Colloquialisms
From charlesreid1
Definition
colloquialism - a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation.
Examples
NPR
1. Alabama: flip — slingshot
2. Alaska: skijoring — being pulled on skis
3. Arizona: greasewood — creosote bush
4. Arkansas: renthouse — a house that is rented out
5. California: make the riffle — to succeed
6. Colorado: buck — a brace for cutting firewood
7. Connecticut: pigsticker — sled with pointed front
8. Delaware: sneak — tennis shoe
9. District of Columbia: slug — a hitchhiking commuter
10. Florida: scaper — rascal or critter
11. Georgia: burk — vomit
12. Hawaii: huhu — angry
13. Idaho: lucerne — alfalfa
14. Illinois: scramble dinner — potluck supper
15. Indiana: belling — loud celebration
16. Iowa: kittenball — softball
17. Kansas: doodinkus -- unspecified object
18. Kentucky: ridy-bob — seesaw
19. Louisiana: cowcumber — cucumber
20. Maine: putty around — be idle
21. Maryland: snoopy — finicky
22. Massachusetts: diddledees — pine needles
23. Michigan: sewing needle — dragonfly
24. Minnesota: ish — expression of disgust
25. Mississippi: squab — fat person
26. Missouri: hall tree — clothes rack
27. Montana: coulee — valley
28. Nebraska: on pump — on credit
29. Nevada: pogonip — thick, icy fog
30. New Hampshire: crawm — food waste
31. New Jersey: laggy — lethargic
32. New Mexico: colchon — mattress
33. New York: spiedie -- marinated meat sandwich
34. North Carolina: table tapper — amateur preacher
35. North Dakota: limpa — rye bread made with molasses
36. Ohio: dope — dessert topping
37. Oklahoma: larruping — delicious
38. Oregon: cho-cho — small boy
39. Pennsylvania: skimmelton — shivaree
40.Rhode Island: driftway — access road to the sea
41. South Carolina: cascade — vomit
42. South Dakota: soak — serious drinker
43. Tennessee: hunk — bumpkin
44. Texas: worrit — nag
45. Utah: sluff school — play hooky
46. Vermont: pestle around — putter about
47. Virginia: garlicky — bad flavor, said of milk
48. Washington: marblehead — winter squash
49. West Virginia: slicky slide — playground slide
50. Wisconsin: whoopensocker — something extraordinary
51. Wyoming: dout — extinguish