Re: Let us again talk about our local colloquialisms.
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2022 5:20 am
by Anthony Flack
Pembs wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:13 pm
beaver leaver and vagina decliner for gay guy, and todger dodger for lesbian. Are these real?
Basically they're impossible to verify as real or not because Australians have ten thousand ways to call you gay.
Somebody tell me if it is a particular New Zealand thing to call somebody "an egg" if they are a dick. I quite like that one as it's not a swear but it can be a strong put-down. It's somewhere between a clown and a fuckwit. Can be used on kids.
The classic New Zealand word to use if you want to ingratiate yourselves with the locals is "chur". Use it as a substitute for either "thank you" or "excellent". For extra emphasis you can double down with chur-chur.
Re: Let us again talk about our local colloquialisms.
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:09 am
by Charlie D
The stretch from North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin is said to be where you'll hear the term "oof dah" or "uff da" or any similar spelling. You see somebody slip ans fall on the ice? That gets an oof dah. Catch a whiff of the baby's diaper? There's an oof dah.
They're proud of this exclamation, they even put it on billboards, politicians will say it while campaigning to appear more folksy, you go to some mom & pop greasy spoon and they'll have something on the menu called The Widowmaker and the description starts "Oof dah! This 96oz sirloin..." but the thing is that I have never heard one person genuinely utter an oof dah.
I live in the Twin Cities, I've been to Duluth, I've been to Fargo, my Wisconsin time was just at Interstate State Park up at Saint Croix Falls, and there've been a handful of smaller places, too, so I've been to a mix of large and small urban areas in these three states and never once have I heard a genuine oof dah.
My first ex was from North Dakota and she said oof dah only when making fun of the rural northern exaggerated long O accent. My fifth ex claimed she grew up country as a chicken coop up north a ways. Never once did this non-hyphenated compound slip out of her mouth. So it's not a country thing, either.
I don't think the word actually exists as part of common speech but it's part of the regional identity.
I'm from Ohio, though, maybe that's why I don't get it. I've heard / read that the colloquialism in my home state, that nobody else anywhere ever does, is we declare distance in units of time, eg: "Toledo is a half hour from Bowling Green."
I guarantee you this is horseshit. Yeah, Ohioans do that. So does everybody else I've ever met.
Re: Let us again talk about our local colloquialisms.
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2022 11:04 am
by tonyballzee
My mom's family is full of Polacks from Chicago's South Side. They use the following words:
mozzle - "As long as you're going to the store, you mozzle put gas in the car." "Those shoes are full of holes, you mozzle throw them away." (I always pictured it spelled mas'll)
yameeta - "As long as I'm going to the store, yameeta put gas in the car?" "Yameeta pick up some beer on my way home?"
I don't know if these are colloquialisms or just my weird family. There's probably more, I have to call my mom.
Re: Let us again talk about our local colloquialisms.
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2022 3:57 pm
by TylerDeadPine
Charlie D wrote: Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:09 am
The stretch from North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin is said to be where you'll hear the term "oof dah" or "uff da" or any similar spelling. You see somebody slip ans fall on the ice? That gets an oof dah. Catch a whiff of the baby's diaper? There's an oof dah.
They're proud of this exclamation, they even put it on billboards, politicians will say it while campaigning to appear more folksy, you go to some mom & pop greasy spoon and they'll have something on the menu called The Widowmaker and the description starts "Oof dah! This 96oz sirloin..." but the thing is that I have never heard one person genuinely utter an oof dah.
I live in the Twin Cities, I've been to Duluth, I've been to Fargo, my Wisconsin time was just at Interstate State Park up at Saint Croix Falls, and there've been a handful of smaller places, too, so I've been to a mix of large and small urban areas in these three states and never once have I heard a genuine oof dah.
My first ex was from North Dakota and she said oof dah only when making fun of the rural northern exaggerated long O accent. My fifth ex claimed she grew up country as a chicken coop up north a ways. Never once did this non-hyphenated compound slip out of her mouth. So it's not a country thing, either.
I don't think the word actually exists as part of common speech but it's part of the regional identity.
I'm from Ohio, though, maybe that's why I don't get it. I've heard / read that the colloquialism in my home state, that nobody else anywhere ever does, is we declare distance in units of time, eg: "Toledo is a half hour from Bowling Green."
I guarantee you this is horseshit. Yeah, Ohioans do that. So does everybody else I've ever met.
Never heard of oof da but people in those areas and definitely in Canada say "Oop!" For the aforementioned reasons
Re: Let us again talk about our local colloquialisms.
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2022 3:51 pm
by Charlie D
TylerDeadPine wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 3:57 pm
Never heard of oof da but people in those areas and definitely in Canada say "Oop!" For the aforementioned reasons
Down here states-side, we have "Ope!" generally used for squeezing by people. It's like a quick "pardon me" in a tight grocery store aisle.
Re: Let us again talk about our local colloquialisms.
TylerDeadPine wrote: Fri Jul 15, 2022 3:57 pm
Never heard of oof da but people in those areas and definitely in Canada say "Oop!" For the aforementioned reasons
Down here states-side, we have "Ope!" generally used for squeezing by people. It's like a quick "pardon me" in a tight grocery store aisle.
I say it as a Coloradoan in the same circumstances (although it's reflexive and makes me feel like a huge dork). Also interchangeable with "Whup".
Re: Let us again talk about our local colloquialisms.
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2022 7:50 am
by A_Man_Who_Tries
Appropriate for today: Sweating like a zoo.
Re: Let us again talk about our local colloquialisms.
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2022 8:25 am
by Dudley
A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 7:50 am
Appropriate for today: Sweating like a zoo.
Weird. Surely humans are one of the few things in a zoo that sweat.
Re: Let us again talk about our local colloquialisms.
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2022 9:12 am
by A_Man_Who_Tries
Dudley wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 8:25 am
Weird. Surely humans are one of the few things in a zoo that sweat.
True, which is why it's one I love so much. It makes no sense but at the same time is completely right. Just the smell of a zoo.
Re: Let us again talk about our local colloquialisms.
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2022 11:19 am
by biscuitdough
I thought the weird Ohio thing was “warsh” for wash.