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debm55

(39,985 posts)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 03:07 PM 13 hrs ago

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

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

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What are some words that only people in your area would know? please tell the area and what the word means . Here are my (Original Post) debm55 13 hrs ago OP
More WVlaserguy 13 hrs ago #1
Thank you WVlaserguy. I forgot about those. debm55 13 hrs ago #2
Yun's Traildogbob 13 hrs ago #3
Guess where I live? "Slick as a smelt." (slippery) "Nummer'n'a pounded Hake." (Stupid) GPV 13 hrs ago #4
Minnesota? debm55 13 hrs ago #5
Not a bad guess, but no. :) How about, "Jeezum crow, bub GPV 13 hrs ago #6
Boston debm55 13 hrs ago #9
Much closer. ;) GPV 11 hrs ago #27
"Can't go out ta haul, so I'm headed upta camp" GPV 13 hrs ago #8
Maine yorkster 13 hrs ago #15
"Git those taters from the dooryahd and stick 'em down cellah." GPV 13 hrs ago #10
I give up what area/state are you using. Now I am think of the south. debm55 13 hrs ago #13
Lol. I'm from downeast Maine. :) GPV 11 hrs ago #26
I've heard dooryard in Vt and downcellah yorkster 13 hrs ago #18
Thank you yorkster. debm55 12 hrs ago #23
Sounds like SE Louisiana LeftInTX 12 hrs ago #25
hodad DBoon 13 hrs ago #7
Interesting . Thank you DBoon. debm55 13 hrs ago #11
I don't think I've heard this saying... SWBTATTReg 13 hrs ago #12
Thank you SWBTATTReg. What state/area used the term.? debm55 13 hrs ago #14
St Louis, midwest, but mostly in STLMO SWBTATTReg 13 hrs ago #16
Thank you . debm55 13 hrs ago #17
I don't care to. AbnerBunny 12 hrs ago #19
Thank you AbnerBunny debm55 12 hrs ago #22
Now see, I would have taken it to mean I don't want to. debm55 8 hrs ago #40
Are you in Kentucky? I heard from someone down there. 10 Turtle Day 3 min ago #49
Pop (soda) catbyte 12 hrs ago #20
Thank you catbyte. debm55 12 hrs ago #21
Pop Is Used In Chicago, Too ProfessorGAC 8 hrs ago #42
Sorry. I am shocked I tell you, very shocked debm55 8 hrs ago #44
In Wisconsin it was bubbler for drinking fountain. LeftInTX 12 hrs ago #24
It's a bubbler in much of New England, or "bubblah" JenniferJuniper 11 hrs ago #35
That's different . thank you LeftinTex debm55 8 hrs ago #41
Fixin' to. Lunabell 11 hrs ago #28
What area are you from? It sounds like a southern state. debm55 11 hrs ago #30
Yessireebob. N.Fl. But originally Nashville,Tennessee. Lunabell 9 hrs ago #36
Thank ya Lunabell debm55 8 hrs ago #39
We used pop for soda in Washington, DC Dale in Laurel MD 11 hrs ago #29
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. debm55 11 hrs ago #31
"Soda" did sort of imply ice cream. Dale in Laurel MD 11 hrs ago #33
Chicago, Too ProfessorGAC 8 hrs ago #43
thank you ProfessorGAC. debm55 8 hrs ago #45
Christmas, BarbaRosa 11 hrs ago #32
Thank you BarbaRosa. That's different. Thank you. debm55 11 hrs ago #34
Oly Pop coprolite 8 hrs ago #37
Thank you. coprolite debm55 8 hrs ago #38
"Get sick" meaning vomit. 3catwoman3 7 hrs ago #46
Thank you 3catwoman3, debm55 6 hrs ago #47
Jockey box meaning glove compartment in a car KitFox 3 hrs ago #48

GPV

(73,101 posts)
4. Guess where I live? "Slick as a smelt." (slippery) "Nummer'n'a pounded Hake." (Stupid)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 03:21 PM
13 hrs ago

GPV

(73,101 posts)
6. Not a bad guess, but no. :) How about, "Jeezum crow, bub
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 03:29 PM
13 hrs ago

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

DBoon

(23,262 posts)
7. hodad
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 03:31 PM
13 hrs ago

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

SWBTATTReg

(24,518 posts)
12. I don't think I've heard this saying...
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 03:39 PM
13 hrs ago

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.

10 Turtle Day

(553 posts)
49. Are you in Kentucky? I heard from someone down there.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 04:55 AM
3 min ago

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

catbyte

(36,125 posts)
20. Pop (soda)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:07 PM
12 hrs ago

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

ProfessorGAC

(71,051 posts)
42. Pop Is Used In Chicago, Too
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 08:33 PM
8 hrs ago

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.

LeftInTX

(31,292 posts)
24. In Wisconsin it was bubbler for drinking fountain.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:54 PM
12 hrs ago

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"

Lunabell

(7,119 posts)
36. Yessireebob. N.Fl. But originally Nashville,Tennessee.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:16 PM
9 hrs ago

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

debm55

(39,985 posts)
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.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 05:21 PM
11 hrs ago

Dale in Laurel MD

(763 posts)
33. "Soda" did sort of imply ice cream.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 05:25 PM
11 hrs ago

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

ProfessorGAC

(71,051 posts)
43. Chicago, Too
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 08:35 PM
8 hrs ago

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.

3catwoman3

(25,868 posts)
46. "Get sick" meaning vomit.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 09:31 PM
7 hrs ago

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.

KitFox

(132 posts)
48. Jockey box meaning glove compartment in a car
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 01:15 AM
3 hrs ago

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
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