American Lingo

[Hawkster318]

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from a nautical website:

We use the term "three sheets to the wind" to describe someone who has had too much to drink. As such, they are often bedraggled with perhaps shirttails out, clothes a mess, and with wild hair.
The reference is to a sailing ship in disarray, that is with its sheets (lines - not "ropes" - that adjust the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind) flapping loosely in the breeze. When loose or let go, the sheets would let the sails go slack. The ship would then lose speed and control. It would begin to shudder and stagger, much like a drunk.

I'm guessing six sheets would be reallllly drunk then...

 

[nccountrygirl]

When people are way to drunk I say " Drunker than Cooter Brown.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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We have that one here too!

 

[plester01]

My husband is from West Virginia here are some of the things he says:

1. Fer = Fire
2. Tar = Tire
3. Knowed = Knew

also he was raised in a Holler.

I had no idea what that was until I saw one for myself.

 

[nccountrygirl]

Have you ever heard the word crunk as in I crunk the car?

 

[Reinbeau]

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Three sheets to the wind. It's got something to do with sailing, I think. Oops, someone beat me to it - at least I guessed right!

 

[silkiechicken]

Where are you in the NW? I call soda-pop, "soda-pop"and all cars, trucks, and SUV's, "cars."

 

[CarriBrown]

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I haven't heard "crunk" used in that way. Out here, crunk means to be crazy and drunk (like a wild drunk, or out of control drunk).

 

[picklespickles]

oh my gosh. i miss texas and the south. i grew up with jeet and momenem. the only thing i would add is all yall. i still ask people if they want a coke and then what kind of coke they would like?

 

[FutureChickenMan]

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Spokane where the population of the city out numbers the teeth in the city. j/k.. yeah eastern wa is bigtime different than the coast.