Is this a well known southern saying?

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Royal_Thrashing@reddit

Expanding beyond the south, which I have spent a huge amount of time.

I have been all over this country from the tiny middle of no where's to all the major cities and everywhere in between. I grew up traveling. I have heard all sorts of sayings from the oldest of backwoods old-timers right up to today.

I have never heard this saying before.

I'm not saying your friend is an idiot...... but I'm certainly thinking it real loud.

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TotientEC@reddit

Nope, your friend is weird.

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DharmaCub@reddit

Or he's fucking with them. I like to make up idioms and pretend they're normal.

My friends and I are fond of saying "You know what really corns my dog?" Or "man that really corns my dog" or the rarer "that'll put some corn on your dog."

It can mean anything and I love it.

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Bluestarkittycat@reddit

I might have to steal the "corns my dog" thing, thats hilarious

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strawbebby-milk@reddit

me too, it's beautiful

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Heavy72@reddit

So good if you put a bowl of it on your head, your tongue will beat your brains out trying to get at it...

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Decent-Bear334@reddit

I've worked with hundreds of southerners from every southern state. Never, ever have I heard that. Ridiculous.

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ThatsNotGumbo@reddit

Lived in Louisiana my whole life. I have never heard this phrase. Not even once.

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SlipperyGermBrick@reddit

Same

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TheRandomestWonderer@reddit

Ew, no.

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hornbuckle56@reddit

No.

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BareTheBear66@reddit

Uh... ive never heard this ever in my life... im not from the south but have family down there... this made me cringe.... I think 5 year olds say it?

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nippleflick1@reddit

Not from the south but I know many southern things from time stationed in the south and never once heard that!

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Interesting-Card5803@reddit

I would have gotten an ass whoopin' for talking like that in my house.

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DawaLhamo@reddit

It's not a thing in Missouri.

I'm betting he's either mixing up phrases accidentally (make water/mouth water) or on purpose for fun. He might just be a linguistic BS-artist.

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MrdrOfCrws@reddit

I think he mixed up "so good it made my mouth cum' which I've heard used by teenagers who think they're edgy.

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an_optimistic_egg@reddit

No.

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Greenearthgirl87@reddit

Well traveled- I’ve never heard that saying.

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Elivagara@reddit

I have never heard this.

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Accomplished-Race335@reddit

Never heard it.

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MagpieWench@reddit

is he saying it in English or another language? I wonder if "makes my mouth water" (produce saliva) got conflated with "make water" (to urinate)

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cans-of-swine@reddit

Never heard it.

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mustbethedragon@reddit

I've lived in Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia. I've never heard it.

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Responsible-Chest-26@reddit

I did not know the mason dixon was as far northe as Pennsylvania until just now. I thought it stopped at Tennessee. The south was a lot farther north than i thought

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ATLien_3000@reddit

Maryland is a southern state.

The "tyrant" referenced in "Maryland My Maryland" (which was the state song until a few years ago) is Abraham Lincoln, not George III.

When someone realized that in 2021, they repealed the legislation so designating the song.

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Leading-Summer-4724@reddit

Maryland is sort of mixed on this. The eastern shore still cosplays as the Old South, but a good bit of the rest of the state gets pretty upset if you call it a southern state. My husband (who is from there) says “we’re battlefield trash”.

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Ok_Resort_489@reddit

I'm from Alabama and would not consider Maryland the South. I also don't consider Virginia the South and have argued with people about that one lol.

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RepresentativeCry294@reddit

Its normal for people from Alabama to be wrong. Doesn't mean Maryland isn't the South, it just isn't the deep South.

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ATLien_3000@reddit

the rest of the state gets pretty upset if you call it a southern state.

That's kind of my point.

Maryland's a southern state; that's objective historical fact.

And the population center (then and now - Baltimore) was the hotbed of secessionist settlement.

If you REALLY want to piss off a Marylander, you can point out the further historical fact that it's a southern state that didn't secede not because it was run by enlightened anti-slavers (it wasn't), but because its leaders were scared.

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Leading-Summer-4724@reddit

Shussh we don’t say that here!! ducks Look, I’m just trying to blend in, these people put sugar in their grits, ok? Not a southern state. Repeat, not a southern state. Here have a crab 🦀

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Requilem@reddit

It is the Maryland Northern border.

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Spiel_Foss@reddit

Maryland was a slave state.

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railworx@reddit

So was Pennsylvania at the time

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JosephBlowsephThe3rd@reddit

Ditto for Virginia and North Carolina

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Golf38611@reddit

Just means he’s as happy as a puppy with 2 peters.

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BBQnNugs@reddit

Nooo

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Ok_Jackfruit2612@reddit

Don't go cow tipping with this person. Or anyone. Ever.

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Suppafly@reddit

I suspect that it's unique to him or his family and he just thinks or pretends that it's a southern colloquialism.

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MitchyS68@reddit

No

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therealsanchopanza@reddit

The only pee colloquialism I can think of is “it’s raining like a cow peeing on a rock”

Mouth pee is weird and I’ve never heard that

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Warm-Spare-5800@reddit

I’ve also always heard and use “I have to pee so bad my teeth are floating”. From Michigan tho not the south

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WildMartin429@reddit

That doesn't make sense I always heard that phrase as I have to pee so bad my eyeballs are floating. Your teeth are like attached and can't float.

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NekoArtemis@reddit

Your eyeballs are also attached (hopefully)

But yes teeth are it's mobile than eyeballs (ideally)

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NekoArtemis@reddit

"I have to piss like a horse in a horse pissing race"

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marklikeadawg@reddit

Gotta piss like a Russian racehorse

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Firm-Chemical949@reddit

……………………nah

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Mobile_Can_9494@reddit

Have I ever heard of it? No. Am I surprised to heat that someone from the south says that? No not really. Ive lived here all my life and some of us can get real creative with our sayings from time to time.

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Evapoman97@reddit

Never heard that on the West coast either.

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MountainTomato9292@reddit

48 years in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi and I have never heard this. Frankly it’s disgusting.

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One-Yellow1504@reddit

NO, never has been , never will be. Next time look at your DAF friend and say, “Well bless your little heart “ and walk away muttering under your breath about how that friend is ‘so dumb they’d struggle to pour piss out of a boot if the directions were written on the bottom.’

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Constellation-88@reddit

Eew. No.

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squarebodynewb@reddit

Several southern states with family or friends that i have lived in or traveled to. Time serving in the military with tons of people from the south.

Never once have i heard this.

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Roadshell@reddit

If they do say that in the South they should probably stop.

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Dangerous_Prize_4545@reddit

We do not say this in the South.

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Mireille_la_mouche@reddit

Confirming. I NEVER heard this. Grew up in Alabama, went to college in North Carolina, lived in Tennessee afterwards.

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Kriegerian@reddit

Yeah, lived in both Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia and Texas, have been to every other state in the South for one reason or another, (I’m not convinced Arkansas counts, never been there) never heard this weird shit.

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draizetrain@reddit

I learned recently about “the Ozarks” which is arguably a region of the South? Anyways I think Arkansas belongs to that region

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draizetrain@reddit

I have never ever heard this in my life!

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Key_Beach_3846@reddit

No. No, man. Shit no, man. I believe you’d get your ass beat saying something like that. Man.

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Ok_Resort_489@reddit

Sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays!

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Ok_Resort_489@reddit

I grew up in Alabama, and have lived in Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina and I have never heard anyone say this.

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ThinWhiteRogue@reddit

Nope. Your friend is weird.

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CuriousSurfer19@reddit

Ew wtf never heard that in my life - must be a southern with a fetish

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MovieAshamed4140@reddit

I have lived in the south in two states for over 50 years and never once has my husband bf GA born (Macon) ever said that!

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Upstairs_Highlight25@reddit

Definitely not, that is way to crude for a old southern saying.

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Thatonetwin@reddit

Im from Arkansas never heard this before. "It made my mouth WATER"

He may be messing with you or might be a mis-translation?

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Utterlybored@reddit

I’ve lived in the South for 60+ years. Never heard that’n.

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Scott72901@reddit

Arkansan here, I've never heard that.

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daisytat@reddit

Yuck. Never heard this one. And glad of it.

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ladybugseattle@reddit

another poop knife.

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tbrock1337@reddit

Alright enough with the poop knife already...

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YOLTLO@reddit

Yes, yes, we’ve all seen the poop knife.

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the_vole@reddit

Wait, you’ve seen it?

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marklikeadawg@reddit

I've seen someone carrying 2 plastic ones just in case...

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CharlesUFarley81@reddit

I understand that reference

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WonderfulProtection9@reddit

I try not to…

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blbd@reddit

Don't break any arms.

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Sprucecaboose2@reddit

Colby!

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ArkansasTravelier@reddit

I’m born and raised in Arkansas, my family has been here since the 1820s and I have lived in the Arkansas River valley very rurally and now live in northwest Arkansas in a more metropolitan area, I’ve also lived in coastal NC and have made it a point to spend time in every state in the south, I have never once in my life heard anyone say this lol he may be fucking with you. Or his family is weird.

as an Arkansan it’s been pointed out that I said the word deal like “dill” and the word why like “wah” and a lot of us seperate the word “goodness” into sounding like two words, good ness, almost like good god but replace god with ness.

Those are the only things that have been pointed out to me as being particularly specific to Arkansas honestly lol

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thisisntmyotherone@reddit

Yankee.

I’m so sorry, but ‘metropolitan’ and ‘Arkansas?’

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ArkansasTravelier@reddit

To you probably not, but to us North West Arkansas with 500k people and having the headquarters and home offices to Walmart, Tyson chicken, JB hunt. a college, airport etc would meet that definition.

I obviously understand it’s no NYC, Philly, Boston etc. and would seem rural to people from those places, but to us a nice squeaky clean city with hundreds of thousands of people and millionaires and Walton family billionaires living amongst us is “metropolitan” lol

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thisisntmyotherone@reddit

The largest city in my state doesn’t have quite 500k people, at last count, and the entire state has about 1.1mm. We used to have lots and lots of headquarters of things like DuPont, Hercules, MBNA credit cards (before they were purchased by Bank of America). I don’t think we have the headquarters of anything anymore.

We have the Dover Air Force Base, where the military dead return from overseas, which is singularly important and somber, but it’s the only one of its kind, so it isn’t exactly a ‘headquarters.’ We also have two residences of a previous president; one is his main residence and the other his vacation home.

Thank you for your patience and good humor in explaining. I appreciate learning about your state!

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ArkansasTravelier@reddit

I’ve always wanted to visit Delaware!

and no problem! I know we are pretty unknown to most lol

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mysticalchurro@reddit

Never heard anyone say this

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marklikeadawg@reddit

North Carolina, never heard that.

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TheWholeMoon@reddit

Absolutely the heck not where I’m from in the south. Yuck.

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Requilem@reddit

Bless their heart is probably the most well known globally atm. Ya'll is another.

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itz_mr_billy@reddit

Literally no one says this

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Prestigious-Dog-2150@reddit

Yuck. I'm a southerner and have never heard it. It's revolting.

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vespers191@reddit

Heard this in Simple Jack's voice.

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moonwillow60606@reddit

I’ve never heard it.

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AladeenModaFuqa@reddit

Yeah I don’t believe you tbh. Mouth WATER? Definitely. In no world would I ever hear an adult or teen say “made my mouth pee”.

Squirt? Sure for a teen or college kid. But he’s from AK and said that? Either they’re fucking with you or you’re bullshitting.

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thisisntmyotherone@reddit

Just so you know, AK is Alaska. AR is Arkansas. 🙂

Part of a previous job was using the two digit codes for each of the 50 states all damned day. We got to know them really intimately. I left that job 25 years ago.

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