Your local Slang....

I'm interested to read some of the slang local to your area and what it means here's some of mine from where i'm from...

Bahookie...bum, bottom

Baltic...freezing

Arse wipe... general insult

Banjo piece...fried egg sandwich with runny yoke

Bawbag... ballbag, term of indearment

Big hoose...prison

Blootered...drunk

Cheers...thanks

Cludgie...toilet

Daftie, Eejit...daft person, idiot (when someone does something silly)

Polis...police

Fannybaws...person

Fartsack...bed

Gudgie....guy

to mention a few to start...

Boy, I learn something new every day on here.  Those are interesting bits of slang...where are you from?

I'm from Strathclyde Scotland which is where that slang is used.

(i live in the highlands at moment but don't use any of their slang).

I'm going to try that one, "fartsack" next time I'm in the mood.  Just the type of romance I'll probably get anyhow. 

Here fartsack is a sleeping bag.

ha ha no here it's a bed but i agree it seems to suit sleeping bag better how about we just put it down for both...

I notice that not one of you has put slang from where you are....don't you have slang over there?.....

There is so much it's hard to know where to start.

I will say though that with TV 24/7 and the internet slangs seems to be less local and more universal.

Some slang:

Guall = soda

Rack = bed, breasts

Berm = to loaf or idle

Bonaire = marijuana

Borass = practical joke

edit:  and Emho = early morning hard on

Slang from NZ:

Munted - f**ked up, weird, not quite right.

Munter - someone who does something munted.

Sweet as - all good, or agreement to something.

There's loads more but really hard to think of off the top of your head!

Shoot, Tom, I thought you were from Indiana:

Green peppers = "Mangoes"

Original Post by dnrothx:

Shoot, Tom, I thought you were from Indiana:

Green peppers = "Mangoes"

 This is true.

Ok, so I grew up in South Jersey and now I live in Western KY.  Each have a very unique way of speaking.

What we call ski caps, KY calls toboggons

NJ calls it soda, down here it's coke (no matter if it's sprite, pepsi or dr. pepper... it's all coke...  they'll ask you which kind of coke... seriously)

Shopping carts are called buggys or sacks in KY

To say hi in Jersey, you say "Yo", KY really does say "ya'll"

In Jersey, you have a lot of tourists during the summer months, mostly from PA which we call Shoobees or Shoobs

There's so much more, but I'm just drawing a blank right now.

In KY, "ya'll" isn't used for hi though. It's also not really slang.

I think I am going to have to start using fartsack also!

Here is some Philly slang for youse:

Youse - plural form of "you," like "y'all" in the South

Young bull (or sometimes just "bull") - refers to a guy who is young or younger than you

Oldhead - the opposite of a young bull

Hype (as in "You hype") - overly excited

Hoagie - a long sandwich

Grinder - a hot hoagie

Jawn - can be used to mean just about any person place or thing

My family is originally from New York City, which has slang of its own.

Stoop - a short staircase at the front of a building

Bodega - a small convenience store

Original Post by danikat15:

NJ calls it soda, down here it's coke (no matter if it's sprite, pepsi or dr. pepper... it's all coke...  they'll ask you which kind of coke... seriously)

In Washington State, it's pop. Not soda pop, just pop. 

we call it ginger...

Original Post by alibsam:

In KY, "ya'll" isn't used for hi though. It's also not really slang.

 It's a contraction of you all, meaning 2 or more people.  Sorry that I didn't clarify that in my post.  And I consider it slang because we do not say y'all in Jersey.... we actually usually go with what theholla posted and say "youse".

Original Post by andie-joe:

I'm from Strathclyde Scotland which is where that slang is used.

(i live in the highlands at moment but don't use any of their slang).

Awesome, I lived in Lanarkshire last summer, but I'm from bonny Aberdeen.

I've had quiries about most of these things said in my hometown:

Gads min, Mingin' - Yuck

Minger, Mink - Disgusting person

Ken fit like min? - You know what I mean?

Fit like - How are you?

Hingin' - Wasted

Furry boots? (Far aboots?) - Where abouts?

Fa? - Who?

Gei's a bosey! - Gimme a hug!

Down Edinburgh way my cousins say Gadgie, not Gudgie.

I guess most of that comes from the Doric though, but they are terms that are associated with Neds these day, mostly. This brings back good memories of Doric classes in primary school 

In East TN, it is (much to the chagrin to any other manufacturers) coke.

Also in East TN we use

Yonder - over there

Country mile - An unspecified distance between .5 and 5 miles

A fair piece - A longer distance ~5 - 50 miles

Wrecking Bar - Crowbar

Li-berry - library

You'uns - a group of 2 people

Y'all - More than 2 people

ain't - contraction of the words am not or is not. ex I ain't going to work on Saturday. or He ain't loosing weight eating like that.

Gedunk (said with a hard G as in Get and a long E) - a vending machine

Notable in the dialect in this part of the country is that internal consonants that separate syllables will sometimes vanish from the words pronunciation.

Wartburg is pronounced War'burg with a hard pause where the T would be.  The T seems to suffer this fate the most, but If I find any other examples I will let you know.

I'm from Michigan, USA, and I think I must be incredibly boring and/or priggish because I can't think of any local slang!!  Maybe I just haven't travelled enough to know I talk weird.  This is all I can think of, and I have no idea how localised it is...

• suck the hind t*t = getting a raw deal
• brainfart = moment of stupidity or forgetfulness

I live in north east ohio and the big thing here is not putting "G" on the end of works ending in "ing" like people here say lookin, workin and things like that lol. We call fried potato wedges jojo's.  The Rep is what we call our local paper. This is mean but instead of calling someone a retard you call them a weaver. There is a school called weaver school which is for mentally handicapped and that's where mean kids got the term. I think it's super mean. We have lame slang in ohio. We do have this lovely term called "the akron a". Us ohioans in the akron area elongate our a's. like saturday sounds like saaterday. and mashed potatoes sound like maashed potatoes. It's interesting lol

baboo, i'm just outside inverness now  i lived in orkney for a while and a lot of what they say has aberdeen origin...

more from me..

Duds...trousers

Fanny struck...in love

Jen up...honest

Lecky... electricity

Scuddy... naked

Shoot the craw...leave in a hurry

Tadger...penis

Wallies...false teeth