What are your favorite "Iowa" sayings...

[RotatingColumn]

Buford = sheriff
Sheriff = every cop
about half = almost
bout = almost
rhubarb = the road ditch
Bill = buddy, man, dude
toddy = any alcoholic drink, including actual toddys
filled my shorts = crap myself

"Had a few toddys, Buford bout chased me into the rhubarb. About half filled my shorts there Bill!"

 

[rholtgraves]

I have never heard of most of these phrases. Must be a lot of regional Iowa sayings.

 

[SCyclone]

Another classic: "eyemunna" instead "I am going to"

 

[GTO]

My grandma from Wisconsin called these sandwiches "Barbecues"

What. The. ****.

 

[WhatchaGonnaDo]

What. The. ****.

We can fight about it if you want

 

[MeanDean]

For us, rubbers were the slip-on rubbery ankle boots with two flimsy buckles that you put over your work boots.

They were a fairly stupid design, really. If you were putting them on, chances are you were stepping in ****. The extra time it took to put on proper boots was well worth it when the alternative was possibly stepping in something deep enough to go over the top of those ankle length abominations.

I'd like to say we called them tingleys at some point.

What everyone calls flip-flops now we always called thongs. I'm sure that's how they were advertised in the paper and on the in store signs. Of course we never thought people would ever decide wearing a piece of string in your ass crack as a part of your bathing suit would catch on.

So there's that.

Edit: I fully expected ass crack to be *** crack. Just shows ta go ya.

 

[Cyfan1965]

Dirt head = Stoner pot smoker

 

[DeftOne]

Get your feet off the davenport.

Yes! My mother-in-law calls a couch a "davenport" all the time, and it drives me nuts!

She also says wash with an "r" (warsh), which drives me equally insane.

 

[cyfan21]

Never heard this. What part of IA is this from?

Des Moines

 

[WooBadger18]

Related: "I spilled melk on my pellow."

I say melk, but not pellow

 

[cyclones500]

I haven't heard melk since I lived in Cincinnati.

Do you mean "Cencennati"?

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

In Oklahoma EVERYTHING soda is a "coke"
My in laws would ask "Do you want a Dr Pepper coke or a 7-up coke? "

If you want a Coke brand you had to ask for Coca Cola.

When my brother was in South America, Chile I believe, it was the same thing except with Crush.

 

[cyclones500]

Not sure how to write it phonetically — "ruhf" for "roof," instead of "oooh" sound.

 

[VeloClone]

This is more dialect than phrases, but I can identify people from the Dubuque area in no time at all. Instead of didn't, shouldn't, wouldn't, and couldn't, they say dint, shoulnt, woulnt, and coulnt.

I had never heard this until I moved to Minnesota. There is a huge contingent of Minnesotans who do this. I wince every time they pronounce "couldn't" and it sounds dangerously close to one of the words you should never say to a woman.

 

[VeloClone]

Related: "I spilled melk on my pellow."

Are you off your rocker? I would never drink melk in the sack. But I did drop one of my Pell-Mells on my Piller once and pertneer burnt the whole place to hell and gone.

 

[Ms3r4ISU]

What everyone calls flip-flops now we always called thongs. I'm sure that's how they were advertised in the paper and on the in store signs. Of course we never thought people would ever decide wearing a piece of string in your ass crack as a part of your bathing suit would catch on.

So there's that.

Edit: I fully expected ass crack to be *** crack. Just shows ta go ya.

I think we called them tongs. And the only kind they made were cheap, but still better, thicker soles than some sold nowadays.

BTW, I love this thread!

 

[c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s]

Get your feet off the davenport.

How's come? ☺

 

[RunninMan]

Doing something "Real Quick". For example: "I'm going to run in to town real quick."

Which brings me to another point, in my experience most Iowans are very savvy when it comes to directions. Such as going 'up' to Minneapolis, 'down' to Kansas city, 'over' to Omaha, 'in' to town, 'out' home (if you lived on a farm), etc. One of my biggest pet peeves is when those directions are used incorrectly.

 

[urb1]

I had never heard this until I moved to Minnesota. There is a huge contingent of Minnesotans who do this. I wince every time they pronounce "couldn't" and it sounds dangerously close to one of the words you should never say to a woman.

Agree. I would have mentioned that but figured it was only me and my filthy mind.

 

[StPaulCyclone]

Related: "I spilled melk on my pellow."

Best thread ever. I totally say this. The one I am called out for the most is catchup aka ketchup; followed by nuculer for nuclear.