Guessing What These US Mountain Region Words Mean
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- In which I embarrass myself by trying to guess the meaning of words one might hear in the mountain states of America.
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I am from Idaho, and while I don't generally take offense to much of anything, I think if someone were to call me a "spud-muncher," I think I would assume they don't mean it in a complimentary way.
Same. I had never heard the term before but was instantly offended by it.
I am from Idaho too. If someone from Montana called me that I don't think I would take offense. I generally don't care what people from Montana think.
I am from Idaho, I’ve never heard it before, and it does not bother me. It’s not like they’re calling us twat waffles or anything.
I live in Montana. I've never heard that term. It does sound derogatory though.
If you're an Irish person in Idaho, then that's a double wammy!
In Oregon we call flatlanders, lowlanders. I specifically told the restaurant waiter upon arrival in Denver we were lowlanders, so he knew we needed water and rest quickly.👍he, got us fixed right up. Also, many years ago here, greenies were environmentalists, sometimes called tree-huggers. Even though we all like the trees, but with varied priorities.
I've never heard anyone in Colorado called a 'Peak Bagger', but we de say 'bagging a peak' (climbing a 14er). We say 'flatlander,' but not as an insult - usually to talk about someone's altitude sickness. ('He has a headache from the altitude - he's a flatlander.')
Now if only he'd talked about Rocky Mountain Oysters!
Peak Bagger has come about in the hiking community to describe anyone who actively goes about bagging peaks. :-) But not necessarily a 14er. Just any peak they come across in their hike, or they're trying to bag specific peaks, or number of peaks in whatever state has mountains.
We also call someone a flatlander who is obviously not used to driving in the mountains.
It's a bit odd that Laurence didn't get this one, because in Scotland, there are people known as Munro baggers -- a surveyor named Munro produced a list of all the Scottish peaks over 3000 feet. (Depending on the source, there are anywhere from 277 to 283 such peaks; there are 34 others in the British Isles outside Scotland, known as Furths.) And in fact, according to Wikipedia, Munro started peak bagging, and it was later imported to the USA.
Get to the south and calf fries lol
I've lived in Colorado all my life and "flatlander", is definitely a derogatory term for people from fear lands, but generally in reference to them not knowing how to drive in hilly areas or in the mountains
If you think ward is weird, just wait until you find out what a "stake conference" is
Not to be confused with the much tastier Steak Conference
I was invited to a Stake Dinner at Lagoon when I was about 9. I thought it was kind of weird venue for steak, but okay..... We had a great day at Lagoon, and they they served... hot dogs!?!
I was so confused.
To explain to Catholics, I let them know a ward is like a parish, a stake is like a diocese.
Or a fireside. The kind indoors with no fire.
@@Mikelyn_B Ah, yes. I always imagined a bonfire and it sounded so fun! Never did get to a fireside (but I've been at a few bonfires!)
Gully Washers are storms that produce flash floods. Campers are warned not to camp in gullies (dry creek beds) because a storm miles upstream can send a flood of water through the gully.
so my son who lives in Denver is a Greenie Peak Bagger who has climbed over 20 fourteeners... along with Mt. Kilamanjaro recently. great video
Hi! to you and your son from Aurora, CO!
My husband used to be a Munro Bagger, someone who climbs all the mountains of Scotland that are 3,000 feet or more high.
That’s impressive. I’m surprised a Greenie can do that considering all the weed down there.
@@LexieLPoyser he tried it when he first moved then decided it wasn't really his thing. he's into Crossfit and exercise these days and healthier choices.
@@conniethingstad1070 as long as he’s living his best life, that’s all that matters.
Fourteeners
Yeah. I knew that.
Take another look at that Colorado license plate. It shows the 7 fourteeners that can be seen from the steps of the capital building in Denver.
Oh nice!!
About “Greenies”: it might help to know Colorado’s license plates used to be the same design as now but inverse colors, as in, green mountains with a thin strip of white sky. That was the design from the late 1970s until 2000, when they kept the outline but flipped the colors. So my guess is they started calling Coloradans “greenies” during that era when you could recognize a Colorado car from a very long distance just by that rectangle of green on the bumper.
I’m old enough to remember when Colorado alternated the plates year to year. We’d just new plates in the mail I think with the same letters and numbers, but it would alternate plate colors. That all changed in 1976 with the bicentennial plates and the invention of yearly stickers.
You are right, they used to be very green for a long time.
@@judsonr1 Still have my bicentennial plats. Now I fell old
Me too! They came off of the first car I bought when I was 17 (1971 Pontiac LeMan's). Sold the car after 9 months, but I still have those plates! Lol.
I'm a Colorado native & I've never heard the term "greenie's" used in this fashion, ever. I even have relatives that live in Wyo.
I grew up in CO and now live in WY and the slang used in both states sounds pretty accurate to me. On the jockey box: I’ve never heard it referred to as a glove box but I do understand the context. Jockey boxes were storage boxes attached to the front of a covered wagon, so contextually they were the glove boxes of the mid to late 19th century!
Oh that's cool! Thanks!
I’ve never heard the term you use for a glove box. Grew up in Connecticut but have traveled all over and this is the 1st time in 40 years I’ve heard the word jockey box used in this way~ cool. Thanks for the explanation.
I have heard folks refer to the glove box in their car as a jockey box so I guessed that one. Thanks for the history of it!
Aderynbrea , it reminds me of the term "riding shotgun", since it has to do with the Old West, as nowadays it means a person riding in the front passenger's seat of a car, the same as the guy who rode on the driver's seat of a stagecoach with a shotgun to fight off the bad guys.
I never heard of a glove box being called a jockey box. Learned something new.
Looks like Laurence has been combing his hair with a doorknob again. 🤣
Great video, dude....glad you're feeling better!
I thought it was a nod to Wyoming hairstyles. Chicago may be the Windy City, Wyoming takes that to a state level.
My birthplace and childhood home in New Mexico (7,600 ft. above sea level) was in the Denver Post distribution area. The by-line of the Denver Post was "Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire." The high school students while I was elementary school age had their own slang that I haven't heard anywhere else or at any other time. My middle sister acquired traces of a Spanish accent and called a gully a golly.
As a native Utahn, who's mostly lived in the mountain west, I knew a lot of these. I'd say it was more common to just hear donuts vs spinning donuts, especially when it snowed. You'd hear someone say, "I did donuts in the parking lot" and people know what you're talking about. I didn't realize "biffed it" was a local slang term. 😅 Now I feel like I did when I found out sluffing was a Utah/Idaho word. To biff it means to fail epically with a fall. Like, "Ooh, he biffed it" when falling off a vehicle, or skateboard, or just missing a step and taking a really hard fall off like a curb or something; it's gotta be dramatic. I don't know anyone who'd use it to describe running into or simply hitting something.
When I moved from Utah to Wyoming in high school, I was so confused because instead of saying, “I did donuts in the parking lot”, they say, “I did cookies in the parking lot”. Took me awhile to force myself to say, “cookies”. 😂
Growing up in Eastern Colorado we called it "Cutting Cat Asses" 😆
@@SonjaEves Growing up in Eastern Colorado we called it "Cutting Cat Asses" 😆
Utahn here also - I hadn't heard most of these, but Ward, biff, donuts, jockey box... Spud muncher was obvious, but new to me - we just call 'em spuds. 🤔 Yeah, biffing it has to be dramatic - and probably publicly humiliating as well. My friend did donuts in the Ward parking lot in his *van* one time! 😲
@@tdiscbetween wouldn't that be a cat-ass-trophy? 😁
Haha I'm from Idaho and I've been called a spud munched as a joke from my Montana friends. Made me laugh out loud 🤣
But we know Montana folk introduce their girlfriends as, "Baaaaahhbara"
Lol! I've never heard that! I'm a carrot muncher. Never heard that either. :) But I sloughed school. ;0)
I have heard the term "flatlander" used in Vermont, although the mountains there are not tall enough so that thinner air is a concern. Putting on shoes or climbing one flight of stairs at 10,000 feet (3000 meters) above sea level in the mountains of the West can leave you short of breath and questioning whether you are fit enough to even attempt skiing or other sports.
Utahn here. I hadn't heard the term flatlander, but the altitude difference is a real problem! I was hosting some college kids from Indiana one summer and they were surprised at how tired they got hiking in the mountains - and then I said, "Yeah, we have to use the high altitude directions on cake mixes here" They didn't believe me so I showed them a box of brownie mix - and then they were *amazed*. 😄
The awesome thing is that the reverse is also true. I've lived in Colorado since I was 4 and any time I go to visit my in-laws at low altitude I feel like Superman. It's even more enjoyable because I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia more than 15 years ago and most of the time I just have no energy at all.
Yup and funny watching people who can't catch their breath up the Manitou Incline 2000 ft in .88 mile and gets to be a 65% slope
The people in Maine use Flatlander to describe the tourist that come up from Massachusetts, mostly, but it is generally applied to any outsider.
I’ve found that even being out of shape I eventually adjust to hiking at altitudes over 2000 meters after spending 5-6 days. I may be a little slower, but I don’t ever feel that bad. Near 4000 meters is when I start feeling really off. Sleeping above 3500 meters never feels good either.
As someone from Utah, who lives in Colorado… I feel so heard 😂
Preach
Wyoming native here. I laughed so hard when greenie came up. To answer your question, what do the Coloradans think. We don’t care what they think lol.
Heck, most folks in small towns in the Rockies don't care what the guy in the next town over thinks!
Colorado native here, your comment made me laugh, and most of us don’t care either.
Greenies was really more appropriate back before they added all the white
Haha, laughed at this comment. Glad to see someone giving Coloradans a taste of their own medicine. Man, they are not friendly to people from neighboring states. I say that as a person who has lived there several times. I love CO, but they need to get over their superiority complex and remember how much those TX, NM, etc. tourism dollars help the smaller towns.
And we in Colorado could care less about what you think.
As a spud muncher (IFtowner to be exact-ish), I can say I find that term absolutely hilarious although I personally have never heard it. The last two words however I have heard too. Ward is quite common as LDS members are quite common in Idaho and biffed it I hear from friends.
Ward is also a geographical district within cities/towns in Louisiana.
@@kristend344 and there are Wards here in Charlotte also
The LDS took the already existing word "ward" and used it for their organizational structure.
I’m a spud muncher from the wooded city and I find it funny too. I’m surprised Commiefornia didn’t come up though. It seems to be popular in my area of Idaho at least.
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At an age of over 70 I bagged a Fourteener in Colorado! That’s not very impressive though, because my car did most of the work and I only lumbered up the last 1/3 mile. We use the term “gully washer” out West here, though they have become a rarity!
Mt. Evans, I take it? Even my dad, who grew up in Colorado, later admitted the altitude was getting to him near the top of the road.
@@exrobowidow1617 yup. That’s the one! Gorgeous drive and nice to be up there!
@@exrobowidow1617 I think the Mount Evans road may still be the highest paved road, in the United States.
Coloradan here! (Guess I’m a Greenie? 🤣) This was a hoot! If you ever do a part 2, take a guess at Rocky Mountain Oysters. That was the one I was hoping to hear. Thanks for the laugh!
I know what those are, but I don't like the taste. Because you can taste what they had. 🙂
Peak bagging is popular in Colorado as we have 58 14ers. There's a club that awards people who've climbed all of them.
Nice!
In California i grew up with jockey boxes in cars. i first heard biffed it applied to surfing, skiing and skateboarding wipe outs back in the Valley Girl era !:-) 🙏
Gully washer is a major thunderstorm, someone who climbs the fourteeners. You should go to Colorado.
You should do slang from the U.P. next (the upper peninsula of Michigan). I just watched Escanaba In Da Moonlight again recently and there's so many good ones up there.
I'm sure all of the trolls and fudgies would love it. :-)
Love that movie.
I’m from Boston, and you’d have a hilarious time figuring out a lot of things we say!
Generational CO native here. We usually refer to a ‘flatlander’ as someone who doesn’t know how to drive in the mountains and it is usually negative in connotation. 🤷🏻♀️
I.E., all those damn Californians who can’t drive in snow
Yes, that’s what a flatlander is to me too.
Nothing weirder than seeing your own name on a comment for something you were going to comment on. Hello other Colorado Katie.
Flat lander is more with resignation than insult for me. Like, they can’t help it, but they’re gonna be like that, sigh.
@@akakat yeah, it's sorta more of a feeling of "oh god, this person is clearly a flatlander. * sigh *, just give them some extra space and hope that I can pass them soon..."
Jockey box is less a regional term than you think. It is a box that holds tools and is fitted on the underside of the tractor part of a tractor-trailer. I lived in Wyoming and Colorado for 42 years have heard the term as far east as New Jersey.
I'm from Manitoba Canada and I've heard it a few times also.
Yes it is an old term that comes from the days of Horse drawn stagecoaches and carriages.
We call it pulling a donut. It's a real hoot on empty, snow-covered parking lots, and great training for highway driving in the snowy Wasatch Mountains, or possibly the Oquirrhs!
Hey, neighbor! I live in Tooele!!
Way back in the 70's, right after I graduated high school, I had a new International Scout II that had positraction in the rear axle and it had a manual transmission and a gear shift for putting into 4 wheel drive. We had a Gibson's Discount Center, (remember those?) with a large empty parking lot (it was closed on Sundays). I was with my girlfriend. I would be out of 4 wheel drive, spin both rear wheels and then slip it into 4 wheel drive. A policeman came into the parking lot and stopped me. He said, "What are you doing?" I replied, "I'm making hesrt-shaped donuts for my girlfriend." He sugested I had made enough and to bo somewhere else. I had a whole parking lot of heart shapes. Fun stuff.
My boyfriend and I spent a night doing it in high-school, his mom was a bit upset with over 100 miles put on her car. We had fun
Or doing donuts. We use both in Northern Idaho.
Or the Uintahs.
My family always called a glove box, a Jockey Box, they were all from Colorado before 1920. We called a guy from Montana/Wyoming either a goat roper or a Stump Jumper. I don't remember which was which. It made far more sense when you were 18 and drinking.
A goat roper would be someone really into rodeo. As in, I once called my room mate from Star Valley, Wy. a goat roper because she also wore huge silver belt buckles, blue jeans, cowboy boots, and listened to cowboy music. She roped me and tied me to a chair. It was hilarious.
@@gwenwilliams3594 Goat roper, a Montanan from East of the Continental Divide, Stump Jumper, someone from the west side.
"Carrot Snapper" refers to the prevalence of serving Carrot Salad in Utah
Probably grated carrots in a jello salad.
this is correct. Typically it is Green Jello ( Lime ) with grated carrots added. sometimes it includes shredded pineapple as well.
@@garysatterlee9455 uggh
The origin I read was workers from Utah working in Idaho putting carrots in the pockets of their bib overalls & breaking off pieces during the day for a snack.
I thought you meant grated carrots with raisins, not the jello type. I don't like either personally.
From Montana, yes a jockey box is the glove compartment in your car. My parents used the term all the time. I’ve heard all these terms. However, it depends on where you live in the state on the terms you use.
This was great! Really enjoying this series.
When you do Michigan, consider these regionalisms: fudgies, trolls, yoopers, and trunk slammers. I would love to hear your thoughts on what those mean. 🙂
Yoopers! Escanaba, the Yooper capital.
Yroopers and trolls with fudgies in the middle.
I'm from Colorado, and I literally have no idea what any of those mean 😄 Can't wait to hear what the answers are!
@@andrewthomas7109 a Yooper is someone from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The U. P.
The Mackinac Bridge separates the Upper Peninsula from the Lower Peninsula. Trolls are those from the lower Peninsula because they live under the bridge.
Fusgies and trunk slammer are terms for the numerous tourists who come north all the time for the camping, hunting, lakes and outdoor attractions. Every tourist town has many fudge shops-- hence the fudgies. Trunk slammer is kinda self-explanatory once you realize it's about a tourist. 🙂
@@melissaewing4821 😂
I moved 30 years ago from Wyoming to Colorado and my family calls me a “greenie” all the time. Have always heard spinning donuts to refer to spinning your car on ice. My dad always called it a jockey box. Maybe because you had to jokey things around to get anything in or out and there was never any room for gloves. Yes you are a flatlander usually used when us Western Folk meet you on mountain highways frightened to death.
You didn't move,,, Wyoming just blew you away. Ggl
@@PetePavloff yes you’re right 😂
The Mountain Highway mantra- "Yes, I KNOW you're from Kansas, but HALF the speed limit would be nice."
They are related. The jockey box is the storage compartment on a horse drawn carriage. Gloves would be a common item to prevent chafing from the reins, just as gloves were a common automobile driver’s piece of gear to get a better grip on the wheel/tiller before power steering.
I was confused about the spinning cookie phrase. I thought everyone just called that doing donuts.
Colorado here. Love your videos....we are also called Tree Huggers, because many of us love the outdoors so much.
I’m a native New Yorker living in southeastern Wyoming. The Colorado/Wyoming animosity is REAL.
Animosity especially when comparing some of the more liberal political areas of Colorado with the largely conservative political leanings of Wyoming.
I assume it's because they're mad about having roughly the same shape of state
I just found out Kuna is Quna. ...and now removing the "z" 😅 Thank you!
As someone who was born and raised in Idaho, living here almost my entire life (43 years), in multiple cities/towns all over the state, I have to say I’ve never heard any of the Idaho words. I know (from having lived in Idaho Falls for many years) that IF is the term used for Idaho Falls, but I’ve never heard of IFTown. I also know that almost no one pronounces Boise correct unless they’ve lived here… it’s Boy-see.
I prefer to think that no-one who lives in Boise pronounces it correctly.
When you hear the Z you know they're from out of town. Nowadays pretty much everyone is from out of town. Been here since Eagle road was 2 lanes and stop signs.
From western MT and it is always Boy SEE. But I have never heard anyone from outside the state correctly pronounce the town of Anaconda. It is And a Con DA. No idea why the second D is in the name.
The term prairie maggots might have come from cattle ranchers back in the day when there was a lot of rivalry between them and sheep ranchers.
yep reference how a fully wooled out sheep kind of looks like a wriggling maggot from a distance
Definitely so!
You are spot on.
As a Utahn, I've heard prairie maggots, but I've more often heard the term range maggots. Probably because cattle and sheep are kept out on open range land.
In California I've always heard Prarie Maggots refer to Pronghorn Antelope.
Colorado native here. Loved the video! It seems like most of the region-specific terms that I can think of are related to our mountainous geography. In addition to the ones that you mentioned, I think backbowl, hogback, scree, and talus are pretty specific to the mountain states.
Being from Utah, we definitely do say, "Biffed it." Especially skateboarders, at least when I was a kid. We also use the word, "Sluff." It means to skip school. Apparently that's a Utah thing too...
In Idaho we use stuff too. 😊
I have heard/seen the term, but I though it was spelled slough
To slough (or sluff) off anything means to no do what you should be doing, usually just be cause you are feeling lazy or just can't be bothered. Perfect fit for sloughing off school.😁
Another one I see now that I live in Utah is "to butt in line" instead of "to cut in line."
Oh yeah. I never heard "sluff" until I moved here, and then they had to explain it to me. (I also assumed it was spelled "slough" but rarely written down, at least by the kids who were doing that instead of being at school. :P)
Michigan has a couple fun ones: Yoopers (people from the UP) and Trolls (people from the LP, below the Mackinac bridge).
I lived in Wyoming in the early 1970s and "Greenies" was a common slang for Coloradans. We used to refer to people in Boulder, CO as "refugees" because they all seemed to be from California.
In Hamilton MT, they used the term Californicator for people moving in from California.
In Michigan, I've also heard "biffed it", but it instead means something along the lines of "missed it... badly". Like when referring to a pool/billiard player messed up their shot or break really badly. Some examples would be those times where you don't even hit the cue ball correctly and it just moves a few inches (often even a completely different direction than you were aiming), or you address a golf ball and make a full swing but completely miss hitting it, or shooting a basketball but it hits the netting under the hoop without going in.
Willis Tower still = Sears Tower for a lot of folks, official name be (gosh-darned)
I know, right! I might be watching this a month after Lawrence released it, but as soon as he said "Willis Tower," I had to pause and scroll down here to see if any Chicagoans had anything to say. It was still called the "Sears Tower" back when I moved away from Illinois (In-fact, my old cassette deck still has a notice on the back to call "Sears, Robuck & Co." The address being 233 S. Wacker Drive!) The first time I heard the name change, was when I was in Rosemont; visiting family, and someone on TV was talking about the name change (back in 2009.) My first thought was that it was bought by Bruce Willis... To me, it'll always be the Sears Tower.
Jockey box was also a term sometimes used for the tool box under the seat of the old horse drawn wagons.
Flatlander is also used as a semi-derogatory term for people who are inexperienced driving in the mountains during winter. They do things like tailgate the car in front of them or slam on the breaks on a mountain road or they think that 4x4 means they can stop on a dime in icy conditions.
I live in Evanston, WY. We call our town E-town. We also say cookies, and biffed it. I have heard some of the other ones too, but not on a regular basis.
Biffing it is wrecking on skis or a bike to me.
This was hysterical. I’ve never heard any of those phrases, except for Ward (because I have Mormon friends). Other than that, all of these were completely foreign to me. Apparently, they stay in their area, rarely getting beyond the borders. Humorously interesting.
"Peak bagger" and "fourteener" are pretty common; the other terms not so much.
You try coming up with unique mountain state words. There really aren't many.
I’m from Virginia and we definitely use gully washer and people in the mountains here use the term flat lander
Yups. Can confirm.
I sent this to my sister who lives in Colorado, when she was visiting me in NJ last year I was playing your videos for her and she really enjoyed them.
In general, in both American and British slang, "bagging" is derived from the practice of hunters placing small quarry into a game bag.
GULLY WASHER! GOLLY WASHER AS YOU SAID SOUNDS EXTREMLY RACIST!
fourteener means 14 or older therefore legal in the mountain states!
Tea Bag your male lover...
I would assume they are referring to Backpack Climbers.
@@Objective-Observer In this case, perhaps, I was referring to "bagging" in general... "I bagged some great deals on back-to-school clothes for my kids." "Mike had a good hunting trip; bagged an elk". Etc.
I live in Montana. Buck-98 is a reference to when the Dollar had much more purchasing power.
Jockey box came from the storage boxes they used to have on stage coaches to put small belongings in.
Greenie is also a reference to Colorado State University. The Boarder War between Wyoming and CSU is always a big deal here in Northern Colorado.
Yeah. CSU v UW is even bigger than CSU v CU.
$1.98 was the price tag left hanging on Minnie Pearl's hat, to brag to people how [expensive] her hat cost. She was on old US country music TV shows like Hee Haw & Tennessee Earnie Ford Show in the 1950's & 1960's. Lawrence, Google Minnie Pearl & look at her hat tag & listen to her famous "howdy" greeting. I'm 72, born 1951- I remember her.
Greenie is also a derogatory term for tree huggers
Of which, Colorado has more than a few.
@@lairdcummings9092 Good!! But also the standard Colorado license plates, especially older ones, have a lot of green on them.
@@gogreen7794 never disputed that; in fact, the juxtaposition makes for a good pun.
I'm from Idaho and we don't think much of people poking fun about potatoes. I think most people just roll their eyes and think 'another clever person with nothing to say.'
No one who eats potatoes should mock potatoes.
So ... everyone.
Exactly. I'm a native W. Washingtonian and have always thought of Idahoans as fellow Pacific Northwesterners. It just sounds embarrassingly ignorant when someone makes a potato joke. Especially since it's probably Americans'
favorite vegetable. Lol
Idaho is beautiful.
Yes, I'm in Montana. Never heard any of those except the Spud Muncher and prairie maggots. Mostly from old timers. Montana is also a prairie state. I have heard the term 'flatlanders' referring to those in prairie states. Best thing to come out of Idaho, I-90 east bound. 😀😀
A Idahoan here, I usually use Iowa as an example for the flatlander state…lol. Had lived in Bozeman for a year or two as a kid. Loved it!
Best thing to come out of North Dakota is I-94 westbound. Of course, it terminates in Billings, but take what you can get, I guess.
@MontanaMan Reminds me of when I lived in Colorado, driving behind a car with Texas plates white knuckling our mountain roads. It resulted in a common saying back then (70's) "If God had wanted Texans to ski, he would have made cow $hit white". There's a little rivalry for you there Laurence. LOL
@@dianna3157 That one got me XD
As long as we're all sharing: Why is Wyoming so windy?
Because Nebraska sucks.
@@typacsk the one I hear has Montana instead of Wyoming, and it's because Idaho sucks and North Dakota blows.
I don't know if this is just Rockies slang, but my aunt was on the ski patrol in Red Lodge, MT for decades and when someone would wipe out, they called it a 'yard sale', because their gear was spread out all over the mountain.
“Biffed it” is one of those word phrases that I knew growing up in California without needing an explanation. I think it is more universal than the Rocky Mountain region.
I guessed that it was a euphemism for 'died'
My guess on this was missed. Like wiffed here.
I knew it when I was a kid in the Seattle region. I am guessing it is just a western US saying that maybe originated in the rocky mountains. It definitely sounds like Ski slang to me.
I think it’s a 70s/80s slang term that stayed around.
As a Coloradan, we use this phrase mostly in the context of skiing or snowboarding. You can use it for any sort of fall, but it more specifically refers to dramatic and high speed falls while skiing/boarding (but no major injuries, just laughs and lots of flying powder). The snow flies and it makes a soft "biff" sound.
I moved to Utah ten years ago and the strangest slang I heard was "sluffing". It's the expression used when a student decides to not attend school, usually for fun. I grew up saying "skipping".
Several of our viewers have recommended your channel to us - and after watching your videos, we're hooked!! We are Brit Girls who have gone Stateside - and are loving it! We love your positive attitude, the depth of your research, and your brilliant British dry sense of humour. We're also fascinated and amused by the difference between American and British words - the meaning, pronunciation and uniqueness of their local words. Fun video - thank you!
I live near Idaho Falls, and I've never heard iftown. We normally just spell out IF. Eye-Eff.
Get well soon, Laurence, I've had a bad cough since Monday, went to go a hour away to get medicine, decided to have the ER check me for Coronavirus, Flu, Bronchitis, and something else, all tests did not suggest any condition. But another condition came to life, don't cough if you're not on the throne.
As a Denver resident, I think this is quite accurate and fair!
Speaking of Peak baggers, I knew a fun woman who travelled Great Britain quite a bit, and one of the things she did that perplexed the welsh was being able to climb a 5000 foot mountain on a balmy 15 degree c day. They were exhausted from the hike to the base of the mountain, and when told that she climbed 14ers for fun here in Colorado, they commented that she already started at something like 5000 feet, so clearly that 14er was easier than this mere 5er that they offered to climb with her.
Sounds logical. 🥴😵💫
Gully washer is very common here in Southern Indiana, as are 'toad-choker, toad-strangler, goose-drowner' and so on.
Growing up in Colorado we had a name for the people who came there to go camping and sightseeing. The tourists were called flatlanders.
It’s weird because we do have the term flatlander here in the Adirondacks of NY, and the way I understand it is the people from New York City who are not savvy to the woods.
a ward can also be someone who is under the custody of someone else, such as a child, an adult unable to care for themselves, or a prisoner, which is why the head of a prison is called the warden.
You will also hear Ward in other areas of the country that refers to a geographical description of an area.
For members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a ward is an area designated as your congregation. You are assigned a ward, you don't shop around for a church or congregation to attend, it is easy to find out when and where to attend meetings. Wards are part of a Stake, that will consist of 10 to 15 wards. Branches are smaller than a ward.
Hi Laurence I'm from the Piedmont of North Carolina and I've heard gulley washer all of my life. Meaning a hard brief rain.
Gully washers are called that because they're likely to cause flash floods.
I was going to reply, "In Arizona we just call those flash floods" 😅
@@sikksotoo Yeah, Gully washer is all over the west, not just the rocky states, and definitely means flash floods as much as the storms that cause them.
Hope you are well soon. Always enjoy your videos. Thank you.
The first one caught me by surprise. In Utah a buck ninety-eight mean you weigh 198 pounds.
Exactly what I thought of!
Same in MI & OH.
I'm in western Canada where we have a discount store called A Buck or Two - buck referring to a dollar. Haven't heard it referring to weight.
Born in Utah raised in Montana. Never used gloves compartment, it was a gin bin or jockey box.
Spinning your car in a circle is called "doing donuts."
It’s regional. I’ve always said donuts but have known many people who said cookies, but the tracks you make look more like donuts than cookies so they’re just weird
@@steveshay5364 You don't make tracks when you spin cookies on slick ice...
Yup, we always used “doing donuts”.
I do love this series! I’ve heard of (and used) “gully washer” and “biffed it” before…all the way out here in my Southwest region. The rest…not so much.
Being a Colorado native I can guarantee that we don't even care or think about Wyoming or what they call us. Wyoming is basically there to sell us fireworks. I'm only mostly kidding.
And Wyoming can keeps its fireworks. The idiots using them (usually illegally) tend to start fires and Colorado doesn't need anymore of those.
Best thing about Wyoming is it is to COLD for califorians
Chicagoan born and raised and still live here. Learned to drive a car in the winter, and did donuts, of course. Love mountains (Rocky, Alps, any really) of any kind. Because they are beautiful and not flat. Like the land around Chicago.
I'm a third generation Wyomingite and have lived in Montana for the last fifty years. These two following words I've only heard here are coulee and butte. A coulee is a deep ravine, and a butte is a flat toped hill or mountain.
There are buttes in California, and a Butte County. I've heard of the Grand Coulee Dam, but did not know the meaning of coulee.
Hi Lawrence! I live in a region which overlaps the US-Canada border, and you definitely should visit it if you haven't yet (I'll keep binging your vids). Anyway, it's called the Red River Valley (and yes, I know there's another one where Texas and Oklahoma meet). Winnipeg is on the Canadian side of the Red River Valley, but I'm toward the southern end, across from Fargo, North Dakota. If you think Chicago is flat (it is, but still), you should see Fargo - or Winnipeg. Worse yet, drive from one to the other. You'll be so starved for scenery that you'll start to notice grain elevators on the horizon (sometimes at distances of 20 miles) and get mildly excited by the size of them. I'm not exaggerating.
I live in Idaho and am the granddaughter of a potato farmer. I've never been called a spud muncher that I know of, but I don't feel offended by learning of the name. I'm proud of the spurs my state grows.
I lived in Indiana almost 4 years before I heard someone use the term NapTown. One of my 3rd grade students made a comment about going there over a long weekend. I had to have that translated.
Not all town nicknames are intended to shorten the name, however. Working on the Navajo reservation, I heard our Navajo language teacher refer to Gallup, NM as Giddyuptown. I about fell over laughing at that.
I've lived in Idaho for 24 years. I've never heard the term Iftown. I did find out that most people who aren't from Idaho pronounce our capitol, Boise as Boy-Zee. People from Idaho say Boy-See.
Your original thoughts on the term Biffed It were on the right track. It means wiping out like falling off a bicycle or falling while skiing/snowboarding. I guess that you could say they start on the right track and go off track.
One thing that the mountain states do seem to have in common is that we have cattle, a whole lot of cattle, milk, cheese, steaks.
@@bearthedog9766 Read it again. I said it’s the capitol, as in capitol of Idaho.
PLEASE keep making these! They are hilarious.
As a Montana native I have to say I've never heard a lot of these phrases, and some I've heard but are really never used. Two Montana-isms my mom and her sister (also native Montanans) use are crick (as a pronunciation of 'creek') and warsh (instead of 'wash').
As in , "God willing, & the crick don't rise?"
@@elultimo102 Well, anytime you would normally use the word creek, even something specifically called "X" Creek, they would pronounce it crick. That's not uncommon in Montana, especially among older people.
Crick is definitely also a Utah thing; at least, I remember hearing that here from at least a few people.
Creek is what a house does at night. Cricks are little streams. 😁
@@playgroundchooser ---The house "creaks."
I’m a fisherman from Colorado. Definitely hear about being a greenie as we come north to crowd your waters. Can’t blame you, but the fishing is too good!
As a Wyoming native but living in Colorado, I have been very conscious of being a "greenie". So I bought Wyoming Native license plate holders and a large sticker for my back window! I hate feeling like an outsider in my home town! Regarding "flatlanders", I use the term in a very derogatory manner when I come up behind someone in the mountains who obviously does not know how to drive in mountains and they have a flat state license plate. But I shouldn't do that because the only way you can learn how to drive in the mountains is to practice. But maybe just not do it on I-70 or I-80!
Ah, I’ve heard of 14r. I’ve been to the summit of Pikes Peak. It’s perhaps the most breathtaking view I’ve ever seen. This was July 87. We’re still way above the tree line. It started snowing. When we got back into Manitou Springs, it was pouring rain. :)
Didn't know I was a greenie, never heard that one before. We are definitely proud of our fourteeners and are quick to give altitude acclimation advice to flatlanders to help them avoid gnarly altitude sickness. I had an acquaintance who was a peak bagger, but I'm not one myself, as I've only climbed 2 fourteeners, but I do love the outdoors.
This is one from the Louisville (KY) metropolitan area that I'd like to hear people from outside the area guess: "Thurby".
I spent a year living in Colorado, so I knew some of these. I sort of knew that a ward was the Mormon term for what other churches would call congregations or parishes. But the first thing that came to mind was the little town of Ward, Colorado, that people liked to make fun of. "Gully washer" is used in Minnesota, too.
Ward is a nothing mountain town. It's just some homes on a hillside. Nederland's fun though! It's quirky and weird, albeit not as much as Crestone, but it's really cool! Plus the cool old ghost town of Caribou is outside of Nederland as well!
Gully washer is used all over the west. It is used here in Arizona too. It is an extremely heavy downpour that causes water to come gushing down stream beds.
@@darklion53 Ah, but does Crestone have Frozen Dead Guy Days? I don't think so... NVM that the frozen dead guy is no longer frozen, but still very dead...
Hello from Boise, Idaho! 🙂
I laughed during this video. As a native from this region, this was great. 😅
I live in Utah and have never been called a carrot snapper. Also we call Idaho folk Spudnuts here.
This Idahoan has been calling Utahans carrot snappers my whole life.
@@Josh1888USU Huh, funny.
As a Coloradan, I knew Peak bagger, fourteener, and flatlander. Also, I got my permit to drive at 13 in Kansas. It was a farmer's permit, so kinda limited.
How you can tell this guy isn’t originally from here:
Has nothing to do with our regional slang.
He actually uses the name “Willis Tower”.
Laurence, a jockey box is specifically the small compartment located in the middle between the front seats of a car, immediately behind the gear-shift lever, when the car has a shifter in the middle, rather than on the steering column. It's a term that became popular in the 1960s, as cars changed from having bench seats in front, to having bucket seats, which allowed for a center console that often contained a built-in lidded box. A glove compartment, by contrast, was always in the dashboard, on the passenger side of the car.
"Flatlander" in Colorado has use a lot because people from low, flat terrain often have problems dealing with hilly roads, roads on cliffs, etc, and can be a little irritating because they can become an obstacle while driving.
That is me for sure!!!! I live in rural MI and can drive almost completely flat for hours. Mountain driving rattles my nerves sooooo bad and I routinely drive on very bad winter weather roads!
@@lijohnyoutube101 If someone from the mountains tells you they don't sweat driving mountain roads during bad weather, it's not that they've been driving here a long time, it's that they haven't been driving here long enough. Part of being a good driver in the Rockies is knowing when you shouldn't be driving.
They can also be dangerous! flatlanders trying to drive in the mountains, in ski traffic, during a snow storm are terrifying to drive behind or in front of!
'Jockey box' is a term that referred originally to the box under the buggy or wagon seat that the teamster ('jockey') kept their vehicle equipment in. They didn't call it a glove compartment because they were prolly wearing their gloves.
Sad you missed Utah's "sluffing." I did a lot of sluffing in my day.
Me too!!
I was never one to sluff, but I am quite sad he missed the word. Along with “biffed it” I feel like “sluffing” is one of the most on-brand Utah words.
@@MiMi_MoMo I honestly had no idea these words were native to Utah! 😆
@@heathrusty I learned no one else said sluffing early in my first year of college, when everyone looked at me a couple people said, "Ew, what's that?" after I used it.
Think of biffed it as hitting the pavement at full force.
I lived in Colorado in the early 90s and the meaning of “gaper” might have changed a bit since then but as far as I know it refers to tourists who take in the scenery, oblivious to the imposition their distraction forces on the people around them. An example would be a car driving way too slow and swerving around on a scenic road or stopping in the middle of a ski trail to take photos
In traffic, that's called rubber-necking. But I thought a gaper would be a tourist.
@@coyotech55 rubber-necking gaper?
@@brianhammond2832 Yes, they're the worst!