10 definitions by Bill Mobley
"Acting the fool" or "telling someone off." Making your displeasure known loudly, because someone didn't (for example) pay you what he or she promised.
Maggie know good and well she shouldn't have been clowning and acting the fool at that public library.
by Bill Mobley February 17, 2023
A word used by some black southerners long ago, (and sometimes still used today by old timers) often in a loving casual way to denote the reason for some action one may have taken or didn't take.
"Oh I know she owes me a little money, but I couldn't say nothing about that, beese she walked way over here and had so much trouble finding me. You know what I'm saying?" "It would be so ugly to bring that up."
by Bill Mobley March 2, 2023
by Bill Mobley August 13, 2023