Philly Slang

• Aaeg - Egg
• Addi-tood - Attitude
• Aeneeding - Anything
• A-ite - Alright
• A-ready - Already
• Arnch - Orange (Pattie) Also "Aren't you" as in Arnch you glad to see me?
• Ac-a-me - Acme Market
• Alrighty - Stop it already with alrighty! The word doesn’t exist.
• Arn or Eye-urn or Eyern - Clothes Iron.
• Aster-ick - Asterisk
• Ath-a-lete - Athlete
• Ats All, Dat’s All - That’s all
• Bat-tree - Battery
• Baff-room - Bathroom
• Beggles - (Submitted by Sarah, 10/02))
• Bee-yood-ee-ful - Beautiful
• Big Ma-hoff - An ostentatious person; a big shot
• Birff-day - Birthday
• Bref-fist - Breakfast
• Casina - Casino
• Chimley - Chimney (Pattie) rare usage.
• Caus - Because
• Colbert - Sewer (Tom Burke, changed from Colbin, Aug 06 see feedback, Feedback Jun 07 says proper word is Culvert)
• Coont - Couldn't
• Cooughee - Coffee
• Con-fra-bill - Comfortable
• Con-ter-versy - Contraversy
• Crown - Crayon
• Cump-nee - Company
• Dahnashure - At the beach as in Lannick Ciddy, OhCee, Whilewould and the
  like. The alternative is upamount'ns to the poke-noes
• Def-lee - Definitely
• Dis, Dat, Dey, Dees, Doze, Dem, Dough - This, That, They, These,
  Those, Them, Though
• Dint - Didn't
• Do-in - Doing, as in "Hal ya doin?"
• Draff - Draft
• Draw - Drawer
• E - He
• Earl - Oil
• Figger - Figure
• Fighdollas - Five Dollars (Patti)
• Fluffia - Philadelphia
• Fridge, Ice Box - Refrigerator
• Fuss-trated - Frustrated
• Ga head, GeHead, Gaw head - Go Ahead
• Goff-forbid - God forbid
• Gun-all - Canoli (the delectable Italian pastry)
• Haff - Have
• Hal? - How?
• Hunnert - Hundred
• Husbint - Husband (Pattie)
• I-dear - Idea
• Iggles - Eagles
• Ice-ning - Icing
• Ir-regardless - Regardless
• Jeet? - Did you eat? No, Jew?- No, did you?
• Kel-ler - Color
• Lannick Ciddy or Lantic Ciddy - Atlantic City
• Laasch, Las - Last
• Leck-tric - Electric
• Leven - Eleven
• Lie-berry - Library
• Lot-tree - Lottery
• MAC - Local version of an ATM (automated teller machine)(Thanks Tommy)
• Meer-oe - Mirror
• My-en - Mine
• MayazWell - May as well
• Newsey - Nosey
• Nuthin, Nuttin - Nothing
• Offen - Often
• Ollars - Dollars
• Olney - A neighborhood in the Northeast, pronounced AH - LEN - EE or AH - LEH - NEE
• Paa-ler - Parlor or living room
• Pay-mint - Pavement
• Pea-nits - Peanuts
• Petique - Petite
• Pix-ture, Pitcher - Picture
• Pock-a-book - Purse
• Plug - Fire Hydrant, specifically when used for first or third base in streetball or a boundryline. Limited neighborhood use, possibly south philly.
• Prob-lee - Probably
• Rawn - Ruin
• Re-dic-liss - Ridiculous
• Reg-a-ler - Regular
• San-wich, Sang-wich - Sandwich
• Sim-u-lar - Similar
• Soar, Sol - Saw
• Sow-Philly - South Philly, leave off the TH (Thanks Jessica)
• Sparra-grass - Asparagus
• Taawk - Talk
• Tal - Towel
• Took-en - Taken
• Tree - Three
• U-mid - Humid
• U-min - Human
• Ward-er or Whadder or Wooder - Water, H20 (Thanks Brooke for Wooder)
• WaWa - A local conveniance store similar to but better than 7-11(Thanks Tommy)
• Whaddya? - What do you?
• Which-a-ma-callit - The name of a person, place or thing that Alzheimer’s has removed from your memory bank
• Whoodaya? - Who do you?
• Winda, Win-dill - Window
• Wit - With
• Wit-out - Without
• Woont - Wouldn't
• Yesta-day - Yesterday
• Yea - Yes (Thanks Jessica)
• Youse, Yziz - You (plural)
• Zink - Sink (Patti)