Bless Your Heart: The most back handed kind words spoken in the south. Means, while you’re sweet, you’re also stupid, you don’t quite get it and I feel sorry for you.
Fixin to: About to do something, almost ready, thinking about doing something.
Nervous as a long tail cat in a room full of rockin’ chairs: Nervous to the point of being jumpy.
Reckon So: suppose or believe something is true.
Yankee: Anyone originating north of the Mason Dixon line.
Redneck: Polite, blue collar individual who loves hunting, country music, and blue jeans. Add alcohol and anything can happen.
Y’all: You guys
All y’all: More than five people
I could eat the north end of a south-bound polecat: Starving!
Lil’ Dogie: A motherless calf, a calf separated from its cow.
Hankering: Craving something
Fair to middlin’: Doing okay
Three sheets to the wind: Drunker than a skunk
Passel: A whole bunch
Hold your horses: Be patient
Grinning like a possum eating a sweet potato: Happy as can be
He’s a snake in the grass: Mean as all get out
Gussied Up: Dressed fancy
Halfcocked: Acting on assumptions or partial information. Based on old firearms, that if not fully cocked (thus halfcocked), would not fire.
Barkin’ up the wrong tree: Misguided, mistaken
Kicked the bucket: Died
See all the way to Christmas: Skirt so short you can see what you shouldn’t be seeing.
Hodunk: backwoods town with no value