CONFUSED BRIT Reacts to "Guessing What These Southern US Words Mean"

Reacting to Lost in the Pond's "Guessing What These Southern US Words Mean"
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[@Justiceincorporated.]

Buggy could mean there are lots of 🐞 🐛 🪳 bugs

[@benmccoy6417]

Have you seen the video of why each region of the united states is called what it is yet

[@kamiko70]

plum-bob in the gamers world, is the symbol for Sims. - country folk say, im plumb tuckered - a buggy is a shopping cart, or a program not working right would be called buggy.

[@KevinJohnson-vm4ju]

​@@Justiceincorporated.Buggy can mean ....Sketchy in 2024 talk ..... That area of town looks buggy at 3 am.

[@Justiceincorporated.]

@@KevinJohnson-vm4ju gotta love the confusion of the English language.lol

[@terrycarter1137]

Actually piddling is just messing about, and piddence is small or trivial. A phrase that confuses others outside the US is "hold my beer" which means if you're drinking and you have to go and solve a issue you hand your beer to your mate so it doesn't get spilled.

[@patriciacole3030]

Yep. And it often prefaces the requester's attempt to do something really stupid or even life threatening. 😁

[@brewswillis9783]

The word is actually pittance meaning very small or inadequate, though piddly also means the same.

[@jaysverrisson1536]

Often used to describe what non-housebroken pets do, as in "The dog piddled on the carpet." Usually not used in reference to human incontinence, though.

[@JPMadden]

"Commode" is pronounced "cuh-MODE."

[@natashadavis2959]

Druthers is a mash up of the phrase "I'd rather" that got turned into a noun. It's what you'd rather have happening in your life right now.

[@WillFlyTheLightingGuy]

Yep, it’s literally saying “If I had my ‘I’d rathers’ (druthers), I’d do it this way.”

[@ThyriaSharin]

Thank you. I'm familiar with the term, but I couldn't remember its etymology. Maybe I never knew. Anyway, thanks. I love to know where words and phrases come from.

[@RockinTheBassGuitar]

I came to say this.

[@kingblanketfort]

I honestly can barely see the likeness of the two words in "druthers", and I'm from the South. Tennessee in fact, and I ain't never heard "druthers". Not saying it don't exist, I'm just sayin' where the hell is this word being said at? LOL

[@natashadavis2959]

@@kingblanketfort I'm from Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Until the internet brought it up, I never heard of it either.

[@jcar12321]

Also for the word "Fixin" if you make it plural to "Fixins" it refers to the side items with your meal. Example would be "For Thanksgiving, we had a beautiful turkey, with all the fixins"

[@unlikelyraven7374]

You're right about what it means, but those are two different words. Fixins isn't the plural of fixin. One is a noun, the other is a verb

[@jcar12321]

@@unlikelyraven7374 Touche

[@SupHapCak]

It’s not quite a verb because it means “I’m about to” but about to isn’t a verb…

[@revgurley]

I laughing so hard as a Southerner born and raised. And as one, I gifteth you "y'all" and "fixin'." Just make sure to spell y'all correctly. It's Y'ALL not YA'LL.

[@tomroy7332]

Shout out to the Yankee City in the Union State that makes sure we all spell Y'all correctly. Well done Florence.

[@SinisterTea]

A good deal of southerners and those who settled in Appalachia were specifically Ulster Scots, so it's not that much of a surprise that you're good at it.

[@LogicalNiko]

Fixin' or Fixing To - (To Prepare) - Originates from the slang association with the word verb repair. In the 1800's a common secondary meaning of 'Repair' was to go to another location. This meaning was from the French 'reprepare' or to make oneself ready. As the central part of the United States (Louisiana through the Great Lakes, and up into Canada) were French colonies in the early 1700's this use became prominent in those areas. The uneducated slaves, and later people of the Appalachians, used 'fix' as a synonym for 'repair'. Thus when you were going to 'reprepare to another location' it became 'fixin to do something'.

[@sandymackay9713]

I'm from Georgia and use these words all the time. And Hoppin' John is some good eating!

[@thomasmacdiarmid8251]

It need not be confined to New Years - it's a hearty healthy dish any day.

[@DravenGal]

I'm not even from the South (unless So Cal counts) but I had a friend from Texas in High School, so say "Y'all" all the time.😅

[@LaceyGrissom-ul8gu]

Buggy in the south is a shopping cart

[@nikikinsnw]

I still say "fixin to" every day at least once. But the kids around here changed it to "finna to" now. Omg it's irritating but can't really tell them that's not proper English since neither is fixin.

[@andimproud]

Lol the kids? I'm 47, and I've been saying "finna" or "finsta" for years.

[@ecm8948]

In parts of southern Appalachia rural areas "finna to" is normal

[@andimproud]

@ecm8948 Is it finna to? The "to" is implied in the the "na" part of "finna".

[@andromedaspark2241]

"Fixing to" is proper English, just a rarer definition of the word, as in "the process of deciding to do something". Dropping the g at the end is dialect, like "She don't know whether she's a-comin' or a-goin'. Goodness gracious, but she's like to run o'er yonder like a squirrel with it's tail on fire 'fore she finally sits her arse down." The a at the front and dropping g are remnants of the accents of settlers.

[@ArleneAdkinsZell]

I have 4 children and now 8 grandchildren, so I say I'm fixin to whoop some tail and attitudes straighten right up, I say it a lot. 😁

[@willwatson4040]

Hey Hoppin John is good. Don't talk smack about it until you try it. It's a bean dish with bits of meat.

[@bobbiejojackson9448]

LOL I was thinking the same thing. People in the South, especially in the African American community, take their Hoppin' John pretty seriously. Especially at New Years. I grew up in the South and we have it every year with our New Years Day dinner. It's a tradition and it's actually very tasty. I hope he doesn't lose too many subscribers over that straight up diss. Haha.

[@ArleneAdkinsZell]

Yas, Hoppin John is amazing.

[@aquatadevore9335]

Don't ask me why but I'm in a dad joke mood... Where do you take someone who's been injured in a peekaboo accident? The i.c.u.

[@earlonaweary9155]

Nice.

[@paulw2117]

not bad. ive heard worse

[@peteramirez3395]

Fucking hell 😂 that was bad

[@DravenGal]

Here's a Dad Joke I made up as a young girl! What is a sandbox? A son of a beach.😅

[@aquatadevore9335]

@@DravenGal 🤣🤣🤣

[@sandirobinson6966]

These aren't "Southern" words. They are simply Americanisms. I'm from Northern Minnesota, and I understand and use all of them. -A doohickey is a deally-whopper. Or another word(s) for a gizmo. - He's not a carpenter. Plumb means level or square. Yes, also "I'm plumb wore out'.

[@danhollifield]

If you know how to use a plumb-bob, you were trained as an old-school carpenter. And Adam, a plumb-bob is a heavy weight on a long string that a carpenter can use to make sure a wall joist or board is exactly vertical before you nail it in place. They've mostly been replaced by bubble levels or lasers, nowadays. --Dan

[@aura81295]

@@danhollifield a plumb-bob might have kept Adam's wall from going catawampus...lol. Buggy was the one that took me a little getting used to moving from Minnesota to North Carolina.

[@bamachine]

Yeah, plumb can mean three totally different things. You can be plumb(completely) tired of trying to plumb(install the plumbing) the sink in the bathroom and make sure the sink itself is plumb(level).

[@justwondering5651]

A doohickey is a thingamajig, sometimes called a whatchamacallit or a widgit or a whatsis. I never thought of it as a "Southern" word, in my experience it's pretty universal. There a song "The Marvelous Toy," look it up, the toy is one of these thingies. Chuck Berry has a song about "My ding-a-ling, which also falls into this category. I hope this clears everything up.

[@bamachine]

@@justwondering5651 I want you to play with my...

[@tylerriojas6250]

when you said Fixin to go get a drink you Sounded American!

[@paulw2117]

you used fixin' the right way.

[@ScribbleScrabbless]

This word has been shortened from fixing to fixin, to fixn, to fnn. I don't like it 😹

[@amandamiddleton4445]

I've used or heard all of these but I'm also from the South. I use piddling as you did. Parents and grandparents have always said, Stop piddling and get your chores done "

[@AdamNisbett]

I feel like it’s still a variant of the same definition - i.e. when you’re piddling around you’re just going around doing small inconsequential things.

[@laurarose3041]

For some reason I became the owner of my grandmoms commode after she passed. It's not really a toilet (like not connected to any plumbing), more of a chair that lifts up the seat cushion and there's a toilet seat and a bucket under it. You have to dump out the bucket once used, but it really helped when my grandmom got old it was purchased and it was put next to her bed for when she could only make it 2 steps out of bed before she would otherwise wet herself.

[@genny5309]

It’s after 11 and I’m plumb tuckered out, so I’m fixin’ to go to bed. Night y’all!

[@Dandee268]

I'm from Ky and the only one I didn't know was druthers.

[@sissybushnell7959]

Growing up the hoecake was the middle cooked biscuit in the pan

[@tracyface69]

I am from North Carolina and I use every one of these words except buggy for shopping cart and ‘doo hickey’, but these words are everyday southern speak from where I hail from in North Carolina; Chapel Hill to be specific. 😊

[@tracyface69]

I use Plumb, but in a very specific way… like when I’m dog tired…. I might say, I am plumb tired!

[@chrisp308]

South Carolina here born in Cumberland county North Carolina and you are telling me that you don't say buggy!? What's happening to this world?

[@tracyface69]

@@chrisp308 I know, right?! My mom used ‘buggy’ but me and my siblings never did. We always teased her about it and called her ‘country’ . Bless her heart. May she RIP. 🙏🏽 😂

[@KnightX187]

in the hickory area the older folk use doo hickey a lot lol

[@andromedaspark2241]

Plumb tired is a good one. I heard plumb tuckered out at home more often.

[@Dr_Kyutoko]

Buggy means a lot of things where I live. Baby carriages. Could be a swarm of mosquitoes outside. Or you could be using a computer program full of errors.

[@diggity1039]

You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.

[@tabathas1980]

Word: Plumb Adam: who the f**k says that Answer: people in the south. Bless your heart😂😂

[@butchbunde8990]

Plumb also means straight or level, unlike your boards on the wall as you say, lol

[@Justiceincorporated.]

Plumb refers to the vertical. Level is horizontal. As in a plumb Bob

[@tabathas1980]

@@Justiceincorporated. correct but in the context of the video, it is 100% a southern saying. “I am plumb tired.” Personally, I have never used it but my great grandfather was a teacher, so the correct usage of the English language was enforced. Lol But I still have the problem with running words together and dropping the “g” off of words. Typically, after the consumption of alcohol. 🤣🤣🤣

[@Hecteacher]

Or I’m plumb wore out

[@andromedaspark2241]

Anyone else heard plumb tuckered out, or was that just my family?

[@sassytbc7923]

In Texas you’re more likely to hear catawampus pronounced as catty - wampus

[@gklaus7832]

Well I’m from the south and the only one I’d disagree with is piddling. We do use it as piddling about or the kids are piddling around

[@MySkybreaker]

I'm also from the south and I've used piddling as both a small piddling amount or piddling around.

[@Penguirrel]

I thought small was piddly not piddling.

[@gklaus7832]

@@Penguirrel like piddly squat

[@MySkybreaker]

@@Penguirrel Ive always said and heard piddling

[@sherryjoiner396]

@Penguirrel Yes, me too. I'm in Texas.

[@reginastevens1014]

Piddling most certainly means messing around.

[@Forkface12]

We sat lotta things down here south so this is kinda very accurate

[@MANDY77777]

YEAH U USED PLUMBED RIGHT! YOUR PLUMB TIRED😁👍

[@JJRay_Cinematics]

Indeed

[@DarrenShaw-ev5tb]

I am from Canada ! - I use Druthers all the time ! ( Lol

[@lottalotto691]

'Fixin to' can be further evolved into 'finna', So .. 'im fixin to wash the car' --> 'im finna wash the car'

[@YasmineGalenornOfficial]

Some of those are used up in the north, too. Druthers, mudding, commode, fixin', doohickey (though I more often use the classic, "thingamajig". These are more just American slang, rather than strictly southern.

[@BroadwayJosh]

Hey! Y'all've missed one: "tuckered out."

[@andromedaspark2241]

Hey, someone else has heard it! Everyone is saying plumb tired in the comments where we'd say plumb tuckered out. I'm tickled to find your comment.

[@dlmullins9054]

I am an old Hillbilly from the coal camps of Southwest Virginia, and there are so many words I don't hear now since I moved North. Almost a different language.

[@Hecteacher]

Me too! Logan County

[@amyturtle13]

We say "piddly" to mean small or insignificant. "Piddling" is used for messing around. My grandma always used "fiddle fartin' " 😂 "Quick fiddle fartin' around!"

[@zarahbelle3627]

Idk if it’s a Georgia/ATL thing but we say “piddly”over piddling. Also, “Finna” over fixin was a Southern AfricanAmerican thing (in the city)for the most part but it’s spread everywhere now because of hip hop

[@thymelourdes]

I wondered if anyone else would say finna. I'm from FL and live in GA. We said finna in FL as well.

[@tammyparsons5656]

In my whole fifty years of life, we have always just said piddling as goofing around or cleaning the house, going from room to room doing little small tasks, piddling.

[@leannefowler9912]

Northeastern Alabamian here and I’m always plumb tired fixin to do something important but I just end up piddling around not getting sheesh done. I have 4 kids, 2 dogs and a cat and they have all at one time been called doohickey bc I have mom brain and go thru every single name before I get to the right kids name. My girls were itty bitty and would go muddin with their dad and me and it’s so much fun.. until you’re sinking in a hole sideways holding 2 kids up above your head 😂 still 10/10 recommend

[@littlerock8926]

I use that . I am from Arkansas and I am plumb wore out, which means I am so tired but worse than tired. My dad met my mother at a washateria (true).

[@bloodysushi]

I had a boss who's favorite thing to say was I may be some dumb but I ain't plumb dumb and I've used it ever since.

[@peanutmwo6001]

the majority of these you will hear in Texas A LOT! Also you might have confused piddling with PIDDLEFART, piddlefart means to mess around in Texas and the south

[@ronaldcowan9321]

Where I come from in Florida, instead of piddlefartin I have heard it as fiddlefartin 😂

[@peanutmwo6001]

@@ronaldcowan9321 lel

[@jessicas8210]

You’re were right about piddling in some rural areas it does mean to be messing around or about.

[@johntarnowski9086]

Instead of catawampus, we always use the term Kitty corner. As in that restaurant is kitty corner from the gas station on main Street.

[@joannestark3023]

So is the phrase kittycorner derived from catawampus? If so, that's fascinating for some reason. I've never heard the word catawampus used in conversation but then again I'm not from the south.

[@PinkDrosera]

We used cattycorner when we meant diagonal, and cattywumpus when we meant messed up or askew.

[@jlaurelc]

​@@PinkDroseraYeah, same.

[@mjhoeber]

"Buggy" can also mean one's automobile. Before the automobile, horse-drawn buggies were the ordinary mode of transport.

[@MrMurraypants]

Doohickey aka whatchamacallit, whatsiwhosit, thingamabopper, that right there, dillywhopper. I'm sure there's more that just won't come to mind but yes, we all definitely use these.

[@emilyabernathy952]

Hey Adam I got another one for you. "" JIBBER JABBER "" ~~ , you would use it in a sentence like I'm tired of hearing your jibber jabber. Basically what that means is somebody's just running their mouth and don't know what they're talking about , OR somebody that just keeps running their mouth cuz they like to hear their self talk and they'll be talking about nonsense or just making crap up. "" I really haven't heard too many people growing up saying they were going to use the commode. Around Mississippi and Tennessee if we have to go to the bathroom most of us say we got to go to the "" HEAD ."". Then also there's a time when if it's a dark and stormy night and you have to get something out of the car outside or you think you hear something scratching around or whatever outside. Instead of saying I'm not going to go out there, we always end up saying, I ain't going out "" YONDER "". Of course yonder means several different things. You can use it like you're saying you're going to be going over to a cousin's house or to the grocery store by saying "" I'm going over yonder I'll be back soon. Lord I know some people that was even more Southern country than me that would use the phrase to describe people as being as worthless as tits on a boar hog. Another phrase and I've used it myself is if somebody asks why you're kind of jumpy and agitated acting you know , you would tell him I'm as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. ( Think about seeing that visual in your mind and it'll come to you what that means and how funny that would look like if you seen that ). Another one if somebody comes "" ATER "" (after ) ya. "" BY and BY "" is another way to tell somebody you'll come see him sooner or later. And here's another funny one for you. JEET ~~ is actually short for a whole sentence, what it means is --- Did you eat ? Now out here we have a different kind of a joke. OUR answer to the joke of why did the chicken cross the road is. To show that stupid opossum that it can be done.😊😊 You see out here you say so many possums that have been hit by a car in the road that we say ;"" A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road !!!😜😉😉😉😂😂 ; well I'm going to shut up now Adam. I hope some of these old timey phrases and words gave you a good laugh . You take care of yourself son and have a good day. May God Bless ya. Sending much love to you and yours. Y'all take care of yourselves and stay safe and healthy. ❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🤗🤗🤗

[@claycassin8437]

Piddling- A small amount. As in quantity or effort. Now I will watch the video. Edit: Correct! Oh, and I use "plumb" all the time. And Hoppin' John is delicious. Don't judge it by a picture. Sausage gravy and biscuits looks questionable too, and it is undeniably awesome.

[@kingcyberkawaii5981]

My grandmother made the best gravy an biscuits, brown gravy the good kind that made you shit like crazy after hoggin up all the biscuits 😂 i used to get 12 cut em in half an smother then in gravy an basically eat 24 gravy biscuits mmmmmhmmmm

[@yeehawpartner]

i didn’t realize ‘fixin’ wasn’t a universal term 💀

[@lauracurry7909]

I'm from Louisiana and "piddlin" absolutely means hanging around not doing much of anything. It can also mean a little bit of something, but more so the former. Example: "What were you doing this morning?" "Just piddlin around in the back yard."

[@genny5309]

Same in Tennessee

[@selinaburke7645]

I'm from WV. We say buggy for carts. And all the others

[@Hecteacher]

And poke or sack for a bag

[@KevinJohnson-vm4ju]

The Hoppin John ......supposedly was favorite dish of Andrew Jackson ....president in 1820s ..... i agree.....looks awful and Hot its smells awful.....New Years Day think ....black eyed peas= luck and Collard/turnip greens = money .......

[@JJRay_Cinematics]

I'm from Alabama, and I thought I was going to have to provide translations for these lol but yes piddling/piddlin' means just not doing much also said "piddle-farting around". Commode is pronounced "cuh-mode" said fast. Plumb is an adjective, that's plumb ignorant, or like you said "plumb tired" was perfect. Never heard of hoppin' John or druthers... anyway, hope you had a good birthday brother and much love!

[@kingblanketfort]

I'm from Tennesese, but I will be honest about the words I have NEVER heard before: Druthers and hoecake, washeteria. I don't know what part of the south uses those terms but I personally never heard them. Piddling TOTALLY means messing about. I have no idea who wrote the definition of that one lol

[@TimpossibleOne]

Fixin' (or finna) is short for "fixing myself up" Ex: "I'm fixing myself up to get ready to go to church" aka "I'm fixin' to go to church" or "I'm finna go to church"

[@mjhoeber]

YouBrits have weird words too. "Yob. (a delinquent) Pong (it stinks) " for two examples. Busker-- a street musician. "Steady on." What you say when somebody might or might not lose control, or addresses his social superior in a familiar way. An American wouldn't ever say "steady on." It sounds vaguely nautical.

[@Jude_196]

OK - I'm FIXIN' to share some stuff with ya!! :) Where I live - a buggy IS for babies (like a pram); but, a buggy can also be interchangeable with the term Dunebuggy (a sporty little vehicle you can drive in the sand) AND it can mean someone's gone a little looney (Like "He's buggy" - or, "MAN - he is REALLY BUGGIN' OUT!! He's BUGGY!". Druthers is just "I'd rather" with a Southern accent added to it - so, it somes out as "I'd ruther": "If I had my druthers, I'd have steak for dinner!". Catawampus (Kittywampus or Cattywampus), to me (maybe I'm too deep south) was always a more Northern term to what we said in my family: we used the word Whomper-Jawed: if you get in a wreck and total your car - your frame on your vehicle is askew - it's Whomper-Jawed. We always used piddlin' as "I'm not really doing anything": What are YOU doin'? I'm just piddlin' around" - I've never used it as something small.... I thought everyone used the word commode in place of the word toilet. Doohickey is interchangeable with Thingamajig....I think, in the UK, they may use the word Thingummy for this one..... My Mother REPEATEDLY told me to Hush! :) Plumb could mean connecting pipes for your drainage in your home, or: to me: it can mean TOTALLY - like: "That guy is PLUMB CRAZY!! :D ....Hoppin' John is AWESOME and we have it as a good luck dish on New Years' Eve. A Washateria is a Laundry Mat....and, if you can't get any washers AT the Laundry Mat - you MIGHT "Throw a Hissy Fit"!!! Mudding means going somewhere in your 4X4 Truck with the big, giant wheels to drive through a bunch of MUD - and, it's FUN!!! ENJOY, ADAM!!!

[@benlarkin5833]

Piddling means just messing around doing whatever I’m from Alabama. I oughta know.

[@mjhoeber]

Here's a southern expression for you: "He pitched a fit." Meaning, he became very angry and was yelling or maybe even punching. And my favorite "bless her heart." As in "She really does try to keep the house up-- bless her heart." Meaning the house is what you Brits would call a "tip" and hasn't been cleaned for years.

[@patkaiser7177]

More than southerners use these phrases. We use them in Illinois all the time although I never say "shut up". To me, that's how you talk to your dog, not another person. In fact, I don't even say it to my dog. I say "be quiet". Shush (pronounced shoosh or shush with a small u) is often used too. Piddling has several meaning. Too piddle is to pee, piddling amount is a small amount, piddling around is keeping yourself busy with little things. Plumb tired is a very common thing to say. Here's another one for you "dead dog tired!" That's exhausted.

[@frankisfunny2007]

Similar to "doohickey", there's one I use that is "whatchamacallit" (WAT-chah-mah-CALL-it). It sounds like "what do you call it", because it is that, but it's more mumble-y, lack of a better phrase. That word, whatchamacallit, actually is used as a candy car here in the US. Which the Whatchamacallit bar is caramel, and peanut butter bar that's covered in chocolate.

[@TeresaKenedy]

I love what you do. I'm a big fan living in Carson City, Nevada. You might like the diversity of landscapes in my state. Nevada is so much more than Las Vegas. You might like to check out Lake Tahoe. It is the 3rd oldest lake in the world. Also, Virginia City, Nevada, which really shows how Nevada boomed during the Gold Rush. I hope you check it out and thank you for your great videos. 🙏❤️✌️👍🇺🇲😊

[@heatherpalacios5364]

This video is plumb ridiculous! lol! Joking of course! From Texas and use it all the time! Leaving work everyday… This is plumb bull s***! 😅

[@TheToweringOtakunt]

Since the day I was born in Houston, Texas 35 years ago, I have never once heard a shopping cart referred to as a buggy. Not once. The only use of that term I am familiar with is, horse and buggy. You might find someone who refers to certain models of shitty car as a buggy? Maybe? But, I've never even heard that. Buggy doesn't get much use here as a word. To be fair, I've never heard the word "hoecake," either. Now, piddling is a fun one, but the more rude "piddle-shit" it a bit more fun. Might have to go to confession after using it, though.

[@edithroberts8959]

You had piddling right Adam. You are messing around and not really doing anything. That definition was wrong

[@dennistrusty5145]

I used the words fixin, and piddling the way you actually said it piddling around. Plumb crazy. Mudding but I've never been lol but the rest I've never used

[@toodlescae]

I've used doohickey, whatchmmacallit, thingamajig and thingamabob interchangeably over the years when I couldn't remember or didn't know the name of something.

[@TrineDaely]

I never heard catawumpus or cattywumpus until I moved to Indiana. Grew up in the south and always heard catty-corner instead. Doohickey - a thingamabobber. Mudding - mud bogging. Better have a winch, a lift kit, and the right tires.

[@DarrylPage-jc2yl]

Fun Fact -- African-Americans often say "finna" instead of fixin' . As in "IM FINNA GO TO THE STORE"

[@starleemartin1961]

Where I'm from in the Southern Piedmont area of North Carolina and with parents from Northeast Georgia, "Druther" means "Rather" as in "I'd druther have chocolate ice cream than vanilla." "Piddling" means to screw around or lollygag as in, "Quit piddling and clean your room!" "Piddly" is a small amount as in, "I got a piddly dollar raise on my paycheck." Even Yonder and Yunder mean different things. Yonder is very far away as in, "The next rest stop is over Yonder about five miles," while Yunder is a shorter distance as in, "Can you hand me the remote over Yunder on the table?" 😂😂😂😂

[@JIMBEARRI]

You might actually hear : "I'm a-fixin' to" which means "I'm about to" or "I'm getting ready to". In the South, a 'Commode" was a piece of bedside furniture where your chamber pot was concealed. By extension, it has come to mean a toilet. In British English, "commode" is the standard term for a commode chair, often on wheels, enclosing a chamber pot-as used in hospitals and assisted living homes. You get in your big wheeled, raised up pickup truck and go "mudding". It is a VERY popular sport in rural areas of the US and Canada.

[@jeffb6786]

I use several of these, and have heard of all of them, and I live in Colorado. (I'm not to blame; I didn't vote for it) I have kin folk (relatives) in Texas though, so it's probably where I picked up most of these, though I have never used the word washateria. It's always been a laundromat to me. One of my favorites for little kids and dogs is "they're just plum tuckered out." meaning worn out/very tired. I probably use fixin' more than any. Fixin' dinner. Fixin' to go somewhere. Fixin' to head out. It's a useful word, though I find myself dropping the 'g' on several words. Hope you had a great birthday. Keep the shiny side up!

[@undertheumbels]

No. Piddling, in Texas, means, you're taking care of small tasks, but basically not doing much. Ex: My dad is retired, but he piddles around in his garage all day. You don't hear you ger people use this much.

[@leighhallford894]

I heard you say “plum tired” it’s also what I use “plum-tuckerred” , meaning too tired to do anything 😅

[@Blondie42]

A use for fixin' I know of is when you order a hotgog or burger with all the fixin's meaning virtually everything (that you like) is added on. Plumb is what you want a wall to be when building it. When it is exactly 90 degrees from the floor the wall is plumb.

[@ekaos5099]

You have to think you speak Irish,where Americans speak American. Only the Brits speak English, hahahahahahaha!

[@angelagraves865]

I live in California and I've heard all these before, and used most of them, too. I'd have to say that I've used piddling in all three ways: piddling around (wasting time), piddling (minor or unimportant), and piddling (like the puppy is piddling on the floor). Context is everything.

[@MrMurraypants]

Ok so mostly correct except 'piddling'. To give myself a laugh I usually say something like, "Im just gonna piddle fart around til my drawls got dun at da washerteria, know what I'm saying."

[@lauracurry7909]

Mudding is driving your four wheeler, dirt bike, and/or pickup truck through the biggest off-road muddy area you can find. Usually with w33d and alcohol. ❤

[@patwalker5133]

I am from California and when I heard buggy, I thought of a dune buggy (before quads came out). Plumb is also a construction word meaning - vertical alignment of materials.

[@christypriest30]

I moved from Nebraska to South Georgia when I was in 2nd grade. The 2 places couldn’t be more different and it took a while for me to understand what in the Hell people were saying! Nobody says hi. Everyone says hey. I think that was the first thing I picked up. But I absolutely hated the word fixin! I refused to use it and I promised myself I never would. I’m 50 now and I’m proud to say that I never have. I don’t know why it was that word in particular but it is

[@Kdrive23]

"Druthers" is kind of a portmanteau, but it's basically "I'd rather" smooshed together. Like "I'd rather go to the store", which over time morphed into "If I had my 'druthers, we'd go to the store"

[@mandyhertel8776]

Too many mosquitoes. It's buggy out here. Doohickey = Thingamabob

[@susanworkman529]

Here's a tongue twister for you Adam.. We also used the word buggy in reference to our car. Another word for a car is a jalopy. Both of these words were used to describe old old cars. Lets see if you can say this phrase very fast three times in a row:..." Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers". 😂. Plum tuckered out.....means I'm exhausted. Most of the words come from the south or midwest. We have so many American slang words for things in the U.S. that they would probably fill up a book. And if that's not bad enough,bee incorporate foreign words into pur slang as well.

[@lestersegelhorst2776]

Plumb is a carpentry trem meaning "verticaly true" often checked with a device called a "blumb-bob" essentially a weight on a string So to say someone is plumb-crazy" is to say they are crazy to a far more intense way.

[@WhodatLucy]

Here in Louisiana we just cook black eye peas no John involved.. when the Yankee burned everything all we had left was black eye peas . It’s good luck to eat them New Year’s Day with cabbage

[@slovett7543]

Was he trying to remember the word whatchamacallit? It's basically the same as thingamajig

[@ArleneAdkinsZell]

What a fun video. I use almost all of those terms, but I use one more than the others: I'm fixin to... BUT my dad used plumb differently, he was a carpenter and used it as 'lined up perfectly'...

[@MrMurraypants]

Oh and commode, well I've never used that word but what I do say is "shitter, the john, the bathroom (yes, we use that interchangeably with the actual room too). My father ( bless his heart) says "toilet" like tahlet. That's just weird.

[@Dancingokapi]

Mudding was always "muddin" where I was. Ppl would lift their trucks and put large tires on. The dudes id hang w would borrow Batcos and such from work Saturday when they were done and dig pits. Then they'd add water. There were also the mud bogs where you'd have tractor pulling, races, etc that were in commercial spaces. I preferred the farms w pits

[@mjhoeber]

It's when something is all fouled up, or when you fall down the stairs. "He went catawampus because he was drunk as a lord."

[@recoveringmillennial9695]

A lot of southern words are based on old English terms. Like the word y'all, people often assume it's a abbreviation of you and all which by definition is true but 'you' is technically the wrong word. 'Ye all' is what it's actually derived from.

[@puppypoet]

Where I am, plumb usually means like a lot. Aka, I am plumb tired from working at this stupid work computer all day.

[@ashleycarey7320]

Lol im from missouri and i use alot of these but i aint never heard cattywambus or hoecake or the hoppin john i use cattacorner and i say yall alot and down yonder

[@whosme8221]

You hear the phrase in the south "I'm plumb tuckered out.", while in the north its "I'm all worn out.".

[@kristinagreer6346]

Mudding should be properly mudding. If your in the South you almost always drop the g.

[@Fuphyter]

Hi Adam. Florida got hit by an enormous category 4 hurricane yesterday. It wiped out parts of the west coast and panhandle. It was so big, I felt the wind on the east coast. It covered the whole state. It went north and flooded Atlanta GA and parts of north Carolina. Crazy videos on here.

[@tweetiepooh2001]

Also in the deep south we use "sugar", "honey" and "sweetheart" as a name for everybody. :) As in "Could you hand me that spoon, sugar" or "Thank you sweetyheart" to anybody that opens a door for you or helps in any way. It's just how we talk.

[@markchristensen23]

Always amusing when Adam's brain gets all catawampus while reacting to these videos. 😅

[@kingcyberkawaii5981]

Also ill say thing a ma gig which usually means that thing i cant remember or dont know the name to. We are heavy on our r down hear . Ppl here don't say dad most say deddy to pronounce that its a mix of 2 words dead dee , or maw ma which translate to mama. Most of us curse like crazy here its just natural speaking. An we call our underwear under drawers . We say piddling meaning fucking off! Being lazy