You voted. Here are the results:
Coming in third place with 16.3% of the favorite Southernism vote:
Cattywampus
[Kat-ee-wom-puhs]adjective
- Askew; awry
adverb
- Diagonally
Skyrocketing in popularity to second place with 25.6% of the vote comes:
Bless Your Heart
phrase
- An expression of genuine sympathy
- An insult that conveys condescension
Finally, our first place Southernism, winning by a landslide of 39.5%:
Fixin’ To
verb
- To be planning to do something
And a big drumroll for our favorite, creative audience submissions:
“Busy as a one-armed paper hanger”
“I’m finer than frog hairs split four ways on a hot July mornin’”
“Let me hug your neck!”
Let us know what you think about these southernisms! Do you have any creative and descriptive Southern phrases that you use regularly? We want to hear from you!
My all-time favorite is: As nervous as a politician leaving a whore house.
Slick as an onion.
Cold enough to kill hogs.
Lord have mercy, (name.)
The rain we had was a “frog strangler”rusty
My mom would say ‘if they were selling elephant overcoats for a dime, I couldn’t afford spats for a canary,’ and she was ‘so mad I could chew nails and spit out tacks,’