Writing From the Hip: 102 Bodacious Southern Words

Some weeks ago I posted a list of my personal favorite 101 Beautiful Words. I got the idea from those British people who only could think up seventy words—and only a few of them was pretty. I didn’t care for their list at all. No, sir. So I made my own list, and if you ain’t ever seen it, you can see it here.

Well, then, I got to thinking about My First Wife’s side of the family which is from Miss’ippi and Georgia. Those Southern folks we all love so well has given us some real good words. One recent afternoon, while I was sipping on some iced tea, I thought up a list of some Bodacious Southern Words. Then I had the good sense to get some help from My First Wife and her Southern friends. Well, we got us a real good list now. They also gave me a smatterin’ of real nice Southern expressions, too. I posted this over on Dew on the Kudzu, too, a real nice blog you should visit all the time. Go look.

So here everything is. Nothin’ special; just some down-home Southern words.

(I probably left something out, so I’ll welcome your recommendations. Jest keep ‘em clean. And I don’t wanna hear no insultin’ stuff like you see in them books they sell at the truck stops.)