s the worst driver on the planet… bless her heart”

[@darcyjorgensen5808]

Only in the South is a shopping cart called a “buggy”.

[@karenh.]

I was fixin' to repair the cabinet door because it was all cattywampus, but I ended up piddling around trying to find the doohickey for that whatchamacallit.😂 Im from Texas, and heard all of these growing up in the 60's... Except mudd'n. That one is more recent.

[@jikook7457]

I understood everything u said 🙂 I'm not southern, but West Virginians are hillbillys so it comes naturally to us. Except the fixin to, I learned that when I moved to florida.

[@Xassaw]

Ohhh my gosh, SO WELL SAID! Ya dun fergot ta eat yer hoecake tho, or are ya plum out!

[@buffalobill9958]

Mudd'n has been around awhile. I'm 30 and it was around when I was a kid. Though I grew up on dirt bikes and four wheelers so we'd also take the wheelers mudd'n.

[@karenh.]

@@buffalobill9958 .. ok more recent to me is within the last 25-30 years, I'm over 65. 😉

[@YaoiFan22]

@@jikook7457 I understood and I only knew doohickey and fixin' before this video.

[@darcyjorgensen5808]

A “push chair” is a stroller.

[@bamachine]

Lived in the south for 52 years, "plumb" means three different things, depending on the context. It can be the "plumb tired" described in the video. It can also mean something is perfectly level, builders often use something called a "plumb bob" to line up vertical level. You will hear something like "that counter is perfectly plumb". Also it can mean the act of installing plumbing. Like so, "Bob is going to plumb the new bathroom today".

[@xzonia1]

Yes, I've heard it used all these ways. It's a versatile word. :)

[@paulinesoares3594]

In the south we have many meanings for “you good” 1. Are you full- food 2 no harm done 3 you ok? 4 got enough money? 5 don’t worry about it.

[@xzonia1]

Right as rain :)

[@lesscoRyden]

Howdy Y'all. Was piddling around the other day over yonder makin some hoecakes, but I forgot to throw the collards in the buggy when I was at the market.. they came out all catawapus so we just tossed them in the commode and when the kids threw a hissy I told em to hold their horses it ain't no hill of beans, we'd just have some hoppin john and go muddin instead.

[@alanpeterson4939]

“I’d rather” is shortened to “I druther”

[@HappyValleyDreamin]

That's what I thought, too, choice!

[@gnomebanta2297]

Druthers comes from “would rather” in first person, so “I’d ruther” turned into “druther”. To me a doohickey is often specifically something that has a function. It’s a DO-hickey, hickey meaning thing. Like calling someone out on a fancy watch, “that doohickey you got there” or you don’t want to use the complicated name for it cause you just summing up the process, “so you mess with the doohickey and set it to this much and then flip this switch”

[@marytwinn1612]

get a doohickey from the thingamajig to fix the whatchamacallit.

[@nicole06964]

Don’t forget to use the thingamabob

[@tracyfitch4873]

I was born and raised in Georgia and I didn’t know a few of these. I think southern words are definitely regional. Also, commode is specifically the toilet, not bathroom or restroom. Like, we don’t say “I’m going to the commode”. You might say, “the commode is clogged” or “I need to clean the commode”. And, we commonly leave off the “g” in words that end in “ing”, like “goin”, “fixen”, “needin”, etc.

[@happypraise9426]

Yep, no need for "g"

[@courtneymartinez8639]

Same here, I leave the “g” off tons of words. I also say “lota” instead of “ lot of”

[@sherryb5369]

Same here, I'm from New Orleans. Ain't is a good word, it has a lot of meanings if you think about it.

[@andromedaspark2241]

Huh, I kinda thought commode was a word used in most the country. Old fashioned but universally understood.

[@jikook7457]

Being an American, hearing someone say I'm going to the toilet, gives me the icks lol it sounds crass to my ears.

[@parkedavis6565]

I'm from South Carolina and piddling definitely does mean "piddling around". Piddling is really just doing busy work around your shop or going through your stuff. Nothing of consequence. To "piddle" means to waste time on something.

[@lesscoRyden]

Cackalacky represent!

[@MudderToad]

From SC as well, and totally agree. I think some of these terms can vary regionally, as Texas over to the Carolinas then up to Virginia get lumped into "The South" which is a HUGE area. One word that would be good to see on the list is "yonder."

[@LoopyTexMex]

Texas too! Never heard piddling in the definition he got from Google. We say everything without the "g" just like fixin'. "I'm fixin' to go to HEB. Y'all need anything?"

[@bonniecarlson608]

I'm from Alabama, and I use it both ways: Piddling around or something is piddling (nothing, doesn't matter)

[@thegravy42]

I’m also from SC and I have always used as a term for f’ing off

[@marlainalindsey3279]

I'm from the south and doohickey is so common lol 😂😂😂

[@TanyaQueen182]

I was born and raised in Boston and my family always said doohickey and thingamabob lol. I live in the South now, and the slang down here is something else. Like a whole new language hahah I love it all!

[@TanyaQueen182]

ours was thingamabob lol @@mamaw757

[@geminiecricket4798]

I was born in Texas and we brought that word to Southern California 1956 and still use it today.

[@happypraise9426]

​@TanyaQueen182 Born & raised in Louisiana & you're right, it is a different language. This guy haven't even scratched the surface 😅

[@xzonia1]

@@happypraise9426 So true! Here's some more slang he might not know: shoot the breeze whopper-jawed bread-and-butter pig in a poke pigs in a blanket caterwauling fit to be tied lickety split spin a yarn :)

[@donaldinnewmexico]

Fixin is also an ingredient for cooking.

[@greyblue92]

yep! Get a hot dog with all the fixins and trimmings. One of my relatives from North Carolina asked for a "plain hot dog" expecting it to have "slawfer" on it (cole slaw) and probably mustard but instead she got just a hot dog on a bun and my grandparents thought this was hilarious. Never liked cole slaw on hot dogs personally. I think slaw as a topping is more of a southern thing.

[@oktomcat]

Some of these words are not only used in the south. Growing up in New York, I have heard "hissy", "commode", "piddling", "doohickey", "hush up" and "buggy" (even though shopping cart is mostly used in NY) used.

[@nathanmclaughlin304]

When explaining a complex computer issue "Jus plug the doohickey into the thingamajig but make sure you dont let it get all catawampus or you might be fixn to screw something up and end up with a piddling excuse for a laptop and might as well throw it into the commode"

[@Anonymously-speaking]

👏 😂

[@susanstanley1746]

Some people eat blackeyed peas on new years day for good luck I never heard of the hopping John food though

[@robynbeach3198]

I've heard southerners call a regular toilet the commode, but generally speaking, a commode is more like the portable chair version of a bed pan. It's used in Healthcare for people who can be assisted to stand and pivot to sit up on a chair and go in a plastic bucket, but can't yet walk to the bathroom. It's like a transition from laying in bed and using the bed pan to being able to go to the bathroom. Sometimes the bucket is taken out and they're put over the toilet because they're higher and easier to stand up from. Shower chairs for the elderly and handicapped are also equipped to be used as commodes, and since they have wheels you can put a patient in a shower chair, let them do their business in the bucket and then remove it to clean it out, or wheel it over the toilet, and then wheel them straight into an accessible shower, and with the bucket removed the toilet style seat allows you to reach important areas to wash them.

[@sady954]

I'm from North Carolina and mudding is known here. Another common word used around here is "yonder"

[@ralphwilson6859]

I'm from the south we use all but I also like to use thingamajig instead of doohickey

[@Marndarrr]

Druther: “I’d rather” mashed together. “Druther eat later, I’m full now.” Pretty common where I’m from in Texas but we’d never spell it out like that. Druthers: “preference.” Never heard it used until Lawrence’s video.

[@xzonia1]

I've heard it both ways, druther for when talking about oneself usually (druther eat later) and druthers for other people (his druthers is to go on Sunday).

[@Marndarrr]

I’d use “he’druther go on Sunday,” but I can absolutely see someone with a stronger or different accent using “druthers.”

[@thoughtsofamisfit9008]

Buggy is only used in some areas of the country… we just call them carts 🛒 here in the buckeye state (Ohio)

[@-EchoesIntoEternity-]

since when is Ohio considered part of the South? ya realize the video is about Southern terms.

[@HappyValleyDreamin]

Yep! Here in Colorado, same.

[@cougarjrv9890]

Lewis! I'm from Minnesota (north) and when my husband and I moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma (south) and I swear to God, the first thing I heard was a lady on her phone saying, "I'm fixin' to pick up Bubba in 10 minutes." Not only was "fixin' to" alien to me, but I quickly learned that a lot of males on the south are called Bubba and females are called Sissy. We've since moved to Arkansas, and I'm still learning new Southern phrases.

[@task_master6115]

"I'm commoding" had me dying 🤣 I'm definitely saying that in the future

[@terrieannschmearer]

Hoe cakes were originally cooked on a heated hoe (as in the garden tool). I only know this because we had a pioneer village outside of town and during Harvest Festival they would make hoe cakes.

[@marywinn8953]

I lived in Florida, Alabama, and Georgia. When you tell someone you have just been piddling, they know exactly what you're talking about.

[@revgurley]

Born and raised southerner. This is cracking me up. "Buggy" is the thing you push around getting groceries. "Fixin'" is "I'm about to..." Druthers - kind of like "options." "If I had my druthers, I wouldn't go to Sally's party." Hoecake and cornbread are basically synonyms, just the shape is a bit different. "Catywumpus" means crooked, off-center. "That mirror you put up is all catywumpus." Piddling is less than you expect, or a small amount. Commode is a toilet. (I laughed too hard at the next one) Doohickey is any object that you can't think of the name of. "Hey, husband? Can you grab the doohickey off the porch? I need to clean it." Hoppin' John is black eyed peas mixed with other stuff. The liquid on the bottom is great for soaking your Hoecake in. If someone is very angry, especially for no apparent reason, they're having a hissy fit (or hissy). Luckily, I've lived in mostly urban areas of the South, so I haven't gone "mudding," but I hear it's lots of fun to watch.

[@FrankEPotts]

The liquid at the bottom of the black eyed peas is called Pot Liquor.😊

[@blaowtousai]

Buggy can also be like a go-cart "Hop in my buggy and lets see how muddy we can get." Might even be able to throw a "Yumpta" in there to make it a question for anybody else if they want to do that. "Yumpta hop in my buggy?" Fixin is also all the goodies you put in things like salads or tacos. So the lettuce, cheese, tomato all together or by themself can simply be called a fixin or you can pluralize it "Fixins" "Let me get all them fixins on my sandwich" and yes, its southern dialect so the grammar used (if any) is optional.

[@nrrork]

The thing is, when we hear these words used out in real world conversation, it's always _in context,_ so even of it's a word you never heard before, you can usually infer what it means.

[@helencantimagine]

Born and raised in Tennessee. I've heard and used these words my whole life. When I was a single girl I had a 4x4 truck and went mudding in my truck. I was an hour late to my first date with my husband because I had gotten stuck in the mud.

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

"Fixing" means to prepare to do something. "I'm fixing to go to town" means "I'm preparing to go to town." It's kinda like the word "gonna", which of course, means "going to". But just highly stylized within Southern Slang. Elsewhere, we tend to say "getting ready to". I'm getting ready to go to town.

[@jooleebilly]

My mom was from the south, and my grandpa was born and raised in Tommyhawk, Kentucky. I loved the way he'd say things like "Pass me that there doohickey" Or "Dooflippey" or Dooflunkey." He also had this way of telling a story or a joke (a dad joke, not a funny one) and if you didn't react, he'd say "Say" to elicit a response. Sometimes a few times in a row until I'd moan "Very funny, grandpa." Because I was 14 and everything was lame in my little baby mind. I miss him. He made the best fried apples and pancakes. And he'd make cornbread, and with the leftovers he'd cut them into chunks, put them into a tall glass, and pour milk over top of 'em and eat it like a breakfast cereal. I do that to this day! I also make black eye peas and hamhocks with cornbread and rice and greens for New Year's Day for good luck with money. Also because it's so very delicious I can't live without it. I'd like to be christened an honorary Southerner for all the foods and people I grew to love when I lived in the South. It's not my fault my parents settled in Northern California! Okay, I love it here too. But OMG the memories I treasure from Florida and Georgia ... and eating Aunt Reba's cooking!

[@xzonia1]

Home is where the heart is. If the South is in your heart, you're an honorary Southerner for sure. :)

[@Thejxns]

I’m from Kentucky, Tomahawk isn’t far from us. If you’re eating your black-eyed peas and pouring cold milk over your cornbread, you can definitely call yourself a southerner…even if it is, at heart! …and I laughed so hard when I read that your Grandpa would use ‘say’, to illicit a response. My Dads side of the family are more deep seated than my moms side and they still do that. When my brother sees someone he hasn’t seen in awhile he happily says “say!”. It’s kinda like Whaddya say or What do you say, or How are you. LOL

[@BrLoc]

Being told to Hush makes me feel like I'm 8 years old again.

[@krosanknight]

For me doohicky is used when you want someone to hand you something but you forgot what it's called. For example you're putting together some ikea lost in the instructions and forget what the allen wrench is called

[@jamesashton9546]

plumb in construction comes from the bubble on a level, the bubble is plumb if its between the lines, then its flush, its lined up

[@ReneeHydrick]

Hoecakes are delicious! They are basically cornbread pancakes. Cornbread is made with corn meal. Hush Puppies are the bomb, as well. They are fried balls of cornbread dough, which are even better with different sauces. Ketchup or honey butter are the most popular, but they're also great with tartar sauce, cocktail sauce, a nice remoulade...

[@JulieHoffstadt]

“Druthers” is a portmanteau of “I’d rather “. In construction term, “plumb” means “completely straight” or “completely level,” so “plumb” is completely full.

[@josephmedford2233]

A pram is a baby buggy. So, veery close. Catawampus, cattywampus, caddywampus, skywampus are all synonyms. Piddly is small, piddling is boondoggling.

[@JaimeMason]

We use "Hissy fit" regularly. It's when someone is really upset, they're having a hissy fit.

[@cherie5133]

Born and raised in the south and muddin is done only with 4x4 trucks, jeeps, or SUVs unless you happen to enjoy getting stuck in the mud. It’s a whole thing with a bonfire by the mud hole and lots of beer drinking. So much fun.

[@Blondie42]

"I ordered a pizza and got all the fixin's," meaning everything you would expect to see on the slice (the whole pie) is on it. Is how I've learned fixin'

[@GaryParrish-tg6ky]

I'm from Texas and when we say mudden. It means to take a 4 wheel drive truck. That's lifted or jacked up and go play in the mud tour. You tried to get stuck and then get unstuck from sinking so deep in the mud.😊

[@pegasusgold50]

'Hissy' fit- like a cat being upset at another cat, hissing, being upset.

[@crescentmoonchild4031]

I’m from the south. So love this!😂

[@moonfisher]

Cattawampus is regional. We also say cattycorner, kittycornered, and whopperjawed, lol. Your UK equivalent might be the word wonky. In California, most folks just say crooked, askew, misaligned, etc.

[@RaeMcCarver]

Here in central Alabama, going mudding is legit a thing. Big pickup truck, huge mud tires, driving hard and fast through mud bogs. I just know this guy (Lewis?) would LOVE mud riding. Somebody chime in and describe it for him. Rolller coaster meets mud wrestling, maybe?

[@ericdabear]

I would use caution with piddling because it can indeed mean "going number 1". but as his video also says, it means "not a lot". So when my grandmother would say "It looked like it was going to rain but it's just piddling".. it's a *ahem* weak stream. I think his definition would be more what my grandmother would call a "p*ss ant" common for plumb "I'm plumb tuckered out!" or as I think you say, knackered!

[@jikook7457]

"Druthers" is an amalgamation of "I'd rather". Like, I'd rather be at the beach. Aka, if I had my druthers, I'd be at the beach. There's even a song called "if I had my druthers", from the 1970s. Idk why it's not drathers, with an a from rAther. Being hissy, meaning upset, would be called pissy, like pouty, whiny, tantrum, in the north

[@coffeelover5780]

When my dog is excited, he piddles on the floor

[@Aaronunderwoodmusic]

“I’m takin a Doohickey” might be the the best line ever

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

Plumb means level with the ground due to gravity. Like when you install a fence post in ground, you use a spirit level to make sure each side is straight up and down with gravity.

[@timesurfingalien]

6:33 piddling=insignificant

[@hosswik]

Speaking as someone from KY I am going to answer these as they pop up. Buggy: will either refer to a shopping cart/trolley or more often it is used for when something is not working how it’s supposed to. Fixin: getting ready to do something or it can be used to refer to turkey stuffing. Druthers: is not used anywhere around me. Hoecake: I had no idea. Catawampus: Gone sideways/off track. Piddling: pathetic/small Commode: Toilet. Doohickey: Random gadget or thing you can’t remember what it is. Hush up: be quite or I’ll make you be quite. Plumb: completely. Hoppin John: never heard it used around here. Washateria: never heard it used around here. Hissy: whiney Mudding: going off roading.

[@CoolPaDuke]

"Druthers" is a smash up of "would rather".

[@brianburton6154]

Born and raised in Florida, ive never heard the word buggy, used to describe a shopping cart, or a grocery cart. We just use the term cart. What I heard because of his thick British accent was boogie, wich means to dance or let's go!

[@ejcarroll123]

I’m from Georgia and that’s the word we use for shopping cart

[@nancyfried7239]

Florida ain’t considered southern since mostly Yankees live there so of course you don’t know buggy.

[@txmap]

Piddling is more like wasting time, or fidgeting with something, or trying to fix something. "We had an hour before our appointment, so we just piddled around." Piddly is the word we use for the definition he gave. "I got a raise, but it was a piddly amount."

[@CoteAndre]

Piddling must be a regional variation. In New England, we say "piddly". It means miniscule or insignificant. "I got a piddly raise at work."

[@TheValwood]

We use fixin' in Texas. We also use 'fix' to mean prepare...Like I would say, "I'm gonna fix dinner." Some of the words I didn't know either, but Texas is only marginally known as part of the South.

[@fermisparadox01]

I reckon I'm fixin to go fix dinner

[@catherinesearles1194]

Plumb used as an adjective as in plumb crazy means beyond crazy or plumb used in construction - mean aligned

[@crowdedisolation]

Yes, all those words are used in the South. When I moved here from the midwest to the south I was constantly asking what words meant. LOL A toboggan is a knit cap worn in the winter....not a sled. A sled is called a sleigh even if there are no horses pulling it. It's crazy stuff like that that I had to get used to.

[@jayeharrison4533]

I’m plum tuckered out after running all those errands, and I never did find the doohickey I need to fix the truck.

[@JaimeMason]

Hush or hush up, is usually reserved for kids, elders also use it for ppl much younger than them.

[@nicoley2133]

piddling also happens when a puppy gets too excited lol

[@aggravatedHart]

Born and raised in Georgia; family in Alabama, Florida, South Carolina and Virginia; lived in North Carolina for over a decade and never heard the words Druthers, Hoppin John, or Washateria.

[@JaimeMason]

Mudding is not just when you accidentally drive thru mud. It's an activity. All those big trucks & 4 wheel drive SUVs, drive thru mud for fun. You go around & around thru the mud. It was fun when I was a kid, but I don't see the point now. GREAT VIDEO!

[@valeriekokenge659]

The south has their own vocabulary! Rabbits are bunny not buggy. There are many names for shopping carts in various places. The south says buggy. Druthers is “I’d rather”. We have pancakes, hotcakes or flapjacks made with flour but hoecakes are made with cornmeal. Piddling means all those things. Doohickey is a “thing” like doodad or thingamabob. Plumb is utterly, completely. Hoppin John is black eyed peas and rice. You eat it at new year’s dinner for good luck in the coming year. Washateria is a laundromat. Hissy fits are tantrums. Going mudding is driving thru mud

[@k-ro3746]

I'm familiar with catawapus, but sometimes in the Ozark Mountains where I grew up I heard it substituted with "whopperjawed". An example, "Clyde cain't build fer shit. That thing is plumb whopperjawed." In the mountainous regions of the South there was traditionally a strong Scotch Irish influence that produced a very strong "R" sound. It has faded a lot with time and the mountains being much less remote than they used to be due to many roads and highways being paved through them. Plus the Advent of satellite television and technology has exposed people to more mainstream language that has in many ways killed the traditional Scotch Irish words and accent.

[@dianesims8587]

Druthers is an amalgamation of “I’d rather”

[@JessicaRice-fm6od]

A buggy is what you put food in while your shopping

[@tomlevi2106]

I use "fixin' to" all the time. I'm fixin' to go to work." It's an older term but I still hear it

[@margotjones7168]

Kentucky here: I knew them all except "hoe cake", which I thought might be the same as "johnny cake" (sweet cornbread) and "hoppin' John". We just have black-eyed peas on NYD, no rice.

[@sabredesatanas518]

I'm southern, I knew and have probably used them all! LOL

[@calebS.Buddy_Rich_Best_Soloist]

My grandma always says the old buggy. It was passed on. She pushed my mother in it and she pushed me in it too on walks when I was little, she was pushed in it too when she was a baby, I think she gave it to my sister and now my sister is using it with her kids. Buggy is an old word for stroller

[@tanya41277]

My grandmother used piddle as a term for going to the bathroom. "Honey, can you try to piddle before we get in the car" we are in the north though.

[@CCRedMaiden83]

Mudding is used for four wheeling in my area

[@oktomcat]

I have had Hopin' Jon but did not know that it was called "Hopin' Jon". We just called it "Blackeyed Peas and Rice". We often added ground beef to it. It is good. You should try it.

[@txmap]

I know what catawampus is, but I never say that. In my family, when something is crooked, we say it's womper-jawed.

[@kimberlydawne]

I know I'm late to this video, but I wanted to recommend a channel called Landon Talks A Lot. He gives a daily lesson on words and activities specific to the southern United States in such a genteel manner. If you would like a humorous channel, I suggest It's A Southern Thing. I really enjoy your videos. Blessings from Texas.

[@TomBoyChic79]

From Tennessee. My grandma used to say pissy instead of hissy and call it a pissy fit😂

[@JaimeMason]

Hoppin John is food, usually reserved for New Years day. It has Black eyed peas, cabbage & some more stuff. My Grand used to make it & it's delicious.

[@sue3317]

I had a coworker tell others I was using inappropriate language at work. Had to explain what doohickey meant in the south (where I was from.) Used the word thingamajig as an example. They thought that was obscene as well. :)

[@TanyaQueen182]

the first time I ever heard someone use the term "Dongle" I was at work and overheard a coworker say "I'm going to go get the dongle our of my car." I thought my coworker was gonna get fired for saying that word at work. 🤣

[@Marndarrr]

They the same people that fire english teachers who teach homophones and also call everyone else a snowflake? 😂

[@xzonia1]

I got in trouble at work once after having surgery because I brought a medical device to work to help me wipe after using the toilet, and some of my coworkers saw it and thought it was a very different thing (for self pleasure, if you know what I mean). Good grief! I had to explain it to my supervisor, and she couldn't forbid me from bringing it to work to use, but asked me to hide it in a bag so no one would see it and get offended. Lol. Some people are too much!

[@Marndarrr]

Just gotta throw the words “hoozymawhatsit” and “whatamajigger” in this thread, too. I love these supercalifragilisticexpialidocious words.

[@sherryb5369]

At some restaurants fixins are side dishes like french fries or onion rings, etc. We piddle around, you're correct. No...hissy fit is correct. I'm from New Orleans , ya'll did real well. I heard you say, reckon, that's a Southern term and you used it properly. I'm proud of you.😊😊

[@danielleslater9301]

We called them shopping carts, not buggies here in California.

[@terrieannschmearer]

We always called the toilet the commode and the bathroom sink was the lavatory.

[@robynbeach3198]

I had no idea about "buggy" meaning shopping cart when I moved to Georgia. In Iowa a "buggy" is pulled by a horse. Amish use them more than anyone else.

[@Sobergirl_]

It’s mud’n . You don’t use the g when you say it in the South. Just like fix’n or fit’n to do something. My dad would always say “piddle fart’n” around. He would also say “rastlin” for Wrestling.

[@angiehh516]

I’m from Tennessee and piddling definitely means “I’m just piddlin around” doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

[@HappyValleyDreamin]

I always thought it was like, my dog piddles when she gets excited, greeting people. Okay!

[@Desibeatnik]

"fixing to' has evolved into "finna" in gen z slang

[@daricetaylor737]

Cheese hoecake with jalapeno peppers is AMAZING!!!! They are basically cornmeal batter fried like a pancake, topped with lots of butter.

[@xzonia1]

@@mamaw757 I just googled, and hoecakes look like a stack of pancakes. Poppers are jalapenos stuffed with cheese, coated with a flour batter, and deep fried. Not the same thing.

[@klycan33]

Im in the PNW in WA State and I knew most of these. We dont use them regularly but Ive heard of them.

[@wyllowyck2826]

Y'all made me laugh hard with this video. Y'all come on down!

[@lydiababineaux900]

down here fixin is like you want chicken and fixins sides to a main dish

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

Mudding usually means to go 4-wheeling thru muddy terrain.

[@GentleRain21]

Fixin' is always followed by to. Fixin' to whatever. It actually makes sense in that fixing food is preparing food and fixin' to is preparing to and there is never a "g" on the end. I've NEVER heard washateria and have lived in 4 different Southern states throughout my life. I think somehow the druthers as a word thing evolved with the internet making things up. It's more of a Southerner saying "I'd ruther" (I'd rather - with an accent) and running it together as one word like "Jeet"

[@Omni-Blast]

I'm in the South too and say fixin to a lot. lol I'm actually fixin to go to HEB to get some groceries. 😂

[@xzonia1]

Washateria is Texan. I've heard druthers my whole life, but what in the world does Jeet mean? Lol X)

[@GentleRain21]

@@xzonia1 Did you eat? Often, Jeet yet? In North Carolina.

[@Kelley_cant_Get_Right]

I’m so southern it hurts and don’t know a few

[@CalicoShoes]

I’m from WI originally and have heard and/or used 85% of these.

[@CarinRutherfordCreel]

Boogie (Buggy 😂) the first word, boogie would mean to dance, i.e. to boogie down to disco music. A buggy is anything with wheels and seat, i.e., a baby trolley or pram, a shopping cart, a horse and buggy, a Volkswagen bug (love bug). 😅 Hoecake is a sort of cornmeal and buttermilk hotcake, pancake, cornbread cake. Piddling, etymologically began as meaning to waste time doing something of unimportance, also means pissing away time, or piddling around. Commode, this word began as meaning a piece of washroom furniture used to hold a large jug of water and large bowl (sink sized) for washing one’s face, shaving, brushing teeth, etc before running water was available in homes. Nowadays, still a piece of washroom furniture, but describes the toilet of water (self explanatory)😅 Druthers is slang for the words I would rather, or I’d rather, or I druther, as in I druther eat a whole cow than eat a cat. It is commonly utilized to compare things, with the druther one being the preferred item. Doohickey is a very informal word for an object whose name you don't know, have forgotten, or can't recall at the moment. It's often used to refer to gadgets or parts of things that might not even have a commonly known name, as in Before we attach the bracket, we have to insert this doohickey here. Hush up means to stop making noise, be quiet. Plum refers to plumb bob, a tool used that’s primary function is to ensure verticality. It can be used on construction sites for ensuring walls are perfectly upright and surveying to determine the over-head point. Plumben refers to the weighted lead tool attached to the end of a string. To make something plumb is to ensure it’s perfectly upright. Hoopin’ John usually consists of black eyed peas, green beans, and rice. Laundromat or laundry mat is a type of public laundry service shop consisting of several rows of quarter operated pay to use washers and dryers. One may also leave their laundry with a laundromat attendee whom will wash, dry and fold or hang clothing items for a payment and to be later picked up. Muddin’ is to take a truck with large mud wheels out to the mud fields to play in the mud. 😂😂😂🇺🇸

[@stevenjwiles]

I'm from the south and have never heard of hoecake. We call them corn fritters.

[@xzonia1]

Oh, okay! I've heard of corn fritters. Mystery solved. Lol. Thanks! :)

[@JaimeMason]

Actually, we have a washateria that's also a bar. You put your clothes on, then go to the other part & get your drinks. I've never been there cuz I've always had a washer/dryer. However, my SIL hat mugged at 1 of those places. She didn't get hurt, he just scared her & took her money.