Connecticut Slang - Words Used In CT
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- Connecticut Slang - Words Used In CT
What words or phrases do you say in your part of the country?
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What words or phrases do you use that I may have never used here in Connecticut?
yoo teds and KaylaMays I lived on Parker Ave in Meriden, Wallingford prior but now I live in TN and they think pizza from the gas station is good. I'm dieing !
@@tayder9534 I grew up in Meriden not too far from there. I have a few clients who have left CT for TN. Other than the lack of good pizza, I hope everything is going well for you.
That's very kind of u to say, what they lack in pizza they make up for bbq down here. I've never seen so many stray animals though, it's quiet sad, they definitely love a different life style here. I just found two abandoned kittens today and am giving them a good home :) also a word i have only heard in CT is Bogeys for cigarettes lol. I've said it a few times here and I get the weird look, also pronunciation of words here doesn't exist
@@tayder9534 I’ve used that word too, a long time ago 😆 we do get a lot of rescues up here that come from down south. Now I see why.
Regarding the “package store”, we’d go on a “packy run”
Regarding the “package store”, we’d go on a “packy run”
I grew up in southeast Ct.; it’s a “grinda”. In Eastern Ct., the letter “r”, or “ah”, can be slim to nonexistent to many people!
I was born in New Haven 73 years ago. You can always tell a non-local by the way they pronounce New Haven. It's New HAY vin not NEW Hay vin.
And East Haven is Staven
NaHAYvin. l
Moved from CT to CA last year for my job, and I never knew that we had our own accent until I moved here 😂
Right, I never thought we had accents but I’m sure to people in other states, we do.
I miss the pizza and the grinders back home! I've been gone over a decade and I can't find anything better than the food back home in CT
You’ll have to come back to visit.
I moved to CA and I concur. What they call pizza here is disrespectful to real pizza
@@jk6836 There are a few decent pizza places in CA - particularly in Ojai and Berkeley (Leaning Tower of Pizza) but typically, you won't find really good pizza outside of New England (I was shocked to find folks in MT anxiously gobbling down something that tasted like bread crust with canned tomato soup on it!) As for grinders, I once naively asked for one at a pizza place in MD and received directions to the local hardware store!
The term "tag sale" originally came from antique sales. Folks would have a qualified antique dealer come in before the sale and *tag* all the items with appropriate value prices. Advertising a "tag sale" then meant the antiques being sold had been properly assessed.
Who remembers The Pop Shop ? Many locations 70s- 80s
I feel like she just Googled some of these things rather than knowing them organically as a CT person.
Oh I definitely googled because I didn’t realize they were only used in this area. However, I’ve lived my whole life in CT.
It’s pronounced: “Ah beets” for Apizza.
God damn right.
No one says I'm gonna get some apizza.
@@sandpaper4483 Super broad qualification for a micro market area. The older Fair Haven, or Wooster Square area Italian-American population of New Haven does refer to it as Apizza (which is pronounced “ah beets”). Please use correct qualification.
You go with a thick enough Italian accent and there's an "uh" at the end. Js =Half -Italian
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!!
she don’t know ab the hood lingo 😹😹😹 like waddup kik
The package store "packee" (same rules apply liquor only sold in liquor stores)and bang a Uey are used similarly in Mass.
Thank you for watching
I never say package store, I say packie (CT)
I remember when I first moved to Virginia and I tried to order a meatball grinder and the waiter looked at me weird, he said "You mean a Meatball sub?" I said yeah a grinder
Same here in Chicago. "A what??" Had to explain it in Australia too, then they actually made one the way I described it.
sameee. they were like the fuck is a grinder
I'm a CT native, born and raised here and been living here my whole 29 years of life, and somehow, I never tried a steamed burger, and I've rarely ever heard of them either.
Come to Meriden and check out Ted’s or K-LaMay’s!
Hot Butter Lobster Roll ... (aka New England Style) Started in Milford Connecticut in 1927 .. Just sayin, and the only place in Milford you can find what that tasted like after Perry's closed in 1977 is ... drum roll please........7 Seas
I’ve only called in Connecticut style..and Maine style is cold with mayo. I always thought New England style was its own kind
I just went to Joey C's Boathouse, Cantina and Grill in Stratford at the Dock shopping plaza today and omg, their lobster rolls are amazing.
It's a great place right at the docks, and with night time entertainment.
@@NinjanimegamerI'm the sound tech for Joey
Lived in CT my whole life never heard of a steamed hamburger. New London county.
If you ever come to Meriden, you have to try K-Lamay’s or Teds. It’s delicious!
There's a place in NEW HAVEN, close to YNHH, where they originated.
Dang i never knew “grinder” was only used mostly here
Yeah.... Trying saying "grinder" farther out and you get some *weird* looks.
@@chrisfernald5850 🤣🤣
It’s big in some areas in mass, and big in most of RI
Yea I was in Chicago with my cousins and was like damn I could go for a grinder and they brought me to a smokeshop lol 😂
From Fall River, Massachusetts, grinder is used here too.
I live here in New Bri'in. Just down the street from Southington. For a while I lived in Plantsville. Eventually, I hope on convincing my mom to move to Floriduh.
Florida is a beautiful state. I have had quite a few sellers move down there.
UEY is also used in England as well, plus I know it’s used in Australia as well. Pulled a full UEYs 😂
Born and raised in Westport. Yes all those words I hear and still use. But Apizza is really broken English. Both sets of my grandparents came from Italy . They spoke in dialect Italian. They put an A in front, middle and end of every word. Why ima talka likea whata waya. So if they ask you if you want some pizza they would say you Wana Apizza. But it would sound like this real fast. You wana apeetz. I'm Sure it got lost somewhere in the translation but if you been listening to Italian broken English your whole life you would know where the word Apizza came from. You won Apeetz? Si grazie. Yes thank you.
@@JohnCocchia true, I can hear my Italian mother in law saying it now.
Two querky ways locals in CT pronounce towns. Norwich is pronounced "Nah-wich". Lebanon is pronounced "Leba-nin".
My Ancestors founded Leba-in Connecticut around 1700 to 1704
Never heard of a grinder or hoagie, only a hero. Also never heard of a liquor store being referred to as a package store.
Where are you from?
@@livinginsouthingtonctbybar961 Long Island
My sister in law lives in Ridgefield so I’ll have to ask her about those sayings.
@@bkeen7013 those are definitely Connecticut words. I can always tell when someone is from out of state if they don’t know what a grinder is. You’ll have to let me know what your sister in law says.
She must be from New Jersey 😭😭😭
Yup, in Connecticut we say yup, yello, oh my, just over fast swung speech. Can I have a-pizza, gettin cold. Just small tangible phrases that fit together. And I don't pronounce it OR, for me it's AH. So if I say "I'm going to the bar" I'll say "alright, I'm heading to the bah."
i grew up in the hartford area...never once did a steamed cheeseburger sound appealing to me.
They definitely taste better than they sound.
Had Myott's Package Store In Enfield CT And Grinders Was The Word.
@@billlamont817 thank you for watching!
Hi Barbara- I'm originally from Southington Connecticut.
I lived on Edgewood Circle, right up the street from Mt. Southington.
I moved to Tallahassee Florida in 1992. The first thing I noticed when
I moved down here, is that the grammar is more relaxed than in Connecticut.
Even well educated people tend to use phrases that would be frowned
upon up in Ct. You might be thought of as being uneducated or something.
An example of the phrases are, 'might could'. I might could start my car if
I find my keys. There is also 'used to could'. I used to could run the quarter
mile when I was younger. Also, 'fixin' to'. I'm fixin' to go to the Winn-Dixie store.
Down here, you don't take a right at the traffic signal, you take a right at the
red light. (Wonder how you know to turn if the traffic signal happens to be
green when you come up to it). Then of course, you drink a Coke, no matter
what it is, not a soda.
I do miss the pizzas and the grinders they had in Connecticut. Around here,
it's just chain pizza places. I used to love Queen pizza on Queen street in
Southington. Are they still there?
Thank you for watching, and for sharing! I’m not sure how long Queen Pizza has been gone but I have never heard of it. We do have many great pizza places but so much has changed if Southington over the past 15 years let alone the past 30. So much development, probably too much if you ask me but I do still love this town!
@@livinginsouthingtonctbybar961 Thanks for you response Barbara.
Good to hear from you.
Mike
Love the double negatives used here...in the South...for emphasis.
You are right Rudy. I ain't got no time to go to the store today.@@Rudy32225
I'm from Seymour CT. I moved to Florida 20 years ago and I miss the food, especially the pizza. Zois in Seymour was amazing. I never realized there aren't awesome bakeries and delis in every state and town until I moved. We recently moved to Minnesota and hopefully,as far as food goes, it'll be better than Florida LMBO!
I hope you have better luck with food in Minnesota. Thank you for watching!!
Actually, Zois is where I still get my pizza and it tastes the same. I've been eating it for years now. Sorry you live so far away.
What part of Florida? Florida's big.
No one wants to talk about how New Haven pizza is better than NY. Colony Grill goes crazy
You're on drugs that's cap AF
Also, Connecticuters have some odd place pronunciations, dropping the ends of words. Like New Brit'n, Woolc't, Wilt'n.
Guh-nite is another weird one.
@@chrisfernald5850gmorning
@@chrisfernald5850 hey!
Waterford native here - in my experience, a lot of us drop the t or turn it to a d sound if it's in the middle of the word. like New Brit en, Wildun - but not words like Manchester (where there are wicked* good cheeseburgers at Shady Glen)
*when I was a kid in CT, we always used the emphasizer word *wicked*.
Call us Connecticutuckians not Cunnecticuters thank you
This was great! We use Uey here in California also, at least in the San Francisco area where I'm from.
I didn’t think it was only a New England thing but that’s what I heard when I did some research. San Francisco is my favorite city to visit! Thank you for watching!
here in las vegas we do too!! :D
Never went to Pepe's for "abeets" or "tomato pie" until a college buddy from East Haven brought me there. Now I'm just used to saying "Gimme a large moots, extra sauce" with a nice Foxon Park "Kola with a K" or a birch beer.
There's a place here in Wicker Park Chicago called "Piece Pizza" which claims they are New Haven style. Looks like it but they use marinara sauce on it. Gross. Secret's in the sauce....
I grew up in Naugatuck or as we said it "Nau'g'duck" real fast.
At the NY State Fair in Syracuse I ordered a fried dough with tomato sauce...the guy immediately said "you're from Connecticut aren't you?" Thought everyone got sauce on fried dough.
"Bang a U-ey" - all the time.
Tag Sale yes, or a rummage sale if it was at a church.
Call it Naugy have some respect 😊
Here in Toronto, Canada my friends & I say "Chuck a Uey" when making a U-turn though I don't know how everyone else here says it. However, everyone knows or uses Uey but perhaps with a different setup.
Thank you for watching!
“Yous”instead of saying you all. “Yous gonna play or what?” “All of Yous!” Not sure if it’s just a 70-80s Bridgeport thing?
@@rafchez1970 thank you for watching!
I love my home state
I love this video ❤❤ proud to have been born and raised in Connecticut ❤❤❤
Thank you so much for watching!
same
Uey is also used in Massachusetts.
Born & raised in Fairfield & I've heard of all of these besides the steamed cheeseburger!
If you are ever in the Meriden area stop at Ted’s or K-Lamay’s they are amazing!
Fairfield is basically New York
My parents both born and raised in CT, growing up we used the term "eaves trough" and "downspout" for what others call gutters and leaders, the metal apparatus along your roof line to carry away rain water. Is that a CT thing, or just my odd family? I can't remember hearing many if any other people use those terms.🤔
I’m from CT and I can say I’ve never heard anyone call them anything other than gutters.
I've heard downspout from the older generation and not necessarily from here.
Asked my brother...he use to build houses here in CT. and never heard it by that name either. Only knows it by gutter.
We said eaves trough and eaves spout in Naugatuck too, older generation Yankee family. They say it in Canada also. We also say cellar. We had a full-sized door outside that went into the cellar and that was the "cellarway" and we would say we were "down cellar" (in the basement), course ours was half dirt for my grandfather's dahlia bulbs in the winter.
32. proudly born and raised in Danbury, CT
Its Grinduh. Have never heard the "R".
Fellow Southingtonian here! You rock!
Thank you neighbor!!
Raised in southington
Packi or packy, liquor store. And carriage, in Tennessee it's bugy or cart elsewhere.
Damn it you just said Packi I was jumping the gun 😅
Thank you for watching!
I forgot to mention this; In addition to pizzas and grinders there is a
place that serves the best hot dogs I have ever eaten. It's in New Britain, Ct
and it's called Capitol Lunch. I used to eat a box of 5 of them with meat
sauce, onions and mustard. All in one sitting. A lot of heartburn, but m-m-m-m!
I wonder if they are still there?
My husband and I are from Fairfield county, but moved to wolcott, pronounced Wolkit. We travel up to Litchfield and down to Fairfield frequently.
No one does pizza better than pepes, (now with multpile locations), for the best grinders try Nordellis (the orivinal grinder shop in CT dating back to 1914), 7seas or Joey C's for lobster rolls, and no one does ice cream better than Arethusa's.
I have heard of steamed burgers but I still have to try one.
We have some of the best food for sure, all across the state. We are lucky to live in CT.
We do have some amazing food hear. I actually had Nardellis for dinner last night. Thank you for watching!
We say uye in Delaware... bust a uye at the light
Socal we say, 'hey flip a uey!'
I’m from Oxford and haven’t heard of many of these. Then again I’m only 20.
That could be it. If you are ever in the Meriden area, I definitely suggest trying a steamed cheeseburger.
Go out of town a bit I'm sure you won't need to go far
Thank you for saying New Haven right ❤
I didn’t even know there was a wrong way to say it 🤣
I spent the first 14 years of my life in New Canaan and we said pop,it was however the 1960s and early 1970s
I never understood steamed cheeseburgers. Boiled ground meet is nasty, no different than if you microwaved them..
@@davidgeorge7443 have you tried them? I do get what you are saying but I think they are delicious especially from KLamays
@@livinginsouthingtonctbybar961 Couple times at Teds. Not my thing. I think it is more a tradition than anything else. Maybe it was designed for the eastern European palate.
And East Haven is Staven
From ledyard native born. It’s A pizza.
@@indigodande4345 I know… I said it wrong 🤦♀️
Very good video. Do you know Storrs? It is a nice town!
Hi Daniel, thank you for watching. Unfortunately it don’t know too much about Storrs other than it is a college town. It’s about an hour drive form where I am. I’ve been a few times for college events and to get the ice cream at the UCONN dairy bar and check out the farm. They have amazing ice cream!
I love Storrs ❤❤ beautiful rural town with a rich history ❤
Not a Packi 👀👀👀👀
🙌 A Grinder !
🙌 U EY!
Ted's cheeseburgers in meriden ct
We got grinders thats about all i think is different as a native nutmegger
Steamed Hams?!?!?
Have you tried a steamed hamburger?
We never use and say sub sandwiches😒
I didn't know that a uey was only us... Edit : or tag sale.... 😅 I thought that was the thing hahaha
Me too, in my research I found that it’s more of a New England thing.
You aren't saying Apizza right!
@@TheRonZombie I know, I know. My Italian mother in law would not be happy with me.
From se ct my whole life.....never heard steamed cheeseburger.
Check out Ted’s or K-Lamay’s in Meriden! They are amazing!
you're missing out
Uey used in southern Ontario
Glad we aren’t the only ones! Thank you for watching!
New Haven pizza is not pizza. New York style is the only real pizza.
Thank you for watching, I’ll take either over deep dish pizza
Agreed, but it’s New York style or nothing for me: thin-crispy crust, lots of sauce, brick fired-oven roasted, large slices! 😋
The Connecticutians outside of Fairfield County don’t know what pizza is, just like rest of the country outside of NYC. Thank God there is a NYC style pizza shop close to me!
Don’t get me wrong, pizza is the only thing NYC has going for it ATM-I’m no lover of the city, nor am I a New Yorker.
I guess no one cares about our national recognition for best pizza in U.S. by many sources
Uey is used in PA!(:
1 launguage 50 different forms
I only say grinder when it's a meatball grinder, otherwise it's just a sub.
That makes sense. Meatball grinders are my favorite!!
OMG!!!11!!!!!!!!!!! I'VEE LIVED IN CONECTICURT ALL MY LIVCE ANED IVEN NEVER HERD OF SODA11111@@!!!!!
Where do you live? Up near Sharon?
I live in Connecticut and I never used the pizza slang
have you seriously never said a-pizza? In response to what could I get you, your first, your very first instinct is to say could I get a___________pizza? Shame on you
@@joedickman3777 what? You say a a-pizza? I've never heard that. What part of CT says that?
@@rd-lw4td idk but all of my friends like did the thing where you just say it out loud and we all said it like that so I’m pretty sure it’s regional
@@joedickman3777 oh, we don't say it in Plainville unless I didn't notice.
She can't even pronounce "apizza" like a New Havener. Its more like "ahBEETS".
@@NilezII I know, I know. I’ve learned my lesson.
Ok
Grew up in CT, and never heard of a Uey or package store
I moved away from CT almost 3 decades ago and still use package store lol. Uey as well, never considered what the spelling would be lol
@@DannyPimienta me too. When I moved to VA my cousin and I went to a literal package store thinking it was a liquor store. Our minds were blown when we went inside. We asked the locals where a package store was and never found one. It turns out it's ran by the government here and they're called ABC stores.
@@rd-lw4td I’m down in Maryland and envy VA because you get liquor in stores and on Sunday where Maryland you could not for the longest. lol
@@DannyPimienta lol, I forget and always assume it's closed on Sundays.
I used to bang ueys almost everyday to hit up my local PK store
what about raggy???!
I don’t know that one.
@@livinginsouthingtonctbybar961 ohh it’s kind of like a winsted-torrington thing i guess
Raggie
It's not apizza, it's pronounced ah-beetz.
@@johnniekight1879 I know I know, I said it wrong.
W T f no never had a steamed cheeseburger
abeetz, not apizza.
I know…. I said it wrong. It’s not a word I use.
@@livinginsouthingtonctbybar961 It's a strange one for sure.
I've lived here most of my life, I haven't heard most of these 🙃
Oh wow! Maybe they are only used in some parts of CT. I don’t use all of them but I love Steamed cheeseburgers, I eat grinders often, tag sales are too much work and we for sure buy our liquor at the package store. 😆
@@livinginsouthingtonctbybar961 I live only about 40 minutes away from Southington, it's quite jarring now knowing how close it is
@@belalugosisdead4444 everything seems kind of close in such a small state.
I've been here 40 years and I hear these daily. Sunday was usually a beer run to MA because blue laws kept our packies closed. As a 20 year teacher, I know lunch menus still say "grinders". It is a-peetz, though.
Also, we are one of a few states that still primarily do meat-free Friday hot lunches and still have Good Friday off.
Ted's steamed cheeseburgers are the one and only. I love Stew Leonard's but they shouldn't have tried to compete.
CT is also home to the clam pizza, which might sound nasty but is actually magical.
Also, most of us don't put mayonnaise and celery on our lobster roll. A CT lobster roll is lobster and melted butter. As it should be, in my humble opinion. Though in hindsight, best to ditch the NEW ENGLAND SPLIT TOP ROLL (the only way for hot dogs) and just do lobster and butter.
CT of old:
Caldor's
Carvel
Barnett Books
Frank Davis Resort
Rotaries (sadly making a comeback)
Card Gallery
Apetes
It’s pronounced: “ah beets” for Apizza.
You would think with an Italian last name I would be better at that. 😂
@@livinginsouthingtonctbybar961 I’m a mutt. Long story. 😆 I’m half Italian as well!
@@christopherchampange9401 I’m pretty sure I’m 0 Italian, my husband’s parents were both born in Italy.
Never heard pizza called that in my part of Connecticut
@@livinginsouthingtonctbybar961 damn, that's odd. I've never heard of this and I'm from Plainville. If I did, I might have thought you were speaking drunk nonsense.