Comments on: Thursday Thirteen #3: A Lesson in Texas Language

By: Rach

Rach — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:41:27 +0000

What in the Sam Hill
I love this. Thank for sharing

By: Shelly Kneupper Tucker

Shelly Kneupper Tucker — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:02:02 +0000

Never have heard of that sequence of words, but my mother’s nickname was Bug. How Texan!

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 09:29:07 +0000

P.S. Don’t forget “cotton pickin’” and “dadgum”, both of which are interchangeable explicatives that could easily be replaced by “damn” or “darn”.

Git yer cotton pickin hands off my dadgum car if yew know what’s good get ya.

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 09:23:27 +0000

Native Texan here and I just stumbled on this site. Funny, but so true! My uncle used to rough us up a bit, like grabbing you in a headlock and not let go unless you answered his question, “What’s the word”?

Your response had to be, “Thunderbird, chicken plucker, ringtail tooter, and Bugs”.

I can only imagine that Thunderbird was referring to either the car or the very cheap wine. I don’t know shy we had to say chicken plucker, but you haver answered the mystery of ringtail tooter. Bugs was my uncle’s nickname for my younger sister.

By: Shelly Kneupper Tucker

Shelly Kneupper Tucker — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:40:06 +0000

Ring-tailed tooter is one of my favorite phrases, Pamela. You can use it instead of a vulgar expression and it works nicely. And, Bette was indeed a ring-tailed tooter!

By: Pamela

Pamela — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:39:45 +0000

I grew up in Texas but now live in Ohio. I was talking to my friend Kay and she said Bette Davis was one of her favorite actresses. I said, “Yeah, but she was a ring -tailed tooter.” Kay said, “A what?” I was embarassed, we were at a nice occasion, a wedding dinner. I haven’t said that phrase in years, it just popped out of my mouth. I had to explain it to her, something my mom used to say about a wild person. My husand (from New Jersey) sitting next to me laughed out loud.

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[...] come to another Thursday Thirteen of mine where I give a lesson in Texas language. They want to know the definition of “ring-tailed tooter.” If you look it up in the [...]