A few days ago
What in the sam hill?!?
old people say some funny stuff. Like “what in the sam hill?” when i was a kid, i remember my grandparents calling the couch a davenport. i think thats a brand or something. i know youve all heard the days of the week that all end with two e’s apparently. Mundee, tuesdee, thursdee, etc. hahah what do you all think? Input of your own on “old white people phrases”
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My dad’s old cuss word was “dagnabbit” and my grandma would call anything strange to her “quar”. “That’s just plum quar!”, she would say. Hey, was there a real place called Sam Hill? No joke there, just wondering=)
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4 years ago
Sam Hill grew to become into between the builders of the Pacific street. The expression Who The Sam Hill comes from somebody working fro place of work in between the hot England states and a farmer reported, “What the heck is Sam Hill?’ Supposedly.
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i remember when I was about 8 and visited here in Tn. My cousin asked my mom if I could have some “dope” My mom freaked out.( He meant Pepsi.) And a brown paper bag was a “poke” That is about all I remember about silly words because I was brought up in Wisconsin and I just knew that way to talk. so being here in Tennessee use to crack me up. Most of the time I had no clue what was being said. And here in TN. they say”tar” When they mean tire. Wheels instead of rims.crick ,not creek, I even found a dictionary of hillbilly to Yankee translations in it. Man that was cool.
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I didn’t know that the names of states such as Missouri and Ohio could end in an A… Ohia, Missoura, etc…
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My mother used to call a coat rack a “costumer.” She also said “masticate” instead of “chew.” You can imagine the looks on people’s faces when she would say, “I couldn’t masticate that meat without my teeth in.”
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My personal favorite is “I’ll give you something to cry about!” LMAO
My MIL always said purdee instead of pretty. What’s up with that? No one else in her family did!
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My grandfather loved westerns. He’d be watching them in his lazy boy recliner…metal folding tv table at his side … and say
“that’s a bloody good pickcha, bloody good pickcha.”
movies were pictures, and all mixed drinks were “high balls.”
He also called all cars “machines.” “That’s a bloody nice machine you got there, bloody nice machine.”
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