What are some words that only people in your area would know? please tell the area and what the word means . Here are my

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Pittsburgh/SW PA words. What are words used that are unique to your area.
jumbo----bologna
pop-----soda
yhinz---a person/people
gumbands---rubber bands
jagoff--a jerk

[WVlaserguy]

1. More

Buggy—-shopping cart
Red up—-clean up
Keller—-color

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2. Thank you WVlaserguy. I forgot about those.

[Traildogbob]

3. Yun's

You all. “Yun’s come over after dark.

[GPV]

4. Guess where I live? "Slick as a smelt." (slippery) "Nummer'n'a pounded Hake." (Stupid)

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5. Minnesota?

[GPV]

6. Not a bad guess, but no. :) How about, "Jeezum crow, bub

that's the most cunnin'est ki'en I evah seen." (Cutest baby cat.)

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9. Boston

[GPV]

27. Much closer. ;)

[boonecreek]

51. Maine?

[GPV]

8. "Can't go out ta haul, so I'm headed upta camp"

[yorkster]

15. Maine

[GPV]

10. "Git those taters from the dooryahd and stick 'em down cellah."

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13. I give up what area/state are you using. Now I am think of the south.

[GPV]

26. Lol. I'm from downeast Maine. :)

[yorkster]

18. I've heard dooryard in Vt and downcellah

in my yoot in Boston.

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23. Thank you yorkster.

[LeftInTX]

25. Sounds like SE Louisiana

[boonecreek]

52. Just scrolled down to this.

So ayuh, Maine.

[DBoon]

7. hodad

Someone who comes to the beach and has a surfboard, but never surfs, or that surfs poorly and annoys the local seasoned surfers

- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hodad

Not sure if is still in use, but it filtered down to the elementary school level in the 1960s

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11. Interesting . Thank you DBoon.

[SWBTATTReg]

12. I don't think I've heard this saying...

More crunch crunch, please!

In other words, I need more ice for my drink!!

The first time I used this saying, my bartender looked at me kind of 'what?!', he had never heard the saying, this was the first time I realized that not many people had heard this saying.

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14. Thank you SWBTATTReg. What state/area used the term.?

[SWBTATTReg]

16. St Louis, midwest, but mostly in STLMO

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17. Thank you .

[AbnerBunny]

19. I don't care to.

It means “I don’t mind at all to help.”

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22. Thank you AbnerBunny

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40. Now see, I would have taken it to mean I don't want to.

[10 Turtle Day]

49. Are you in Kentucky? I heard from someone down there.

Was baffled that their words implied no but were eager to help. Seems so contradictory.

[AbnerBunny]

66. Yes indeed!

I used it once (and only once) at a meeting in another state, when I offered to chair a sub-committee. The looks of disbelief were pretty funny! Now I rarely use it, and only in Kentucky!

[catbyte]

20. Pop (soda)

Yooper (a person from Michigan's Upper Peninsula)
Hoser/Hosehead (usually a Canadian)

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21. Thank you catbyte.

[ProfessorGAC]

42. Pop Is Used In Chicago, Too

When I first started going east ir south, and people said soda I thought they were talking about club soda.
Pop is all anybody called it around here, too.

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44. Sorry. I am shocked I tell you, very shocked

[VGNonly]

67. If someone is from the Lower Peninsula

they are trolls (under the bridge). Some called flatlanders or fudgies.

[catbyte]

70. LOL, I grew up in Charlevoix, the birthplace of Murdick's Fudge, so we townies all called

the tourists fudgies.

[VGNonly]

71. I was in Charlevoix mid Sept.

Lovely city but crowded, but not as crowded as Traverse City. TC was packed even on the weekdays. We also spent 3 days in Paradise in the UP. Went to Whitefish Point, Tahquamenon Falls, Crisp Point and Seney NWA. I've probably crossed the Mac 50-60 times.

I knew some people who had a home in Leland MI for about 6 months of the year, 6 months back home in OH. They called themselves semi-perma-fudgies.

[LeftInTX]

24. In Wisconsin it was bubbler for drinking fountain.

That's a weird one and I've lived in a lot of places/states. Bubbler is totally unique to WI and I have never heard used for drinking fountain anywhere else! "Go to the bubbler and get a drink"

[JenniferJuniper]

35. It's a bubbler in much of New England, or "bubblah"

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41. That's different . thank you LeftinTex

[Lunabell]

28. Fixin' to.

About to do something.

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30. What area are you from? It sounds like a southern state.

[Lunabell]

36. Yessireebob. N.Fl. But originally Nashville,Tennessee.

That's another southernism. Pronounced: yes-sir-ee-bob. Lol.

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39. Thank ya Lunabell

[Dale in Laurel MD]

29. We used pop for soda in Washington, DC

nt

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31. Oh you do? that's fun knowing. Here in SW PA if you ask for a soda. you will get a pop with a scoop of ice cream.

[Dale in Laurel MD]

33. "Soda" did sort of imply ice cream.

But that was usually called an ice cream soda rather than just a soda.

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56. Thank you Dale in Laurel MD

[ProfessorGAC]

43. Chicago, Too

I never heard the word "soda" for that drink until I was in Florida at 16.
Later on the east coast in college.
Everybody called it pop around here.

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45. thank you ProfessorGAC.

[BarbaRosa]

32. Christmas,

a buritto with red and green chile sauce.
Oh yeah, New Mexico

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34. Thank you BarbaRosa. That's different. Thank you.

[coprolite]

37. Oly Pop

Olympia Beer, learned it from interior Alaska.

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38. Thank you. coprolite

[3catwoman3]

46. "Get sick" meaning vomit.

When I first started working at my final job in a pediatric practice in one of the Chicago suburbs, it took me a while to figure out what the hell mothers were talking about when they would say, "He had a fever for 3 days, and then he got sick."

I'm thinking, if the kid had a fever for 3 days, weren't they already sick? Made no sense until I finally worked it out that no one around here says vomiting, puking, barfing, or throwing up. No idea why.

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47. Thank you 3catwoman3,

[KitFox]

48. Jockey box meaning glove compartment in a car

Borrow pit which came out as bar pit for ditch alongside a road
Pert near meaning almost
Weeze meaning you and I
Going to the show meaning going to the movies
Drag Main meaning cruising
Pop soft drinks
From my upbringing in Eastern Oregon
Enjoying reading all the posts😊

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57. Thank you KitFox and thank you for your selections.

[Niagara]

50. Buffalo, N.Y.

716: the area code used most frequently in Buffalo. Frequently used numbers appear on windshields of vehicles or mentioned on the radio stations or television


The 33, 190, 290, 990. Major roads to travel. There's more numbers for major roads here in Buffalo, I only named a few


Crick: If it’s a small body of water, like a stream, Buffalonians will likely call it a crick. That’s just their way of pronouncing the word “creek.” This is real and happens frequently. I also ask, "Are you saying creek?" to clarify


I'm dead: something so funny, you literally cry from laughing so hard


Buff City: Nickname for Buffalo, NY


Nickel City: Another Nickname for Buffalo, NY


Queen City: Another nickname for Buffalo, NY


The Ralph: Ralph Wilson Stadium. I have no clue what the born Buffalonians will refer to it once the new stadium is built


Bills Mafia: The most devot Bills fans that purposely fall on tables to break them in the spirit of games. I don't know why. I'm not a football fan. I don't care if the Bills Mafia purposely break their own necks just as long as they stay out of my lane

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58. Wow, thank you very much Niagara.

[boonecreek]

53. Finally came up with one.

"Over by". In Chicago it's not sufficient to say something
is located "by", it has to be "over by".

Here's WGN's Mike Lowe speaking "Chicagoese".

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59. Thank you very much boonecreek. Love it. Speaking Chicagoese.

[PennRalphie]

54. Chipped Ham

Not a word, but a phrase. Go down to where (fill in the name of a closed establishment) and turn left.

Kennywood’s Open - your fly’s open

Makes me laugh every time.

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62. thank you PennRalphie. We use to say Kennywood's Open (Kennywood is an Amusement Park) all the time. Still use it . I

live about 4 miles for Kennywood. The chipped ham must be Isaly's chipped chopped ham. No substitutes.

[Tanuki]

55. "So don't I" for "so do I." I thought someone was

being facetious the first time I heard it as in "I like that." "So don't I!"
"Tonic" for soda/pop
"Spa" for soda fountain
Pronounced "Frap" (spelled frappé) for milkshake
"Time" for a party in someone's honor ("Are you going to Bob's time? " )

I heard all of these while living in and around Boston.

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64. Thank you very much Tanuki. Husband is from Boston. He still calls it a frappe.

[subterranean]

60. Sunbreak (Pacific Northwest)

When the sun appears briefly on an otherwise cloudy or rainy day. Often heard in weather forecasts (e.g., “Cloudy with showers and a few afternoon sunbreaks”).

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65. Thank you subterranean . That is very interesting.

[Bobstandard]

61. Da kine

Ubiquitous in everyday conversation in Hawaii, ‘da kine’ is a multi purpose term that Wikipedia describes well:

Da kine" is a Hawaiian Pidgin phrase that can be used as a placeholder name, verb, adjective, or adverb. It's often used when someone can't remember a word or name, or when referring to something familiar. "Da kine" can also mean "the best," "the most unique," or "the most special".
Examples of "da kine" in use
"Don't be 'da-kine', and use 'da-kine'"
"Its Da Kine"

Other examples: “Liliha Bakery lilikoi cake is da kine!” “I went to the store to get da kine stuff but they was out.”

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63. Thank you Bobstandard. Very ininteresting.

[VGNonly]

68. Cattywampus

Meaning messed up, confused, odd, out of place.

More of an Appalachian term but my father, born on a farm in NW Ohio, used the term often. He also used the term washroom rather then bathroom which is a Canadian usage.

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69. Thank you very much VGNonly.

[CTyankee]

72. "abeets" what pizza is called in New Haven

It is short for "apizza" which was what pizza was originally called in the part of Sicily, where (it is said), the "real pizza" is from. I had never heard that before I moved to New Haven. Some people here believe that it set a high standard for all pizza you get in New Haven so even if you don't go to Sally's or Pepe's for your "authentic" NH pizza, every other pizza maker had to make a really good "pie."
After 30 years, I am used to it so it's just good pizza to me.

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73. Thank you very much CTyankee. That is very interesting