BE UGLY - Unpleasant or disagreeable. "Junior, you don't be ugly to your sister."

BECKON (noun). A pork product. Usage: "Honey ... git me another play-it of beckon and aigs."

BEDURNATT'N - a comparison and statement of superiority. "That's the best one you got? Mine is bedurnatt'n."

BEDRID - Confined to bed for a long time. “Granny was bedrid along time afore she died.”

BEE-HAVE (verb). To conduct yourself in a certain way. "Y'all bee-have or I'm turning this truck around!"

BEE-HIND (noun). Posterior, ass.  "Git up off yer BEE-hind, Bubba

BEE-YUL (Noun). A request for payment.  Usage: "Woo-howdy ... did you see this month's bee-yul from the taxidermist?"

BEST - Another baffling Southernism that is usually couched in the negative. "You best not speak to Cecil about his car. He just had to spend $300 on it."

Biddy n. Baby chicken or a middle-aged female human, as in "old biddy".

BIDNESS - The art of selling something for more than you paid for it.

Bidnis n. What you get down to or stay out of other people's, as in, "That ain't none a yore dad-burned bidnis!"

BIG O' - Very large; immense. "Look out fer that big o' rock inna road."

Big ol' -- Large. Esteemed.

Bile     v. Boil.

BIL-DUKEY - A sharpshooter shovel. "If you need to did a post hole, you can use a bil-dukey."

BLEEVE - Expression of intent or faith. "Ah bleeve we ought to go to church this Sunday."

Bless Patsy  exp. A pleasant expletive phrase expressing surprise. (Patsy is the saint of Southern euphemisms.)

Bless yore heart!    exp. A nice expletive expressing approval and encouragement.

Boat   n. (1) A screw with a nut on it that you tighten with a ranch, as in, "Pass me dat-air munky ranch, Homer Joe, sos'n I can tighten up dis-here head boat." (2) A marine vessal.

BOB WAR - noun. A sharp, twisted cable. Usage: "Boy, stay away from that there bob war fence over yonder, and don’t go pissin on it neither!"

Bobby-Q - n. A delicious meat dish made from pulled pork roasted over hickory wood and doused with red pepper boiled in vinegar: "Pass me some moa dat bobby-Q, Leniel, foh ah stahves to death."

Booger - n. Nose stuffing; a rascal, as in "Come here, you little booger!"

Booger man - n. Something or somebody that'll gitcha.

BOUND TO - Certain to. "Too much beer is bound to give ya a hang- over."

BOUNDEN DETERMINED - Totally comitted to a course of action, not always the wisest. "She's bounden determined to marry him."

BOY - Any Southern white male under the age of 50, usually preceded by the words "good ole," meaning he is amiable, likes a drink now and then and is fond of fishin', huntin' and good- lookin women. "Clarence is a good ole boy." or "Thet boy aint real braht."

BRATS (noun). High beam headlights. Usage: "Turn off yur brats, Bubba! You's blindin' me!"

Briarberry - n. The wild blackberry, so called for the briars that afflict their leaves and stems.

BRAY-ED (noun) --a baked grain product.  Usage: "Bubba, go down to the sto and git me some Wunner bray-ed."

BREAK OF - To induce the abandonment of an undesirable trait or habit: 'Ah'm gonna break that dawg of a husband of mine of lyin' to me if it's the last thing Ah do:'

BREEDO - A piece of Mexican cuisine. "I'd like two tacos anda breedo, ma'am."

BUB- (plural, "bubs") - An electrical illuminatory object made primarily of a hollow spheroid of thin glass. "When you're in town, pick up some more bubs... the one on the front porch burned out last night."

BUD - Small feathered creature that flies. "Lookit the sizeof that thar bud over yonder."

Buffalo chip -- What cowboys kick around out in the fields -- cow dung.

CAUTERIZE (phrase). To make eye contact with a female. "Ju look at that lady?" "Yep ... I cauterize!" 

CAY-UN (noun). A metallic food container. "Bubba, fetch me another cay-un of spay-um."

CENT - Plural of cent. "You paid five dollars for that necktie? Ah wouldn't give fiddy cent for it."   

CETCH / CETCHIN COLD - To get sick. "I don't feel good. I think I'm cetchin' cold." "You gonna cetch cold stand'n in the rain like dat."

CHAKE (noun). A financial document. Usage: "I left my money at home ... kin I write ya a chake instead?"

CHAWBACCY (noun). Chewing Tobacco , ex. cope, skoal "Bubba! Stop spittin chawbaccy juice on tha porch!

CHICK (verb). To inspect or monitor. Usage: "Chick ural, mistah?"

Chicken Fried Steak - n. A steak dipped in batter like chicken, fried, then smothered in gravy to hide the evidence..

 CHUCK - To throw. "Jethro, chunk tha ball oer here!"

CHUNK - To throw. "Chunk it in there, Leroy. Ole Leroy sure can chunk 'at ball, can't he? Best pitcher we ever had."

CIRIL (noun). A grain or a breakfast food. Usage: "Ju want some more milk for your ciril?" 

Citify  v. To take the country out of the boy; said by some to be impossible.

Citified - v. Urban or urbane. Takes yuh pick.

City slicker - n. Wunna dem smaht fokes whut lives in town.

COAT (noun). A legal gathering.  "All rise ... this coat is now in owduh"

CO-COLA - The soft drink that started in Hot-lanta and conquered the world. "Ah hear they even sell Co-cola in Russia."  

COKE - Any soft drink. "Hey you want a coke?" , "Yeah!...I'll have a Dr Pepper."

COLDRANK - Noun. A chilled beverage. Usage: "Becky Sue, you shore is purdy tonight. Less go git us a coldrank down to the fillin' station."

COLE'S LAW - A delicious Southern side dish consisting of thinly shredded cabbage.

Collards - n. A leafy vegetable high in iron and, when cooking, odors.

COMING UP A CLOUD – It's going to rain.  “It’s comin up a cloud again”

Conniption   n. A major fit, total loss of control of one's temper; you pitch a conniption (cf. hissy).

CONTRARY - Obstinate. "That girl never listens to me. She's contrary as she can be."

Coon  n. (Rac)coon. Syllables preceding the accented one seldom catch the attention of people born below the Mason-Dixon line.

Coot   n. As in "old coot"; a person over 60 years of age.

Cooter           n. Turtle or a general name of affection.

Corn bread   A lethal form of bread made from cornmeal fried in pork lard.

COTTON (noun). Box or container. "Ju' want a cotton of cigarettes?" 

COTTON PICK'N - Despicable, wretched, usually an insult “Why you cotton pick'n no good low  life lazy sack of bones, you!”

COUNTRY MILE - Any long distance. "It's bout a country mile a dat-a-way ."

COW-REES (noun). A measurement of heat.  "I'm on a diet ... how many cow-rees are in a Moon Pie?" 

Cracker - n. A native of Jawjuh.