Wp/pgh/Picksburgese

Picksburgese is da dialekt o American Inglish native ta da western haff o Pennsylvania, cennered arahnd da city o Picksburg. Da dialekt is also fahnd as far north as Erie Cahnny, as far east as Sunbury, Pennsylvania, as far west as Youngstahn, Ahia, an as far sahth as Clarksburg, West Virginia.

==Vocabulary==



*   babushka   - (  n.  ) headscarf

*   buggy   - (  n.  ) shopping cart

**  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)    (see chipped chopped ham )

*   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.  ) drough

*  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 (often,  jag off  or  jack around  )

**  jagger  - (  n.  /  adj.  ) any small, sharp-pointed object or implement,  usually thorns, spines, and prickles (as in a  jagger bush  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 Scots-Irish English)