It's a WHAT?

[TwistedWindSox]

So today my friend and I were hanging out, and I noticed a very large mosquito hawk on his wall, and pointed it out to him because I thought it was a large mosquito. He shook his head and told me in all seriousness that it "Isn't a mosquito. It's a Snolly Gosster"
WHAT?
I'd never heard the word before so i thought he was kidding, but I guess it's what people out here call them.
The same friend also commented on one of our classmates bringing a "bumbershoot" in to school when it didn't even rain. He had to explain to me that it meant umbrella.

Have you ever learned any silly or quirky words for every-day objects?

[Sky_Rocket_Sammie]

The half hour between dusk and full dark=dark thirty
Something that's a good distance away=back forty
Downpour rain=frog strangler
Twitchy person or animal=more nervous than a long tail cat, in a room full of rockin chairs.
Very mad or upset=mad as a wet hen
Stream=crick

[kaoskat]

I've heard them, but I guess I don't really commit them to memory as odd because I can't pull any up.

[Eviecorn]

I think mostly everyone's familiar with Southern terminology, but I still get awkward looks from non-southerners when I use the term "cattywampus."  it's just an adjective meaning off-center or generally not right.

[saply]

naming my second child snolly gosster now

[kamakazee82]

... someone should follow me around witha video camera or something ...

bumbleshoot/bumbershoot-umbrella
cattywumpas-off kilter
boondocks/back forty-far away or middle of nowhere
banjo territory-SCARY area in the middle of nowhere commonly heard from me in the phrase "I'm hearing banjos" and a reference to a certain move i'm sure most people are familiar with ... lol
duckfoots/mudders/rubbers/waders/mucklucks/harbingers-the knee high one piece large rubber boots
frog strangler/duck drowner-POURING down rain
om noms/eats- food
crick-stream/creek "good lord a willin and the crick don't rise"
girl scout-prostitute (sorry to everyone who is a girl scout or has girl scouts it's a hanger-on from my trip to hawaai where the tour guide called them that *facepalm*)
twinklies-shiny jewelry or really anything that's sparkly lol
jangles-coins
humdinger-something exceptional "well, ain't that a humdinger of a movie!"
consarnit!-an exclamation of frustration/vexation
rassafrackin-another exclamation of frustration/vexation lol
great googly moogly!-exclamation of surprise, usually pleasant
about as deep as an ankle high marsh-calling something stupid or silly


and i know i'm missing a lot of random things i say lol

[Rainsong]

Your mosquito hawk is likely what we call a mosquito eater, aka a Crane Fly.
I grew up calling grilled cheese sandwiches "gritches". This really threw my husband (and ... everyone else >.<)

[mlp4me]

we call them bubblers here, you may call them water fountains. "I'm really thirsty, guess I'll go get a drink from the bubbler..." (Yea, don't say that out of state of WI people look at you funny...)

[Corona]

The only one I got confused with when I moved from Southern California to Indiana for college was "pop." I was going to the grocery store and my roommate asked me to pick up some pop. I was like "Pick up what?"

Pop is apparently Midwestern for soda. I'm used to brand names for soda like "hey can you pick up some Coke on the way home?"

[Breyer600]

Walking into a store just after moving to Tennessee from Chicago, we were asked by a lady in the parking lot if we needed a buggy.  Horse and buggy?  Baby buggy?  Huh?  Finally figured out she meant a shopping cart.    It's apparently a common term for it here, but I still have to stop and think a moment any time I hear one referred to as such.

I'm sure there are terms I use for things that are out of the ordinary, but I can't really think of any at the moment.

[Alicat]

yep, Buggies!! lol!

So, my odd one was a hose-pipe. I am Southern, born in Atlanta, bred in East Tennessee, so I am not a stranger to Southern Terms. I have a deep Georgia drawl! When I moved to Middle Tennessee, ( just south of Nashville), someone asked me at Lowe's where the "Hose-pipes" were. All sorts of confused, I pointed him to plumbing, where he could buy cut-to-length pipe, piping of all shapes and sizes!!

He came back "maddern a old wet hen" and berated me for my lack of knowledge. Didn't I know where the "hose pipes" where?? I asked him to describe what you used it for, and quick realized he was looking for a garden hose, sheesh!!!

My husband swears up and down to this day, that is a SOUTHERN term! hah, never heard it in all my 21 years before that point!   

[xkelpiex]

naming my second child snolly gosster now

AHAHA

[Dibbles]

YES.
When we first moved here to Iowa about 15 years ago, my family was surprised to learn that people here call chipmunks "squinnies."  I still think it is the dumbest word.

[Eviecorn]

Alicat, I've lived in TN for most of my life and I have never heard someone call a garden hose a hose pipe.  I call shenanigans on your husband. 

But woo, more Tennesseans coming out of the woodwork!

[Alicat]

Alicat, I've lived in TN for most of my life and I have never heard someone call a garden hose a hose pipe.  I call shenanigans on your husband. 

But woo, more Tennesseans coming out of the woodwork!

yup! I'm the one that wrote you about Chattaboogie a while back! I grew up in Cleveland, and Hamilton Plcae Mall was our hang-out back then! lol!       .....that's sad.......

Ps, I called shenanigans on him too!! It seems to be in just this area!