27 Words You Will Only Hear in NEW YORK CITY
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- Every city has a unique stash of secret code language reserved only for its people. These are the words that you’re unlikely to hear anywhere else. And New Yorkers aren’t shy when it comes to creating their very own lingo with unique slang words for the English language.
On this video, I will take you across the multitude of cultures that exist throughout this loud, boisterous, and diverse city so you can get a healthy dose of the different types of slang you will encounter when you hit the streets. With a little preparation and a little bit of practice, you will become a pro at New York lingo in no time!
So without further delay, here are 27 words you will only hear in New York City.
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IMAGE ATTRIBUTIONS
BODEGA
1. Untitled by Bryan Pocius - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
2. “Bodega Window” by S Smith - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
3. “bodega style bacon egg and cheese” by Will - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
4. “store clerk” by Brian Fountain - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
5. “Brooklyn Street Scenes - Bodega on Smith Street and Union Street” by Steven Pisano- CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
6. “BODEGA CAT” by Seth Werkheiser - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
7. “bodega” by Billie Grace Ward - CC BY 2.0 and 4.0 - Flickr flickr.com/photos/15802578@N0...
SCHMEAR
1. “Kossar's bagel” by stu_spivack - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
2. “Bagel ala Arnold” by Cliff Hutson - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
3. “Vegan Cashew Cream Cheese” by Mattie Hagedorn - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
4. “Poppyseed bagel, scallion cream cheese and...” by Stephanie - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
5. “mmm... bagels...” by Kim Mc. - CC BY-ND 2.0 - Flick
FUHGEDDABOUDIT
1. “Magnolia Bakery New York Cup cakes” by Gary Bembridge - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
2. “Magnolia Bakery banana pudding” by Marit & Toomas Hinnosaar - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
3. “Trader Joe's” by kennejima - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
UPTOWN/DOWNTOWN
1. “15.Chelsea.NYC.24June2012” by Elvert Barnes - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
2. “NYCT_3180” by Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
HOUSTON
1. “Houston St IRT td (2018-04-03) 09” by Tdorante10 - CC BY-SA 4.0 - Wikimedia Commons
THE VILLAGE
1. “The Village” by Paul Sableman - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
2. “Cafe Wha? - Greenwich Village” by Jeff Rosen - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
3. “Washington Square Park” by Shinya Suzuki - CC BY-ND 2.0 - Flickr
4. “NYC - Greenwich Village - Gay Street” by Jean-Christophe BENOIST - CC BY 3.0 - Wikimedia Commons
5. “west-village-corner” by Dan DeLuca - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
SCHLEP
1. “MTA NYC Subway A train arriving at Broad Channel” by Mtattrain - CC BY-SA 4.0 - Wikimedia Commons
A SLICE
1. “Scott's Pizza Tours” by Dale Cruise - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr - changed
2. “pie 021” by Beth punches - CC BY-ND 2.0 - Flickr
3. “The Biggest Pizza” by Dru Bloomfield - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
4. “IMG_1759.jpg” by Michael - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
5. “Joe's Pizza” by Mike Licht - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
YUUUGE
1. “Bernie Sanders” by Gage Skidmore - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
2. “President Trump Speaks with the Bahamian Prime Minister” by The White House - no copyright - Flickr
STOOP
1. “Brownstones and Stoops” by Jay Woodworth - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
2. “On Perry Street, Greenwich Village, New York” by Spencer Means - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
3. “f (at the filming of the Hulk)” by Lee - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flick
MAD
1. “Michael Bloomberg” by Gage Skidmore - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
DUMB
1. “Holiday in New York” by Harry Wood - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
UPSTATE
1. “Ithaca, NY” by James Willamor - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
2. “Ithaca NY 2337” by bobistraveling - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
3. “New York State Route 17” by Doug Kerr - CC BY-SA 2.0 - Flickr
THE GARDEN
1. “Box Life - Madison Square Garden” by Marco - CC BY-ND 2.0 - Flickr
2. “Madison Square Garden (MSG) - Empire State Building” by Ajay Suresh - CC BY 2.0 - Flickr
DEAD ASS
1. “Timberland 6 inch boots” by Dough4872 - public domain - Wikimedia Commons
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You good = are you okay?
You good = you are okay.
You good = how have you been?
You good = did you get enough?
You good = you're welcome
You good = stop talking to me
You good = no need to say sorry (apologize)
You good = you need some money?
Nice, Rony.
😂😂😂 Yes!! Thank you for that!
You good = you all set?
@@blueclover9918 that's like are you okay?
@Rory context is everything
Absolutely Nobody: New Yorkers: YURRRRRRR
Yeah, what the hell was that one about???
I've live in New York for 20 years and I never heard that word lol
Idk guys I didn’t make the video
Yerrrrrrrrrr
It's a Bx thing!!!!
"Schlep" doesn't just mean lugging something. It also means traveling to an inconvenient area and/or a relatively long distance. For example: "You schlepped all the way to Staten Island just to have lunch with Joe?"
Yes , you are correct
There's an implied but usually unspoken (yourself) in that usage.
You mean lugging your body all the way d⁶...and possibly some gear? Yikes 😬
Exactly! Thank you!
We're not from NY but we would use 'schlep' like bumming, going someplace dressed down, not fancy. Does anyone else use it that way?
Born and raised in " the city", and turning "fitty" years old soon, I never realized how unique these words are to New York. I couldn't stop laughing!
Quite interesting you know
May you live to the age of a “hunnit” and me a hunnit minus a day so I won’t hear you passed away
Brick didn't make the list??
I stopped at 27. Didn’t want the list to go on and on.
Word
@@allnyc3412 brick should have been top 5!! Lol. Good list though
yea...where is brick?
That’s what said it was the first thing I thought of!
Don’t forget the “THE” in The Bronx! It’s like leaving out the S in Queens
Da Bronx, duh, right.
@afr malatesta No.
Tiffany cottage when I mention the "THE " for the Bronx ppl be looking at me like what...they don't know about the boogie down and I'm from Brooklyn...
Da Bronx
The Bronx, as in visiting the Bronck’s farm.
Everybody calls The Metropolitan Museum: The Met.
Or the Metropolitan Opera.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😍🤣❤❤❤
Of course!
I am a native Manhattanite, and proud of it, too. I was born and raised in the city. I love the diversity of New York people, and the cultural richness as a consequence. You know what else I think is great about growing up in NYC? The great accent it gave me. When I moved to California in 1975, so many people got a kick out of it. I thought nothing of it until then, because everyone I knew all my life spoke the same way I did, and it came so naturally, too! (LOL) So keep "tawking," New Yorkers, because you have a very special accent and way of expressing yourself.
Agreed. Fucking agreed.
Have you forgotten that you are "A native New Yawkah"??!!
Manhattanite???? HUH??
Accent is slowly disappearing. Being replaced by generic yuppie shit. Because we’re all watching and listening to the same stuff. And the city is in a constant influx of transplants.
I grew up in Brooklyn. Haven't lived there for 30 years. Wherever I go in the world, people know I'm from New York. And I think that's pretty fuckin cool.
"Manhattanite" never heard this one before
She forgot ..."YOU GOOD??" ❤
Look at my post because you good has different meanings and I put the definition to the you good phrase
She forgot Buns too. As in someone who is afraid of someone or something. Lol
Ain't that a everywhere thing? We say that in texas to.
Gosia K they use that in other places. Not specific to New York City
You gotta put Fam at the end.
You Good...Fam? 😂
Half of these words are mad outdated and others feel so normal to me like “uptown” and “train” I didn’t think they were New York slang.
Most of the terminology is new millennial slang, very few is Classic, stuff from 85' or 86' on back... Never heard anybody from the Bronx, refer to Manhattan as the City, in the 60's, 70's or early 80's since we considered all 5 boroughs the city, so calling it that would've been whack to us, it was hangin in the "Hat" or Downtown back then
Promise Jimenez DEADASS, some of these are mad outdated
theMarkusDonnatella lmaooo the only people I know that say “shmuck” are 60 year old Jews
@@GaryTisdaleFungkSta1 Interesting, I grew up in Brooklyn in the 70s/80s, no one used to call it Manhattan, we always called it the City. I love the way all the boroughs had their own little quirks.
Gary Tisdale I’m a millennial lol so everyone around me calls Manhattan the city. But even my older relatives/ older friends so idk man
When I lived in Portland, OR, there was a guy (NYC transplant) who owned an Italian sub store. He made the best subs! He would boss the customers around, yelling “Come on, come on, make up your mind already!” and the like. Everyone in line was mortified; I was just grinning like an idiot! Ahh, true New Yawkah!
Sounds like the soup shop owner from Seinfield XD
@@jandcfoodtrackers nope, just a typical New Yorker. Hey, you gotta be tough to survive in the city or boroughs.
@@HeronCoyote1234 🤣🤣🤣
either new Yorker or he's just Italian maybe both
Could it be geraldis
Bodega is a Spanish word used for small shops and is used in many countries around the world.
Yep -- it is a word found in Los Angeles too.
We say it in north Jersey also
We say it in Maryland and The District
I first learned this word in San Francisco.
Why use a Spanish word when you migrated to USA? I won't use it
In New York, to get on-line is to get IN-line. It has nothing to do with the internet.
I’m from north jersey and I say that
Yes! When I moved here and was getting food from a food truck, someone asked me if I was online. I was confused. I thought she was talking about the internet.
@@michellekalski8823 Basically, "on line" is an abbreviation for "standing on line".
In NYC the line is always around the F,n corner
@@longshorts7148 same
"Upstate" also means jail or prison
biggah black or up north
Or going “up”
He's in college
biggah black “vacation” also means prison or he “went away” .. “daddy went away for a little bit.”
😂😂FACT
I ain’t never heard... someone say... fuhgettaboutit.... 🤦🏾♀️
Typical Brooklyn
Lol..true
Must be the Italians
Lol
That’s how I felt about Yerrr/Yurrr
My favorite thing about bodegas are the random house cats just hanging and chillin on the aisle lol
it's bc there are so many mice eating the chips!
Every bodega I've ever been in always had a cat hanging around. They are the best mouse traps!
I say I’m going to the bx if I’m going to the Bronx, or bk for Brooklyn
That’s the manager!
I'm from Long Island, I refuse to say Bodega. It is a Market or Food Shop. This isn't Mexico or any other Spanish speaking Country. 🤨
Baconeggandcheese is one word at the corner store. Word up, means it's true. And a chop cheese is ground meat with cheese sandwich.
Moved to NC a year ago and I'm jonesing for a baconeggncheese. Or an umberto pie..😔😔😔
Facts
Made me hungry reason this..
Corner store?!?!!!! Don’t you mean “Bodeeeeega”?!?!!!!!
@@Tabby.cat2 true, always said that, but its not spanish owned so i stopped calling it that.
"It's Brick outside"
That term must've started in mid 80's or 90's
I mean I've heard "It's as cold as a brick" but plain Brick, nah that's new I thought it was in reference to weight in drugs
Gary Tisdale - I’ve literally never heard “it’s cold as brick.” It’s always been “it’s brick.”
@@Rx2D That's new millennial slang, if you said that back in the mid 80's or in the early to mid 90's, they would call Bellevue to come get ya!!!
Word! Which it me really! Or I agree.We use this word when we here something that amazing or outrageous
Gary Tisdale bricks been around for “a minute”... another term we use.. “a minute” meaning a while or years
Houston Street and Houston, Texas are pronounced differently because they're name for different people. The city in Texas is named for Sam Houston (pronounced hue-stun), while the street in THE city is named for William Houstoun (house-ton).
You missed my favorite:
"What am I, chopped liver?"
Mo Person Like to say that when I get upset😁
Or “Vhat am I, gehakte lebber?”
@@HeronCoyote1234 lol, I need a translation please. Thank you.
@@CinqueTerre558 Marlene. I know it's Perfect. And you really need to say it: "chopped livah"?
I taught my nieces and nephews to say that by the time they were 7
A schmear is not "a generous portion of cream cheese". It actually means a lot less than the regular portion. (A smear of cream cheese, not the regular inch thick portion.)
O V H your absolutely correct. A schemer is a less amount.
She dead ass wrong for that.
Had to stop at smear. She doesn't that bodega is Spanish
@@user-th2xz7gy3y she sounds like she speaks Spanish so... E for effort 🤷🏾♂️
REDEERUM SEASON lol
I'm a simple person I see "New York" and I click
jancy13 Pineda 🙌🏾
Lol me too.
I was only in NY once two years ago. Spent three days. What I noticed is how much cursing you heard just walking around Manhattan. I’m not saying I never hear it but in NY, it’s a different level. I don’t think they even realize they’re doing it.
How about "Super" meaning the apartment building manager, and/ or the person to report maintenance problems?
A yuuuuge oversight!
They forgot Odee words... like “Odee” “Wildin” “baconeggncheese” “brick” “broski” “word to” “say less” and “Oh naah” 😂😂😂 who tf made this list? It’s either “you buggin” or “you buggin out” not “you be buggin” 😂😂😂 who says “yooz” we all say “ya”. Ya who made this list really buggin tf out- DEADASS 😂
Danielle Cruz LMAO. Mad facts! ^^^
It’s the less ghetto version
THAT'S A FACT
Danielle Cruz LMAOOOOOO
Worrrd😭 nah you had to spazz though😂
Upstate: Anything north of the Bronx.
I am upstate, I am 2 feet away from the Bronx border
@@arany_alexander7130 you mean South Canada
@@jday5677 U SAID THAT UPSTATE IS ANYTHING NORTH OF THE BRONX. sorry caps lock, i was making a joke, cuz im stanidng 2 feet away from the Bronx so that means im upstate now?
@@arany_alexander7130 yes, I was also making a joke
@@arany_alexander7130 Yes.
1:15 and why does every bodega has a cat?! Lol
Orlando Sanchez 😂😂😂😂 facts
Mice!
To get rid of the mice
To kill the mice
Because they got mice!
"Can I get a begganeggancheese?"
You also forgot "pressed".
"Why you pressin' my man's like that?"
You would say “that pizza is dumb good” rather than that was “dumb good pizza.”
Tell it!!!!!!
Same thing I thought!!! I have never said the dumb good pizza.
She messed that one up
I thought the samething.... like “Nah she not saying it right”
Das a fact
Not bad, however as born and raised NY’er and a Jew, your pronunciation of “putz” is wrong. It is not “put” (as in “put” that down) .... rhyme it with “nuts” or “nutz” for “putz”.
Sounded mad weird
Thank you.
I'm glad someone pointed that out, because it was bothering me.
Exactly! I was going to call her out on this, but thought I'd check the comments first.👍🏻Oh, וויי איז מיר🤣
And so obscene I was taken aback!
In NYC, for the pronunciation of the word library, we say "liberry"; the North Bronx is called "the boogy down Bronx".
@Sue 2Cue: Money Making Manhattan. Money Earning Mt. Vernon. Bed Sty do or Die
@@carolynhowell9768 yeap! It's our lingual!
“The Island” - Long Island
“I was standing ON line” -instead of IN line
"ON line"!!!! THAT'S a good one!!!! Made me laugh!
Lol oh crap, I do say this lol
Shouldve known this was gonna be a gentrified version
Lol
YOOOOO. I said the same thing. This is a bullshit step by step for outsiders. She didn’t even know how to say YEERRRR. I was WEAK 😂😂
Funny. pUtz she’s been watching too many Tekashi videos.
XmarXdaSpot 1 yoooooo to bloodclaaaaaatttt 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Feel free to give me the ungentrified version.
I hope that Bodegas will survive the next wave of high taxes.
Don't worry...the cat sleeping on the bread got the taxes...
you mean coronavirus!
@@shawnperry4455 That is true! And when she described bodegas as convenience stores or corner stores, she forgot to mention that they usually have a cat in the store, tho they did show a cat in the photo of the bodega :)
@@danielrbsutton the car thing isn't even that accurate. A lot just don't have cats.
"Stoop" is a Dutch word that survives from 17th century New Amsterdam.
And "cookie, boss and coleslaw"!!
The Belt (belt parkway) everyone in NYC knows what that means 😂 trust you dont wanna drive on it during rush hour
Good one!
Good one! Another is how one pronounces the (nightmare of a road) "van wyck." The actual Dutch pronunciation is "wike," but NYers will use "wick."
Donna johnson Yeees that and van wyck expway
No one drives on the belt during the rush, you sit there
@@ChristmasDiamond so true
What about " not for nothing" used to stress a point
I use that all the time
Not fa nuthin...
Yep
I love how the bodega picture had a cat in it lmaoo ..that's accurate af lol
Gotta tell ya, I'm born and raised in Queens, and have worked in the city most of my life, and in my 61 years, there are three of these I haven't heard ANYONE use! :P
I gotta go "play my numbers" 😂 meaning i want to play the lottery.
Lol yep
jai sarp hope ya "hit"
Nigga anyone and everyone says that that’s not even New York yo
@Jai Sarp: Back in the 60s and 70s before lottery we would go put our numbers in. It was call a number hole. You could put a little money on a number and win big 😁
Duh. 😂
How'bout Aaaay-Yo! That's how we try to get someone's attention Uptown. You also forgot to mention "son".
Good ones!
MARIA ALEXANDER she forgot a lot of words but mention forgetaboutit. I never used that one,only heard my father in law use it. And he is Italian😜
@@afriendlyneighbor9624 🤣🤣🤣
They don't know about that. They thing does a degrading way to speak
What about MO...
Add 2 phrases
1) "Cross street(s)" to this list. I moved outta NY back '07. Every state I've gone to & was looking for some place, no one knew what in the world I was talking about.
2) Uptowns - NY name for the Nike Air-Force Ones
🤣😆😁
I would've known and ask that when trying to find places. There are only a couple of these that are unique to NYC and only one that's really annoying... The (mis)pronunciation of Houston lol
OMG! SO TRUE!!! I still ask for cross streets and in LA, they tell me the major avenues. They could be 10 miles apart!!??
It is so obvious, too, LOL!
I can't believe how normal most of this slang seems to a New Yorker. Most of these terms you hear all the time.
Its made from some retawd who never been to NY
Grill has like 4 different meanings.
She all up in my Grill meaning staring.
She all up in my Grill... meaning she's close to my face.
She need to fix her Grill... meaning Front Teeth.
Why you gotta Grill me like that?? Ask alot if questions
That's not Brooklyn that's ghetto
I live in Atlanta, so it’s totally front teeth.
@@DDios-ih9de never said it was Brooklyn and it's NYC which is one big ghetto!
Or if your tauting someone to fight you say "step to my grill"
@@DDios-ih9de some parts of Brooklyn have ghetto streets.
"BRICK" Referring to how extremely cold the weather is. "How cold is it tonight?" Replies "It's mad brick outside!"
SON, MY GUY OR DUDE referring to a person. Gender neutral!
Funny how male words often become "gender neutral", but female words never do. Male = human/person, female = other/sub.
My guy must be new when I used to live in America back in 2007 never heard that word. People use my man a lot.
Hahaha the food shopping one made me lol I didn’t kno that was a NY thing I thought everybody said it 😂😂😂(I’m from Long Island tho)
Growing up in Queens, “going into New York” meant going to Manhattan. Or going to the City. In the Bay Area, “the City” is San Francisco.
I'm surprised you didn't include son...I hear that a lot when I'm in New York
"Son" meaning close friend
"SON" is a BK term
“THATS MY SON!”
My sonnn
What up, son?
How can you forget g’ahead. You’re encouraging someone to proceed.
YES! "Guhead" one word, two syllables. Accompanied by an outward waving of the hand to show the person they can guhead.
And good to go..
My husband is from Iowa. Whenever I say "guhead" he asks me why I call him a "goat head"! 😁
Good one😂
Ann Marie Wilson LOL, so what do you tell him?
The Island...i.e.: He/She lives on the Island. (Long Island) Since Brooklyn and Queens are also on Long Island they don't count as "The Island." The Island is Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
True. Long Island is Nassau and Suffolk County. Because Brooklyn and Queens are NYC
Born and Raised in NYC(43 years) and I’ve never used the word schmear! 😂 I think it depends what borough you’re from.🤷🏻♀️
it depends on the neighborhood and where the fuck you get your bagels
Use it all the time
Lol for real 🤣
I'm from queens and use it all the time but it's the opposite of what she said, it means a small amount
I don't use it. I'm not an immigrant. My grandparents were, and they didn't like using it because they didn't want to sound like immigrants lol.
Most people from the BRONX say their going Downtown not to the CITY.
goodridgejames correct!!!
goodridgejames I still say the city lol
Exactly
People from outside NYC call Manhattan The City. Born and raised in The Bronx, never called it The City, always called it Downtown.
That's pretty much a Bronx thing
“All day”... “you a Jets fan?” ... “nah, Giants, all day”
"WORD" short for "Word Up" meaning "Really?" In response or "Seriously" when making a statement.
"ONE" short for "One Love" meaning
"Goodbye, God Bless" or Goodbye, Take Care.
I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s and many of these words were commonly used there as we sat on our stoops!
Except, of course, in New York it's "yooz," but in Pittsburgh it's "yinz."
71 year lifelong NYer. Some of these seem very recent. I've never heard them. A couple others change from neighborhood to neighborhood. Even others are somewhat ethnic.
Some are new or really new, true, but as a 49yo lifelong Brooklynite, most of them were spot on.
Dominick Cavelli very true
@@namelia4439 I see some are from mid 80's Hip Hop terminology like "Son" but also see alot of new millennial terms based in southern rap and Ebonics craze of the mid to late 90's time period
@@GaryTisdaleFungkSta1 true, not a fan of "y'all." Should be 'you's' or "ya's" in New York
@@greenmachine5600 Y'all & Yous, or you'se has been used in New York and all over the East Coast before I was even born
Ya's never heard of, so have to link that to your generation of New Yorker's cause it's not Old School NYC terminology🎯
putz is pronounced "putts" (not "pootz").. thank you.
Thanks for the correction. It’s not one of the ones I normally use.
Laura you are 100% right. I grew up in a home where my parents spoke to my grandparents in Yiddish so kids wouldn't understand. Needless to say, I became fluent enough to read a Yiddish newspaper and even attend one of the last Yiddish plays performed in NYC (about 1960).
@@lesa.4903 you missed Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish?
And God of Vengeance a few years ago;?
@@irajayrosen4792 Yes to both. However, my bride and I danced to "Sunrise Sunset" at our wedding.
@@allnyc3412 You also didn't define putz or schmuck correctly. They both mean a pr-ck, a jerk, a jackass. They are both vulgar and impolite, but not quite to the same degree. Schmuck is the one my mother wouldn't say.
You omitted some NYC staples ... potsie (hopscotch), eggcream (the drink is traditionally made with Fox's U-Bet Syrup, milk, & a couple of long spritzes of seltzer ... they are icecream sodas minus the icecream), skellie (a sidewalk game played with bottle caps), stickball (similar to baseball, but played with mop handles), two sewers (the traditonal street playing field in stickball ... three sewers is generally a homerun), spaldeen (a rubber ball), a two-cents plain (seltzer), and a melaroll (a cylindrical icecream, placed horizontally in a cone ... but I haven't seen any melarolls for many years). There's also the Charlotte Russe (a cardboard cylinder containing cake, jam between the layers, a lot of whipped cream on top, and a cherry placed on the pinnacle. Sometimes brandy is put into the cake). The Charlotte Russe is almost always served with a wooden dixiecup spoon. They serve them elsewhere, especially in France, but I think NYC is the only place where they are sold as a handheld, walkaway desert. In some sections of Brooklyn, beef is a synonym for putz or schmuck, from the anatomical standpoint.
Horn and Hardart...
The automat! Always a great place to stop for a Cinnamon raison/cream cheese sandwich after shopping at B. ALTMAN's or even Alexander's.... those were the days!
Why did she pronounce putz as POOTZ, I've always heard it as PUHTZ
@@vigwig Correct!
You forgot Sabrett's and knishes!!
😏
Good list, though.
Man, I'm going to make some eggcreams this summer.
Practically my whole family was born and raised in New York except for me and my bro, so I’ve used ALL these phrases my whole life and I didn't even know they originated in New York 😂 ESPECIALLY, ”You good?”
Idk bout y’all but I’m from nyc and when I’m asking for a bagel with cream cheese I’m asking for just that not schmear 🤣🤣
Y'all???? You ain't from New York ... Stop being such a poser.
@@Pezzboy77 lmaooo what?? Many of us actually say that tho
Lol yep
kits skit exactly lol
Pezzboy777 You right. It’s yous
Agree about the schmeer comment, and "pootz" but the one you left out was coffee "Regular"
New York regular vs California regular
@@montanacrone8984 What is California regular?
@ Daren LOL exactly😂
Thank u
Never heard of yerrrr and I’ve lived here all my life.
really?! in my school if one person says "YURRR" then the whole hallway responds back with "YUURRR" i guess its a new thing
My beautiful city I love you New York no one could ever compare! You’re truly a gift and thanks for raising me 🍎🍎🍎
stop plzzzzz deadass
“Front” like don’t front on me
Fakin Jack's...
@@tonyadams6027 Thats new too "Fakin' Jacks"
Now "Frontin' " that's genuine old school NYC term
@@GaryTisdaleFungkSta1 Maybe 90's...Late 80's..
@@tonyadams6027 I know Frontin' is late 70's to early 80's but Fakin' Jacks I never heard, last time I've been home was mid 80's, so that got to be late 80's or 90's
@@GaryTisdaleFungkSta1 Right...I left South Side in 93..
What about “Spaz” “Tight” “Brick” “whip” “cop”?? “Lit”??? What else I feel like there’s more
Rap music, 24,7
Factz
could solid be another one
I was waiting to see if the video would note the meaning of "downtown" in relation to Brooklyn and they did! So, as a New Yorker, I wholly endorse this video!! Lol!
Haha! And "food shopping"! Yes!
24 out of the 27, I got no problem with. The 3 I do have a problem with, it's more of a minor adjustment:
#14: Saying "Jersey" is okay, but nobody says "Joisey" anymore. That was what white people from Brooklyn called it. Now, the Brooklyn variation on the N'Yawk accent is all but gone, and nobody, from hipsters in Williamsburg to Caribbeans in Crown Heights to Russkies in Brighton Beach, uses "Joisey."
#19: A putz is someone who should know better, but doesn't. A schmuck is a guy who enjoys being a jerk, but is usually not the main problem. He's often doing it for somebody else. He's a henchman, a lackey, a flunky to the main problem, the asshole. If he were a good guy, we'd call him a sidekick.
#21: It's not spelled "yooz," it's "youse." And it's not so much pronounced "yooz" as "yuz."
Oh, thank you. From Queens. It is, of course, pronounced "yuz". As in " T' #$%& wit awl a yuz!"
Cab=taxi
Son= your boy
Word= correct
Baconeggncheese = breakfast sándwich
Guap= money
Frontin’ = false
Whip= car
Tight= upset or cool
Gully= genuine
I can’t think of anymore lol
Brolic= muscular person
Brick= cold
Tight= angry/sounds good
Vexed= really angry
Good looks= thank you
Clicky= tv remote
Adventure land= small amusement park in Farmingdale (long island)
Splish splash= small water park out east (long island)
Tight could refer to ones financial situation; or how about - oh, so you are mad mad? Or perhaps: that new new, or just repeat any adjective or adverb, like fast fast...
SON= Anyone you are schooling.
FRESH= Anything New.
@@katiedeppisch i agree with everyone except Splish Splash. That's actually the correct name.
But Out East is Slang.
@@bxbeautynyc you right, it's not slang but no one else in the world would know what I was talking about unless they were from the long island area.
Growing up in the BX, Manhattan was always downtown. I didn't call it the "city " until I moved to Brooklyn 😍
Michelle Grant Right!
Agree
Agreed
Yes, Manhattan was “Downtown”
Intresting I thought Bronx people refer to Harlem-Inwood and up uptown.
And the bodegas always have a cat! 😄
1.The grill can also means the gold teeth! 2. Also a way to say hi is the head nod! 3. Also every man calls a girl what's up Shorty! 4. Can I get some fries with that Shake! 5. Why you bugging! 6. Can I get those digits!
Das crazy yo, Nah son, I’m sayin’ tho’, you good?, corner store, hero, the city (Manhattan), the Railroad (LIRR), Let me get ( that bagel, that slice, those Tim’s). I could go on and on.
I grew up saying corner store but in spanish it would be bodega or "la wawa"
True that ❤️
Grill can also be used as a term for your face, Like i be all up in his/ her grill.
Your grill is your teeth only ie a car grill that lets air into the engine think about it👩🎓
that's been around since the 90s, like in Missy Elliot's song "why you all in my grill"..
It can also mean calling you out on something.. like “I’m gonna grill your boy for acting stupid”
@@DancingDeity I would know, I was in my 20s and extremely involved in out Culture. Born and raised in NYC.
Brooklyn born and raised and I say some of these things too - except for "yerr" and "bugging"
So funny. Haven’t lived in NY since 1975 and I still most of these words.
Same I can't get rid of some of the accent from bronx I think I moved out 1995ish.
This is fun. you forgot: unowatimsaying. Every word that’s spelled with au is pronounced with a aw sound. Example: Sawsege. Some people say dawg for dog, dawl for doll. And you can’t forget “ my moms and da bafroom. 😂😂
tiffany nottage
: Now the pronunciation with the "Aw" sound started in the 90's during the rise of Southern Rap and Ebonics, because prior to that you never heard that type of pronunciation from a Native, unless it was somebody who just moved there from the South.
Before Ebonics, I used to can tell where a Black Person came from when they talked (New Yawkaz talked fast & proper back then) you would've been clowned for Dawg, Skrimps, Curr or Corr, instead of Car etc ... In the 60's through the early 80's, we would've been on the stoop or the benches out front, running a Snap Fest on your vernacular if you came on our block talking like that
Gary Tisdale hi! You have a point but my opinion differs and I will tell you why. My family is from the south and moved up here when the migration started in the late industrial years. My family started in the 30, 40’s and 50’s looking for work. My family settled up “north” in The Bronx, Harlem and Brooklyn. My immediate settled in the Bronx. The accent changed by the different sounds we lived around. And I promise the eastern southern sound, does not sound like this! And yes I went down south in the summers and they thought I sounded proper and then worked in the city and looked lat me like I sounded I’ve never been out the hood 😂. Dawl, Dawg and umpire instead of empire were words with those sounds like New Yawrk ( there’s always a slight r) were already here. From the Italian, Irish and Yiddish and other communities around. I’m sure some were made fun of by there deep country sounds like those now a days from other countries and states. Some lost some of the sounds and kept some of the words. And it does matter what borough your from because there are subtle (sp? Don’t judge me haha)differences from one borough to another. But the southern in the lingo has been before the south got there dues in when it came down to hip hop. Shoot... I see people from other countries saying fittna’ and some other southern words. One thing rings true. New York has an accent filled with sounds from all over the world and I enjoy it immensely. I had super who spoke English and my mom didn’t understand his deep accent but I did. . I was interpreting accents. One of the only states I know that this can happen. Oh and one more thing. 😂 I don’t say Plantano’s or Plantains. I say Platins. Plat a old school words for single braids and in’s. Haha. I don’t know why. But no one ever questioned it from the Chinese to the Spanish “restoraunt ” hahaha Eatin on my stoop.
@@tiffanynottage7241 👆👍
tiffany nottage .. that’s so Yonkers lol u know what I’m saying every other word
I can hear people pronounce Long Island as Lawn Guy-land.
Regular coffee (coffee with milk and sugar) Triborough or triboro bridge instead of RFK bridge
And NY'ers never changed the name of the Tappan Zee. We don't call it the the Mario Cuomo bridge, we call it the Tappan Zee. And what about the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnell being renamed the Hugh Carey Tunnell? Nobody's ever gonna change that.
I was hoping regular coffee would be on the list.
I gave up ordering regular cawfee in the bodega because most of the recent immigrants have no idea what I'm ordering. Shame.
The Jackie Robinson Parkway is still the Interboro Parkway in my head, although I have started calling it the Jackie occasionally
She forgot about “Facts”
Factz
I find this video very interesting and full of information. Very well put 2gether.💝💝💝💝💝💝
Left out "The Island" - Nassau and Suffolk counties.
Cause that's NYS not NYC
Good one! I forgot about that one.
Nope...not the City
Haha... when us Bronxites say "The Island", we mean City Island ! 😄
We should just annex Nassau county
Car fare
!!!! And token booth
Good one. Only in the Boros
YESSSSS!!!
Tokens? lol .. no more
@@tiffanynottage7241 😂😂😂 we still say token booth clerk and there's no more tokens!
Very insightful!!!
On the west coast friends didn't know chop meat was hamburger and cold cuts was lunch meat and by the way coke is a soda.
I b am from the west coast and I beg to differ
What ever happened to "YO."
What about"G"?
Or "Good looks " which means thanks
Right Right-True,True...
YO, and G are international by now, talking from Holland.
YO a Jewish friend of mine once told me a "SMOCK " is that discarded skin after a circumcision 😎 no shit
people from New Jersey say "The City" also.
As do people from Westchester, Orange and Fairfield Counties.
That's dumb asf 🤦🏾♂️. If you don't live in NYC , don't be callin it that .
@@zhx2365 Us in North Jersey that live minutes from "the city" and live in towns like Jersey City, Hoboken, Weehawken, Union City, West New York, Fairview, Cliffside Park, Fort Lee, North Bergen, Guttenberg, and Secacus etc...call it the city biggest it's the closest biggest city to us.
Zeeqtee Prn it’s also the other way around.. New Yorkers who move to NJ
Katya Argudin but "the city" is in a whole different state .
In the Bronx.."Grill" meant your face; as in "Yo, you better guard your grill" (Some folks it also meant teeth! But mostly I heard it as your face. She was all up in my grill!")
Very insightful.
There's even a moving service called "Schleppers."
I don’t know if y’all are white ppl making this list , but , but I must say that wasn’t as cringe worthy as I thought it would be . Good job 👍 The narrator sounded cute in her verbiage . So I say the biggest miss was the word (🛑SON🛑) All black men call each other SON . AND WE CALL POLICE 👮 ( 🛑THE BOYS🛑).
The "Son" thing kind of started in the 80's, never heard that until I went back to NYC for a vacation in 80' when I lived there, it was "Yo Homes" which I guess is for HomeBoieee (used to think they were saying "Holmes" way it sounded) but never heard son in the East Bronx
Or Jakes!... not sure if that's all over NYC though.
Nah. Its changed. They call police either po/po or 5/o. (Like Oh)
@@dianef.1592 Five Ooh & Po Po' been used since the 70's, I've heard "The Boys In Blue" but not "The Boys" so guess that's another millineal addon
Facts...but it's actually SUN, not SON. Sun as a sign of respect towards our brethren. Like the Sun, Moon and Stars. We shine like the Sun. It's even in the lyrics to the famous 'Wu Gambinos' song ala Method Man...."Wu roll together as one, I call my brother SUN cause he shine like one..."
This many-year resident of Queens generally agrees. But "Downtown" ONLY means Manhattan below 14th Street, NEVER Brooklyn . "Uptown" also refers to Manhattan ONLY above Central Park. The rest are the "outer burroughs."
I agree. For us in Brooklyn uptown mean Harlem. Downtown is two things for us. Downtown Brooklyn or Downtown Manhattan.
Agree, who ever called Brooklyn, "downtown" ? I've never heard it.
Old New York/The Pushcart Market - the area of Hester, Essex, Orchard and surrounding streets. Used by very old people (mostly deceased). Also the phrase "Years ago..." and then the old person tells a story. And New York pronounced Noo Yawk.
"Stoop" reminded me of the universal game of my childhood "stoop ball" Don't see many street games being played today. Maybe streets have too much traffic.
Dominick Cavelli True, but the tradition lives on in the descendants. My grand nephews play stoop ball on the cement steps out back their house in Kentucky. Some of the neighborhood kids come over and now they play, too.
Kids today are too busy with their phones to play street games.
@@AgathaLOutahere and computers.
@@AgathaLOutahere ...and 590 million TV channels. Lol
We didn't have a stoop in my bldg so we played off the corner hehe
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Whatyadoin. We like to blend our words hear in the melting pot
And that is something i like 👍🏻
LOVE IT
OMG, love this. I hate when I say, I was born in Jamaica and people think I was born in the country, I have to say no Queens, lol.
As I was reading that I thought you meant country as in barns cows & open fields....lmaooooo Queens native here
Lmaoo I’m from Brooklyn and some of these my face was so confused.
Same I feel like some of these you only hear in movies
facts
@@madisonmedina1469 no
Word up son.what people knows new york .especially black man as son.how that didnt make the list
Had to stop at 27 to keep the list from going too long. But good one!
gregory netus Word up son 😂😂
@@thebunkertv8847 word ☝ up son word
gregory netus it’s funny cause I actually call my real 18 year old son ...... SON/SON he hate that 💩 Haha
@@thebunkertv8847 haha.are you from new york also.word up son.is a slang word that black people use.it means true that man.or woman.thats a fact.its been use by nas.mobb deep.wu tang clan.onyx.kool g rap.brand nubian.black moon.etc haha
Thanks!
I love it when NON New Yorkers tell you about New York
FYI Houston Street is named for William Houstoun, who was a delegate from the state of Georgia, not to be confused with any other city.
Francine Waldman True. I’m wondering why they decided to remove the U from the street name🤔
Houston in Texas is named after Sam Houston.
I feel New Yorkers about not correcting them on their pronunciation of Houston, however it really should have the U placed back in it, but we are the same way when non native Houstonians pronounce Houston “Uston”🤦🏻♀️ What even is that?😅
Anywho, cool video! Learned new things about NY😊