What's some slang words from your state?

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Mine would be.

1Ovawit= Not happening
2Shook= Scared
3Nabs=Crackers
4Cuhh= cousin or most states cuz.
5Fixin = gonna do it.
6The Sip= Mississippi
7Comeback sauce = southern sauce
8Carry= driving someone
9Slug = burger because we famous for the slugburger
10Go up the roads aways= it's a little bit further up the road
11The food is rurnt = basically food taste bad
12Jeat yet= did you eat yet?

WhiteSteve · Accepted Answer

It’s not really statewide, western Massachusetts is pretty different, it’s more the Boston area, and really we have more in common with coastal New Hampshire and Maine, but we definitely have a few…

-“Wicked” is probably the biggest one, it’s just synonymous with “very”, or used as an amplifier. Ex: “It’s wicked cold outside.”, or “I have a wicked headache.”

-“Kid” is a broad term for any guy, generally friendly, but can be neutral or even hostile as well. “Wicked good to see ya, kid!”, “I can’t figure out what aisle they keep the toothpicks in, let’s ask the kid at the customer service desk.”, or “Kid, back the fuck up before I break your fuckin’ head open.”….. all of these are possible uses, lmao

- Bubbler (bubbluh, as we say it😂) is a public drinking fountain

-“Carriage” is a shopping cart

- “Frappe” is a milkshake

-“Packie” is a liquor store (the official name is “package store”)

-“Rotary” is a roundabout/traffic circle

- The Massachusetts State Police troopers are referred to as “Staties”

- We have these kind of statements of disbelief and affirmation, “No sir!” (pronounced “no SUH!”) to either say “whoa, no way!” or to strongly deny something, and you might answer with “yuh-huh!”, to double down that what you’re saying is true.

- “Pisser” (pronounced “Pissah”…. I don’t hear that too much anymore, maybe from older people on occasion. I heard it a lot more in the 80s when I was a kid. All of our tourist trap t-shirt shops sell a “wicked pissah” t-shirt though, GUARANTEED lmao. It basically just means enthusiastically saying something is good. “How was the party last night?” “Kid, it was fuckin’ PISSAH!”

-Another disappearing one, some of the real old timers say “tonic” where the rest of us say “soda”, or “pop” in some other parts of the country.

- I notice we take some of those ‘Rs’ that we drop off of other words and then shove them in where they don’t belong, I think usually to smoothly unite two words that end and then begin with a vowel sound. I don’t say “yeah, I do”, I say “Yeah’r’ I do.” I don’t do it myself, but I hear others add them to random words, like “soda”, and they’ll say “sodER.” Like they might say “Thehh’s tons o’ leftovah soder from the pahhty last night.”😂 Not everyone does these things, not everyone even has a stereotypical Boston accent, plus there are a few sub-varieties of the accent anyway, but someone with a thick accent of a certain variety might do that.

- Another one that all reminds me of is “so don’t I”, which is just “so do I.” So you might be bickering with someone over why you can’t do something, for example, and they might say “I can’t do it, I have a whole bunch of other shit to do!”, and you might protest “So don’t I!”

-Not sure how to spell it, but to take a U-turn while driving is “bang a U-ie” (rhymes with “Louie”)

- The remote control is a “clicker” (“clickah”)

- We often say “supper” instead of “dinner”

- We say “cellar” (“cellah”) for the basement of your house…. I heard people in other parts of the country don’t even have cellars? Is this true?😱😱😱)

-Your turn signal on your car is a “blinker” (“blinkah”)

- I’m sure I’m forgetting some that I’ll kick myself about later, but I’d be remiss to not mention “The Southie Tuxedo”…. an Adidas track suit, Adidas Superstar shelltoes, and a scally cap lmfao. Anyone wearing this…. mind your Ps & Qs around them or you might get a 40 oz bottle of Mickey’s broken over your head😂 Casey Affleck is wearing one in this scene from Good Will Hunting, and it’d be perfect if he just had the other guy’s scally cap…

FunkyMonkee · Accepted Answer

There''s actually a book that has all of our local slang (some of which is either wrong or I've never heard of). But, here's a few.
1. Yinz = the plural form of "you". Where are yinz going?" Al;so the shortened form of, "you ones" which is all grammatically incorrect. "You ones" became "younz" which became, "yinz".
2 Pahnd = (The same sound works with any word ending with an "oun", "ound" or "own" sound.) A common sentence used to make fun of this is, "I'm goin' dahntahn to get a pahn a grahnd rahnd! Translates to, "I'm going downtown to get a pound of ground round.".
3. Chiptamm = Chipped ham. You get it at a deli counter when you order some very thinly sliced (chipped) ham. You have them set the meat slicer to 0 and then turn it up just a very tiny bit. When they chip the ham this way, you should be able to make sandwiches with it by just grabbing a bunch and putting it on the bread, rather than just laying it on one slice at a time. For some reason, people around here have recently started calling it chipped chopped ham! "Chipped ham" will suffice!
4. Gohne = Going.
5. N'at = To potentially do more than one thing, but you don't really have to. Shortened for of, "and that' Used when you don't want to list everything you're gonna do. Instead of, "I'm gohne to the bar to have a few beers, shoot some pool, talk to my friends..." (and what have you), you'd say, "I'm gohne to the bar and have a few beers n'at." Or, you can make it even shorter by saying, "I'm gohne to the bar n'at.". N'at becomes the shortened version of the list of things you'd normally be expected do when you went to said place.

muscularbumblebee · Accepted Answer

Try to guess where I’m from based on the slang we use lolz it’s not US though:

1) innit- basically short for isn’t it (but I don’t use this word much)

2) ends: which area are you from? Kinda thing

3) bare- a lot of anything. Opposite of empty basically

4) chuffed- pretty pleased with something

5) mental- as in that’s pretty crazy/ that’s mental mate

beebella · Accepted Answer

Hella I fucking hate "hella." 🙄

TheMajesticKing777 · Answer

Jhit=kid
Pookin=you trippin
Buzz=wack
Muttin=doing too much
And the classic

"Yooo" which is not really a slang word but floridians use it when seeing someone they know, they say it right before they start conversating

I thought it should be mentioned

WilliamPamer446 · Answer

Cleveland, akron, general area where i grew up.
Cleveland slang terms:
Hollin - talking sh*t but you can't back it up, saying something thats not true
Capping - lying ot phibbing
Fruity- not really sure what i mean but i guess it goofy, weird or homosexual
Finesse - dont know
Icy - chill, detached, calm, soothing and maybe a little mean edgy

humanearth · Answer

Cheese heads Dairy state Sheepshead state (we have more sheepshead players than any other place in the USA) The state with the most drunks

Wraith_Cemetery · Answer

"G'wan wit ya!" (You're not serious!) "Emmet" - Mosquito "Paunchypaw" - Butterfly  "How's she cuttin'?" - How are you doing? "Mauzy" - Cold/wet day

TrillXHippy · Answer

I’m kinda sure that other states say this but cuzzo=cousin, peel his muffin cap back blue=😂💀, down=ready or okay with something, for sure=definitely

Luckycharms12 · Answer

Ireland we use loads of slang most time don't even realise I do it

ChiTownLov · Answer

European=you're peeing?

Iron_Man · Answer

I live in Florida none

mostlyitalian · Answer

wooder

eagle1951 · Answer

Hooisers

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