http://www.boston-online.com/glossary/ blogdescription=Boston English: There's more than just pahking your cah in Hahvihd Yahd - We have our own vocabulary and grammah. blogkeywords=Boston English, Wicked Good, dialects, Boston en-us 2008-02-13T13:34:49-05:00 http://www.boston-online.com/glossary/bigball_bowling.html What the rest of the country calls "10-pin" bowling, as opposed to the homegrown candlepin bowling. Ron Curtin provides an example of its use, from... C-D adamg 2008-02-13T13:34:49-05:00 http://www.boston-online.com/glossary/zoo_on.html To make fun of: "What are you, zooin' on me?" Heard in Hyde Park. Dan Lebowitz... U-Z adamg 2003-11-10T13:19:02-05:00 http://www.boston-online.com/glossary/zoomie.html Graduate of ZooMass, a.k.a, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Jeff Kline... U-Z adamg 2003-11-10T13:18:18-05:00 http://www.boston-online.com/glossary/ywanna_staht.html Loud, boisterous, bluffing type challenge heard in the Nawt' End. Not intended to start a real fight, really means more like "Ya really stahtin' ta... U-Z adamg 2003-11-10T13:17:01-05:00 http://www.boston-online.com/glossary/yar.html "Yeah," when followed by a word that begins with the letter I. "Yeah, it's awesome" comes out as "Yarit's awesome." Matt Ross... U-Z adamg 2003-11-10T13:15:53-05:00 http://www.boston-online.com/glossary/ya_huh.html Reply to "No Suh!" Laura McAvoy... U-Z adamg 2003-11-10T13:14:43-05:00 http://www.boston-online.com/glossary/woof.html Cocaine, in Charlestown. The Burke Boys... U-Z adamg 2003-11-10T13:12:36-05:00 http://www.boston-online.com/glossary/whoahmonga.html "A favorite insult of my 85-year old maternal grandmother; usually yelled out the window of her car when cut off in traffic on 128, or... U-Z adamg 2003-11-10T13:11:28-05:00 http://www.boston-online.com/glossary/whole_notha.html A complete replacement; "I got a whole 'notha computa on my desk now."... U-Z adamg 2003-11-10T13:10:23-05:00 http://www.boston-online.com/glossary/whats_doin.html How are you?... U-Z adamg 2003-11-10T13:09:49-05:00 http://www.boston-online.com/glossary/wicked_frickin_pissa.html Something that's just absolutely too cool for words.... U-Z adamg 2003-11-10T13:09:10-05:00 http://www.boston-online.com/glossary/wicked_pissa.html Something that's way cool.... U-Z adamg 2003-11-10T13:08:38-05:00 http://www.boston-online.com/glossary/wicked.html A general intensifier; very: "He's wicked nuts!"... U-Z adamg 2003-11-10T13:01:47-05:00 http://www.boston-online.com/glossary/westa_wistah.html Terra incognita; beyond the bounds of civilization (some Bostonians will argue that that boundary is actually Rte. 128). "I think a Bostonian would much rather... U-Z adamg 2003-11-10T13:01:09-05:00 http://www.boston-online.com/glossary/wanna_go.html "Let's step outside to the parking lot and settle this like real men."... U-Z adamg 2003-11-10T12:59:43-05:00