50 Terms Only True Mainers Use And Understand!

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16. Fatha

n., The guy who helped your mutha to make you.


17. Frickin’

adj., “It was so frickin’ cold, the lobstah’s were wearin’ mittens!”


18. God-dammah

n., Something really unbelievable or something really funny. “Didja heah ’bout those folks won the Megabucks up the road apiece? Ain’t that a god-dammah!” Also, “That joke Rodga told’s one god-dammah!”


19. Good shat

adj., Funny, good, fun person. “That Kenny is a good shat.”


20. Grindah’s

n., Sandwiches that are heated in the oven (sauce and cheese optional).


21. Hahd tellin not knowin

phrase, “I don’t know”.


22. Helluva

adj., “It’s a helluva storm outside!”


23. Hoppa

n., Toilet.


24. Hum-Dingah

adj., Wicked good: “Mum and I bought him a hum-dingah of a fishin’ rawd.”


25. Junka

n., A car with more rust that yours.


26. Leaf Peepahs

n., The “southanaws” that come up in fawl to see all the pretty leaves.


27. Lobstah

n., A Mainah staple – ya boil it and eat it up with tons of buttah! We love ’em so much, we’ve got ’em on our license plates (dead ones mine ya – they’re red when they’re dead).


28. Mainiacs

n., People from the grand State o’ Maine. 


29. Massholes

n., People from the grand State, oh, sorry, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 


30. Mawnin’

phrase, What you say to someone in the a.m. hours.


31. Nascah

n., A spawt wheya cahs go round ‘n round but nevah go up yondah. 


32. Nippy

adj., Usually used in an understated fashion to describe the cold outside as in “It’s a wee bit nippy out they-ah.” when it’s 50 below with the wind chill factor.


33. Numb

adj., Unintelligent as in “Numb as a stump.”


34. Out in th’ willie-wacks

phrase, Any place waaaaaay out in the country.


35. Padiddle

n., A vehicle with one headlight out. A sighting of which causes any numbah of locally variant responses (like hitting the inside roof of the cah with yer hand).


36. Pahts Cah

n., Any cah that don’t run, but ya can still use it.


37. Pissah

adj., 1) Wicked bad or annoying: “What a pissah!” 2) Wicked awesome: “That’s pissah!”


38. Podunk

n., A small, unimportant, and isolated town.


39. Queer

adj., Wicked weird. 


40. Rammin’

v., “Joe and Ted went out rammin’ in that new cah of Joe’s”…joyriding. 


41. Sled

n., Motorized vehicle for ridin on snow.


42. Summah

n., One or two days in early August.


43. Swampdonkey

n., Moose; ex-girlfriend


44. Tabernacle

phrase, What one says LOUDLY when they stub their toe.


45. Up-tah

n., Any direction at all: “We went from Calais all the way up tah Boston.” 2. v., Doing: “Ellory, what the hell you been up tah?”


46. Wicked

adj., A general intensifier: “He’s wicked nuts!”


47. Wicked cunnin

adj., (Also “Ain’t that cunnin”) Special or cute.


48. Yahd

n., The place where you pahk the cah when you ain’t got a grudge.


49. Yesah

phrase, Excited version of ah-yuh.


50. Yankee Nod

n., A means of saying hello without actually speaking. Usually done while driving a pick-up, tractor or skidder. The yankee nod is when the person tips their head up and back and at the same time, and this is critically important, they open their mouth real wide.


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