Below are the meanings of "bless your heart" from an Alabama born and raised southerner.
1. If someone has just lost a loved one, we say bless your heart to mean sympathy.
2. If a child falls down and skins their knee or someone tells you a sad story about a family member, we say bless your heart to mean we are sincerely sorry something bad happened.
3. If a southerner looks at you with a sardonic smile and says bless your heart, it usually means she thinks you're an idiot or your opinion is stupid.
4. If we look you straight in the face and say bless your heart and walk away or hang up, it generally means go screw yourself. This meaning also applies if bless your heart is used after an insult of some kind whether veiled or not.
5. Bless your heart can also be used to indicate surprise and happiness. For example, if someone tells you they won the lottery, we might say, "Bless your heart! That's fantastic!"
6. Another example is when we talk to each other about anything generally negative but not at all meant to be insulting. For example, "I know she spent all day in the kitchen and tried her very best, but bless her heart, what she served for the dinner party was just awful."
Hope this helps y'all!
1. If someone has just lost a loved one, we say bless your heart to mean sympathy.
2. If a child falls down and skins their knee or someone tells you a sad story about a family member, we say bless your heart to mean we are sincerely sorry something bad happened.
3. If a southerner looks at you with a sardonic smile and says bless your heart, it usually means she thinks you're an idiot or your opinion is stupid.
4. If we look you straight in the face and say bless your heart and walk away or hang up, it generally means go screw yourself. This meaning also applies if bless your heart is used after an insult of some kind whether veiled or not.
5. Bless your heart can also be used to indicate surprise and happiness. For example, if someone tells you they won the lottery, we might say, "Bless your heart! That's fantastic!"
6. Another example is when we talk to each other about anything generally negative but not at all meant to be insulting. For example, "I know she spent all day in the kitchen and tried her very best, but bless her heart, what she served for the dinner party was just awful."
Hope this helps y'all!
by A real southern belle July 11, 2022
Phrase used by old southern ladies that want to get away with saying 'fuck you' to a stranger. It works because they also use it unironically just often enough to leave doubt in your mind.
"Oh bless your heart."
"Did that lady just tell me to go fuck myself or genuinely mean it?"
"Well, we are in Georgia..."
"Did that lady just tell me to go fuck myself or genuinely mean it?"
"Well, we are in Georgia..."
by Itsapaul05 April 25, 2023
That girl is the most fowl mouthed, idiotic, bitch there is, bless her heart.
Oh you need to actually look this up? Bless your heart.
Oh you need to actually look this up? Bless your heart.
by CattheGreat December 5, 2016
1. This is a term used by the people of the southern United States particularly near the Gulf of Mexico to express to someone that they are an idiot without saying such harsh words.
2. "You are an idiot but I like you and care about you so I dont want to hurt your feelings."
2. "You are an idiot but I like you and care about you so I dont want to hurt your feelings."
Little Billy: I am 6 years old (only holds up 4 fingers)
Scarlet: Oh honey, bless your heart, but that's only 4 fingers.
Little Billy tries again: I am 6 years old (this time holds up the same 4 fingers and 4 more on the other hand)
Scarlet: Child....Bless you and your momma's heart.
Scarlet: Oh honey, bless your heart, but that's only 4 fingers.
Little Billy tries again: I am 6 years old (this time holds up the same 4 fingers and 4 more on the other hand)
Scarlet: Child....Bless you and your momma's heart.
by BigJason March 5, 2009
A southern way to cuss out the ignorant.
You: "OH my gosh, I just failed my midterm after I spent all my time with 'X'!"
Any southerner: "Bless your heart."
Ex 2
You: "wow, can't believe there is a whole other culture down here!"
Some southerner: "Bless. Your. Heart."
When with friends, it is sometimes said in a teasing manner while still calling you out for being dumb
A big favorite southern saying
You: "OH my gosh, I just failed my midterm after I spent all my time with 'X'!"
Any southerner: "Bless your heart."
Ex 2
You: "wow, can't believe there is a whole other culture down here!"
Some southerner: "Bless. Your. Heart."
When with friends, it is sometimes said in a teasing manner while still calling you out for being dumb
A big favorite southern saying
by It's me n yall know it February 16, 2021
1: phrase used by Southern women to excuse themselves for speaking ill of someone else.
2: an expression of sympathy or pity.
3: a polite way to respond to an ignoramus, particularly male, who showers upon you flattering but unwanted compliments.
2: an expression of sympathy or pity.
3: a polite way to respond to an ignoramus, particularly male, who showers upon you flattering but unwanted compliments.
1: "She's as ugly as a mud-fence, bless her heart."
2: "Well, bless your heart, that must have been terrible!"
3: drunk fella: "I think you're beautiful! Even if you were ugly, I'd STILL think you were beautiful!"
recipient: "...bless your heart."
2: "Well, bless your heart, that must have been terrible!"
3: drunk fella: "I think you're beautiful! Even if you were ugly, I'd STILL think you were beautiful!"
recipient: "...bless your heart."
by lateda January 3, 2005
1) A euphemism for "fuck you" commonly used by people who live in the southern United States.
2) An expression of pity used by southerners.
2) An expression of pity used by southerners.
1) After I proved the southerner wrong, they looked me straight in the eye and said "bless your heart"
2) After I fell off my bicycle, the southern lady said, "bless your heart"
2) After I fell off my bicycle, the southern lady said, "bless your heart"
by Ebag Nigel Gunther February 9, 2015