The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #10188   Message #211491
Posted By: Mbo
13-Apr-00 - 10:59 PM
Thread Name: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun!
Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun!
Dang Caitrin! You done stole most of the good ones! Check these though:
Get up with = talk to
Heifer dust = women's makeup (Harker's Island speak)
Down East = Eastern NC (I always thought Down East was Maine until we moved here!)
Inneresting = interesting
Elamennery = elementary
Impordant = important
ruther mald = rather mild (Marvin Daugherty speak)
Keerie = Cary
Norf Carolina = bizarre dialect thing we have here!
Then there's my fam's weird Italian/Philadelphia slang
Jeet = did you eat
Yeeuh = yes
stunod = losing your memory
sporcaccone = someone with a foul mouth (literally, a dirty pig)
bondole = a weird woman
awl-toh = alto
We say "pecan" PEEcahn
gling-gling = junkfood
I'm not sure what the deal is lately with this, but we have always said "horrible" hahr-ibble, not this new hoaribble. What's the deal with that?

--Mbo