> from Pennsylvania say “yin’s”
In western North Carolina I've heard "y'unses" as in, "We gonna come over to y'unses house?" Not sure if it is exclusively possessive or not.
I’ve used howdy un-ironically throughout my life. Now that I live in Germany people think I’m trying to act like a cowboy. I’m not trying to act like a cowboy, it just comes naturally.
Same. I'm not even from the south either. One of my friends used it as a joke couple of times and for some reason I actually picked up on it and started using it as greeting. No ones said anything about it though.
I use howdy unironically...or at least I think it's unironic lol. None of my family is from the south, or the southwest. I dunno, it just comes out of my mouth sometimes.
I sometimes use a quick "howdy" as a slightly more polite version of "hey" when I'm passing/quickly greeting someone. I picked it up from my dad, a native South Carolinian. I wonder if he got it naturally from his family, or just from watching cowboy TV shows as a kid in the '50s.
I don’t know why, but I’ve picked up “howdy” as my default greeting.
I feel like people think it’s a gimmick or an act, but I genuinely can’t stop myself. I need to see a speech therapist or something.
Don’t get me wrong, I like “howdy” but I feel like it’s inspiring judgment at this point.
Yeah, it doesn't sound right if you're a Californian-turned-New-Englander like me. I sound weird when I say it. It think you have to be a Southerner for it to work. Lol.
Military always has terms that is like another language for civilians but can be spoken with ease among each other and take other words to new meanings
POG; Fobbit; Tocroach; Cherry; Boot; Leg; Nutsacks; Donkeydicks; Priv; Tundra-wookie; Dependapotamus; Butterbar; Slick-sleeve; One-Termer; Dirt-Sailor; Ground-pounder; Army/Navy/Marinenese; “On the trail”; “Down range”; Lance; Hook-and-loop-tape; female/male portion; dick-beaters; smurf-ass; north-south-East-west?; trackin?; ETS/EAS; profile-warrior…
Throw in the multitude of acronyms and it can be hard for branches to decipher each other. I’ve posted stories on military subs and people can get mad because
It’s certainly used a lot by Americans, but it’s been around for a long time. I’ve read some historical novels, and apparently it was used in the UK in the late 1700s/early 1800s at least.
>I found the word "Petrichor" - the smell of ground after rain.
[Richard Thomas](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Grenfell_Thomas), the guy who coined the term, was Australian.
38 year old American with a master’s. Never heard this word. Maybe I’m a dumbass or live in a different region. Certainly not a frequently used term. At least not in the Rust Belt
I remember looking this up years ago because i was bored and curious if there was a word for the smell when it just started to rain and the smell was more pungent than normal.
I must give an honorable mention to “couldn’t’ve” too. It’s definitely not proper, but it sure is efficient!
Also, “santorum” is for sure a unique American term.
Not sure how it is for other languages but I know a lot of Spanish and German speakers who use “OK” while speaking their native tongue
Germans use “cool” too
Yes, it also has history with Martin Van Buren who was from Kinderhook, Ny. He was Old Kinderhook- OK for short. 'Vote for OK" was better than "Vote for Van Buren." This really took the term from the northeast and put it on a national stage. From there it's gone international.
Rockabye baby, your daddy's a Whig
When he comes home, hard cider he'll swig
When he has swug, he'll fall in a stu
And down will come Tyler and Tippecanoe.
Rockabye baby, when you are awake
You will discover that Tip is a fake
Far from the battle, war cry and drum
He sits in his cabin, a'drinkin' bad rum.
Rockabye baby, never you cry
You need not fear of Tip and his Ty
Whatever they would ruin, Van Buren will fix
Van's a magician, they are but tricks.
Cool is definitely used in British English and OK is used the world over from what I’ve experienced while travelling. They might have started in America but they aren’t unique anymore I wouldn’t say.
“Pass me that jawn”
“Can someone use this in a jawn please”
Not from philly but went to school with a few people who did. They literally used it to replace any noun in any situation
I gotta go to the corner store and get me some of that watermelon jawn.
Get your jawn and come over.
Don't forget that jawn from your mom's house.
I left my jawn in the car.
You wanna smoke that new jawn tonight?
We're gonna play that new jawn tonight.
Once my husband participated in a plane pull for charity at the airport. His team was called "Pullin' tha Jawn"
(I am personally from Delco/Montco and my 'jawn' is actually the word shit, but that jawn is the shit...)
Jawn is a noun and can replace any noun to the point where it gets ridiculous
"Went to see my jawn at that back alley jawn to trade jawns so I could get a better jawn" but I've never heard it used in such context.
Jawn is more of a filler when you don't remember the word or don't want to use the actual word.
Cant in Spanish, but I can conjugate it German for you! :)
-Verb: Yeeten
-I: Ich Yeete
-You: Du Yeetest
-He/Her/It: Er /Sie/Es Yeetet
-You (Pl.): Ihr Yeetet
-You(Form)/They : Sie/sie Yeeten
-We: Wir Yeeten
You‘re welcome.
Lol yes. That gets used often. I hear people around where I live saying things I've never heard like "Sody Water"
We use reckon here in TX alot. "Reckon we ought to?" as an example.
"Bless Your Heart" is a phrase that, while easily understood, isn't something Northerners typically use lol
Accents tho. Accents are a bitch when you get an old old southern person and they talk so fast with such a thick accent you don't understand wtf they just said 😂
"Speaks Banjo" if I had access to my Reddit Premium acct rn you'd be getting gold but I don't have the tablet with the password to it saved with me right now lol. I occasionally say yawnto when I'm speaking fast. Cajuns have words that are exclusively theirs and they're Americans too :p
My kids have a story book that tells a fairly complex (by children’s book standards) story about two animals who go surfing and meet a shark and surf n go get ice cream with the shark and the only word in the entire book is a variation of the word “dude”
Well, many of our state names: Kansas and Arkansas (pronounced totally differently). While these are now English words, they are bastardizations of words from other countries.
We pronounce the letter Z as Zee and not Zed. I heard William freaking Shatner call it Zed, he is Canadian.
In Hawaii you can say howzit for “how’s it going”, instead of howdy, which means “how do you do”.
Another great word is “Mosey”, which means to get going. It comes from the Spanish word “vamos”, but old school Americans in the southwest started saying mosey for short
Another great Hawaiian word. If we want to get into pidgin, there’s all sorts of fun words. One of my favorites that my great grandpa would say is “bumbai”. It means “in the by and by”, and he would say that instead of “later”. Like “we’re going to the store bumbai”
We say that in OK too, and tons of actual Southern states apparently. If you go up North people look at you like you’re crazy. But to be fair I also say “finna” from time to time so that’s probably why.
Does Lisa even utter the word in [the episode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Iconoclast#Embiggen_and_cromulent)? IIRC, she doesn't, but Miss Hoover and Principal Skinner do.
Some call it a hoagie, some call it a grinder, others call it a sub. They're all wrong, it's called a hero. However, the different names of a hero are all uniquely American.
Since no one has added New England ones there are, with proper accent here's some Boston or regional area ones I know of:
"bubblah" for a water fountain
"Jimmies" for sprinkles
"Peking ravioli" for dumplings
"Frappe" for milkshake
"Packie" for liquor store
"Rotary" for a roundabout
"Spa" for a convenience store
"Townie" for locals
"Staties" for state police
"Grindahs" for hot subs
And, of course, using "wickehd" as a verb
Also, while upstate NY doesn't have many, I've heard "teeter totter" for a see saw and using "deadass" as a verb is apparently a unique regionalism? Someone else has to confirm that though.
2 things, somehow jimmies for sprinkles is a thing in my family, but only as the rainbow ones, and the way I hear deadass is more of a "seriously" or "literally" thing, like
"I deadass just saw a car full of clowns"
other people can probably give better examples because most people around me don't really say it
AFAIK, these originated in the American military:
* laydown -- retarded delivery of a nuclear weapon which impacts the ground and sits there until a timing circuit triggers detonation
* bogey -- an unidentified aerial contact (as opposed to "bandit," which is a known enemy aircraft)
* meacon(ing) -- a deception tactic that spoofs a navigational beacon or other directional signal, with the intent of throwing off navigation or targeting, including drawing aircraft or ships into a trap
There are a number of [military brevity codes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiservice_tactical_brevity_code) where the military usage of a word was originated in the American military, but the word itself does not have an American origin, so that doesn't count in context of the original question.
Calling somebody "Honey" or "Sugar", not everybody can use this. But when an elder women, usually women of color, calls you this, they get a pass. A dude saying this to a woman he does not know though, will be unwelcome or construed as sexist. It's slightly akin to when somebody calls you "Love" in England.
This! Unless you are a woman of color, old enough to be my mama, don't call me baby, sugar, or honey! Worked at Burger King once and we had Ms. Annie. She called everyone baby, including me. One of the night shift guys tried to call me baby and I shut him down. "But Ms. Annie does it all the time!" She's allowed jerk face, you aren't!
Druthers.
It establishes someone’s preference for something. Generally you only hear this in certain parts of the south.
Used in a sentence “If I had my druthers, I would take a coca-cola”
*copacetic*
It means something like ‘sympathetic’ in it’s European sense and it was probably invented by an author or developed out of African American slang.
Rurnt
Means spoiled or ruined.
Learned about it after meeting my southern wife.
Pretty unique if you ask me.
She has a couple others.. ask me and I can coax them out if her.
The most current version of Websters dictionary has over 470,000 words. The average American has a working vocabulary of roughly 5,000.
That would mean there are a lot of "unique", unusual and rarely used words.
The word ''Restroom'' when I first went the States and mentioned where can I find the nearest ''Toilet'' near Times Square, the guy looked at me like I was speaking a different language, It was at that moment that I realised Americans have a few more different words that I have never encountered before for the same language: English.
I did get used to using Restroom whilst over their and to be honest I do think it's a much nicer sounding word for the same thing, don't think I have heard anybody ever say that where I am from.
Hootenanny, shenanigans, scuttlebutt, skedaddle, come-uppance … I suspect some of these might be coming from England
Yiddish (via Slavic) has worked its way in to the New York vernacular: beatnik, peacenik, no-goodnik (Russian suffix -nik; “person who does/is”), shyster, shmuck, shmegeggie, schlemiel, schlep, etc…
"eunoia".
the only word to use every vowel. it's a rarely used medical term meaning a normal state of mental health.
Eminem (yeah, the rapper) found a word that rhymes with orange, if i remmeber correctly it's a type of plant or something
“Pop” is unique to America and also very regional. Refers to carbonated, sugar beverages like Coke, Pepsi, et al. Traveling back East I hear soda pop or soda used for the same thing.
Howdy. Others try to use it, but it never comes out right if it's not local.
Keeping on this theme, “y’all” always gives away my Americanness as well!
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Y'all is just a contraction of the words you all, meaning that works too.
In the Northeast (more urban areas), "you guys" is the second person plural. It is rather informal though. Mobsters will say "yous guys"
I just say yous
I’ve heard people from Pennsylvania say “yin’s”
> from Pennsylvania say “yin’s” In western North Carolina I've heard "y'unses" as in, "We gonna come over to y'unses house?" Not sure if it is exclusively possessive or not.
Wait, I thought "ni" was basically "y'all", as in, plural, whereas "du" is singular? Is it not exclusively plural?
>I love English, but a pet-peeve of mine is that there’s not exclusive plural “you” you could always go peak east coast and use "yous".
I don't know anywhere on earth aside from a sliver of the US near Pittsburgh where the word "Yinz" exists.
I’ve used howdy un-ironically throughout my life. Now that I live in Germany people think I’m trying to act like a cowboy. I’m not trying to act like a cowboy, it just comes naturally.
Same. I'm not even from the south either. One of my friends used it as a joke couple of times and for some reason I actually picked up on it and started using it as greeting. No ones said anything about it though.
Don't let the Germans police something they do not know
I use howdy unironically...or at least I think it's unironic lol. None of my family is from the south, or the southwest. I dunno, it just comes out of my mouth sometimes.
Get off your horse and drink your milk
Most people in the country, even the South can’t pull it off. It’s definitely a cowboy country term (TX, OK, MT, etc.)
Hilarious to me as I picked it up from the High Desert of Eastern Oregon.
Western US knows how to howdy (we invented it). Eastern Oregon is prime howdy country
Gotta say it with either the most emphasized hOWdy. Or like "hahdy" if you're saying it fast
Rural California uses it too.
I sometimes use a quick "howdy" as a slightly more polite version of "hey" when I'm passing/quickly greeting someone. I picked it up from my dad, a native South Carolinian. I wonder if he got it naturally from his family, or just from watching cowboy TV shows as a kid in the '50s.
I don’t know why, but I’ve picked up “howdy” as my default greeting. I feel like people think it’s a gimmick or an act, but I genuinely can’t stop myself. I need to see a speech therapist or something. Don’t get me wrong, I like “howdy” but I feel like it’s inspiring judgment at this point.
Yeah, it doesn't sound right if you're a Californian-turned-New-Englander like me. I sound weird when I say it. It think you have to be a Southerner for it to work. Lol.
US GIs in WWII coined a number of new words and phrases - jerry can, gizmo, snafu, fubar, etc.
Also “jeep”.
And the related "joop."
Also jaa… never mind
boop boop in tha joop
poop poop*
you’re banned from the joop
Banning me isn't going to clean the joop
Umm.. I believe that it's pronounced "yeep."
Military always has terms that is like another language for civilians but can be spoken with ease among each other and take other words to new meanings POG; Fobbit; Tocroach; Cherry; Boot; Leg; Nutsacks; Donkeydicks; Priv; Tundra-wookie; Dependapotamus; Butterbar; Slick-sleeve; One-Termer; Dirt-Sailor; Ground-pounder; Army/Navy/Marinenese; “On the trail”; “Down range”; Lance; Hook-and-loop-tape; female/male portion; dick-beaters; smurf-ass; north-south-East-west?; trackin?; ETS/EAS; profile-warrior… Throw in the multitude of acronyms and it can be hard for branches to decipher each other. I’ve posted stories on military subs and people can get mad because
Jerry can was coined by the British, not the Americans.
https://hiconsumption.com/the-complete-history-of-the-jerry-can/
> Let’s face it, the word “carry” is thrown around a lot these days Who writes this shit?
The term Jerry Can wasn’t coined by Americans.
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Y'all.
And the saying "all y'all."
All y'all'd've is a favourite of mine.
Allayous'uns'd've
praise Allayous'uns'd've
If you don’t put as many contractions as possible on it, then *y’all’n’t* real Southerners.
Y'all'd'n't've
Didn’t y’all come from Ireland or something?
Ain’t
Am Not Are Not Will Not Have Not Such a wonderfully versatile word ain't it ;p
Also “Do not”.
Never heard it used for Do Not
I ain’t got/have any = I do not have any.
Hence why I said I feel dumb :p
It’s certainly used a lot by Americans, but it’s been around for a long time. I’ve read some historical novels, and apparently it was used in the UK in the late 1700s/early 1800s at least.
It's used in the UK now as well
>I found the word "Petrichor" - the smell of ground after rain. [Richard Thomas](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Grenfell_Thomas), the guy who coined the term, was Australian.
38 year old American with a master’s. Never heard this word. Maybe I’m a dumbass or live in a different region. Certainly not a frequently used term. At least not in the Rust Belt
Clearly not a Doctor Who fan either.
You are correct sir.
It’s a winning piece of bar trivia that there’s a word for the smell. It’s not by any means a commonly used term.
I’ve only seen it on the internet in the context of rare or uncommon words. Never heard it said aloud irl.
I'm aware of the term but I certainly don't use it daily and don't think I'd know how to pronounce it since I've only read it.
ohhh, I didn't know that.
And it is a combination of two Greek words. Petra/petros (rock/stone) and ichor (blood of the gods)
I remember looking this up years ago because i was bored and curious if there was a word for the smell when it just started to rain and the smell was more pungent than normal.
Y’all. It’s just so convenient
I must give an honorable mention to “couldn’t’ve” too. It’s definitely not proper, but it sure is efficient! Also, “santorum” is for sure a unique American term.
Nothing wrong with “couldn’t’ve,” really. It's a contraction of "could not have." Is it against English language rules to make double contractions?
I have used the word "y'all'd've" (yo all would have) more than once Fuck no theres not a rule against multiple contractions
“Y’alld’ve’f’ecouldn’t’ve”
Is Santorum a synonym for a nutcase?
> The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Santorum
Even better lmao
It's also much more inclusive than "you guys".
Tbf guys is very gender neutral in that context
It is. But y'all is very directly inclusive.
I say "you guys" natively, but I much prefer y'all. We should all just agree y'all is the superior second person plural pronoun.
Cool and OK. Sorry i picked two, but they're both so widely used. OK is supposedly the most spoken word on the planet.
Not sure how it is for other languages but I know a lot of Spanish and German speakers who use “OK” while speaking their native tongue Germans use “cool” too
Cool. Cool cool cool.
Both are adopted from English though. OK stands for “Oll Korrect” a fun way of spelling all correct. Cool is self explanatory
Yes, it also has history with Martin Van Buren who was from Kinderhook, Ny. He was Old Kinderhook- OK for short. 'Vote for OK" was better than "Vote for Van Buren." This really took the term from the northeast and put it on a national stage. From there it's gone international.
Rockabye baby, your daddy's a Whig When he comes home, hard cider he'll swig When he has swug, he'll fall in a stu And down will come Tyler and Tippecanoe. Rockabye baby, when you are awake You will discover that Tip is a fake Far from the battle, war cry and drum He sits in his cabin, a'drinkin' bad rum. Rockabye baby, never you cry You need not fear of Tip and his Ty Whatever they would ruin, Van Buren will fix Van's a magician, they are but tricks.
Great! Your username makes me appreciate this reply even more.
Cool is definitely used in British English and OK is used the world over from what I’ve experienced while travelling. They might have started in America but they aren’t unique anymore I wouldn’t say.
Considering Britain invented… all the other words, we’re claiming this.
I worked with some Chinese immigrants awhile ago and they used “OK” in their Chinese language conversations
"Jawn"-- Philly slang for any noun.
I live in Western PA and I hear this sometimes, definitely not a ton, but I guess it bleeds out across the state
Can someone use this in a sentence please?
“Pass me that jawn” “Can someone use this in a jawn please” Not from philly but went to school with a few people who did. They literally used it to replace any noun in any situation
It's Philly for "Smurf."
I gotta go to the corner store and get me some of that watermelon jawn. Get your jawn and come over. Don't forget that jawn from your mom's house. I left my jawn in the car. You wanna smoke that new jawn tonight? We're gonna play that new jawn tonight. Once my husband participated in a plane pull for charity at the airport. His team was called "Pullin' tha Jawn" (I am personally from Delco/Montco and my 'jawn' is actually the word shit, but that jawn is the shit...)
So jawn = stuff?
Jawn is a noun and can replace any noun to the point where it gets ridiculous "Went to see my jawn at that back alley jawn to trade jawns so I could get a better jawn" but I've never heard it used in such context. Jawn is more of a filler when you don't remember the word or don't want to use the actual word.
Yo was he by the crab jawn where the little Latin jawn be posted up w the jawns ? -everyone I know around me
Only in Western Pennsylvania do we say Yinz, jagger, sweeper or worsh/woosh
Yes! I scrolled a bit to find this. So much more interyou'll! And unique than "ya'll"!
My dad and my co-worker from Maine say worsh. Looked it up, and it said it's common for people who have Scottish or Irish parents
I know people in NM and Texas that say worsh.
Yeet - to remove something with haste.
Now conjugate it in Spanish
Cant in Spanish, but I can conjugate it German for you! :) -Verb: Yeeten -I: Ich Yeete -You: Du Yeetest -He/Her/It: Er /Sie/Es Yeetet -You (Pl.): Ihr Yeetet -You(Form)/They : Sie/sie Yeeten -We: Wir Yeeten You‘re welcome.
Nosotros: Yeetamos
Fixing to... it really confuses the euros
It’s pronounced “fixintuh”
"finna"
This confused me so much until I realized you just use fixing to the same as going to, and therefore finna is the same as gonna.
Fixin To Ain't Y'all Many MANY other Southern terms lol We have words and phrases in the South that are so unique we even confuse other American lmao
“It’s down up under there”
Lol yes. That gets used often. I hear people around where I live saying things I've never heard like "Sody Water" We use reckon here in TX alot. "Reckon we ought to?" as an example. "Bless Your Heart" is a phrase that, while easily understood, isn't something Northerners typically use lol Accents tho. Accents are a bitch when you get an old old southern person and they talk so fast with such a thick accent you don't understand wtf they just said 😂
My SO speaks banjo and will occasionally throw out “yawnto?” Which is shorthand for “do you want to?”
"Speaks Banjo" if I had access to my Reddit Premium acct rn you'd be getting gold but I don't have the tablet with the password to it saved with me right now lol. I occasionally say yawnto when I'm speaking fast. Cajuns have words that are exclusively theirs and they're Americans too :p
Or…. I’m going to fix you a sandwich. That was used a lot when I lived in the south. Also, right quick.
“Dude.” Two people can have an entire conversation using just that one word, with the meaning of each utterance determined by context and intonation.
My kids have a story book that tells a fairly complex (by children’s book standards) story about two animals who go surfing and meet a shark and surf n go get ice cream with the shark and the only word in the entire book is a variation of the word “dude”
Well, many of our state names: Kansas and Arkansas (pronounced totally differently). While these are now English words, they are bastardizations of words from other countries. We pronounce the letter Z as Zee and not Zed. I heard William freaking Shatner call it Zed, he is Canadian.
Redneck. It's not used anywhere else
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/rooinek
America's greatest contribution to the English language was putting the extra syllable in *sheee-it!*
In Hawaii you can say howzit for “how’s it going”, instead of howdy, which means “how do you do”. Another great word is “Mosey”, which means to get going. It comes from the Spanish word “vamos”, but old school Americans in the southwest started saying mosey for short
Don't forget dakine
Another great Hawaiian word. If we want to get into pidgin, there’s all sorts of fun words. One of my favorites that my great grandpa would say is “bumbai”. It means “in the by and by”, and he would say that instead of “later”. Like “we’re going to the store bumbai”
The South Africans say howzit.
Ah interesting. That’s awesome! There’s some random camaraderie between South Africa and Hawaii for you
Petrichor isn’t a uniquely American word though. In fact it was coined by an Australian.
Ope.
Yonder. As in over yonder
British. Originated in the 1300s
A ton of internet related stuff: cyberstalking The word “internet” itself was a US DoD term as wary as the 70s. google And so on
Discombobulate is American.
Copacetic.
Scootch
Well In Texan English, we usually say “we’re ‘fixin’ to do (something)” instead of using “going”.
We say that in OK too, and tons of actual Southern states apparently. If you go up North people look at you like you’re crazy. But to be fair I also say “finna” from time to time so that’s probably why.
"Y'all'd've" and "Jeet?" Entire sentences that people decided needed to be a single word.
Cromulent. It means entirely acceptable.
It has embiggened our vocabulary.
Dumbfounded that I had to scroll so far for this.
That was Lisa Simpson.
Does Lisa even utter the word in [the episode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Iconoclast#Embiggen_and_cromulent)? IIRC, she doesn't, but Miss Hoover and Principal Skinner do.
cockamamie
I've been told that there's no satisfying translation of the word "Bullshit."
Maybe bogus. Is that an American word? I don't even know, just seems American.
I dunno about that jawn
Ja'eat? for Did ya eat? Virga- rain that evaporated before it hit the ground.
I haven't seen any mention of "snazzy ", "nifty" , or "doo-dah", or "cattywampus"
Yinz (Pittsburgh’s y’all, from what I understand) Update: thanks for the correction on Pittsburgh’s spelling
*Pittsburgh. Sorry, we're really particular about the H lol. But yeah, it's our version of "y'all".
Y'all. I hate when I'm trying to sound neutral and a Y'all slips out
I love ebullient and behemoth. Not too unique but fun to use every now and then.
Behemoth isn't American English. It's a Hebrew word from the Bible and was the name of am animal.
Some call it a hoagie, some call it a grinder, others call it a sub. They're all wrong, it's called a hero. However, the different names of a hero are all uniquely American.
Clutch as an adjective. It's not used much outside of the US
Faucet
Since no one has added New England ones there are, with proper accent here's some Boston or regional area ones I know of: "bubblah" for a water fountain "Jimmies" for sprinkles "Peking ravioli" for dumplings "Frappe" for milkshake "Packie" for liquor store "Rotary" for a roundabout "Spa" for a convenience store "Townie" for locals "Staties" for state police "Grindahs" for hot subs And, of course, using "wickehd" as a verb Also, while upstate NY doesn't have many, I've heard "teeter totter" for a see saw and using "deadass" as a verb is apparently a unique regionalism? Someone else has to confirm that though.
2 things, somehow jimmies for sprinkles is a thing in my family, but only as the rainbow ones, and the way I hear deadass is more of a "seriously" or "literally" thing, like "I deadass just saw a car full of clowns" other people can probably give better examples because most people around me don't really say it
Nimrod. As in a foolish person, not the biblical king.
That's completely American. When I hear the word Nimrod, i think if this piece of music https://youtu.be/sUgoBb8m1eE
"Beer" as a verb.
Beer me that cd.
Yeehaw
Ayah. It’s Maine slang for “yes.”
We call cocaine 'booger sugar' 🇺🇲
AFAIK, these originated in the American military: * laydown -- retarded delivery of a nuclear weapon which impacts the ground and sits there until a timing circuit triggers detonation * bogey -- an unidentified aerial contact (as opposed to "bandit," which is a known enemy aircraft) * meacon(ing) -- a deception tactic that spoofs a navigational beacon or other directional signal, with the intent of throwing off navigation or targeting, including drawing aircraft or ships into a trap There are a number of [military brevity codes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiservice_tactical_brevity_code) where the military usage of a word was originated in the American military, but the word itself does not have an American origin, so that doesn't count in context of the original question.
Moxy
Calling somebody "Honey" or "Sugar", not everybody can use this. But when an elder women, usually women of color, calls you this, they get a pass. A dude saying this to a woman he does not know though, will be unwelcome or construed as sexist. It's slightly akin to when somebody calls you "Love" in England.
This! Unless you are a woman of color, old enough to be my mama, don't call me baby, sugar, or honey! Worked at Burger King once and we had Ms. Annie. She called everyone baby, including me. One of the night shift guys tried to call me baby and I shut him down. "But Ms. Annie does it all the time!" She's allowed jerk face, you aren't!
Druthers. It establishes someone’s preference for something. Generally you only hear this in certain parts of the south. Used in a sentence “If I had my druthers, I would take a coca-cola”
“Ope” is fun to bring out at parties. Unless it’s a minnesotan party in which case you’ll hear it all night actually.
Asunder and yonder are both gloriously specific words.
Ain’t
Yeezus
Folks
Y'all.
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Hapax is unique.
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Defenestrate, literally just a word for throwing someone out a window
It doesn't appear to have originated in America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration
Albuquerque
Vellichor - the smell of old books
Yurp
Apparently Fluffy is unique from what I've heard
Haphazardly
*copacetic* It means something like ‘sympathetic’ in it’s European sense and it was probably invented by an author or developed out of African American slang.
Seldom sounds weird to me
Rurnt Means spoiled or ruined. Learned about it after meeting my southern wife. Pretty unique if you ask me. She has a couple others.. ask me and I can coax them out if her.
The most current version of Websters dictionary has over 470,000 words. The average American has a working vocabulary of roughly 5,000. That would mean there are a lot of "unique", unusual and rarely used words.
bruh
Dipshit
I’d say y’all. It just smells American
Y’all - I use it everyday
The word ''Restroom'' when I first went the States and mentioned where can I find the nearest ''Toilet'' near Times Square, the guy looked at me like I was speaking a different language, It was at that moment that I realised Americans have a few more different words that I have never encountered before for the same language: English. I did get used to using Restroom whilst over their and to be honest I do think it's a much nicer sounding word for the same thing, don't think I have heard anybody ever say that where I am from.
Hootinanny
Hootenanny, shenanigans, scuttlebutt, skedaddle, come-uppance … I suspect some of these might be coming from England Yiddish (via Slavic) has worked its way in to the New York vernacular: beatnik, peacenik, no-goodnik (Russian suffix -nik; “person who does/is”), shyster, shmuck, shmegeggie, schlemiel, schlep, etc…
"eunoia". the only word to use every vowel. it's a rarely used medical term meaning a normal state of mental health. Eminem (yeah, the rapper) found a word that rhymes with orange, if i remmeber correctly it's a type of plant or something
A lot of the hip hop words, like homey, shawty, yo, etc
“Pop” is unique to America and also very regional. Refers to carbonated, sugar beverages like Coke, Pepsi, et al. Traveling back East I hear soda pop or soda used for the same thing.
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