Guessing What These US Midwestern Words Mean

but i don't know to have a padilla to take a padilla that seems sensible to me hello i'm laurence and i'm on a quest to uncover all of the memos that britain and america lost in the pond and one of those memos pertains to words specifically regional words that are regional to different regions throughout the year i've been going around the american map and trying to work out the meaning of different words from different regions but after covering what i thought was the entirety of the contiguous united states i realized that i did something that was totally and utterly a little bit stupid i forgot to do the midwest you know that region of the united states where i only bloody live and i know what you're thinking ooh lawrence you'll know all of these because you live there well maybe maybe not because i've been looking into this and it turns out the midwest extends beyond just indiana and chicago and so just because i'm familiar with some midwesternisms doesn't mean that i know them all and so i suppose there's only one way to find out here's my attempt at guessing the meaning of these 15 midwestern words oh good a nice easy one to start us off with i think we've all heard about the debate that ensues across the country between whether you say pop or soda or coke if you're in the south in much of the midwest but by no means all of it so i'm told we say pop and pop is just a fizzy drink stop and go lights i have to say there's a new one on me it sounds like something a child would come up with to describe traffic lights but i don't think i've ever heard midwesterners describe traffic lights that way is it regional i mean maybe people say in you know minnesota or somewhere that i've never been it is apparently stop and go lights are synonymous with traffic lights if you use this term and you live in the midwest let me know in the comments below hot dish how can that not be anything other than a dish that's hot including you know hot dogs chicago style pizza or ice cream they have fried ice cream in the midwest no hold on a hot dish is specifically a casserole dish that contains starch a meat and a candle frozen vegetable mixed with canned soup that must be served hot or warm can't you can't serve it warm that would be a warm dish it originated in the upper midwest and that's typically where it's found go up north i don't think i've specifically heard midwesterners use this phrase but i can picture it being used to describe canada to go to canada it wouldn't be literally to go north and just only end up in wisconsin you have to go the whole hog and maybe you know ride a moose and that's what it means to go up north it doesn't mean that apparently in michigan to go up north means to go camping or to stay in some sort of cabin or a mixture of the two see for somebody who lives in the midwest this is shocking i have one out of four correct after this is a word that i have seen written down before when researching midwestern english i think it's sort of used in the upper midwest maybe the upper peninsula i think comes from norwegian as i recall but i can't remember what it means i think when i've seen it before it had an exclamation mark exclamation point after it which suggests it's an exclamatory phrase to mean oh my gosh or i don't know maybe it's an intensifier i think it does mean whoa or something like that but it's been a long time so let's look it up it has its own wikipedia page it is an exclamation or an interjection used to express dismay i'm not sure i fully conveyed that in my guess whoa is more surprised than dismay isn't it it is though of norwegian origin so i think i should get half a point for remembering that no right fine ufta crick i have heard this one before it's not short for cricket for obvious reasons it doesn't mean a crick in your neck because i think people just say that generally in the us but i think it's another way of saying creak as in you know the type of stream not to be confused with the secret stream that i have with my patrons every friday there you go some midwesterners will pronounce creek as crick when talking about a brook or a small stream it's like how they sometimes say iron to mean iron or toilet to mean toilet or wash instead of wash and i'm not suggesting they do all three of those activities at once gym shoes this isn't a term you hear very often but it is a term that apparently pops up in chicago and one or two other places in the midwest it just means what the rest of america calls either tennis shoes or sneakers or what we in britain call trainers there you go there's a handy little map showing that gym shoes is indeed found in chicago and also cincinnati schnuckad i've heard this word before so in britain we have the word snookered which comes from the sport snooker which just means you kind of you're trapped there's no way out of this thing i wonder if it's just a continuation of that i i know this term i just i've never used it i've never had it used about me or at least not that i can remember so i think snookered is that it's there's no way out of this you're trapped you're snookered [Music] no schnookard is apparently midwestern slang to mean excessively drunk it's no wonder i can't remember it and given that approximately half of all british words also mean excessively drunk i am a bit surprised by this difference are we sure this is specific to the midwest i feel like most americans use this don't they or maybe this shortening of presumably jesus did originate in the midwest and then just you know spread its gospel but i think that uh i've heard this many times i think we might even say in britain at this point but i think it can be used in several ways right it can be used to express surprise geez or mild dismay as in oh geez i've just remembered a similar one in britain is g whiz here we go in the midwest geez is a polite way of expressing frustration bubbler this one came upon a previous video suggesting that it is found in more than one region as i said back then it just means a water fountain that you drink out of but i don't think it's used in most places in the midwest i think that terminology is very specifically found in wisconsin there we go a bubbler is a word for what others call a water fountain brewski i've definitely heard this term but now i can't remember if it means like a brew of coffee or the type of brew that would leave you schnuckered i've clearly never gotten drunk with midwesterners either way even though i've seen this word before i don't think any midwesterners have personally used it to me i think a brewski is another word for beer have a pint of brewski brewski you're likely to hear the word brewski floating around a local midwestern pub it's just another way we say beer oh my it's amazing what you just pick up through osmosis all through being snuckered i'm certain i've covered this word before i just can't remember what it means off the top of my head i mean looking at it it looks like the inevitable biological result of having too many brewskis never break the seal but i don't know to have a padilla to take a padilla that seems sensible to me i think it means to just go to the bathroom pedidol is a canadian and american slang term for a vehicle with a burnout headlight or brake light of course you're driving along and you see this you're supposed to say pedidel how did i forget that i think i've just been drunk the whole time that i've lived in the u.s which is amazing for somebody that gave up alcohol a year and a half ago ah yes tough tomatoes and or tomatoes or a variation on this saying that would get me demonetised so i will refrain tough tomatoes isn't literally describing an impenetrable fruit it's just another way of saying tough luck as in youtube sensation lawrence brown only had one response to david beckham's failed attempt at becoming america's finest british import tough tomatoes tomatoes hollertail i never heard that in my life i mean holler is just another way of saying hello isn't it and tail worryingly could be a euphemism i'm going to guess this isn't literal and it's a type of tale what do they have a lot of in the midwest there's a lot of cows maybe it's a cow tale why would you have a special word for that then again padilla's a thing so i'm going to go with the guests that either a tail is a cow's tail or a cow's arse thankfully it is neither of those things if somebody's in a bad mood or doesn't feel well then he or she could be said to have the hollow tail and finally hair binder i don't think i've ever heard that term before but that could be because i don't use whatever this thing is my hair just does what it wants now that i'm 40. it's like a hair tie or a hair grip we'll go with hair tie i think it's another word for hair tie i should say though that i think hair tie is commonly used in the midwest isn't it so i'm probably wrong let's take a look a hair binder is indeed a hair tie i would have no cause to use that since i haven't had hair long enough to use a hair tie since the great woodstock incident of 2006 and as far as i know my wife says hair tie so if you use this term let me know in the comments below where in the midwest you are situated it's okay i'm not going to come and track you down i just need to know if this is a regional thing that's it for this episode stay tuned in the coming days for my list of midwestern culture sharks i'm laurence brown you can follow me on twitter at lost in the pond us and don't forget to subscribe to my channel so that my videos don't get lost in the pond a massive thank you to my patrons who i get to talk with about this kind of stuff on my friday afternoon secret streams if you would like to become a patron of lost in the pond you can do so today at patreon.com lost in the pond until the next video goodbye [Music] you

Channel: Lost in the Pond

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Keywords: Laurence Brown, America, Midwest, Midwestern slang

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Length: 10min 25sec (625 seconds)

Published: Sat May 07 2022