| AGGIVADID |
Aggravated; irritated or
annoyed. |
| ALLAGY |
Alergy. |
| ANTENOR |
Antenna |
| AUDER |
Order. |
| BAH |
A bar, or place that
serves alcohol. |
| BAHBA |
A barber, or person that cuts hair. |
| BLINKERS |
Automobile directional signals. |
| BREAKDOWN LANE |
A highway shoulder. |
| BUBBLER |
Office water fountain (bottled). Pronounced "Bubbla." |
| BULKIE |
A small round sandwich
bread or "roll." |
| CAH |
An automobile. |
| CHOWDA |
Clam chowder. |
| CON |
Corn. |
| CONNA |
Corner. |
| CULLA |
Color. |
| DECENT |
Cool or Unique; a popular term in the
1970s. |
| ENVIAMENT |
Environment. |
| EYEIN |
Iron. |
| G.I.Q. |
A grand imperial quart or 40 ounce bottle of beer. See GREEN DEATH. |
| GREEN DEATH |
Haffenreffer beer. Usually served in a 40 ounce bottle. |
| FOILAGE |
Foliage. |
| FOK |
Fork. |
| FOTTY |
Forty. |
| FRAPPE |
Pronounced "Frap." A milkshake. |
| GAHBIDGE |
Garbage. |
| GRAVY |
Spaghetti sauce. |
| HOODSIE |
A small cup of vanilla & chocolate ice cream sold by ice cream trucks. Eaten with a paper-wrapped small wooden spoon that resembled a short popsicle
stick. Also (very offensive), a teenage girl. |
| JIMMIES |
Ice cream sprinkles,
usually chocolate. |
| LIBERRY |
A book depository or
library. |
| NACKINS |
Napkins. |
| NAYCHA |
Nature. |
| NEKKALACE |
Necklace. |
| NOTH |
North. "R" is silent; add
nasal sound. |
| OVA |
Over; as in "Over the
Rainbow." |
| OUWWAH |
Hour. |
| PACKY |
A liquor store, or
"package" store. |
| PAHDEE |
Party. |
| PAHDEE PLATTA |
A tray of cold cuts sold as one unit. |
| PATS |
The New England Patriots
football team. |
| PISSA |
Very good; often prefixed with WICKED. |
| PITCHEZ |
Pictures. |
| PODADAH |
Potato; also pronounced Podado
depending on your town or neighborhood. |
| PUNKIN |
Pumpkin |
| RAG |
To exaggerate; tell
ragtime stories. |
| ROTARY |
A traffic circle or
round-about. |
| SATTADAY |
Saturday. |
| SCROD |
Fish; sometimes haddock,
sometimes cod. |
| SELLA |
A cellar; or basement. |
| SELTS |
The Boston Celtics
basketball team. |
| SHOTS |
Shorts, as in cut-off
jeans. |
| SKEAVE |
Repulsive or disgusting (often describing another person). From the word "schifo" in Italian. Very popular term before 1980 in the old Italian North End and East
Boston neighborhoods. |
| SNEAKIZ |
Sneakers; tennis or
athletic shoes. |
| SOX |
The Boston Red Sox
baseball team. |
| SPA |
A mon & pop small luncheonette. |
| SPUCKIE |
A short, stout French bread roll with pointier ends; bigger than a Bulkie roll, but smaller than a Submarine roll. If memory serves, grilled sandwiches
such as Chicken Parmesan and Meatballs were popular in Spuckie rolls. A sub would be wrapped in paper, while a Spucky may be wrapped in foil to keep it warm. Purportedly coined from a North End spucadella roll (citation needed). |
| STAHVIN |
A person that is hungry;
"starving." |
| STAYPUHLA |
Stapler. |
| SUB |
A hogie, hero, grinder,
"submarine" sandwich. |
| SUHPPA |
Dinner. |
| TEMPUHCHA |
Temperature. |
| TEYEID |
Tired; exhausted or
fatigued. |
| TONIC |
Soda pop. |
| TRIPLE-DECKER |
3 story wood house,
usually all apartments. Also known as a Three-Deckah or Tree-Deckah house. |
| VARIETY STORE |
A mom and pop convenience
store. |
| WICKED |
Extremely good. |
| WHIFFLE |
A short crew cut, or boy's or men's haircut done with clippers. |
| YAWW |
"Yes" + "Yay" combined; very popular in the
1970s. |
| YAWS |
Yours; as in "yours
truly" or "your's, mine, and our's" (an old slang cliche). |
| YOGIT |
Yogurt. |
| |
| NAKED EYE |
A famous 1970s burlesque bar in Boston's old Combat Zone (closed). |
| RAT (THE) |
A famous metal and punk rock night club in Kenmore Square, short for Rathskeller (closed). In German, rathskeller means "council cellar." |
| SANDS (THE) |
Short for Blue Sands. A famous bar on Summer Street that proudly catered to patrons ranging from punk rockers to artists to blue collar workers (closed). |
| SPIT |
A famous 1970s punk rock & new wave night club on Lansdowne Street (closed). |
| |
| BACK BAY |
The area west of the
Public Garden. |
| CAPE (The) |
Cape Cod. |
| COMBAT ZONE |
The old burlesque area of Boston at the foot of Washington Street near Exeter. |
| LANDSDOWN |
Lansdowne Street, Boston. |
| PRU (The) |
Prudential Center. |
| QUINCY MARKET |
Faneuil Hall Marketplace. |
| T (The) |
The MBTA transit
authority. |
| |
| CONKIDD |
Concord, Massachusetts |
| GLOSSTA |
Gloucester, Massachusetts. |
| HOPKINGTON |
Hopkinton, Massachusetts |
| MEDFID |
Medford, Massachusetts. |
| NEWHAMSHA |
The State of New
Hampshire. |
| NEWHAMSHIN |
A Person From New Hampshire. |
| NEWYOK |
The State of New York. |
| PEEBAHDEE |
Peabody, Massachusetts. |
| P-TOWN |
Provincetown, Massachusetts. |
| QUINZEE |
Quincy, Massachusetts. |
| RUHVEEA |
Revere, Massachusetts. |
| SUMMAVILLE |
Somerville, Massachusetts. |
| VAHMONT |
The State of Vermont. |
| VINYID |
Martha's Vineyard island. |
| WATTATOWN |
Watertown, Massachusetts. |
| WINTRUP |
Winthrop, Massachusetts. |
| WHISTAH |
Worcester, Massachusetts. |
| WOOBIN |
Woburn, Massachusetts. |
| |
| BURRY |
Roxbury neighborhood. |
| EASTY |
East Boston neighborhood. |
| DOT |
Dorchester neighborhood. |
| J.P. |
Jamaica Plain neighborhoohd. |
| ROZZY |
Roslindale neighborhood. |
| SOUTHY |
South Boston
neighborhood. |
| TOWNY |
A Charlestown
neighborhood person. |
