Pittsburghese

Here ya go, learn to talk like a real yinzer and so ya don't stick out like a sore thumb and break the frickin' masquerade like a lunch head.

* **Afuhgan**: Afghan/blanket
* **Ahr**: Hour
* **Allegheny Whitefish**: Condom floating down the river
* **Alunamin**: Aluminum
* **Am-blee-unce**: Ambulance
* **Angioplastic**: Angioplasty (a balloon procedure of a coronary artery to enlarge the blood vessel obstructing flow to the heart muscle)
* **Arn**: Iron
* **Artheritis**: Arthritis
* **Ashfalt**: Asphalt
* **Babushka**: Scarf worn on head to keep aht the chill
* **Baffroom**: Bathroom
* **Battry**: Battery
* **Bawdle**: Bottle
* **Bawnavill**: Bonneville
* **Beer garten**: Beer Garden
* **Bess Buys**: Best Buy
* **Beyoura**: Bureau (chest of drawers, dresser)
* **Bidness**: Business
* **Bir**: Beer
* **Birfday**: Birthday
* **Bitzle**: A piece of dirt on the floor
* **Blinkers**: Turn Signals
* **Bob wahr**: Barbed Wire
* **Bobos**: Shoes (generic)
* **Bollice**: Food that is left sitting on people's plates that someone else eats
* **Bootyparler**: Hairdresser's place of business
* **Brawl**: Ladies undergarment
* **Breffis**: The first mill of the day
* **Brights**: High Beams (Car Lights)
* **Bring it dahn a thahsnd!**: Bring it down a thousand! Or Quiet down
* **Brudder**: Brother
* **Brum**: Whatcha sweep wid
* **Buggy**: Shopping Cart
* **Bumbershoot**: Umbrella
* **Burm**: Side of the Road, Shoulder
* **CEEE-ment**: Cement
* **Caach**: Couch
* **Cadillac converter**: catalytic converter
* **Cahmera**: Chevy Camero
* **Cahntdahn**: Countdown
* **Cahny**: County
* **Caketown**: Mount Lebanon
* **Cammra**: Camera
* **Canipshun**: To have a fit or get upset
* **Carbarn**: Where they used to park the streetcars at night
* **Carbon Oil**: Kerosene
* **Carline**: Old street car line or main street
* **Carndaug**: Corndog
* **Caw-idge**: College (the l's are silent)
* **Cawner Lady**: Corner lady — prostitute;hooker
* **Celr**: Cellar
* **Cender truck**: Cinder truck
* **Chimley**: Chimney
* **Chipped Chopped Ham**: Very thinly sliced ham
* **Chivy**: Like a '57 chivy
* **Church key**: A bottle opener
* **Cinstruction**: Process used to build or repair things
* **City Chicken**: Pork cubes on a skewer, breaded and fried
* **Clicker**: Remote control
* **Clodhoppers**: Work boots
* **Clothes Press**: Closet
* **Cole**: Cool
* **Concreek**: Concrete
* **Cooshin**: Cushion
* **Court**: Quart
* **Cream rinse**: Conditioner
* **Crick**: Creek
* **Cubbord**: Cupboard
* **Cucky**: An organic gooey substance
* **Culde sock**: Cul de sac
* **Cupny**: Company, visitors
* **Cut**: Slice of pizza
* **Cuzint**: My aunt and uncle's child
* **Da Dunner Bolt**: The Thunder Bolt at Kennywood Park
* **Dahntahn**: Downtown, the Golden Triangle
* **Dahtlets**: The Factory Outlet Stores
* **Davenport**: Sofa or couch
* **Dee-shus**: Dishes
* **Dennis**: Dentist
* **Din-ggy (with a hard g sound)**: A small boat or dinghy
* **Dinge**: A Dent
* **Dish soap**: Dishwashing liquid
* **Doe Nit**: Doughnut
* **Dog Box**: Dog house
* **Doohickey**: Object you can't name at the present time
* **Dowas**: Dallas
* **Dower**: Dollar
* **Drawling**: Drawing
* **Druthers**: A choice
* **Dunkey**: Donkey
* **Dupa**: Your back side
* **Dust bunnies**: Blobby, dusty things found under beds and sofas
* **Eer**: Error
* **Erol**: Oil
* **Eve-spouting**: Gutter
* **Face Rag**: Wash cloth
* **Fahr**: Fire
* **Farkleberry Tart**: A mystery fruit pastry pawned off by KDKA at Christmas time
* **Feesh**: Fish
* **Fiddy-fiv sint**: Two quarters and a nickel
* **File (or fahl) ball**: A foul ball, possibly at a Pirates game
* **Filled**: Field
* **Fillings**: Feelings
* **Filum**: Film
* **Fire Tire**: Fire Tower
* **Fiscul Thirpy**: Physical Therapy
* **Fishheads**: Ugly, generic "no-name-brand" sneakers
* **Flahr**: Flower
* **Flip flops**: Those shoe things
* **Foot**: Feet
* **Fridgedare**: Refridgerator
* **Fuud**: Food ("pudd"-ing)
* **Galumbki**: Stuffed Cabbages
* **Garbidge**: Garbage
* **Garter**: Garter snake
* **Ghetto Sleigh**: Pat Bus
* **Gob**: Snack consisting of two large round soft chocolate cookies with white creme filling in between
* **Graaj**: Garage
* **Grasscutter**: Lawn mower
* **Grinny**: A chipmunk
* **Gum**: Elastic
* **Gumband**: Rubber bands
* **Gutcheez**: Underwear
* **Haf-Ahr**: Half an Hour
* **Hankerin**: Need or want
* **Hanky**: Handkerchief
* **Hans**: Hands
* **Haus**: Your place of residence
* **Haus Kote**: House coat
* **Haus painer**: What you need if you don't have vinyl siding
* **Hawliday**: Holiday
* **Heighth**: Height
* **Heinz 57**: Mutt Dog
* **Heinzes**: Anything made by H
* **Hershey Bud**: A Hershey Kiss
* **Hills**: Heels
* **Hizzy**: Extreme emotional outbreak
* **Hoagie**: A big sandwich
* **Hocker**: When you clear your throat and spit
* **Hodbeerr**: Hot Beer
* **Hollah**: Hollow
* **Hoosafratz**: Mechanical Device
* **Hork**: Steel
* **Hot Pad**: Oven mitt
* **Hun or Hon**: Honey
* **Hunky Hand Grenade**: Stuffed cabbage rolls
* **Hunnert**: The number after 99
* **Iceball**: Snowcone
* **Icebox**: Refrigerator
* **Icening**: Frosting that goes on a cake
* **Igl**: Eagle
* **Imp 'n Arn**: Iron City beer and a shot of Imperial Whisky
* **In-dins**: Indians
* **Innerductshun**: Introduction
* **Innernet**: Internet
* **Intendo**: Nintendo
* **Jag off**: One who jags around
* **Jaggerbush**: A plant with thorns
* **Jaggers**: Thorns
* **Jagwire**: An expensive British luxury car
* **Jell**: Jail
* **Jimmies**: Sprinkles
* **Johnstown Pants**: Used to describe pants that are too short
* **Jresser**: Dresser
* **Juggler**: Large life-supporting vein in one's neck, the cutting of which may lead to death
* **Juhllery**: Jewelry
* **Jumbo**: Bologna
* **Keller**: Color
* **Kennywood outfits**: When people walk around Kennywood an'at with the same outfits on
* **Kennywood signs**: Road signs that direct you to Kennywood park
* **Ketch**: Catch
* **Kilbassa**: Goes great with a cold arn
* **Kinnergarten**: Kindergarten
* **Kishin**: Kitchen
* **Kitch-ip**: Ketchup
* **Kolbassi and Carp**: Pittsburgh Surf and Turf
* **Kranz**: Crayons
* **Launtermat**: Laundermat
* **Lebnen Bloney**: Lebanon Balogna
* **Leggins**: Snow Pants
* **Liberry**: Library
* **Lice-ness**: License
* **Lickin'**: Spanking
* **Light Bill**: Electric bill
* **Lind**: Land
* **Lish**: Leash
* **Lit'l brudder**: Little brother
* **Litenin Bugs**: Lightning Bugs
* **Lozenger**: Lozenge
* **Lunch-head**: An idiot
* **MU-se-um**: Museum
* **Maahntins**: Mountains
* **Mah**: Shopping Mall
* **Mahles**: Miles
* **Mahs**: A small furry rodent
* **Mannies**: Marbles
* **Masonary**: Masonry
* **Mayor Peter FLA HER TY**: Mayor Peter Flaherty
* **Meal**: Mill
* **Meer/Mirra**: Mirror
* **Mel**: Male or Mail
* **Melk**: Milk
* **Mellon Bowl**: Igloo/Civic Arena/Mellon Arena
* **Metamutual**: Metamucil
* **Mile**: Miles
* **Mile**: Miles
* **Mill**: Meal
* **Minced Ham**: Bologna
* **Monkey dumps**: Slate pile from coal mining
* **Monongehela Highball**: Glass of tap water
* **Motorsickle**: Motorcycle
* **Mum**: Mom
* **Mundy, Tuesdy, Wensdy, Thursdy, Frydy, Sadurdy, Sundy**: How a Pittsburgher pronounces the days of the week
* **Mup-ere**: Up here
* **Mush Ball**: Softball
* **Nakin**: Napkin
* **Nanoleum**: Linoleum
* **Nighturn**: A shift often called 11pm to 7am in other parts of the country
* **Old Frothingslosh**: The pale, stale ale with the foam on the bottom
* **Oleo**: Margarine
* **Oral**: Oil
* **Orrnj**: A citrus fruit whose color is its name
* **Owl**: Aisle
* **P'toot**: Functional portion of one's lower rear anatomy
* **Pahn**: Pound
* **Pahr**: Power
* **Paper Poke**: Paper bag
* **Par Mir**: Power Mirror
* **Parking Chair**: A chair placed in the street to reserve a parking space
* **Pawoohee**: Spider Web
* **Pee-nits**: Peanuts
* **Peel**: Pill, like asprin etc
* **Peenabudder**: Peanut Butter
* **Per-scrip-shun**: Subscription
* **Perv**: Pervert or perverted
* **Pie-anna**: Piano
* **Pigs in a blanket or Hunky Handegrenades**: Stuffed cabbage
* **Pill**: Peal
* **Pillas**: Pillows
* **Pillinit shrimp**: Peal & Eat Shrimp
* **Pin**: Pen
* **Pisgetti**: Spaghetti
* **Pitcher**: Picture
* **Pitnic**: Picnic
* **Pittsburgh Toilet**: Only a Picksburgher would have a toilet without a door in the middle of the cellar
* **Plowers**: Pliers
* **Poison Ivory**: Poison Ivy
* **Pome**: Poem
* **Pop**: Soda
* **Pop Ahl**: Pop aisle
* **Potata**: Potato
* **Pow**: Pile
* **Presspiration.**: Perspiration
* **ProNOUNseeashun**: Pronunciation
* **Progie**: A Picksburgher's delight, goes great with a cold arn and kilbassa
* **Proll'em**: Problem
* **Prostrate**: Prostate
* **Pull**: Pool
* **Punkin**: Pumpkin
* **Pwaht**: Pot
* **Quirpracter**: chiropractor
* **Raadiator**: Instead of "radiator" - with a long "a" sound
* **Raffle**: Rifle
* **Raht**: Route
* **Red Dog**: A crushed stone used for a drive way before cement driveways
* **Relations**: I have relations living in the "burg" instead of saying relatives
* **Rigs-n-Pigs**: Rigatoni and pigs in a blanket
* **Roller**: Ruler
* **Rolly Coaster**: An amusement park ride
* **Rubbers**: Galoshes (spelling ?), overshoes
* **Ruff**: Roof
* **Run Rat**: Someone hailing from the Hazelwood neighborhood
* **Sahrdee**: Saturday
* **Sale Bills**: Weekly store advertisements in the paper
* **Sammitch**: Sandwich
* **Scroll**: A squirrel, or neighborhood east of dahntahn
* **Selector**: TV Remote Control
* **Selid**: Salad
* **Sell**: Sale
* **Sent**: Cents
* **Serp**: Syrup
* **SewERage**: Sewage
* **Sewer Lid**: Manhole cover
* **Sgetti (or sketti)**: Spaghetti
* **Shahr/Shire**: Shower
* **Shanty**: Shed
* **Sheetrock**: Drywall
* **Sherbert**: Sherbet
* **Shpegetti**: Spaghetti
* **Silver Top**: A Hershey Kiss
* **Skiw-et**: Skillet (the l's are silent)
* **Skiwrl Cage**: Squirrel Hill Cafe
* **Skull**: School
* **Skyrafoam**: Styrafoam
* **Sliding Board**: Slide
* **Slopjar**: Portable urinal
* **SnickSnak**: A late-night dessert
* **Soap Powder**: Laundry Detergent
* **Soor**: Sewer
* **Sore**: Storm drain
* **Sped**: A dork, or just an annoying person
* **Spicket**: Water tap or spigot
* **Spiggy**: Street sweeper machine
* **Spilly Pile**: Slag hills left over from strip mines
* **Sputzee**: Dem liddle brahn birds
* **Squarsh**: Squash
* **Stair-Steps**: Stairs
* **Stara baba**: (Pronounced "studda bubba") Literally, "Old Woman"
* **Stationary Tub**: The laundry tub that the washing machine drains into
* **Sticks**: In the country
* **Still**: Steal
* **Still Mills**: Steel Mills
* **Still Phanum**: Steel Phantom
* **Stoop**: Concrete steps in front of your Norside house where a porch should be
* **Stover**: Jammed finger
* **Stree Car**: Street Car
* **Stuff Cabbidge**: Stuffed cabbage
* **Submarine Races**: A good excuse to take your date "parking" in a secluded spot along one of the rivers
* **Sucker Bite**: Hickey, love bite
* **Suicide**: The drink you make while bored at the Sheetz
* **Sumpin**: Something
* **Surp**: Syrup
* **Swap**: Swig
* **Sweeper**: Vacuum
* **T-towl**: Dish towel
* **THANKSgiving**: ThanksGIVing in the rest of the world
* **Tagger**: Tiger
* **Tahl**: Towel
* **Tahr**: Tire
* **Tahrarn**: Tire iron
* **Tahrs**: Towers
* **Takeela**: Tequilla
* **Tayduh**: potato
* **Tellypole**: Telephone pole
* **Thunions**: With onions
* **Tin foil**: Aluminum foil
* **Tinnies**: Tennis shoes
* **Tire**: Tar
* **Tobahgin**: A knit winter hat
* **Toll**: Tool
* **Torlet**: Toilet
* **Tossle Cap**: Knit Cap
* **Towel**: Tile
* **Tuhmaytuhs**: Tomatoes
* **UH-lies**: Allies
* **UM-brel-la**: Umbrella
* **Ultahmative**: Ultimatum
* **Unce**: Ounce
* **Ungion**: Onion
* **Vake**: Vacation
* **Vinnie Pie**: Vincent's Pizza
* **Vitamin I**: Iron City Beer
* **Voka**: Vodka
* **Wahr**: Wire
* **Wedgie**: A Pizza/Steak Hoagie
* **Weggie or Hoover**: When someone sneaks up on you and yanks your underwear up out of your pants!
* **Wills**: Wheels
* **Willy**: A stunt that causes the front of a vehicle to raise up off the pavement
* **Windas**: Windows
* **Winner**: Winter
* **Woof**: Wolf
* **Worsh Rag**: Wash cloth
* **Worshin Macheen**: Clothes washer
* **Wraps**: Outerwear
* **Wrench Tubs**: Laundry Tubs
* **Wutter**: Water
* **Yard Apes**: Small children
* **Yellower**: Highlighter
* **Yingiling**: Yuengling (beer)
* **Yinzer**: A Picksburgh native who talks right, n'at
* **Youdge**: Huge
* **Zapper**: TV remote control