Idaho slang: regional words, sayings, and how locals talk.
This page collects regional vocabulary from Idaho: slang you'll hear in conversation, sayings that travel through families, and pronunciations that mark a person as a local. Pick a city to narrow the list, or keep "All cities" to see the full Idaho picture.
19 words
Utah: cheesy hash-brown casserole served at LDS funerals.
Utah: fountain soda mixed with syrups, cream, and fruit.
Northern Nevada's Basque-bar cocktail, now the official state drink.
Idaho bar food: battered, deep-fried strips of beef with fry sauce.
Pacific NW / Mountain West word for the car's glove compartment.
A Boise dessert shaped to look like a baked potato.
A potato-shaped Boise candy bar made since 1918.
A nickname for Boise State’s famous blue football field.
The cyclist rule that lets a stop sign work like a yield.
Idaho’s prized mountain berry and state-fruit word.
Boise’s New Year’s Eve potato drop celebration.
Idaho slang is the set of dialect words, regional sayings, and local pronunciations used in Idaho but not in standard American English. This page lists them with meanings, examples, and the type of each word.
Words and phrases associated with Idaho include jojos, send it, fetch, funeral potatoes. Open any entry above to see its meaning, type, and where in Idaho it is used.
"jojos" is listed on Dialectly as a regional word connected to Idaho. Each word page shows the full set of states and cities where it is recorded, plus a map.
Like every region, Idaho keeps vocabulary and pronunciations that mark a speaker as local. Standard American English levels these out; a regional dictionary like Dialectly records them before they fade.
