American Slang Challenge - What Do These Words Mean? | LIVE-STREAM

Today, in my latest public live-stream, I'm taking the American Slang Challenge (I might be its creator, too). Throw your American slang words at me via the chat and watch me not successfully work out what each word means. The more regional, the better.
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[@blindleader42]

Laurence, your shirt is missing its Star Fleet insignia.

[@protestssopeacefulweneedad2017]

Good eye Numba One

[@marlenerichards5756]

that was my very first thought, good thing he didnt get a red one

[@MICHAELSMITH-ys8ek]

you mean Space Force.

[@RosheenQuynh]

@@MICHAELSMITH-ys8ek We're talking Star Trek here

[@RosheenQuynh]

OMG The shade IS uncanny! 😂

[@DreamLikeItsReal]

I'm from the northwest and I've heard ankle biter used for dogs, but also (usually jokingly) for children.

[@O2life]

And children are often similarly referred to as Rugrats, which I believe dogs never are.

[@tinydancer7426]

@@O2life Yeah, you have your rugrats (that's a baby that is at the crawling stage), then you have curtain climbers (that's when they are standing and pulling themselves up using whatever furniture or furnishing they can gt their hands on), and the lastly, crumb snatchers (toddlers walking and grabbing any and everything within their reach)

[@hectorsmommy1717]

Wisconsin here and it is both tiny dogs and crawling children.

[@Tedinator01]

I’ve never heard that term used for animals. Small dogs are often called DSOs (Dog Shaped Objects).

[@tinydancer7426]

Yeah, now that you mention it I remember hearing my son use the term ankle biter for a small (rally small) dog, or maybe he was talking about small creeping/crawling babies.

[@ricksmith6069]

Ankle biter is from cb radio days. Means a small child/toddler. Rug rat was also used which means the same thing. 10-4!!!

[@barkingmad50]

Poke is a bag or a sack (depending on where you're from in America). Poke is used in the saying, "Bought a pig in a poke". Specifically: buying a piglet in a bag without looking in the bag &, instead of a pig, you have a cat or some other small animal. Generally: 1) Purchasing something without making sure you are receiving what you paid for. 2) Making a purchase based on unwarrented trust. 3) Getting involved in a situation or activity you didn't fully understand, and later regretted. Very broadly: 1) Getting hoodwinked. (Look it up. 😉)

[@edwarddore7617]

I'm from the US, close to Chicago actually. When I think of an ankle biter, I think of my Australian cattle dog, they are called heelers for a reason.

[@Netopia40]

POKE in Appalachia is a synonym for bag or sack. Something that you use to carry other things.

[@deerslayinredneck1003]

Ive always heard poke as another term for the slammer

[@skapur]

Look at various meanings at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_English#Vocabulary

[@1SherryAshley]

@@deerslayinredneck1003 that’s a pokie

[@stephanieritter4771]

You slay me... You kill me.. you make me laugh

[@CarlGorn]

As an adjective, "ratchet" is an urban slur of "wretched." As a noun, it's not a slur at all, but a mechanical device that locks in one rotational direction but allows free movement in the opposite direction. "Yeet" has two meanings, one of which is native to black American culture, where it is used as an exclamation of extreme joy and exultation, often used after a sentence indicating the source of said joy. The other, which is more of an internet meme that worked its way into the language means to throw something with great vigor and force. "Scuttlebutt" refers to the rumor itself, rather than a person who relishes in spreading rumors. More accurately, it's the word on the street, the zeitgeist of the moment.

[@patricianorton3908]

Bubblers used to be all over the city of Boston. Patricia from N.H.

[@bobbimiller4944]

Yooper--Someone who is from the upper peninsula of Michigan Flat Lander or Fudgie- Someone who is from the lower peninsula of Michigan

[@goldranger2]

Wisconsinites also use Flatlander to refer to people from Illinois.

[@zzkeokizz]

Bubbler is also a water fountain in parts of Boston although it might be old slang but my friends from Southie say it.

[@scatterbrain7135]

Bubbler isn't slang, its the technical term for drinking fountain used mostly by plumbers and apparently people in Wisconsin. In most places plumbers call them drinking fountains but call the actual valve a bubbler cartridge.

[@gregoryoleynik3698]

Scurrlebutte - a water fountain - gossip

[@krab1791]

Bless your heart, in the South, means exactly the opposite. Essentially, the other “ladies” are coming for you with the knives out.

[@davidjohnson105]

Down here in Texas we call them crumb snatchers

[@kimwilliamson389]

Whallago is "a while ago" run together.

[@gwenvaughn8948]

Poke is interchangeable with lollygag.

[@williamharrold1422]

Snowbird also refers to northerners who winter in warmer climes, as in bird migration.

[@ceciliag2929]

William Harrold im in Florida never heard of that

[@gregorythoman8281]

@Cecilia Garcia. You must be kidding. I live in Florida and it is a common term for old people who flock to Florida in the winter. I use it all of the time as do everyone I know.

[@___LC___]

My dream is to be a snowbird! The snow banks are over 6’ here!!!

[@debbiechia]

My goal in life to become a Snowbird!

[@FLLadyMedic]

I'm not sure where Cecilia lives I FL, but we all cringe come October, and breathe again when they finally leave in June. Drive ya nuts.

[@redheadgeek9225]

scuttlebutt - from the Navy, in reference to a rumor, not a person, i.e. "The scuttlebutt on the ship is that we're going to war!"

[@beamax1160]

The original scuttlebutt was the water fountain on the ship or where sailors went on wooden ships to get drinking water. This tended to be where sailors loitered and gossip was started. Over time scuttlebutt also became the name for rumors.

[@GlenBradley]

@@beamax1160 The original original scuttlebutt was the hole in the barrel that held the water. The "scuttle" is the hole the water comes out, and the "butt" is the giant barrel that held the water. You pulled the bung out of the scuttle hole the let the water out, and then stuffed the bung back into the scuttle hole to stop the water from pouring out.

[@larryfontenot9018]

Scuttlebutt means rumors or gossip. It's never used to describe a person. It comes from sailing ship dialect. The scuttlebutt was a cask or barrel of fresh drinking water kept on the deck of a sailing vessel for the crew to drink from, and if they didn't have anything to do for awhile, a few might gather around it to talk and share rumors or gossip. It was the precursor to the office drinking water dispenser used for the same purpose nowadays. :)

[@___LC___]

Water cooler gossip!

[@gshagee]

Christy T Probably why we called a “bubbler” in the US Marine Corps ( hence the Navy) a “scuttlebutt”. Circa 1990. All the Bum Scoop came from the Scuttlebutt.

[@___LC___]

gshagee it’s because a scuttlebutt was the large cask of fresh water on a ship that all went to for drinking water. It’s very old maritime speak!

[@Katy32344]

Love that bit of info. Thank you!

[@lucylulusuperguru3487]

The early version of water cooler chat

[@kristenheuer5676]

Snowbird refers to someone to go the south or southwest for the winter, but will go back north for summer.

[@TNona-xf7wz]

You say I was lollygagging , when I was clearly dilly dallying.

[@catherinegibson7578]

But, I thought you were fixin to.

[@all4jesusall4him37]

😂😂😂

[@deborahsanders6762]

Maybe you were dawdling.

[@deebraun7488]

I said the exact same thing when Laurence said lollygagging! :D

[@anndeecosita3586]

😂 My family uses these terms.

[@thec4fourhundred520]

You need a Starfleet badge and captain's stripes.

[@larryfontenot9018]

Poke is also a noun, not just a verb. But it isn't slang -- It's a very old word derived from French "poque", meaning the same thing. It means "sack" or "bag", and poquette means "small bag". We get the English word pocket from that because pockets were originally small bags worn under one's clothing on a cloth string tied around the waist.

[@kristenheuer5676]

My grandma used the word poke for a small handbag. We used to chuckle when she would say things like "Im going to run in for a poke before we leave." Lol

[@doghair5403]

The phrase a pig in a poke makes a lot more sense now

[@kristenheuer5676]

@@doghair5403 hahahaha

[@larryfontenot9018]

@@doghair5403 Pig in a poke comes from the 1500s. Live piglets were sold in sacks that were sewn shut to keep them from running around. But sometimes a dishonest merchant would put a less valuable animal inside the bag, and the person who bought it wouldn't find out until they got it home. So the phrase came to mean "don't buy something sight unseen" and evolved into "it's probably a scam".

[@badwolf54]

Poke is also a wild plant, used in the south for greens, as in “poke salad”. Older leaves and berries are mildly poisonous.

[@annabelc5157]

Darn, I wish I had seen this! I would have suggested dingleberry. Such a fantastic word!

[@danielleporter1829]

I have a family friend that calls a driver who does something silly or isn't paying attention while driving.

[@kristenheuer5676]

Hahahaha.

[@___LC___]

My cat often has dingleberries and a person can also be a dingleberry.

[@juliewilliams52]

A dingleberry is a piece of poo hanging off butt hair...mostly on men.

[@redlinesteez9630]

@charlie cheeseface if you are called a dinglbeary it just means you are being dumb

[@teresainprogress8470]

Not so much "You are a scuttlebutt", more like "what's the scuttlebutt?". It's not a name you call someone.

[@kimlersue]

Gossip of inside info!

[@michaeldougfir9807]

Bless your heart: a Southern expression, NOT always a compliment.

[@rachelspencer9456]

Definitely not. Lol.

[@kkrolf2782]

REALLY?!? I think most in the midwest would use it in a consiliatory (sp) way, though some may use it facetiously.

[@jennteal5265]

@@kkrolf2782 I learned the hard way as a Midwesterner who's home office is in Tennessee. We had to have a conversation about the difference in meaning between the two regions with "Bless your heart" XD

[@claritey]

Usually not a compliment

[@donnatritz7865]

Never a compliment as far as I know. How about “black ice”? My daughter accused me of being racist when I used it - not knowing it refers to patches of ice that’s so hard & clear (so very dangerous for cars to drive on) that you can’t see it - it’s black because you can see the black asphalt pavement through. It’s very dangerous because drivers can’t see it.

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

Lollygagger is just a procastratonator.

[@O2life]

And no one here calls lollipops "lollies." In the mountain west we call them suckers.

[@michaelwilson5866]

Ope

[@slshanklin]

@@O2life I think most of the US calls them suckers.

[@missesvee5132]

A what ?

[@lucylulusuperguru3487]

With a name like Molinarolo you sure can't spell procrastinator.

[@larryfontenot9018]

Ratchet is a real word -- it's a style of wrench that has a bit which turns in one direction but not the other. The "ratchet" mentioned in this livestream is probably a corruption of the word "wretched".

[@AriThecraftydragon]

This. It seems this is how many slang terms come into play. I think you may be right. ( I own a ratchet and haven't heard it as slang.)

[@kristenheuer5676]

I had heard young kids call eachother ratchett and had no idea what it meant. I also only knew the wrench until this video.

[@ThatGirlJD]

"Wratched" and yeah it's a probably a corruption of "wretched".

[@goodenoughgirl8102]

Ratchet is more like a tacky or tasteless person from “the hood.” Like not having manners or not being classy. Aka something like “low rent” or “low life.” Uncouth. Rude. Etc.

[@coxmosia1]

Correct.

[@gregorythoman8281]

Whalago, is hillbilly speak for, "a while ago". Ankle biter usually refers to a small dog that is always nipping at your feet or ankles.

[@josephsmith590]

In reference to the child, it's a way to describe one that is maybe extremely hyperactive, imaging the way the small dog acts and then put it into a child.

[@AmberWool]

Dogs small enough to be biting at your ankles are called yap yaps.

[@judeflowers2813]

@@AmberWool I call them little yappers

[@RyukyuStyle]

yeah i had a problem with both of those as well... whallago is just phonetic spelling lol.. i doubt that is actually written down in places... and ankle biter referes to little dogs, and the only correlation between children is they can be annoying like small dogs are also annoying. then it makes perfect sense. also USA is very regional... i am from the westcoast and i didnt know it was weird that i say 'hella' and no one els does lol.

[@KYoss68]

LOL Cattywampus... I'm 52 and I spent my whole life until today thinking that my Dad was the only one who used that word.... Good Day!

[@ceciliag2929]

KYoss68 ?

[@___LC___]

I’m 44 and we use cattywampus here in Wisconsin.

[@KYoss68]

@@___LC___ That would make sense. He was from there.

[@heatherweglin8294]

I'm from Oregon and we use cattywampus.

[@maryfrederickson9400]

KYoss68 I am from Texas and Oklahoma and it is used there a LOT!

[@Quarton]

How about "Licketty-split"? or... "wall flower"?

[@samanthab1923]

Angular Banjos Love Jakob Dylan One Headlight!

[@samanthab1923]

Roger Quarton Oopsy Daisy 😀

[@weitzfc1]

diddly squat, , that's a doozy,

[@kkrolf2782]

Those are both GOOD ones!!

[@blindleader42]

Poke is also a noun. One of the live chat folks mentioned that it's a bag. The expression "pig in a poke" is English in origin (16th century). If you buy a pig in a poke (maybe unwisely) you are buying something sight unseen, trusting in the honesty of the seller.

[@marksgraybeal]

i wus tinkun similar , also herd not use about salad, then poke salad anie? new poke went out of use on internet and i think folks got a bit irritated about gettin poke on facebook or other social media site?

[@blindleader42]

@@marksgraybeal I'm pretty sure the use of poke on the internet is a legacy of programming of early microprocessors. POKE is one of the stack commands of some microprocessors. I can't think of which ones, not the 808x family I think.

[@SpearM3064]

@@blindleader42 I don't recall any processors using POKE as a stack command. Are you thinking of PUSH and POP (or PHA and PLA in the 8-bit 65xx family)? On the other hand, *lots* of 8-bit computers had POKE as a BASIC command (e.g. POKE 646,1)

[@jackiepierce1467]

LOL I've heard that expression before and I could not help but imagine a live pig being put into a brown paper bag (a poke, according to my grandpa) I never knew the real meaning.

[@kkrolf2782]

blindleader42 Oh yeah, I remember the term in context to computing! But can’t for the life of me remember what function it was meant to cause!

[@marlisetp]

Eagle flies on Friday: you get paid (eagle on currency) on Friday.

[@AriThecraftydragon]

Oh, that's interesting. I will need to use that in a story.

[@ceciliag2929]

Marlise Parker never heard of that one

[@danettecadzow9837]

Think it's a Naval term at least all the times I heard it or the guys that understood it when I used it were Navy vets.

[@marksgraybeal]

i recall it was at a time early american history of monies that brot the eagle in. besides on most or many monies thot term use when gold eagle dollar , memorie of the mines. and think in an ol cowboy song.

[@july8xx]

The Eagle was is a one dollar coin.

[@Markle2k]

I've only heard "ankle-biter" in reference to children, specifically pre-toddlers who are on all fours. But I would instantly make the connection if somebody used it to refer to a chihuahua.

[@ceciliag2929]

Markle2k yep little yapping dogs

[@GoSlash27]

Also referred to as crumb snatchers.

[@isoron]

@@GoSlash27 and rugrats

[@ThatGirlJD]

@@isoron Rugrats should be easy to guess because of the cartoon.

[@kaylapalooza66]

And I've never heard ankle biter in reference to children, only in reference to tiny dogs.

[@davidnielson9139]

I'm going to disagree slightly with "Bless your heart" -- it seems to be an all purpose phrase in the South, with the meaning varying wildly based on the tone of voice. It can mean you are being "simple," it can somewhat mean "I want to box your ears' (more slang), or it can even be meant honestly if something has done something nice for that person. It is amazing what a Southern woman can make "bless your heart" to mean.

[@___LC___]

Often it means “f*ck you”

[@laurahubbard6906]

It's often used much the same as the Victorian English "Does your mother know you're out?" It's a reaction to someone's naivete or lack or awareness.

[@katherine8384]

I agree "bless your heart" is tone it's not always an insult but empathy towards a person

[@Toywins]

Yeah, it does vary depending on tone. But most of the time, its shady!😂😂

[@Toywins]

@@laurahubbard6906 I like that one.

[@stephanienewell7545]

Mr. Lawrence I would suggest watching the IT'S A SOUTHERN THING videos. They have a couple of very accurate videos demonstrating how we southerners use "bless your heart" and "y'all" phrases to mean different things. It's all in the tone.

[@AmandaKMason]

Ben Brainerd's The Table also covers it really well in North Carolina joins the Table. He talks about snowbirds and haboobs in Arizona joins the Table too!

[@Serai3]

No, no. "Scuttlebutt" means "a rumor", NOT the person who spreads the rumor. "So what's the scuttlebutt?" is something you'd ask if you want to know what people are saying.

[@garywheeler7039]

Exactly, what is going around at the water cooler these days.

[@sharonsmith583]

@@garywheeler7039 it literally is because the scuttlebutt was where sailors got their water on old time ships

[@protestssopeacefulweneedad2017]

I always thought it was an SRV song

[@Cryptonymicus]

Anyone who doesn't know about "scuttlebutt" has never watched the original TV series "McHale's Navy."

[@ceciliag2929]

Serai3 or NCIS

[@shruggzdastr8-facedclown]

Speaking of your needing of new glasses, is the slang term "four-eyes" (often intended as an insult -- sometimes mildly, sometimes malicious) isolated to the U.S., or do Brits use it too?

[@Claire-zz9pj]

Brits use it too

[@Toywins]

I have one!! "Persnickety"

[@jordanwhitecar1982]

yeet is internet (gamer) slang for "to discard at high velocity."

[@rigbyfin]

In the south it means did you eat

[@sarahnichols8485]

From the south, “cheese cookie” used specifically a Macdonald’s cheeseburger... “Hissy”, “idjit”, “muddin’ “, “reckon”, “stompin ground”, “clod-hoppers”, “druthers” and “Ruthers”, “ornery”, “skedaddle”, “goober”, “Lickety-split”, “herebouts”, “piddlin’ “, “Tarnation”, “warshin”, there are lots of these :)

[@Thorn99855]

Clod-hoppers!!!! I love that one.

[@shruggzdastr8-facedclown]

Related to "SNAFU" is the initialization "FUBAR": effed-up beyond all recognition

[@lesfaust9634]

Lol.. That's from the movie tango and cash from the 90s

[@KM3W]

SNAFU means Situation Normal All F*(Ked Up...Military term

[@KM3W]

FUBAR means F***ked Up Beyond All Recognition.

[@renee176]

I heard the term Fubar first from a professor in a psychology class many decades ago. Since then I've been using it every chance I get... LOL! In the times we're living in there's so many opportunities to use it... LOL!😂😂

[@shruggzdastr8-facedclown]

Thanks, Capt, Obvious, for explaining what's already been explained.

[@kenyonmoon3272]

Both definitions of 'ankle biter' are valid as far as i know

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Ratchet in the Midwest (at least) means to increase the intensity of something. "We're down by a field goal, we need to ratchet up our game a notch."

[@maryjennings4913]

To me, ankle biter means very small dog, like a Chihuahua!!! It's a dog so small that it can't bite you any higher than the ankle. Snowbirds are retirees who have a house in a warmer climate, in addition to their main home, in their colder home state. They move to Florida, Arizona etc., for the winter, to escape from the cold weather. Then they return home in the spring.

[@janesmith5871]

I thought I'd written a comment and immediately forgotten. LOL...But it's exactly what I define that as...

[@ceciliag2929]

Mary Jennings yep , but they have been driven out of south beach

[@gunclubprez]

(several years later) This. The implication is that they're migratory, like geese.

[@RichardCSmith]

Cattywampus is a word I grew up with. . I'm always shocked when someone freaks on this one. Two words, Cattycorner and Cattywampus, I thought it was just common knowledge.

[@samanthab1923]

Richard C. Smith Cattycorner

[@AbsentWithoutLeaving]

Called it 'kittycorner' here (Chicago).

[@billstokes6740]

@@AbsentWithoutLeaving Also Detroit.

[@charlesbearden5131]

“Pig in a poke” = sight unseen purchase (high risk).

[@PV1230]

ratchet is a highly mangled version of "wretched"

[@Otokichi786]

A very bad pronunciation led a mother to refer to her son's "rat manure" wrench.;)

[@GeographRick]

john Mullholand Yes. But my teenage kids and their friends more often use the term THOT. Pronounced similar to thought. It’s an acronym for That Ho Over There. “His girlfriend looks like a thot.”

[@marksgraybeal]

i only heard as in tool, wrennch rachetts up or down depend apon a switch,, so, i heard, youd better rattchet up your work there guy. or the situation did dun get all ratchetted up...?

[@PV1230]

@@marksgraybeal yes, that is another usage.

[@ThatGirlJD]

@@GeographRick Both terms can be used for any race of out there female.

[@SiriusMined]

Scuttlebutt is the gossip itself, not the person gossiping

[@rich1051414]

Stop with the scuttlebutt and get back to work :P

[@brucehearn2621]

And another contribution by the U.S. military, specifically, the Navy.

[@airoe23]

As in " whats the scuttlebutt?" I concur

[@mioscais]

It should be noted that when a Southerner or Texan says “Well bless your little heart” that is 100% an insult - it means “your a effing idiot and not worth my time to continue attempting intelligent conversation with”. (Tried to keep clean)

[@Teresia12]

Oh hell no!! I have lived in the South all my 63 years and it means exactly what it is saying. Only the younger generation have turned it into a negative. You are the idgit.

[@lucylulusuperguru3487]

NO it is NOT.

[@mioscais]

Teresia Diane I have heard “well bless your/her/his heart” or “bless your/her/his heart”said with pity/sympathy but, at least in Texas, when someone says “WELL bless your LITTLE heart” it is an insult. That is how my parents, grandparents, great grandparents and everyone I have ever known from Texas uses it. I am 45 and a 7th generation Texian - it is not the “younger” generations that turned it into an insult. I admit I may have misspoken for the South - perhaps it is a recent development there, I haven’t lived there. That being said, the Southerners I know also use the specific phrasing of “WELL bless your LITTLE heart” as an insult.

[@beegee1960]

Skuttlebutt means gossip. Not the person, the gossip.

[@beegee1960]

@@mioscais depends on the situation and tone of voice,

[@KNine417]

# accessthepond From Appalachia here and “poke” refers to a bag like the paper kind you get at the grocery or a tote depending some call it a bag or sack as well

[@mamieanding5691]

A pig in a poke is buying something unseen..

[@dindixie]

Poke is also a type of wild green eaten in certain places in the South. Not sure if there is an accent on it or not, but isn't it also the mixed bowl of fish, rice, & veggies of Hawaiian origin?

[@mamieanding5691]

@@dindixie No accent. One syllable. I've never eaten it.

[@rigbyfin]

Western Kentucky poke is a plant that comes up in the spring, known as poke salat. People pick it and cook it with eggs. When it gets older it is poisonous and grows bright purple berries that were used as dye 200 years ago

[@dindixie]

@@rigbyfin poke grows wild across much of the south. Definitely grows down here in South Mississippi.

[@blindleader42]

To SNAFU, add FUBAR = eFfed Up Beyond All Recognition

[@protestssopeacefulweneedad2017]

Tell me more

[@dragonsreingsupreme1]

Or repair depends on the person giving the definition I have heard both XD

[@goodenoughgirl8102]

Or maybe Foo pah? Or a LuLu. Lol.

[@dunbar9finger]

If it's just normal words spoken in a slurred way that isn't slang. "Whallago" is just a fast sloppy pronunciation of "while ago", not a slang term.

[@deerslayinredneck1003]

Like gedonoatahere

[@wanderingcitygirl9051]

An ankle biter in the Midwest is a small dog.

[@kkrolf2782]

“In the olden days”, to ratchet something was to step it up considerably. (“Costumes really ratcheted up the performance.”)

[@greaterdanemark2397]

Honestly half the time I speak I find that other Americans don’t understand the slang I use, despite me living in the area for my entire life.

[@willg4802]

Gnomeasayin?

[@RyukyuStyle]

​@@willg4802 thx for giving me an idea for an alliance gnome mage name lol. my name i use for games has always been 'nomsaiyan' lol

[@Stache987]

Here's a good one from the military, whiskey tango foxtrot, which is a radio response meaning wtf in words

[@MianTaffinDezmir]

Here’s a few phrases: “Don’t gamble and loose” referring to a fart that is dangerously close to poop. “Too hot for raccoons” meaning very hot, referring to the incredible amount of heat raccoons can withstand and the effective method for evicting them from your attic. And “cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey,” which actually refers to the historic and scientific fact that the dimpled brass base used to hold a pyramid of iron cannon balls contracts at a faster rate than the iron balls when cooled, moving the dimples out of position and causing the cannon balls to roll off and all around the ships deck.

[@GH-oi2jf]

“Wallago” is not legitimate slang, it’s just a lame joke.

[@raymonddavis1370]

There are Bubblers in Massachusetts also

[@calise8783]

Raymond Davis yes, I grew up with bubbler in New England.

[@Mamolax3]

But they are called "bubblas" in the accents of Massachusetts and other New England states.

[@OceanluvOC]

I’m from California & ankle biter it is used for small children and dogs lol! 😂🤣 Affectionally funny when using it for small children.

[@thethrashyone]

Affectionate towards children, disdainful (at least in my case) towards small yappy dogs.

[@IcouldBNE1]

I've heard of "y'eat?" which is supposedly the way some Americans say "did you eat?" or "have you eaten? "

[@kenyonmoon3272]

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Yeet

[@___LC___]

Y’eat yet?

[@marksgraybeal]

i tink phrase, have you eaten became the same for hello in china speciay after the great march or famines aftermath of bad pollicies. . i luv all the ol langs, cand do english so use all in our world.

[@cheflos]

More like “jeet?”

[@edwardmiessner6502]

@@cheflos I've also heard of "jeet". The reply, if the person didn't eat, is "No, jew?"

[@Mnrichard2]

dinger is the sound that an aluminum bat sounds when hitting the ball

[@july8xx]

I’ve herd dinger used for a lightly hit ball that just goes over the infielders heads but short of the outfielders, and this was way before aluminum bats.

[@Shootingstarcomics]

When your ten gallon hat is feeling five gallons flat, you hanker for a hunk of cheese.

[@robinchesterfield42]

OH MY GOD I'm not the only one who remembers those commercials... XD

[@alexcarter8807]

A slab or slice or chunk'a...

[@stephenwright8824]

@@robinchesterfield42 They weren't commercials.

[@ebiljebus]

Technically they were PSAs, but that one was basically a commercial for non-brand-specific cheese.

[@renee176]

There's always time for a Schoolhouse Rock reference... Love it!

[@thudthud5423]

Humdinger Someone thinks about something... "Hmmm...." Then, suddenly comes up with the witty answer! "DING!" "Yooper" literally comes from "UP" as in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. (Upper - OOpper - Yooper) Due to a large percentage of the UP's population having a Finnish ancestry, its more than coincidental that "Yooper sounds Finnish".

[@samanthab1923]

Thud Thud Doo Lally.

[@samanthab1923]

Thud Thud Just saw someone with Yooper on a t shirt. Said it was for a resident of the Upper Peninsula born & bred.

[@kkrolf2782]

You made up that first part about “humdinger”, right? (Ya dat’s funny. Ya, yoo betcha!)

[@GH-oi2jf]

Here’s another baseball slang term: A “rhubarb” is a fight between teams or a spirited argument with the umpire. The former usually starts when the batter thinks the pitcher is throwing at him, and charges the mound to present his complaint to the pitcher. A good example of the latter would be concerning George Brett’s bat in the “pine tar incident.”

[@AlfredHawthornBennyHill]

Snockered, gassed and sauced means drunk.

[@___LC___]

Smashed, sloshed, slammed,

[@QuiznosBear]

Slaughtered, tore up, tanked, pissed,

[@nowthatsjustducky]

@@QuiznosBear Or to quote the Dryad in Warcraft II, "I'll attract the enemy with my Human call. I'm wasted! I'm Sooooo wasted!"

[@samanthab1923]

The Crimson Shadow Kerfluffle.

[@Mnrichard2]

"Muffin top" is the sides of a "spare tire/tyre" around the waist.

[@tinydancer7426]

It is a side (get it) effect of "dunlops disease".

[@kkrolf2782]

A humdinger described a really superduper “thing” (ANY thing).

[@jagardina]

Poke is also a term for a paper back or sack. "Pig in a poke" is a phrase my dad used to use for buying something sight unseen (I think).

[@Blondie42]

Cowpoke(s) is one that I've heard. As in cowboys and cowgirls collectively.

[@larryfontenot9018]

SNAFU is one of two related old military slang words. The other is FUBAR, which is the next step on the disaster scale. By the way, the semi-official clean version is "Situation normal, all fouled up". FUBAR means "Fouled up beyond all recognition", but with the other f-word normally used.

[@secolerice]

I can confirm both although the other F word is used in both.

[@mightymouse1111]

I say 'whalago' when I speak but would not consider it one word lol

[@SarahElisabethJoyal]

FIB has an entirely different meaning if you're driving in Wisconsin.

[@stevejfromak842]

In the west your "poke" is your purse or wallet. From a miner's pouch or purse.. The eagle flies on Friday means that you get paid on Friday. To be "two blocked", to be at a dead end or unable to continue, from the working world where you used a block and tackle, when you run the line out and two blocks are up against each other you have no more scope.

[@lorilaruehueg1006]

I thought this was a Star Trek discussion for a moment, your chair caused an epaulette effect with you gold shirt and you had a Captain Kirk thing going on there. In a good way of course 🤭

[@Miesque1973]

I'm fond of 'he don't tote level', which means odd or strange. There's also 'teched', which means 'touched', another word for crazy.

[@kkrolf2782]

Didn’t that infer “they” had been touched by the faerie folk?

[@sunnydaysatl]

Awallago everyone make one sentence into one word in Georgia. A while a go.

[@ThatGirlJD]

I'm from the south and I never realized we run it into one word. Reading it silently I'd think it was an Australian term. Hearing it read it's crystal clear. Used in a sentence it sounds like three separate words. The Southern dialect has a lot of phrases that sound like one word to non Southerners. Lol

[@BigDogCountry]

@@ThatGirlJD IN SEGA never heard it runtogetherlakthat.

[@ThatGirlJD]

@@BigDogCountry SEGA? South East Georgia? If so you don't hear it as one word because to people in the South it's clear as day. Other people get stuck trying to understand "thick" Southerner accents and don't realize a whole sentence was spoken. The funniest thing to me is just about every Southern child is scolded for not annunciating and speaking clearly. So we do.

[@BigDogCountry]

@@ThatGirlJD Every one of our 159 counties have their own accent. Used to be you could really tell where someone was from in the 80's, today not so much.

[@AbsentWithoutLeaving]

@@BigDogCountry - I really miss regional accents. Used to love family driving trips, where you could tell you were 'away from home' by the changing accents on the radio stations.

[@Mnrichard2]

Friday was typically "PAY DAY" when the Eagle on US money flies.

[@GH-oi2jf]

Richard R - “The eagle flies on Friday” is a line from a blues song, but it isn’t much used in everyday speech.

[@bethvarnadoe9783]

“The eagle has landed “is the one I know meaning it your check has arrived and ready to be picked up.

[@GeographRick]

Haboub comes from Arabic meaning sandstorm.

[@kkrolf2782]

Richard We have had some doozies here in Arizona!!!

[@lyllydd]

My southern grandmama always used kattywampus to mean wonky or off-kilter.

[@charlottethien3749]

Enjoy your channel from SE Georgia USA. A while ago = awallago Small yapping dog =ankle biter Some one who pokes around and does things slowly = lolly gagger To jab someone in jest , or to be a slow poke ( doing things slowly)=poke Pay day= eagle flies on Friday Crooked= catewhompous Urge or want something = hankering A person from the North who goes to Florida during the Winter = snowbird Did you eat=yaeat Rumor=scuttle-but Man getting a hair cut=getting your ears lowered

[@slshanklin]

Flavor-saver: moustache thick enough that food and fluids... get stuck in.

[@deerslayinredneck1003]

My pops use this when i get food in my beard

[@kkrolf2782]

Eeewwwww...I knew there was an ever more valid reason not to kiss a bearded man, than just that I didn’t enjoy “rug burns”!!!

[@ntamny]

The eagle flies on Friday probably means they get paid on fridays. The eagle has landed can mean the paychecks are in and can be picked up by employees.

[@skapur]

Ratchet it up: take it to the next level Ratchet: a mechanical device to prevent a wrench from going back Ratchet: a corruption of wretched

[@zredband]

I really detest that slang.

[@darrellbeam8053]

Poke a bag or a plant you can eat the leaves in the spring

[@barkingmad50]

"Poke salad, Annie"! I forget the band.

[@MichaelEdelman1954]

barkingmad50 Tony Joe White. No comma- Poke Salad Annie.

[@barkingmad50]

@@MichaelEdelman1954 Thanks. Now I can find it, listen to it, & hopefully get the "Poke salad Annie" ear worm out of my head!

[@dalemoore1308]

barkingmad50 poke salat.

[@billstokes6740]

@@dalemoore1308 Sounds like Arkansas.

[@rfmerrill]

I think some of these are crossing the line from slang into dialect. They're not quite the same thing but often confused. Slang tends to be short-lived and confined to subcultures and/or age groups while dialectic usage of a word spans multiple generations and is less likely to be picked up by transplants.

[@michaeldougfir9807]

Getting your ears lowered. Haircut for a man.

[@MacGuffinExMachina]

Some of these are regional and just as odd to me.

[@judithburke1539]

A snowbirds is a person that lives where winters are cold and then moves seasonally to warmer climes for the winter.

[@jude4896]

Yes!

[@TimP103]

Haboob is actually an Arabic word

[@Not-Ap]

What region of the US did that originate from?

[@TimP103]

Cui Bono it didn’t originate in the US at all, but as far as I know a very small amount of people in the American Southwest use it due to the deserts there

[@laurabudd8680]

@@TimP103 an 'haboob' is a towering wall of sand and dust blowing in ahead of a severe storm. Check out 'Phoenix haboob' for videos. An haboob is awesome as long as you're not actually in it.

[@TheMtGRogue]

This. It's not a slang term at all. It is the actual term used by meteorologists to describe a very specific type of windstorm that often causes very large sand storms. It's Arabic in origin and didn't really become widely used in the U.S. until maybe five or ten years ago.

[@JRandallS]

"The eagle flies on Friday, on Saturday I goes out to play" is a line from "Stormy Monday Blues" and refers to getting paid on Friday and going out Saturday to have some fun. The eagle flies, goes back to a time when people were paid in silver dollars, and those dollars have an Eagle on them. So the Eagle Flies on Friday simply means "Pay-day". kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpTRfqV5qNWJh8k

[@kkrolf2782]

Ahhh, THAT’s why my Mom used the term. I had always thought she was referring to the date she expected to get her Social Security check, because, at least at the time when she was receiving the actual paper checks, there was indeed a spread winged eagle imprinted on them. TFS!

[@kkrolf2782]

Ahhh, THAT’s why my Mom used the term. I had always thought she was referring to the date she expected to get her Social Security check, because, at least at the time when she was receiving the actual paper checks, there was indeed a spread winged eagle imprinted on them. TFS!

[@JRandallS]

@@kkrolf2782 Yeah that's great. Come to think of it, my dad had a government job working for RCA as a Nasa subcontractor and I remember seeing an eagle on those checks as well. Who know which form of currency for sure was in mind? I did read a thing about the silver dollars being standard form of payment after the bank failures.

[@tonygumbrell22]

Scuttlebutt used in the military, and elsewhere, for rumors, workplace gab, repeated and current

[@mloftin6472]

Weirdly "scuttlebutt" sounds like such a British word. It just has the feel of some old-fashioned English word.

[@tonygumbrell22]

Originally, a shipboard drinking fountain, hence, colloquially, rumors (where rumors were spread or exchanged)

[@KarmasAB123]

"Scuttlebutt" is the gossip itself, not the gossipper

[@Rachill13]

Bubbler is the main word i grew up with in New England!

[@sarahm9209]

I’ve always used cattywampus to describe something being crooked

[@kkrolf2782]

Or...”out of kilter”.

[@bob494949]

askew

[@johnp139]

How about “red shirt”?

[@kkrolf2782]

Don’t quote me but I think in practice games, half of the Nebraska football team members are called the “red shirts” to signify they, then, play against whatever the other half is designated.

[@mightymouse1111]

Christmas Adam: the night before Christmas Eve. Maybe it was once a joke? My family uses it as a regular word that time of year

[@spacecowboy2957]

After hearing HUMDINGER I really wanted to suggest DINGER. Both come from baseball and refer to the batter hitting the ball. Certainly, in lower-level ball like little league, high school & college, aluminum bats are often used and hitting the ball makes a distinctive "ding" sound. But, in pro ball, only wood bats are used so DINGER refers to hitting the ball so hard that it hits (or "dings") the scoreboard and a HUMDINGER causes a sound that lingers (or "hums") when the board is hit. In modern times, scoreboards are placed high up in stadiums so a DINGER is just a ball that it hit really hard (like a hard line drive) and perhaps it can describe how the ball might have gotten dented/deformed (or "dinged") when it got hit.