Inspired by MsDisney23...what is a local word that you use...

[ReggieB]

I don't know if this is common elsewhere or not but in Texas many people say come hell or high water and mention that someone throws a hissy fit.

Both of those I have heard in England, I never thought anyone knew (in US) what I meant by a hissy fit, guess I should move to Texas!

 

[monarchsfan16]

I don't know if this is common elsewhere or not but in Texas many people say come hell or high water and mention that someone throws a hissy fit.

I use those and so does my mom. I know I've heard a lot of other people use them too

 

[SplshMtn99]

My word is: bunk.

As in: The high school seniors are going to bunk on Friday.

It means: to skip school.

We even had Senior Bunk Day each year. Growing up, everyone from my hometown in MA knew what it meant. I'm older, still in MA, but seems no one has heard it unless you are from my town or possibly 1 or 2 towns away. I've been curious for a LONG time as the origin of the word & its meaning.

 

[SunFloridaDisney]

DH is from Ohio and says "sweep the carpet" instead of vacuum. He even calls the vacuum the "sweeper."

We *grill* out if we're cooking anything on the grill. BBQ is only something you eat.

We "fix" all meals, not cook.

When Cincinnatians can't here what's being said or want the speaker to repeat what they just said, they'll say "Please?" You should've seen people's faces when he'd say Please. They usually say Please what??

My mom still calls it the sweeper. And I say Please. It always seems more polite than "Huh?" or "Excuse me?"

 

[Twinkles6892]

Many people in Maine use the word "wicked" a lot, and not meaning something bad. Ex.- "That was a wicked good movie." There is a comedian from Maine, Bob Marley, who does a whole routine on how people in Maine talk and how people "from away" can't understand a thing we say. It's really funny!

Wicked and sketchy. As in "that creepy man looks wicked sketchy"

We also call people from out of state "flatlanders" (I don't know if other people use that) As in (in places such as Bar Harbor) "DO THEY NOT TEACH YOU HOW TO DRIVE IN insert state here ?! Stupid flatlander."

ETA: My grandmother and all her sisters use the term "dooryard" meaning the yard right outside your front door.

 

[Daxx]

In Buffalo, we eat Beef on Weck (some people pronounce it wick) which is sliced roast beef on a kimmelweck roll. A kimmelweck roll is a hard roll (as opposed to a hamburger bun) with coarse salt and caraway seeds on the top of it. I've never seen Beef on Weck anywhere else!!!

And, as someone else mentioned, they're just wings to us. We don't call them Buffalo wings ... that'd be redundant!

One other term that all Buffalonians know is "Super Mighty Hot" -- which is not a saying ... but the way to order a burrito from Mighty Taco! A super mighty hot is the big size burrito w/hot sauce. You can opt to order "Super Mighty Medium" or "Super Mighty Mild" ... but after a night on the town, it's hot that you want!!!!

Every Buffalonian knows of a great place to get a Friday night fish fry even if it's not Lent!

 

[4greatboys]

Here in Texas for us its fixin (Im fixin to leave, Im fixin to make dinner, etc). We also say y'all and coke.

 

[becker1123]

In St. Louis we use the word hoosier to refer to someone of lower class. It's kind of like redneck, but somehow different. People from Indiana get offended because Hoosier is the nickname of Indianans, but call someone from St. Louis a hoosier (note it's not capitalized ) and it doesn't mean they are from Indiana. I've never heard it used this way anywhere but in St. Louis, with this meaning. Anyone else familiar with the term?

 

[mom2riceboys]

Maybe not local, but a couple years ago I discovered my family said a word quite differently than the rest of the world. The first time I said it to my DH's he just about fell on the floor laughing.

Ok, ya know Reeces Pieces? Well we call them reeecees piecees ( I can't seem to type it the way it sounds.) Dh said I was wrong, and you don't have piecees of cake do you? I still say it that way though!

I know Dh and I differ in whether it is a grinder (him) or a sub (me).

My family calls them Reecees Piecees too! LOL

 

[HeatherHH]

We say Coke for sodas, ya'll, fixin' to, and we "fix dinner" here, too (which would be to prepare your evening meal)

One I havn't seen yet is tump over as in turn over. "Be careful, you are fixin' to tump over your Coke."

My relatives in Kentucky call the trunk of the car the boot of the car. I've never heard that anywhere else. They also say "pop" for sodas.

Oh, and barbeque is a food here too. Usually a sandwich with chopped pork and a tomato based BBQ sauce, unless otherwise specified. If we cook outside we are grilling. (unless we are frying a turkey! YUM)

 

[Free4Life11]

That someone visiting or moving to your area would have no idea what you are talking about?

The big one up here is "bubbler". It is what you drink from (other places refer to it as a water fountain). It is called a bubbler, because water bubbles up from it.

So c'mon people, add yours to the list!

I've heard that but it always confused me. I've never seen a water fountain that "bubbled." Now I know that water coolers bubble, but water foutains??

I remember when I lived in Rhode Island they called shopping carts "buggies."

Here in Nebraska all I can think of is that we say "pop" but that's a pretty common one.

 

[ReggieB]

My word is: bunk.

As in: The high school seniors are going to bunk on Friday.

It means: to skip school.

We even had Senior Bunk Day each year. Growing up, everyone from my hometown in MA knew what it meant. I'm older, still in MA, but seems no one has heard it unless you are from my town or possibly 1 or 2 towns away. I've been curious for a LONG time as the origin of the word & its meaning.

We bunk off school in UK too. Or someone does a bunk, which means they run off/disappear. No idea where that came from, did our bunk come from MA or did your's come across from England?

 

[ReggieB]

My relatives in Kentucky call the trunk of the car the boot of the car. I've never heard that anywhere else.

It's the boot of the car in the UK too, the hood is called a bonnet. Wondering if some of these words have European roots, there seem to be a few expressions that seem localized here in US, but I know well from UK.

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

Here in North Carolina we don't "turn off the lamp", we "cut the light off"

 

[SC Minnie]

DH is from Ohio and says "sweep the carpet" instead of vacuum. He even calls the vacuum the "sweeper." Weird!

DH say this too!!!! This first time I heard it I thought he was going to ge the broom or something!!! I ALWAYS corrected him when he says that!

We also say 'pitch a fit' when someone is having a hissy fit. As in 'Joey was pitchin' a fit last night because he didn't get his way.'

 

[Pooh's Pixie]

When people are going to vacation on Cape Cod, they say "going down the Cape" never to the Cape or in the Cape...and never to the beach. Local beaches are the beach, the Cape is the Cape. Kinda like the Jersey shore I guess.

Also, we call shopping carts "carriages"...

Lots of "wicked sketchy" talk here too.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

Here in North Carolina we don't "turn off the lamp", we "cut the light off"

Here in New York cut the light off would mean the house is getting robbed or some other crime!

 

[Southern4sure]

We say Coke for sodas, ya'll, fixin' to, and we "fix dinner" here, too (which would be to prepare your evening meal)

One I havn't seen yet is tump over as in turn over. "Be careful, you are fixin' to tump over your Coke."

My relatives in Kentucky call the trunk of the car the boot of the car. I've never heard that anywhere else. They also say "pop" for sodas.

Oh, and barbeque is a food here too. Usually a sandwich with chopped pork and a tomato based BBQ sauce, unless otherwise specified. If we cook outside we are grilling. (unless we are frying a turkey! YUM)

I was about to say this too tump over....I'm the world's worse at saying fixin. My friends little boy asked his mom just the other day (they are New Yorkers) what is Mrs. T always fixing?........ I call a shopping cart a buggy, coke is any kind of soda but I want only diet coke... Aunt is prenounced ant.

Yrs ago, I went to visit my dad's side of the family (North Alabama) and they call a bag a poke and a pot a stir.

 

[lemondog]

and cup-er for Cooper.

Oh, this bugs me. My maiden name is Cooper and my dad pronounces it the same as your mom. So the other day we got into a play argument about how to pronounce it. I told him it was a chicken coop, not a chicken cupp, likewise it's cooper, not cupper. But he was having none of it!

 

[txSleepingBeauty]

We call country music fans, "kikkers". I actually thought it was a nationwide thing, until I moved to Florida.

I then found out that it was a Houston-wide thing only. We have (or had) a C+W radio station, with the call letters "KIKK".

you mean they don't call country music fans kickers anywhere else? who knew, i thought everyone called them that.....no wonder my aunt looked so confused when I complained about her kicker cr*p music.

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