Massachusetts TOP 50 Slang Words

If you’re from here, you KNOW these Massachusetts TOP 50 slang words. You may not even realize it. But you possess a unique trait. You speak like NO one else on earth, if they are not from here.

Some Call It Boston-ese

Our language is so famous, it’s been the inspiration behind countless Saturday Night Live skits. How about those famous Dunkin commercials? Remember Jimmy Fallon in Fever Pitch? He had to learn all about our wonderful vernacular, and he’s a Yankees fan.

When Do We Lose Our Accent?

That’s a great question. Some always retain a bit of the Boston-ese. If you listen carefully to me on WROR from 2p-7p, you can hear me slip back into my childhood tone, as if I was with Mom at Joardan MAASH at Christmas. Sometimes, I bring a grinda, to work. (In Philly, they call it a hoagie.) Being from WISTA, it took me a few years, to loose the accent. But it comes back around the holidays, CUZ, I’m with my family, and the influence is over-powering.

So, if you suffer from the same dark magic around the holidays, stop, take a sip from the bubla…….and take a look the Massachusetts TOP 50 Slang Words.

(from Time Out)

• Bubbler, a drinking fountain

  It’s really BUB-LA

• The Cape

  Cape Cod. It’s really DA-Cape

• Carriage

  a shopping cart that you use at the MAAAAKET

• Cellar

  The cellah

• The Charles

  It is really Dirty Water?

• Clicker

  The remote control…..pronounced click-AH

• Coogans

  Dollah drafts

• Comm Ave

  Cawm Ave. If you say Commonwealth Avenue, we know you’re not from here

• Dollah Drafts

  Coogans, again

• Dungarees

  Jeans

• Dunks

  Really? (If I have to explain, meet me on Commonwealth Avenue.)

• Eastie

  East BAAAWSTON

• Frappe

  Milk shake

• Frickin

  How we say F—- and keep our job

• The Garden

  GAADEN…..where the CELTS play

• Hosie

  to call dibs on something

• The Hub

  Now, it’s our sister station.

• I could care less

  how we like to say that we couldn’t care less about something

• In Town

  We refuse to refer to the City of Boston as a city.

• Jimmies

  Chocolate Sprinkles

• Kid

  A term of endearment that you use to address your closest friends. A requirement in every Mark Wahlberg movie.

• Mass-hole

  “A derogatory term for Massachusetts residents that Bay Staters have reappropriated.”

  It’s derogatory?

• Nor’easter

  A winter storm that we get at least once a year, prompting us all to freak out and ravage the grocery stores for milk, eggs and bread. 

  The name Shelby Scott (R.I.P.) comes to mind.

• No Suh

  No sir; no way.

• OFD

  Originally from Dorchester. A requirement in every Mark Wahlberg movie

• Packie

  First time we used it was at the age of 15. A liquor store; short for “package store.”

• The Pike

  Short for Massachusetts Turn Pike.

• Pissa

  Short for “that’s awesome.” Sometimes, used with the pre-fix, ‘wicked’

• Pockabook

  Your purse

• The Pru

  The Prudential Tower. The Top of The Pru: Where my voice comes from every day from 2p-7p, into your radio.

• Regular

  A coffee with cream and “suga..”

  Pronounced REG-U-LAAAH

• Ripper

  Great party. You called in sick

• Rotary

  Roundabout, where somehow we never die

• So don’t I

  me, too. (We like to throw in negatives when they aren’t necessary)

   

• Southie

  South Boston

  Historically Irish-American neighborhood, that on St. Patties Day, you become someone else

• Space-saver

   Any large household object (i.e. a lawn chair, a barrel) used after a winter storm to prevent anyone from taking your painstakingly shoveled, on-street parking spot.

• Statie

  Our friends, The Massachusetts State Police

• Sticker

  A state inspection sticker for your car that you must renew on the same month every year, lest you get pulled over by a Statie; pronounced “stick-ah.”

• Supper

  After lunch, around 8pm, we have “suppah”

   

• The T

  The MBTA, our public transit system that’s usually on fire

• The Train

  Not the T, but it is, kinda, but not.

• This f----kin guy

  A stranger who’s pissed you off

  Or a friend you never see

• Tonic

  Soda

  or Pop

• Townie

  A city native who’s never left the neighborhood they grew up in, still hanging around in all of the same places with the same people. 

• Triple decker

   A popular three-floor apartment building, where each unit has a front porch/balcony, so people can sit outside, yell to their neighbors. Pronounced “dekkah”

• Wicked

  Means “awesome”

  Sometimes followed with “pissa”

   

• Yah huh

  I agree

• Yah no

  I disagree

• Bang a uey

  Make a U-Turn

• Grinder

  Sub sandwich, pronounced “GRIND-dah”