Favorite NC slang (Fayetteville, Cary, Greenville: high school, cost, floor)

[Niki]

I always say "sucker" and "nabs".

I've never heard a Southerner call soda "pop". I heard "pop" a lot when I lived in Ohio. Got on my nerves. lol

[SwtSUTHRNpearl]

Well, I jus recently moved to Florida unfortionatly. But I grew up in Garner/Angier North Carolina. I never realized that I spoke "funny" till I moved here and got my job.
The first one i got dawg'd on was "Yall" My question was "Yall pay weekly?"
they gotta kick outta it.
Their favorite sentance i have said since i been there was "Well i "rekin" im "fixin" to put these in the "buggy" and push 'em to the back.
I stretch out my "I" also. But I rekin when you live your whole life talkin like that you dont hear it.
I tell my son constantly "Keep them "britches" on" ...meanin is pants, shorts diaper, whatever it is coverin is *****.
I have breakfast, dinner than supper. And we like breakfast anytime of the day. Okra is good at any meal. And SWEET tea is a must. The best part of it, is no matter what part of NC your in you can get all of it all day long no extra charge. haha
I say "give me a hollar" instead of call me.
I call every male Bo, or Boss, or Bubba slips out too
Your truck is worthless if it cant get in and outta the mudd without being hitched up to another truck.
When you ask your momma and daddy "how much longer till we get there?" they says "look at the clock now, then look at it when we get there, then yull know how much longer it took"
Daddy always said "Wait a cottin pikin minute"
When I'm "Ill" im mad
Where I'm from the girls can always out drink, out spit, and out shoot any man, except your daddy cuz he's the one that taught you.
BBQ is vinigar based, and its always pulled pork.
when i think of more ill bring up to yall, hope yall enjoy it .

[Asheville Native]

Originally Posted by abloodragon

Asked by an elderly lady "Can you go to the kitchen and get me some nabs" Translation, I want Nabisco peanut butter crackers

"Do you want some pop?" Translation, do you want soda?

Southerners prefer Lance (home town Charlotte) or Tom's (also from the south) over Nabisco. The ones sold in vending machines and convenience stores are referred to as a "pack of nabs", and everyone from here know exactly what you mean.

Pop? no one from the south calls it pop. In NC, it a Pepsi (also a NC product), whether it is actually a Pepsi Cola or not.

[ibeg4sushi]

Originally Posted by Niki

Chimley: When I lived in Ohio for two years, I had a boyfriend there who said that. He and his family were from southern Ohio. I had never heard anyone say it that way before and haven't since.

My maternal grandma was from southeast NC (born in Lumberton, lived in Cumberland). She always said, "Well, I swanny!" and "Oh foot!". lol Oh, and of course "bless her/his/your heart".


I say "might could" all the time. "You might could say that." I also say "reckon" a lot.

North Carolinians also say usetabe (used to be), usetacould (use to be able), up bear (up there), over yonder, down the road a piece, ahite (alright), waller (wallow; "Quit wallerin'!"), younguns, shoot fire, cattywonkered, cattywampus, wompersided, ill (which means you're mad, not sick; "I was so ill!"), onced, twiced, onliest, fixin' to (getting ready to), buggy (shopping cart), mash the button, chunk (means throw), cruck (truck), nabs (those crackers with peanut butter by Lance and a couple other brands), hose pipe (water hose), washing powder (laundry detergant), "gimme some sugar", piddlin', lollygaggin', give out (tired, or "tarred", as some say), pooch (stomach bulge), frogstrangler or gullywasher (heavy rain), crank the car, etc.


I use many of those, but not all.

God I love this thread.

[Etowah fl]

My favorite : "Lord have Mercy" (shows amazement or astonishment"

A favorite from Florida crackers: "Slip Up" (describing unplanned pregnancy)

[a2zmom]

Originally Posted by SwtSUTHRNpearl

Well, I jus recently moved to Florida unfortionatly. But I grew up in Garner/Angier North Carolina. I never realized that I spoke "funny" till I moved here and got my job.
The first one i got dawg'd on was "Yall" My question was "Yall pay weekly?"
they gotta kick outta it.
Their favorite sentance i have said since i been there was "Well i "rekin" im "fixin" to put these in the "buggy" and push 'em to the back.
I stretch out my "I" also. But I rekin when you live your whole life talkin like that you dont hear it.
I tell my son constantly "Keep them "britches" on" ...meanin is pants, shorts diaper, whatever it is coverin is *****.
I have breakfast, dinner than supper. And we like breakfast anytime of the day. Okra is good at any meal. And SWEET tea is a must. The best part of it, is no matter what part of NC your in you can get all of it all day long no extra charge. haha
I say "give me a hollar" instead of call me.
I call every male Bo, or Boss, or Bubba slips out too
Your truck is worthless if it cant get in and outta the mudd without being hitched up to another truck.
When you ask your momma and daddy "how much longer till we get there?" they says "look at the clock now, then look at it when we get there, then yull know how much longer it took"
Daddy always said "Wait a cottin pikin minute"
When I'm "Ill" im mad
Where I'm from the girls can always out drink, out spit, and out shoot any man, except your daddy cuz he's the one that taught you.
BBQ is vinigar based, and its always pulled pork.
when i think of more ill bring up to yall, hope yall enjoy it .

Where in Florida did you move to??? In northeast FL, everyone says Ya'll, Fixin' to, and they all push buggies...My IL friends get a kick out of me when I come home because I lived in FL for about 13 years...I don't drink tea unless it's Sweet Tea...I mash buttons, I push a buggy through the grocery store, and I'm always fixin' to do something.

[Asheville Native]

Originally Posted by a2zmom

Where in Florida did you move to??? In northeast FL, everyone says Ya'll, Fixin' to, and they all push buggies...My IL friends get a kick out of me when I come home because I lived in FL for about 13 years...I don't drink tea unless it's Sweet Tea...I mash buttons, I push a buggy through the grocery store, and I'm always fixin' to do something.

Yea, that all sounds about right. What the heck do they do in IL?

The most amazing thing I found up north was the fact that you can't get iced tea in the winter. The waitress looked at like I was from Mars. She said something like "iced tea, in the winter when it's cold?" I asked her if I ordered a Coke, would it be served hot, or would there be ICE in it. Now she knew I was from Mars, so I ordered a beer.

[JQ Public]

i love the word nabs

[a2zmom]

Originally Posted by Asheville Native

Yea, that all sounds about right. What the heck do they do in IL?

The most amazing thing I found up north was the fact that you can't get iced tea in the winter. The waitress looked at like I was from Mars. She said something like "iced tea, in the winter when it's cold?" I asked her if I ordered a Coke, would it be served hot, or would there be ICE in it. Now she knew I was from Mars, so I ordered a beer.

LOL! They "push" buttons and "carts" at the grocery store...and they're "getting ready" to do something. As for sweet tea, I don't remember life before sweet tea! Oh yes, I do...I didn't drink it because my grandmother put sacarin in it....YUCK!

Oh, one other slang I love...I don't know if they say it here in NC, but in FL they say, "Can I hold your pen" if they want to borrow it and they don't ask where you live, they ask where you "stay"...LOL! Needless to say, when I moved to FL when I was 16, I had to have a crash course in Southernisms...

[spankys bbq]

Not sure if it was mentioned yet, but this is from the early 90's in the Fayetteville area.



"Hey bo."

Names were nothing. You were "Bo". End of story. I did like the idea since I am bad with names.