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Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary II: More Words You Thought You Knew the Meaning Of

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"Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary II" is a follow-up to the original "Redneck Dictionary," featuring "more words you thought you knew the meaning of." In this you'll find words from "control" to "rectum," with zany definitions that only make sense when you consider what the words would be if spoken with a southern accent.


The book is truly laid out like a dictionary, with parts of speech and a pronunciation key. The parts of speech and pronunciation reflect the combined words that make up the new words. So if the word is "magistrate," then the phrase becomes "Madge is straight" and the part of speech is "noun and verb." And the pronunciations reflect how it would be pronunced in the "Southern, redneck style."

One funny example is "eyesore" as in "Back off, eyesore (I saw her) first." This dictionary comes with amusing illustrations. The one for geyser (guys are) shows two men in front of a geyser that's about to burst. And sometimes the example sentences are just plain clever --- i.e. "No offense, ma'am, but I'm putting up offense (a fence.)"


If this sort of humor fits the bill for you, then you'll love this. It may be "redneck," but it's actually very sophisticated and smart.

I actually purchased this for my husband. But I'll admit, I just had to see what was so funny. This dictionary is hilarious! No wonder he was laughing out loud in the doctor's office. You know, you are never too old for just some good ole, down to earth redneck ribbing. It has been a long time since I have laughed this hard. I would recommend this to anyone who needs to just let loose and laugh harder than you have ever laughed before. Everybody deserves to just chill out once and a while, have some good ole fun, and laugh!!! Go for it...buy his book. And laugh yourself silly.

Jeff Foxworthy is a comic genius. It's as simple as that. My favorite routine was the one about how men and women communicate and that scene with the baseball game on television was just too funny for words.

Mr. Foxworthy takes his comic talent to the written page. Although others have used the same technique of providing a very different definition based on how a word sounds, Foxworthy's list is funny as it is done as a spoof on rednecks and as a joke vernacular of humorous redneck dialect.

I BOUGHT THIS FOR MY UNCLE. HE IS A VERY SOUTHERN MAN. HE LOVES THIS BOOK, AND USES JOKES FREQUENTLY FROM IT. WE HAVE HAD MANY LAUGHS WITH IT.

I can remember my school days when if someone asked "how do you spell that?";the teacher would say,"Look it up in the Dictionary." I always had a problem with that.How the heck do you look up a word when you don't know how to spell it in the first place?
If you are like me and enjoy Foxworthy;you'll get a real hoot out of this book.What really amazes me ,is that this gift of language of Jeffs,can actually be committed to print.Although the book is really good,and allows the reader to mull this "talk" over at ease;I still prefer the richness at the the actual live talk. When you listen to this priceless Redneck talk;these words go zinging past like stray bullets at the shooting reage.
I took notice of Brandon Simpson's review posted on July 29,2007 where this obviously sage student of language calls this sort of thing "morphophonemic alterations" .It seems Jeff overlooked this word in his Dictionary----anyone knows it's Redneck for "Mor fur dem hicks, and al' der relatshuns".
Everyone knows that English is a living language and changes with common use;and it don' git more common'r than dis!!

This was a funny book. It certainly isn't worth the price. You can read it in an hour.

For us rednecks this word is way too big. But I can't think of what else to call it. Jeff Foxworthy's three Redneck Dictionaries are full of "morphophonemic alterations."
On the other hand, we don't need to actually know the techincal definition to enjoy them.

Brandon Simpson

My 90+ year old mother loves to read and try to figure word meanings. It is a fun book.

This was a gift to a 40 year old male in my family. He has enjoys the book and shares many words and their definitions with people. It is a great book for the person who likes "Blue Collar Comedy" or just a person looking for a good laugh anytime. Enjoy it, as they say, laughter is the best medicine!

Bought this book as a gift for my brother. He likes light and funny things to read at short periods. He thinks it is perfect. We enjoy all of Jeff's works.