| Here are excerpts from the Hickphonics/English dictionary: |
| HEIDI - | noun. Greeting. |
| HIRE YEW - | Complete sentence. Remainder of greeting.
Usage: "Heidi. Hire yew." |
| BARD - | verb. Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."
Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck." |
| JAWJUH - | noun. A state just north of Florida. Capital
is Hot-lanta.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck." |
| MUNTS - | noun. A calendar division.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I ain't heard from him in munts." |
| IGNERT - | adjective. Not smart. See "Arkansas native."
Usage: "Them N-C-TWO-A boys sure are ignert!" |
| RANCH - | noun. A tool used for tight'nin' bolts.
Usage: "I think I left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago." |
| ALL - | noun. A petroleum-based lubricant.
Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck." |
| FAR - | noun. A conflagration.
Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh don't change the all in my pickup truck, that things gonna catch far." |
| BAHS - | noun. A supervisor.
Usage: "If you don't stop reading these Southern words and git back to work, your bahs is gonna far you!" |
| TAR - | noun. A rubber wheel.
Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don't git a flat tar in my pickup truck." |
| TIRE - | noun. A tall monument.
Usage: "Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, I sure do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime." |
| RETARD - | Verb. To stop working.
Usage: "My grampaw retard at age 65." |
| TARRED - | adverb. Exhausted.
Usage: "I just flew in from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms are tarred." |
| FAT - | 1. noun. A battle or combat.
2. verb. To engage in battle or combat. |
| ARE - | pronoun. Possessive case of we used as a predicate adjective. |
| RATS - | noun. Entitled power or privilege.
Usage: "We Southerners are willin' to fat for are rats." |
| FARN - | adjective. Not local.
Usage: "I cuddint unnerstand a wurd he sed ... must be from some farn country." |
| DID - | adjective. Not alive.
Usage: "He's did, Jim." |
| EAR - | noun. A colorless, odorless gas (unless
you are in LA).
Usage: "He cain't breathe ... give 'im some ear!" |
| BOB WAR - | noun. A sharp, twisted cable
Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence." |
| JEW HERE - | Noun and verb contraction.
Usage: "Jew here that my brother from Jawjuh got a job with that bob war fence cump'ny?" |
| HAZE - | a contraction.
Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah ... haze ignert." |
| SEED - | verb, past tense. |
| VIEW - | contraction: verb and pronoun.
Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City...view?" |
| HEAVY DEW - | phrase. A request for action.
Usage: "Kin I heavy dew me a favor?" |
| GUMMIT - | Noun. A bureaucratic institution.
Usage: "Them gummit boys shore are ignert." |