What common slang phrases originated from your area??

[SmileyBoy]

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]

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]

2. Drinking from the "Bubbler"

instead of the drinking fountain seems to be a Milwaukee area slang.

RL

[shawmut]

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]

19. Yeah, but in New England it's a "bubb-LAH". n/t

[Cobalt Violet]

20. True.

[MLE]

39. yep

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]

3. Fuhgettaboutdit

Guess where I'm from.

[CO Liberal]

37. New Jersey??

That's where I'm from, and I was gonna post the same thing.

[tk2kewl]

47. that's brooklyn

[CO Liberal]

48. It's a Common Phrase All Over the NY Metro Area

[tk2kewl]

59. true true

but i believe Brooklyn gets the credit for its origin. probably bensonhurst

[SmileyBoy]

5. Another one from Minnesota/North Dakota:

Instead of a rubber band, you use a "rubber binder".

[Left Is Write]

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]

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]

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]

6. Not really slang, but an entire language based on one word

dude

[SmileyBoy]

7. In SoCal, you can have an entire conversation using only "dude".

:D

[BrklynLiberal]

8. I live in Brooklyn..They ALL came from here :D

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

9. Wicked good or wicked anything in Maine.

Wicked bad
Wicked awful etc.

wicked = very

[shawmut]

10. wicked pissah!

[Cobalt Violet]

22. Awesome!

[Arkana]

38. Yes! MA rules!

"I play wicked hahd when I go to the pahk."

[maveric]

40. Gimme a grape tonic with my cutlet grindah.

[sniffa]

54. wicked friggin pissah

for when you need that extra 'oomph'

[KamaAina]

11. Jump the shark

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]

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]

13. That's some good!

Nova Scotia.

I like "Holy old dynamitin' Jesus!"

[hickman1937]

14. Fudgies.

In the 70's it described the out of state tourists. Mackinaw Island sold a lot of fudge.

[doc03]

15. Hoopie

[Texasgal]

17. Ya'll

That's Texas for ya! :)

[Digit]

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]

18. Scavery/Scavering

:D

[Wat_Tyler]

21. Give'r.

Just give'r. Calgary's great contribution to linguistic culture.

[cruadin]

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]

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]

26. It's something in the water or the IC Light.

[goodboy]

27. you must've visited my area at one time or another..for the record

I live in Columbus now.

[doc03]

31. I live in Belmont county Ohio near Martins Ferry

[goodboy]

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]

25. "How yoo doin?" - n/t

*

[njdemocrat106]

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]

34. Hoagie

from Philadelphia

[Floogeldy]

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]

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]

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]

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]

41. Calling soft drinks 'tonic.'

No soda here among Boston-area natives.

[PittPoliSci]

42. yinz and jagoff

two fine examples of pittsburgh-ese.

[Allenberg]

53. http://www.pittsburghese.com/

Natrona Heights, here, and the wife's from Bellevue.

[MLE]

43. and unfortunately...

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]

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]

46. "Tall, skinny double half-decaf with foam 'n' straws"

Seattle area.

[SCDem]

49. Gag me with a spoon

Yes I originated in the Valley!

[Cuban_Liberal]

50. 'Hard road'

I've never heard this phrase outside of Illinois; it refers to a 2-lane, paved road, either local or a state highway.

:)

[bearfan454]

51. Fuckin eh !

Chicago 70's

[Dzimbowicz]

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]

56. Oh-huh

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]

60. So, I guess the question to be posed is:

Is this just an all-American saying?

[fishwax]

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]

63. No problem,

it just provides me with another post to help me exit the 700 club.

:hi:

[dr.strangelove]

57. Wu Tang isms

Shao Lin - Staten Island

I'm Spazzola - I'm leaving

Lots more out there.

[GreenPartyVoter]

58. New England: Wicked Good

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[trof]

62. fixin'

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."