Pittsburghese
A language all it's own, yunz should check out!
Sample of the native tongue

Here's a small Pittsburghese Dictionary, I've compiled after years of speaking the native tongue. Thanks for stopping by! Let me know what you think.

New terms added!

A
Ahia - Ohio
Air - there
An da - and the
Arn - Iron / Iron City
Ats - that's
B
Babushka - Bandanna
Burm - berm - the edge of road near a hillside
C
Caddy wampusCatty wampus - askew
Carline - trolley or streetcar tracks
Chipped ham - paper thin sliced / shaved ham
Church key - bottle opener
City chicken - skewered veal & pork cubes, breaded & fried like chicken
Crick - creek
Cuttent - could not
Cubburd - closet for coats
D
Da - the
Da Burg - Pittsburgh
Dahn stree - going out
Dahntahn - downtown
Dawn - Don...a man's name
Dittent - didn't
E
Et - eat
Et yet - eat yet
G
Gumbans - rubber bands
Gutchies - underwear
H
Hoagie - submarine sandwhich
J
Jag - jack or jerk...as in He's a jerk off (jag off)
Jaynell - J & L Steel, Co.
Jynt Igl - Giant Eagle (local grocery)
Jumbo - balogna
K
Kennywood's Open! - Your fly is unzipped
Klondike - ice cream treat that started here, at Isley's
M
Mon - the Monongahela River
N
N'at - and that
Nebby - overly curious...nosey
P
P'toot - bottom - derrier
Pensivania - Pennsylvania
Pop - Pepsi, Coke, etc.
Poke - bag..either paper or cloth or plastic
Prolly - probably
R
Redd up - very light cleaning
S
Sahside - South Side
Sammitches - sandwiches
Sharteers Crick - Chartiers Creek
Sketti - spaghetti
Sliberty - East Liberty (town in Pittsburgh)
Slippy - slippery
Spicket - tap / faucet / spiggot
Stillers - Steelers
Stoop - porch
Streecar - streetcar
Strip - the Strip District ( a wholesale area just off the docks in dahntahn Pittsburgh)
T
Telepole - telephone pole
That's it, Fort Pitt - that's all
W
Wait on - waiting on (as in time)
Worsh - wash
Worsh Rag - wash rag
Y
Yaint - you are not
Yock - the Youghioghenny River
Yuge - huge
Yunz - you ones / all of you

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