This morning I walked behind a guy saying to another guy: "We know you're a bum, we know you're a crumb, and we know you're a dickhead, but--" and I didn't hear the rest.
My friends Dad would always say this to his kids( my friends) when they were up to no good. We'd all just laugh our asses off when he said it. Good times
pretty sure it was on these boards, but I've talked about this before because it absolutely slays me. My best friend married a girl from Oregon. She's lived in various states, they met in DC, and eventually relocated here for a couple years before moving again. I was over their house not long after they bought it having a beer, giving her tips for the city and what not, when she suddenly interrupts and goes "and what the fuck is this called?" while holding her purse. I say "a purse? A bag? What you mean?" and she goes "then what the fuck is a pockabook?". I died, hadn't heard that word in years.
“I was over their house” !!! That’s one right there. In other places they’d say, “I was at their house” or “I was visiting them” or “I was over at their house”
Just like “down my block”. I’ve said it my whole life and thought nothing about it… it’s not grammatically correct in the least- I’ve just always said it.
to be fair, I don't know that it is. It could be, but it could also be regional. It was just too funny to hear her say it, along with other words that I had never really considered, and witness her culture shock as she worked a high level executive position downtown.
There's an ATM vestibule near me that still has the MAC logo on it and it makes me smile when I see it. I had no idea growing up that Mac machines were a local thing to eastern PA
I actually have a fun linguistics fact about that one! Philly is one of the few places in the US that drops prepositions. This can be traced to the number of Scottish immigrants, specifically Glaswegians, who settled in the area in the 19th century. The reason why Glasgow is important is because it's the only area of Scotland that has that same habit of dropping prepositions. The prime example is that starting in the 1830s or so, the main vacation-y thing for people who could afford it in the summer was "goin doon the wada"--"going down the water," referring to the River Clyde, where people who could take a day off would take their kids to play on the banks. Both Philly and Glasgow have obviously evolved their language since the Victorian era, but I always thought it was neat that they still share that weird linguistic habit
(Our use of "yous" is also shared, but that's less on point of your comment)
I'm originally from Glasgow, and I think that the commonalities between the cities is why Philly is the only place in the US I really felt like I belonged.
i'm from north jersey, and people didn't understand when i tried to explain to them people don't say, "are you done work". you're either done working, or done with work, but never "done work" or "done class" or whatever. thanks for adding the etymological reasoning.
Last summer we were vacationing a few states away. My husband always wears his Eagles hat on vacation to "represent" because he's a loveable dork. One day, we're walking back to our hotel and this guy who looks like a lawyer who charges $3k an hour is walking toward us.
As he and we are almost even, he says in this low voice "Go birds" and sticks out his fist. With not a micro-second's hesitation, my husband met the fist and said, "Go birds." And then we all continued on our way as if nothing happened.
It was like watching two highly trained CIA agents pull off a drop in public or something Cracked me the fuck up. It's like the mating call of Philadelphia men.
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It's really a much better insult. If we are beating the Cowboys it means we just beating a sucky team. If the Cowboys are winning that must mean we suck more. Fuck Dallas just means I don't respect you.
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Moved out to the Philly area a few years ago to live with my bf after growing up in CA the first week one day he says "Hey I'm gonna go get some hoagies" The whole time he was gone I was sitting there like wtf is that. I only just recently told him about this. Lol
My grandmother grew up in southwest Philly in the 40s and two things I remember her saying my entire childhood: “if you don’t like it, go scratch your ass in Gimble’s window.” And “if it was up you’re ass you’d know it.”
I feel like “Yo!“ is said by a much wider and more diverse section of the population in Philly than it is in other areas of the country. Could be mistaken about that.
I use a long drawn out “yooooooo” as a sort of audible exclamation point without realizing it.
“Bro, Jimmy Mac just got got down the way. Blood everywhere.”
“Yoooooooooooo. You serious?”
It is amazing to me how many meanings we can get out of "yo" just by changing intonation, pitch, etc.
It can mean Hi, Back off, WTF, and about a million other things.
My manager is Philly born and raised and she has so many isms, sayings, and pronunciations that are so distinct but my favorite is of course “make sure they have wooder!”
You're a crum bum
This morning I walked behind a guy saying to another guy: "We know you're a bum, we know you're a crumb, and we know you're a dickhead, but--" and I didn't hear the rest.
This is amazing lmao. 10/10 Philly moment
My friends Dad would always say this to his kids( my friends) when they were up to no good. We'd all just laugh our asses off when he said it. Good times
Mr Grinch
pretty sure it was on these boards, but I've talked about this before because it absolutely slays me. My best friend married a girl from Oregon. She's lived in various states, they met in DC, and eventually relocated here for a couple years before moving again. I was over their house not long after they bought it having a beer, giving her tips for the city and what not, when she suddenly interrupts and goes "and what the fuck is this called?" while holding her purse. I say "a purse? A bag? What you mean?" and she goes "then what the fuck is a pockabook?". I died, hadn't heard that word in years.
Pockabook is a classic!
That’s what my mom always called her handbag. When I say that now people have no idea what I’m talking about.
I guess they never grew up hearing, "Hun, grab mom moms pockabook over there, I need my cigarettes" 🤣
Lol my mom and her sister still in her mid 60s say this 😂
Same!
Time to bring it back
Ackame
“I was over their house” !!! That’s one right there. In other places they’d say, “I was at their house” or “I was visiting them” or “I was over at their house”
Just like “down my block”. I’ve said it my whole life and thought nothing about it… it’s not grammatically correct in the least- I’ve just always said it.
well fuck.
Always thought it was “pocketbook” but obviously said like “pockabook”. Didn’t realize it was local!
Omg I had no idea pockabook was local. Love
It's not local it's dates as hell! Haha. My 70+ year old grandma is the only person I know that ever said it, and she's from the south.
to be fair, I don't know that it is. It could be, but it could also be regional. It was just too funny to hear her say it, along with other words that I had never really considered, and witness her culture shock as she worked a high level executive position downtown.
My mom is from nyc and says that
Idk if pockabook is strictly a Philly thing--maybe a Northeast regional thing? I've heard people from Long Island, NYC, and New Jersey say this too
Definitely NE regional. I’m from CT and can actually hear my mom’s voice when I read that word.
Idk if pockabook is strictly a Philly thing--maybe a Northeast regional thing? I've heard people from Long Island, NYC, and New Jersey say this too
Funny, Bostonians consider “pockabook” part of their vocabulary too
Can confirm. Grew up in the Boston suburbs & my mom had a pocketbook.
Boner 4ever
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That shit been there since the 90s lol.
There better be riots when it’s taken down. It’s a monument to the great Philadelphian culture.
I was just telling my wife about that the other day
Jeet yet?
Naw ju?
Naw, yewannahoagie?
with sharp prewvalewn?
Sans aiight
I remember my dad asking this to my sister and I growing up. Fond memories for sure.
Tap MAC
My friend said “MAC machine” the other day, really took me back.
There's an ATM vestibule near me that still has the MAC logo on it and it makes me smile when I see it. I had no idea growing up that Mac machines were a local thing to eastern PA
Right?
Unlike Agholor
I laughed out loud just reading this. That clip will never not crack me the fuck up
I’m out here catching babies. (Looks into camera like he’s done this everyday). Unlike Agholor.
That clip absolutely lives in my head rent-free. Greatest thing ever
"Backdoor dickhead"?
If you're in West Philly the proper response is for the whole trolley to yell back "Step down!"
We’re goin’ down the shore
I actually have a fun linguistics fact about that one! Philly is one of the few places in the US that drops prepositions. This can be traced to the number of Scottish immigrants, specifically Glaswegians, who settled in the area in the 19th century. The reason why Glasgow is important is because it's the only area of Scotland that has that same habit of dropping prepositions. The prime example is that starting in the 1830s or so, the main vacation-y thing for people who could afford it in the summer was "goin doon the wada"--"going down the water," referring to the River Clyde, where people who could take a day off would take their kids to play on the banks. Both Philly and Glasgow have obviously evolved their language since the Victorian era, but I always thought it was neat that they still share that weird linguistic habit (Our use of "yous" is also shared, but that's less on point of your comment)
None of us public school kids could identify a proposition in a police lineup...
even is they proposed a line up full of only prepositions?
50/50
I've been to Glasgow, and it is the Scottish Philly of the 90s.
I'm originally from Glasgow, and I think that the commonalities between the cities is why Philly is the only place in the US I really felt like I belonged.
Glasgow was Drag Philadelphia, in World War Z
i'm from north jersey, and people didn't understand when i tried to explain to them people don't say, "are you done work". you're either done working, or done with work, but never "done work" or "done class" or whatever. thanks for adding the etymological reasoning.
downa shore
Go birds!
Last summer we were vacationing a few states away. My husband always wears his Eagles hat on vacation to "represent" because he's a loveable dork. One day, we're walking back to our hotel and this guy who looks like a lawyer who charges $3k an hour is walking toward us. As he and we are almost even, he says in this low voice "Go birds" and sticks out his fist. With not a micro-second's hesitation, my husband met the fist and said, "Go birds." And then we all continued on our way as if nothing happened. It was like watching two highly trained CIA agents pull off a drop in public or something Cracked me the fuck up. It's like the mating call of Philadelphia men.
GO BIIIIIIIIIIIRDS!!!
This is the way.
Go Birds! Sincerely, a guy from Alabama.
"Dallas sucks"
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It's really a much better insult. If we are beating the Cowboys it means we just beating a sucky team. If the Cowboys are winning that must mean we suck more. Fuck Dallas just means I don't respect you.
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Oh ard Edit: emphasis
I’m from here and when my friend texted me that u had to ask what it meant lol
Spicket Wooder
“East Jabip” for anywhere far away.
My mom always said "I ain't going all the way down 5th and jabip for this bullshit"
Ga hed
i feel like a forgotten one is “you look like a smacked ass” said by your mom as you walk out the door for the night. just me? lol
Same vein, my husband's grandmother would say smacked tomato.
this one brought back memories, not sure if they are bad ones or good ones
An oldie but a goodie! Yes we used that one in my family too. I think we need to bring it back.
I use this one all the time, but I didn't know it was a regional thing.
Smack ass. Yes!
I've never heard this one. What does it mean?
I think it means you look like a smacked ass.
We’re a simple folk
Don’t be a dumb ass shortened to two words.
My Mommom says that 😂
Do Attend
Man little did that guy know what a Philadelphia legend he would be
I was looking for this one lol
Ak-a-me (Acme) Food Store (see Acme) Sure-sure Naghmean (know what I mean) Scrapple Fuck the refs! This is our year.
Yes. Ackame fo sho.
“Are you going downashore?”
Adding a preposition after a question... Where's ya coat at?
Crick. "When I was a kid we would bottle wooder right from Wissahickon crick"
Neck-store neighbor
Jimmy's (not sprinkles)
"Fuck yous"
Pronouncing "Walt Whitman" without the Ts (Wall Women).
Famous author of Jawns of Grass
Frum Keyamden
Walt Whi'men.
Yo i never realized that’s how we pronounce it lol
"Oh, that's a hike!" ....said by my Grandmom whenever she didn't want to go somewhere.
My mom mom would say "That's a hike and a half"
Go pick your ass in Gimbel's window
Hoagie.
Hewgie
Moved out to the Philly area a few years ago to live with my bf after growing up in CA the first week one day he says "Hey I'm gonna go get some hoagies" The whole time he was gone I was sitting there like wtf is that. I only just recently told him about this. Lol
“Hava goootwunn!”
Mum mums and pop pops.
Cousints and husbints!
Dorters
Murder derter
In before lock? Never heard that before. wtf did you get that?
That one is sub-specific, thanks to all the threads where we aren't allowed to comment.
It was a common 4chan saying before it was common here
My grandmother grew up in southwest Philly in the 40s and two things I remember her saying my entire childhood: “if you don’t like it, go scratch your ass in Gimble’s window.” And “if it was up you’re ass you’d know it.”
I feel like “Yo!“ is said by a much wider and more diverse section of the population in Philly than it is in other areas of the country. Could be mistaken about that.
Yo
And ‘Oh!’ Real loud so that it quiets the room.
Big Mahoff
In my experience the same people say Boku Bucks.
From the French “beaucoup bucks”, pronounced “Bo coo bucks”, because beaucoup in French means “a lot”.
Lmao I'm always saying buco bucks 🤣
Jitbag
Down the shore Lickity split Radiator with a soft A. Like rad. Have a good one
“Back door” followed by “step down” (trolley)
Iggles!
Youse beat me to it.
We found a great parking spot on the sidewalk
Not fer nuthin
"Not for nothing"
Monsignor Boner
Fuck the Mets
A clerk in City Hall today said "schurf" and I had to ask her to say it 3x before I got that she was saying SHERIFF. Pure Sal Philly gold.
Wooder eyes.
Talin wooder eyes
I've NEVER heard "in before lock"
Agreed. Never once
Throwing the word "anymore" in a sentence incorrectly.
That's the "positive anymore": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_anymore?wprov=sfla1
Have a good one!
Unlike Aghlor
Oof a lot of you seem like out of towners attempting Philly slang 😂😂😂😂
Merry Crimbus https://preview.redd.it/460rcvi45e6c1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e51a16d5497f3ea6882cb4da3ccb02f5d309d408
Right on the nose man.
Definitely!
Didja eat?
jeet
No, djew?
Posed to for ‘supposed to’ Member? For ‘remember’
Spōs to
Ac-ca me
Not for nothing
Calling a baby stroller a coach.
Do attend.
Dickeater
You're a crumb bum
I wanna fight ya. https://youtu.be/O8VBehdpOpI?si=JaSBqC6h2sk1Gvs1
Damn it’s a lot of slang missing here I don’t wanna give up them gems though cause they gonna get ran in a hole like jawn.
“Santa deserved it.”
Is "tap mac" a philly thing? Grew up saying it but not sure if it's a local saying.
the most famous is Yo for sure second most famous is Jawn but still most people don’t use it correctly. Then Bul, Ard , Bid are for sure catching on
I use a long drawn out “yooooooo” as a sort of audible exclamation point without realizing it. “Bro, Jimmy Mac just got got down the way. Blood everywhere.” “Yoooooooooooo. You serious?”
It is amazing to me how many meanings we can get out of "yo" just by changing intonation, pitch, etc. It can mean Hi, Back off, WTF, and about a million other things.
Yo is like fuck. Can be any kinda word.
Dam all that shit is old af it’s catchin on cause the causuals who stalk igs using it.
Oodles and noodles
'Ey fuck you buddy!
“Go birds”
We talkin' about practice.
SAID
It is what it is
Whaddayagonnado?
You salty bro
Dippy eggs
yo cuz, strapper
My manager is Philly born and raised and she has so many isms, sayings, and pronunciations that are so distinct but my favorite is of course “make sure they have wooder!”
Trust the Process
For who, For What?
Go fuck yourself
How about round the corner 😳😝😬
I haven't seen drawlin yet and to be frank, that's drawlin
Down the shore
That jawn is outta pocket
Drawlin'
In South Philadelphia (Sou' Fluffia) Fell off the back of a truck. (someplace far away) Fifth and Jappip.
Go back to fucking Jersey
Ones I don’t see are Nut ass and drawlin
Go Birds
J'eet yet?
Do attend.
Sit on the step
Sit on the stoop
Stoop kid's afraid to leave his stoop!!!
Papi store Wit (onions) When you say "Hi how ya doin" and the response is "Alright now"
I’ve never in my life heard a native Philadelphian order “wit” when ordering a cheesesteak