Hillbilly Lingo - The sitcom THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES/CBS/1962-71 used backwoods terminology to communicate with each other despite the fact they lived in a mansion in Beverly Hills. Frequently heard terms:

• Black gold - Oil (a.k.a. "Texas Tea")

• Commence - Start or begin

• Critters -  Elly May's animals (a.k.a. "Varmits")

• Fancy eatin' room - The Billiard Room

• Fancy leather lunchboxes - Briefcase 

• Goomers - Dumb people

• New-Monie - A lung ailment

• Polecat - Skunk

• Pot passers - Pool cues

• Spark - Kiss

• Trappins - Clothes

• Yurp - Slang for Europe

Other rural-isms included the phrases:

• "Feelin' lower than a well digger's heel"

• "Frisky as a flea on a fat dog"

• "He was only greenin' ya!"

• "If brains were lard, his wouldn't grease too big a pan"

• "Pretty as a bag filled with stripped candy"

• "Rootin' around like a hog in a new pen"

• "Set a Spell"

• "Squawking like a two-pound chicken laying a three-pound
   egg"

• "You could throw her into the pond and skim ugly for
   a month"

• "Your tottin' water with a leaky bucket"

• "You're green enough to stick in the ground and grow"

• "We-l-l-l-l Doggies!"

• "Y'all come back now, hear!"