SmileyBoy
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 08:21 PM
Original message |
What common slang phrases originated from your area?? |
|
What slang words or phrases came from your city or state??
Although it's not exactly where I'm from, it's close (and besides, I lived in the area for 11 years): The word "homeskillet" and the phrase "whassup, homeskillet?" were first used by high school kids in the northern Minneapolis suburbs back in the late-80's/early-90's. That's the only one I know of, though.
Can you think of any??
|
Left Is Write
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 08:24 PM
Response to Original message |
1. Really? If so, that's where my husband picked it up. |
|
He has called his mother "homeskillet" for as long as I've known him. He graduated high school in '92 (Bloomington Jefferson), and he lived in Hopkins before that.
|
RetroLounge
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 08:26 PM
Response to Original message |
2. Drinking from the "Bubbler" |
|
instead of the drinking fountain seems to be a Milwaukee area slang.
RL
|
shawmut
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 08:30 PM
Response to Reply #2 |
4. We say that in New England, too |
|
I used to think that was only a NE thing until I talked to someone from WI.
|
cruadin
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:13 PM
Response to Reply #4 |
19. Yeah, but in New England it's a "bubb-LAH". n/t |
Cobalt Violet
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:15 PM
Response to Reply #19 |
MLE
(81 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 11:19 PM
Response to Reply #2 |
|
I'm from WI and that's what we all say. I never thought it was weird until a girl moved here from Virgina a few years ago and couldn't figure out what we were talking about.
|
givemebackmycountry
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 08:29 PM
Response to Original message |
CO Liberal
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 11:09 PM
Response to Reply #3 |
|
That's where I'm from, and I was gonna post the same thing.
|
tk2kewl
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 11:54 PM
Response to Reply #37 |
CO Liberal
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jan-06-05 08:22 AM
Response to Reply #47 |
48. It's a Common Phrase All Over the NY Metro Area |
tk2kewl
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jan-06-05 09:38 AM
Response to Reply #48 |
|
but i believe Brooklyn gets the credit for its origin. probably bensonhurst
|
SmileyBoy
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 08:34 PM
Response to Original message |
5. Another one from Minnesota/North Dakota: |
|
Edited on Wed Jan-05-05 08:34 PM by SmileyBoy
Instead of a rubber band, you use a "rubber binder".
|
Left Is Write
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:10 PM
Response to Reply #5 |
16. Not me. Born and raised, lived there for 30+ years, |
|
and I have only ever said rubber band.
We all eat hotdish, though, as I'm sure you know. :)
|
Lydia Leftcoast
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:46 PM
Response to Reply #16 |
30. My family said "rubber binder" |
|
as well as the following:
parking ramp=parking structure
boulevard=strip of grass between the street and the sidewalk
lay-by=the nearly extinct type of purchasing arrangement known as "lay-away" in the rest of the country
California hamburger=a hamburger with lettuce and tomato
oh, ish!=yuck!
stoplight=traffic light
The older generation said things like
breakfast food=cereal
jackpine savage= the northern Minnesota version of a redneck
glamour puss = sexy woman
|
Left Is Write
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:49 PM
Response to Reply #30 |
33. Eeee...I do many of those. |
|
:)
My gramma, from western Minnesota, was an "Oh, ish!" type of woman. I can still hear her say that!
We used stoplight and traffic light pretty equally.
We do refer to hamburgers with lettuce and tomato as a California burger.
And while I have not heard of a jackpine savage, I have heard many times "buckpine savage."
|
MindPilot
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 08:35 PM
Response to Original message |
6. Not really slang, but an entire language based on one word |
SmileyBoy
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 08:36 PM
Response to Reply #6 |
7. In SoCal, you can have an entire conversation using only "dude". |
BrklynLiberal
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 08:46 PM
Response to Original message |
8. I live in Brooklyn..They ALL came from here :D |
Zing Zing Zingbah
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 09:06 PM
Response to Original message |
9. Wicked good or wicked anything in Maine. |
|
Wicked bad Wicked awful etc.
wicked = very
|
shawmut
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 09:15 PM
Response to Reply #9 |
Cobalt Violet
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:16 PM
Response to Reply #10 |
Arkana
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 11:16 PM
Response to Reply #10 |
|
"I play wicked hahd when I go to the pahk."
|
maveric
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 11:19 PM
Response to Reply #38 |
40. Gimme a grape tonic with my cutlet grindah. |
sniffa
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jan-06-05 09:06 AM
Response to Reply #10 |
54. wicked friggin pissah |
|
for when you need that extra 'oomph'
|
KamaAina
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 09:43 PM
Response to Original message |
|
not so much that people here use it, but its meaning of "to begin an agonizingly slow process of decline, as a TV series" comes from the Happy Days episode filmed here where the Fonz went waterskiing and... you know.
|
da_chimperor
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 09:44 PM
Response to Original message |
12. Hmmm, i'd say California gets the credit for at least 'cool' and 'dude' |
|
Probably most of what's left too. :D
|
Boswells_Johnson
(526 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 09:45 PM
Response to Original message |
|
Nova Scotia.
I like "Holy old dynamitin' Jesus!"
|
hickman1937
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 09:59 PM
Response to Original message |
|
In the 70's it described the out of state tourists. Mackinaw Island sold a lot of fudge.
|
doc03
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:09 PM
Response to Original message |
Texasgal
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:12 PM
Response to Original message |
Digit
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:42 PM
Response to Reply #17 |
29. y'all is all over the south. |
|
Shoot, I have been saying it all my life and I am from Northern Va. On second thought...I probably should not say "shoot" to someone from Texas!
|
short bus president
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:13 PM
Response to Original message |
Wat_Tyler
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:16 PM
Response to Original message |
|
Just give'r. Calgary's great contribution to linguistic culture.
|
cruadin
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:16 PM
Response to Original message |
23. Two Rhode Island phrases that I've never heard used... |
|
anywhere else: "side by each" = side by side "little by slow" = slow but sure
|
goodboy
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:23 PM
Response to Original message |
24. yuens...or youens...as in, "where youens goin'?" I never hear it |
|
outside the Ohio valley. Also Homeskillet made it down to my area unfortunately. Thanks a lot;)
|
doc03
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:35 PM
Response to Reply #24 |
26. It's something in the water or the IC Light. |
|
Edited on Wed Jan-05-05 10:36 PM by doc03
|
goodboy
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:38 PM
Response to Reply #26 |
27. you must've visited my area at one time or another..for the record |
doc03
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:46 PM
Response to Reply #27 |
31. I live in Belmont county Ohio near Martins Ferry |
goodboy
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:48 PM
Response to Reply #31 |
32. no fucking way. I GREW UP IN FERRY. |
|
Where do you live? you can pm me if you don't want to admit it here on the board...That's hilarious, small small world. I've met 2 others here from Ferr.
|
Dude_CalmDown
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:24 PM
Response to Original message |
25. "How yoo doin?" - n/t |
njdemocrat106
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:39 PM
Response to Original message |
28. Here at the Jersey Shore, we call the tourists "bennies" |
|
And there's about a million theories on how the phrase was developed.
|
Hans Delbrook
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:49 PM
Response to Original message |
Floogeldy
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 10:51 PM
Response to Original message |
35. Calling any and every brand of soft drink a "coke" |
|
Q: You wannna coke? A: Yes. Q: What kind? A: Dr. Pepper
|
LDS Jock
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 11:07 PM
Response to Original message |
36. I grew up in the Ozarks with phrases like this around |
|
"As nervous as a whore in church" or the extended version "nervous as a whore in church with two bastard kids on her knees"
"As easy as pouring sand down a rabbit's hole"
"My eyes were bigger than my stomach"
"Colder than a witch's tit in tin bra"
"Busier than cranberry merchants at Thanksgiving"
"Busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest"
"Busier than a one armed paper hanger"
"As nervous as a cat sitting by a rocking chair"
"Take an old cold tater and wait" :wtf:
"Faster than goose shit down a tin horn"
"Somebody done beat him with a ugly stick"
"Drunker than Cooter Brown" who?
and a million more, but this is the non-offensive bunch. There are so, so many more with racial or etnic or gender bashing in them
|
Red State Rebel
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 11:41 PM
Response to Reply #36 |
44. If I might add a few passed down from my Mother |
|
Grinnin like a possum eatin shit on a flat rock Slicker than greased owl shit Make the mistake of asking what's for dinner and the reply was ALWAYS - Chicken's butt fried in grease - want a piece? If you got mad at someone you'd tell them to - Take a flyin suck at a bluebirds ass Ask where somebody was and the answer was ALWAYS - Went to shit and the hogs ate em (you had to walk thru the barn yard to get to the outhouse at my grandparent's house).
Granted all 3 of her daughters are educated professional women - Paralegal, Director of Non Profit and Business Owner. Amazing how much things can change in one generation.
|
LDS Jock
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 11:43 PM
Response to Reply #44 |
45. it always fascinated me how specific they can get |
|
grinning like a possum eatin shit.. OK, but just what does the flat rock add to it? more amusing, and I guess thats the point.
|
Kat45
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 11:21 PM
Response to Original message |
41. Calling soft drinks 'tonic.' |
|
No soda here among Boston-area natives.
|
PittPoliSci
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 11:21 PM
Response to Original message |
|
two fine examples of pittsburgh-ese.
|
Allenberg
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jan-06-05 08:58 AM
Response to Reply #42 |
53. http://www.pittsburghese.com/ |
|
Natrona Heights, here, and the wife's from Bellevue.
|
MLE
(81 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 11:25 PM
Response to Original message |
|
some of the people are here say "yous" guys. Personally, I hate how that sounds w/ a Wisconsin accent, it bothers me. On that note, we use "guys" to refer to a group of people. I don't think of anything of walking up to a group of my girlfriends and saying "What's up guys?" I've noticed it's a lot more common now, but a few years ago I don't think it was as widely used.
|
fishwax
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jan-06-05 09:10 AM
Response to Reply #43 |
55. I lived in Wisconsin for only the first three years of my life |
|
but somehow I picked up on the collective guys thing. It used to drive my nieces crazy, but now they've gotten used to it.
|
Aristus
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Jan-05-05 11:46 PM
Response to Original message |
46. "Tall, skinny double half-decaf with foam 'n' straws" |
SCDem
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jan-06-05 08:24 AM
Response to Original message |
|
Yes I originated in the Valley!
|
Cuban_Liberal
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jan-06-05 08:25 AM
Response to Original message |
|
I've never heard this phrase outside of Illinois; it refers to a 2-lane, paved road, either local or a state highway.
:)
|
bearfan454
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jan-06-05 08:34 AM
Response to Original message |
Dzimbowicz
(911 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jan-06-05 08:54 AM
Response to Original message |
52. I'm not sure if this is from my area |
|
but when some people around here are surprised they say, 'Well, sh-t fire and save matches!'.
|
fishwax
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jan-06-05 09:13 AM
Response to Reply #52 |
|
as an expression of doubt or disbelief. I think it's a Wisconsin thing (where I was born and learned to speak) because I haven't heard it everywhere I've lived and my parents, Colorado transplants, used to tease me for saying it, until they realized they used the phrase quite a bit themselves.
|
Dzimbowicz
(911 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jan-06-05 09:56 AM
Response to Reply #56 |
60. So, I guess the question to be posed is: |
|
Is this just an all-American saying?
|
fishwax
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jan-06-05 10:15 AM
Response to Reply #60 |
61. well, I don't know about saving matches |
|
That sounds like something my father would say, but I don't recollect that one specifically. He does have quite a collection, though.
I meant to post my response to the original post, though ... I wasn't questioning the validity or locality of your expression. Sorry 'bout that :hi:
|
Dzimbowicz
(911 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jan-06-05 11:42 AM
Response to Reply #61 |
|
it just provides me with another post to help me exit the 700 club.
:hi:
|
dr.strangelove
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jan-06-05 09:18 AM
Response to Original message |
|
Shao Lin - Staten Island
I'm Spazzola - I'm leaving
Lots more out there.
|
GreenPartyVoter
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jan-06-05 09:38 AM
Response to Original message |
58. New England: Wicked Good |
|
------------------------------------------------------ Election reform can help save this country! http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/electionreform.htm
|
trof
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Jan-06-05 10:56 AM
Response to Original message |
|
We're always fixin' to do something or fixin' to go somewhere in Alabama. Sometimes we're even fixin' to fix something. Looseley translated: "I'm just about to do that. I'll do it very soon."
"Lonnie? Did you go to the grocery store yet?" "I'm just fixin' to."
|
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Fri Apr 26th 2024, 06:27 PM
Response to Original message |