Wp/pgh/Picksburgese

Picksburgese (cawed Western Pennsylvania English or Pittsburgh English in Standard Inglish) is da dialekt o American Inglish native ta da western haff o Pennsyvania, cennered arahnd da city o Picksburg. Da dialekt is also fahnd as far north as Erie Cahnny, as far east as Sunbury, Pennsyvania, as far west as Youngstahn, Ahia, an as far sahth as Clarksburg, West Virginia.

Vocabulary
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 * babushka - (n.) headscarf
 * baby buggy - (n.) baby carriage
 * the 'Burgh - (n.) Pittsburgh
 * berm - (n.) edge of the road, curb: an accepted alternative to "shoulder of the road"
 * carbon oil - (n.) kerosene
 * chipped ham - (n.) very thinly sliced chopped ham loaf for sandwiches (from a local brand name)
 * city chicken - (n.) cubes of pork loin and/or veal on a short wooden skewer, breaded, then fried or baked
 * cupboard - (n.) closet
 * cruds, crudded milk, or cruddled milk - (n.) cottage cheese
 * diamond - (n.) town square
 * dippy - (adj.) appropriate for dipping into, such as gravy, coffee, egg yolks, etc.
 * doll baby - (n.) complimentary term for an attractively childlike girl or woman (reversal of "baby doll")
 * drooth - (n.) drought
 * dupa - (n.) parental term for a child's backside of Polish origin.
 * grinnie - (n.) chipmunk
 * gumband - (n.) rubber band; elastic fastener
 * gutchies; or undergutchies (n.) term used to describe undergarments of any variety.
 * hap - (n.) comfort; or, comforter or quilt
 * hoagie - (n.) a sub (i.e., submarine sandwich; used throughout Pennsylvania)
 * jag - (v.) to prick, stab, or jab; to tease
 * jagger - (n./adj.) any small, sharp-pointed object or implement, usually thorns, spines, and prickles (as in a jaggerbush or "I got a jagger in my finger").
 * jaggerbush - (n.) briar
 * jimmies - (n.) sprinkles
 * jumbo - (n.) bologna lunch meat
 * "Kennywood's open" - idiom used to inform someone that their fly is open ("Kennywood" referring to the Kennywood amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania)
 * Klondike - (n.) ice cream bar (from a local brand name)
 * kolbusy or kolbassi - (n.) variant pronunciation of kielbasa
 * monkey ball - (n.) fruit of the Maclura pomifera or monkey ball tree
 * n'at - et cetera; and so on; a "general extender"; literally, a contraction of "and (all) that"
 * neb - (v.) to pry into a conversation or argument intrusively or impertinently (this term and its derivatives are common to Pennsylvania, but especially southwestern Pennsylvania, from Scots-Irish English)
 * neb out - to mind one's own business
 * neb-nose or nebby-nose (also nebshit) - (n.) the kind of person who is always poking into people's affairs; inquisitive person
 * nebby - (adj.) given to prying into the affairs of others; nosey; inquisitive
 * onion snow - (n.) early spring snow
 * qo - (n.) question
 * redd up (also ret, rid, ridd, or redd out) - (v.) to tidy up, clean up, or clean out (a room, house, cupboard, etc.); to clean house, tidy up (hence v bl. redding up house-cleaning; tidying up)
 * reverend - (adj.) extreme; extraordinary, powerful
 * slippy - (adj.) slippery (from Scots-Irish English)
 * spicket - (n.) alternate pronunciation of spigot, specifically an outdoor faucet used to connect to a garden hose
 * Stillers - (n.) alternate pronunciation of the Pittsburgh Steelers
 * tossle cap - (n.) knit hat designed to provide warmth in cold weather
 * trick - (n.) a job shift (as used in West-Central Pennsylvania)
 * yins, yinz, yunz, you'uns, or youns - (pronoun) plural of you (second-person personal plural pronoun from the Scots language)