You can never get enough Pittsburghese.  Here are 9 more to add to your collection of words.  Show them how smart you really are!



1. Tahhrs (noun) 

Pittsburghese

Tires, or what helps your car move. “Did yinz get your snow tahhrs on?”




2. Buggy (noun)

Pittsburghese

A shopping cart. Used in a sentence could be: “Can you grab me a buggy from Gint Iggle?”




3. Cahhch (noun)

Pittsburghese

A couch, as in “I got in trouble with the wife so I had to sleep on the cahhch last night.”




4. Jell (noun)

Pittsburghese

Jail. “Don’t do that, you don’t want to end up in jell!”




5. Cahhnty (noun)

Pittsburghese

County, or place of residence like Allegheny or Beaver cahhnties.




6. Fell (verb)

Pittsburghese

To fail. Used in a sentence, it could be “Too bad she felled the test.”




7. Roon (verb)

Pittsburghese

To ruin. “You’re going to roon your appetite eating that candy!”




8. Daht’et (phrase)

Pittsburghese

Doubt it, as in “Will you clean your room today? Daht’et.”




9. Tahhrd (adj.)

Pittsburghese

Tired. “I’m so tahhrd today, I was up all night!”




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