TagSouthern

tranny boi

tranny boi  n.— «Young women who once called themselves butch now call themselves tranny bois, and these tranny bois are mostly dating each other.» —“The death of femme” by Jennifer Vanasco Southern...

soup bunch

soup bunch  n.— «Soup bunch. Bundle of vegetables.» —by Harry Harrison Kroll A Comparative Study of Upper and Lower Southern Folk Speech (George Peabody College for Teachers, Tenn.) Aug., 1925. (source: Double-Tongued...

tom-walkers

tom-walkers  n.pl.— «Tom-walkers. Stilts. “We been walking on Tom-walkers to-day.”» —by Harry Harrison Kroll A Comparitive Study of Upper and Lower Southern Folk Speech (George Peabody College for Teachers, Tenn...

whicker bill

whicker bill  n.— «Whicker bill. A rustic, servant, poor white trash. Miss.» —by Harry Harrison Kroll A Comparative Study of Upper and Lower Southern Folk Speech (George Peabody College for Teachers, Tenn.) Aug., 1925...

OTM

OTM  adj.— «One group of decidedly Guatemalan young men answer my questions curtly, poorly disguising their accents and claiming to be southern Mexicans. If snared by the Border Patrol, they will be classified as “OTMs”—Other...

Ashley Judd

Ashley Judd  n.— «On the Internet message board at Utefans.net, the very names “Kentucky” and “Wildcats” are banned. In the always intriguing slang of the Internet, Kentucky is referred to on the site as...