Dialect Word

Words classified as "Dialect Word": browse meanings, regions, and examples.

This page brings together every word tagged "Dialect Word" across the dictionary. A category like this travels — pop in the Midwest, soda in the Northeast, coke in the Deep South — and the listing shows just how wide that travel goes.

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britches Dialect

Pants or trousers.

Alabama · Georgia · Tennessee · Kentucky · +2 more

bubbler Dialect

A drinking fountain.

Rhode Island · Massachusetts · Wisconsin · New England

cabinet Dialect

A milkshake (Rhode Island).

Rhode Island

carriage Dialect

A shopping cart (New England).

Massachusetts · Rhode Island · New England

catawampus Dialect

Crooked, askew, sideways.

Tennessee · Kentucky · West Virginia · Alabama · +1 more

coney Dialect

A chili-and-mustard hot dog (Detroit-style).

Michigan, Detroit

crick Dialect

Stream (rural pronunciation of "creek").

Pennsylvania · West Virginia · Kentucky · Ohio · +3 more

da kine Dialect

That thing / whatchamacallit (universal placeholder).

Hawaii

dooryard Dialect

The area just outside the front door of a house.

Maine · New England

drawers Dialect

Underwear (rural South / Appalachia).

Kentucky · Tennessee · West Virginia · Alabama · +1 more

frappe Dialect

A milkshake (with ice cream).

Massachusetts, Boston · New England

grinder Dialect

A submarine sandwich (especially toasted).

Connecticut · Massachusetts · Rhode Island · New England

gum band Dialect

Rubber band.

Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh

hoagie Dialect

A long sandwich on a roll. Outside Philly: "sub" or "grinder."

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia · New Jersey

holler Dialect

A small wooded valley between mountains.

West Virginia · Kentucky · Tennessee · Virginia · +2 more

hon Dialect

Term of endearment (Baltimore).

Maryland, Baltimore

hotdish Dialect

A casserole (Minnesota name).

Minnesota · North Dakota · South Dakota · Wisconsin

jumbo Dialect

Bologna (the lunch meat).

Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh

nary Dialect

Not any; none at all.

West Virginia · Kentucky · Tennessee · Appalachia

nebby Dialect

Nosy, prying (Pittsburgh).

Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh