Does anyone hear the following terms where they live...

[psuro]

or are they local to where I live, the Delaware Valley? I think most of them are, but wanted to make sure.


Hoagie - called submarine sandwich elsewhere, or hero, or in the case of New Orleans, a Po'boy.

Skitch - called bumper rides in other places - when you hang on to the back of a UPS truck and let it it pull you down along the snow and ice on the street during the winter months. Easy to do in this area, because they never seem to plow the roads properly.

Jimmies- those little candy items that you put on top of soft ice cream. Called sprinkles in most other places.

Skeev - when something is distasteful to you, you "skeev" it. Not sure what others call it, but "skeev" is fairly descriptive.

Shore - not just the beach, but the boardwalk, horseshoe crabs, dragon flies and the beach tags.

Shoobies - those people who go to the Shore but are not from the Shore. Applies mostly to people from west of the Delaware River.

Water Ice - shaved ice with flavored and colored sugar water poured on top. Probably called Italian Ice everywhere else. (Note: appropriate pronunciation of water is "wuhter").


My morning's work is done.

 

[Locolion]

or are they local to where I live, the Delaware Valley? I think most of them are, but wanted to make sure.


Hoagie - called submarine sandwich elsewhere, or hero, or in the case of New Orleans, a Po'boy.

Skitch - called bumper rides in other places - when you hang on to the back of a UPS truck and let it it pull you down along the snow and ice on the street during the winter months. Easy to do in this area, because they never seem to plow the roads properly.

Jimmies- those little candy items that you put on top of soft ice cream. Called sprinkles in most other places.

Skeev - when something is distasteful to you, you "skeev" it. Not sure what others call it, but "skeev" is fairly descriptive.

Shore - not just the beach, but the boardwalk, horseshoe crabs, dragon flies and the beach tags.

Shoobies - those people who go to the Shore but are not from the Shore. Applies mostly to people from west of the Delaware River.

Water Ice - shaved ice with flavored and colored sugar water poured on top. Probably called Italian Ice everywhere else. (Note: appropriate pronunciation of water is "wuhter").


My morning's work is done.

I think Skeev may be the only one that’s national on that list. The rest are Jersey/Del -centric

 

[artsandletters]

or are they local to where I live, the Delaware Valley? I think most of them are, but wanted to make sure.


Hoagie - called submarine sandwich elsewhere, or hero, or in the case of New Orleans, a Po'boy.

Skitch - called bumper rides in other places - when you hang on to the back of a UPS truck and let it it pull you down along the snow and ice on the street during the winter months. Easy to do in this area, because they never seem to plow the roads properly.

Jimmies- those little candy items that you put on top of soft ice cream. Called sprinkles in most other places.

Skeev - when something is distasteful to you, you "skeev" it. Not sure what others call it, but "skeev" is fairly descriptive.

Shore - not just the beach, but the boardwalk, horseshoe crabs, dragon flies and the beach tags.

Shoobies - those people who go to the Shore but are not from the Shore. Applies mostly to people from west of the Delaware River.

Water Ice - shaved ice with flavored and colored sugar water poured on top. Probably called Italian Ice everywhere else. (Note: appropriate pronunciation of water is "wuhter").


My morning's work is done.

I meet your Delaware Valley criteria, ‘ro.

Hoagie - yep, absolutely. However, I do wonder why the sub term is used at the famous White House Subs in AC.

Skitch - new to me. Never heard of it.

Jimmies - yep. Not a fan.

Shore - yep.

Shoobies - yes.

Water Ice - the way you described it, ‘ro, it sounds like what we called a snowball, something we all looked forward to as a reward after a Little League game (rootbeer, lime etc. flavors). (Italian) Water Ice is something different to me. Water Ice is kind of like what Rita’s puts in their gelatos, though water ice would never get topped with whipped cream. We had an Italian immigrant in our neighborhood who made and sold his own water ice. Still the best I’ve ever had.

Skeev - I learned this verb from my Italian-American, South Philly girlfriend and classmate at Villanova. Your definition of skeev is accurate (liver comes to mind). Skeev is great slang.

Thanks for the memories, ‘ro.

 

[psuro]

I meet your Delaware Valley criteria, ‘ro.

Hoagie - yep, absolutely. However, I do wonder why the sub term is used at the famous White House Subs in AC.

Skitch - new to me. Never heard of it.

Jimmies - yep. Not a fan.

Shore - yep.

Shoobies - yes.

Water Ice - the way you described it, ‘ro, it sounds like what we called a snowball, something we all looked forward to as a reward after a Little League game (rootbeer, lime etc. flavors). (Italian) Water Ice is something different to me. Water Ice is kind of like what Rita’s puts in their gelatos, though water ice would never get topped with whipped cream. We had an Italian immigrant in our neighborhood who made and sold his own water ice. Still the best I’ve ever had.

Skeev - I learned this verb from my Italian-American, South Philly girlfriend and classmate at Villanova. Your definition of skeev is accurate (liver comes to mind). Skeev is great slang.

Thanks for the memories, ‘ro.

You are not a fan of Jimmies - meaning you don't like the little candy on your ice cream or do you call them sprinkles?

 

[chalkstream1]

Jimmies are condoms. I used to bumper ski in Mahoningtown as a kid and I definitely skeev liver and macaroni sauce from a jar.

 

[artsandletters]

You are not a fan of Jimmies - meaning you don't like the little candy on your ice cream or do you call them sprinkles?

We called them jimmies. I just wasn’t a fan of them.

 

[Chickenman Testa]

Those are all local (except Skeeve which I use to describe someone that’s creepy - skeevy).

I will never hear those terms in Austin unless I’m talking to a member of the Philly/Delco/etc Diaspora

Wudder Ice to us (in Media, Rose Valley, Moylan) came in a small paper cup and you’d scrape/scoop it with a wooden spoon. Rosati’s is the brand I recall. It was awesome. In fact, I was in Yosemite NP last week and ran into an old couple from Cherry Hill and Rosati’s, of all things, came up. It was in the context of the Philly accent and how I no longer said Wudder.

I skitched behind my school bus one time. Fell off about a 1/4 mile down the road. Had to haul ass over Hill and Dale to catch the bus at another stop after it had made a huge loop.

http://rosatiice.com/

 

[joeparules]

or are they local to where I live, the Delaware Valley? I think most of them are, but wanted to make sure.


Hoagie - called submarine sandwich elsewhere, or hero, or in the case of New Orleans, a Po'boy.

Skitch - called bumper rides in other places - when you hang on to the back of a UPS truck and let it it pull you down along the snow and ice on the street during the winter months. Easy to do in this area, because they never seem to plow the roads properly.

Jimmies- those little candy items that you put on top of soft ice cream. Called sprinkles in most other places.

Skeev - when something is distasteful to you, you "skeev" it. Not sure what others call it, but "skeev" is fairly descriptive.

Shore - not just the beach, but the boardwalk, horseshoe crabs, dragon flies and the beach tags.

Shoobies - those people who go to the Shore but are not from the Shore. Applies mostly to people from west of the Delaware River.

Water Ice - shaved ice with flavored and colored sugar water poured on top. Probably called Italian Ice everywhere else. (Note: appropriate pronunciation of water is "wuhter").


My morning's work is done.

• Wawa has a Hoagiefest every year ... and hoagie is the only thing we call them
• Never heard of skitch
• Definitely Jimmies over Sprinkles (that is a Philly thing)
• Skeeve is in the Urban Dictionary as "(verb) to gross out; to disgust" and use it all the time (if that is what you meant)
• Going to the Shore later this morning and not the beach
• Will probably see a few Shoobies this afternoon. I believe there was a bar outside Ocean City, NJ with that name (OC is dry)
• Rita's Water Ice is everywhere around me

 

[artsandletters]

Jimmies are condoms. I used to bumper ski in Mahoningtown as a kid and I definitely skeev liver and macaroni sauce from a jar.

If I were to place a 1-10 rating on liver and jarred pasta sauce (gravy if meat is involved in the cooking of it), liver would get a 1, jarred sauce a 10.

The skeev rating of mutton is off the charts awful.

 

[Nittany_9]

I worked at Leo’s Hogie House at PSU

 

[artsandletters]

Those are all local (except Skeeve which I use to describe someone that’s creepy - skeevy)

Wudder Ice to us (in Media, Rose Valley, Moylan) came in a small paper cup and you’d scrape/scoop it with a wooden spoon. Rosati’s is the brand I recall. It was awesome. In fact, I was in Yosemite NP last week and ran into an old couple from Cherry Hill and Rosati’s, of all things, came up. It was in the context of the Philly accent and how I no longer said Wudder.

I skitched behind my school bus one time. Fell off about a 1/4 mile down the road. Had to haul ass over Hill and Dale to catch the bus at another stop after it had made a huge loop.

We called water - wawe- der. Several years ago I was staying in a Marriott in Wichita. I went to the bar and ordered a cheeseburger (Swiss please) and the bartender asked me if I wanted anything to drink. I replied, just wawe-der please. He replied where are you from in Philly. He was a transplant.

 

[Nitt1300]

never heard of hoagies before moving to the Philly suburbs, and the term is used nowhere elso that I know of

BTW=The term came from "hoggies" who were the shipyard workers at Hog Island (Philadelphia Navy Yard)

 

[PS4814]

Checking in from the Lehigh Valley

Hoagie - yep

Skitch - that's too hip for me.

Jimmies- yes - but in a more local sense Jimmy's is known as a hotdog joint.

Skeev - yes - but I don't think the youngins use this term anymore.

Shoobies - no idea

Water Ice - yep

 

[doublehaul]

In Schuylkill County, east central Pa. It's been Jimmies, hoagies and going to the shore forever. Never heard the term skeev before.

 

[scbob]

or are they local to where I live, the Delaware Valley? I think most of them are, but wanted to make sure.


Hoagie - called submarine sandwich elsewhere, or hero, or in the case of New Orleans, a Po'boy.

Skitch - called bumper rides in other places - when you hang on to the back of a UPS truck and let it it pull you down along the snow and ice on the street during the winter months. Easy to do in this area, because they never seem to plow the roads properly.

Jimmies- those little candy items that you put on top of soft ice cream. Called sprinkles in most other places.

Skeev - when something is distasteful to you, you "skeev" it. Not sure what others call it, but "skeev" is fairly descriptive.

Shore - not just the beach, but the boardwalk, horseshoe crabs, dragon flies and the beach tags.

Shoobies - those people who go to the Shore but are not from the Shore. Applies mostly to people from west of the Delaware River.

Water Ice - shaved ice with flavored and colored sugar water poured on top. Probably called Italian Ice everywhere else. (Note: appropriate pronunciation of water is "wuhter").


My morning's work is done.

You guys in the Philly area may call them Shoobies, but, on the other part of the Jersey shore frequented by North Jersey and New York folks, they're called Bennies. And YES, the representatives on the infamous MTV Jersey Shore are Bennies!

 

[BTMurphy]

central Pa here:

Hoagie, all my life
Skeev, yep, and shore...for sure.

seem to recall water ice, especially when younger. now, Italian ice seems predominant.

 

[BBrown]

I meet your Delaware Valley criteria, ‘ro.

Hoagie - yep, absolutely. However, I do wonder why the sub term is used at the famous White House Subs in AC.

Skitch - new to me. Never heard of it.

Jimmies - yep. Not a fan.

Shore - yep.

Shoobies - yes.

Water Ice - the way you described it, ‘ro, it sounds like what we called a snowball, something we all looked forward to as a reward after a Little League game (rootbeer, lime etc. flavors). (Italian) Water Ice is something different to me. Water Ice is kind of like what Rita’s puts in their gelatos, though water ice would never get topped with whipped cream. We had an Italian immigrant in our neighborhood who made and sold his own water ice. Still the best I’ve ever had.

Skeev - I learned this verb from my Italian-American, South Philly girlfriend and classmate at Villanova. Your definition of skeev is accurate (liver comes to mind). Skeev is great slang.

Thanks for the memories, ‘ro.

Growing up in Western PA a Hoagie was just a shorter version of a submarine sandwich and Grinders were basically a Hoagie that was toasted.

 

[AWS1022]

Checking in from the Lehigh Valley

Hoagie - yep

Skitch - that's too hip for me.

Jimmies- yes - but in a more local sense Jimmy's is known as a hotdog joint.

Skeev - yes - but I don't think the youngins use this term anymore.

Shoobies - no idea

Water Ice - yep

Hoagie- grew up in the Erie area and they call it both a hoagie and a sub. The other areas I’ve lived call it a sub.

Skitch- never heard it.

Jimmies- heard it but always call them sprinkles.

Skeev- yes, but use it as an adjective as in skeevy.

Shore- nope.

Shoobies- nope.

Water Ice- nope.

 

[BBrown]

You are not a fan of Jimmies - meaning you don't like the little candy on your ice cream or do you call them sprinkles?

We called them sprinkles in Western PA, Somerset county but when I went to Philly I learned they called them Jimmies.
I'm not a fan of either.

 

[kgilbert78]

or are they local to where I live, the Delaware Valley? I think most of them are, but wanted to make sure.


Hoagie - called submarine sandwich elsewhere, or hero, or in the case of New Orleans, a Po'boy.

Skitch - called bumper rides in other places - when you hang on to the back of a UPS truck and let it it pull you down along the snow and ice on the street during the winter months. Easy to do in this area, because they never seem to plow the roads properly.

Jimmies- those little candy items that you put on top of soft ice cream. Called sprinkles in most other places.

Skeev - when something is distasteful to you, you "skeev" it. Not sure what others call it, but "skeev" is fairly descriptive.

Shore - not just the beach, but the boardwalk, horseshoe crabs, dragon flies and the beach tags.

Shoobies - those people who go to the Shore but are not from the Shore. Applies mostly to people from west of the Delaware River.

Water Ice - shaved ice with flavored and colored sugar water poured on top. Probably called Italian Ice everywhere else. (Note: appropriate pronunciation of water is "wuhter").


My morning's work is done.

You see Jimmies in the Boston area too--a long running "dispute" between Mrs KG and myself (who, being from Ohio, calls them "sprinkles"). Saw it on a sign at the ice cream place we went to in Gloucester, MA, a couple of weeks ago.

and don't forget

"down the shore"

and

"in town"

meaning downtown Philly.

 

[NittPicker]

Born, raised and live in western PA (not Pittsburgh).

Hoagie - Sometimes hoagie, sometimes sub. Hoagie seems more common when the sandwich is made with basic cold cuts and condiments on a standard white hoagie roll. Start adding fancy schmantzy bread, meats and condiments and it becomes a sub.

Skitch - Never heard of the term.

Jimmies - We just call them sprinkles.

Skeev - Never heard the term.

Shore - I've always gone to the beach.

Shoobies - Never heard the term.

Water Ice - It's a sno-cone although generally the ice is crushed and not shaved.

 

[Art]

Heard the terms "hoagies" and "jimmies" growing up in Western Pa. The only one from your list that I hear now is "shore."

 

[Kmase21]

Those are all local (except Skeeve which I use to describe someone that’s creepy - skeevy).

I will never hear those terms in Austin unless I’m talking to a member of the Philly/Delco/etc Diaspora

Wudder Ice to us (in Media, Rose Valley, Moylan) came in a small paper cup and you’d scrape/scoop it with a wooden spoon. Rosati’s is the brand I recall. It was awesome. In fact, I was in Yosemite NP last week and ran into an old couple from Cherry Hill and Rosati’s, of all things, came up. It was in the context of the Philly accent and how I no longer said Wudder.

I skitched behind my school bus one time. Fell off about a 1/4 mile down the road. Had to haul ass over Hill and Dale to catch the bus at another stop after it had made a huge loop.

http://rosatiice.com/

I played at Father Nall field on MacDade Blvd. as a kid. Used to get the wooder ice with the wooden spoon after every game

 

[Connorpozlee]

I grew up on the Jersey shore. I’ve heard of most of these terms, but I have always considered them to be Philly-based terms.
I hate the term hoagie. It’s a sub. Jimmies always bothered me. They’re sprinkles. Honestly, I’ve never heard the term “Shoobies” before. Where I am from they were referred to as Bennies.

 

[Kmase21]

I assumed the saying "That/He/She skeev's me out" was said throughout the country when grossing someone out or someone being creepy.

 

[LuvDaLions]

I think hoagie is pretty common. I'm from central PA (Philipsburg) and always called them hoagies until i moved to State College.

 

[Frabjous]

Hoagies are called ‘zeps’ in/around Norristown.

 

[sss]

Yes to all of them, Philly burbs.
Latest one is jawn. Basically a noun or adjective to describe anything you can't think of a name for. Pretty sure there is a rap song with that in the title.

 

[Langmuir]

I grew up in Bellefonte and always called them hoagies.

My wife is from Philly and calls them jimmies, I call them sprinkles. My kids will use either term depending on who they are asking if they can can get them on their ice cream.

I always associate the shore with the Jersey Shore specifically. I mostly go to Delaware and then I will say I am going to the beach.

 

[PSU87]

Pet peeve....
Misuse of the term "hoagie".
A hoagie is a specific type of sub with specific meats, cheese and bread. A hoagie roll is harder than a traditional sub roll.
It is NOT just a regional term for sub, hero, grinder, etc but the word has been bastardized over the years to be interchangeable with sub.
There is NO SUCH THING as a roast beef hoagie, or a Turkey hoagie.
Now get off my lawn.

 

[WDLion]

I think hoagie is pretty common. I'm from central PA (Philipsburg) and always called them hoagies until i moved to State College.

I grew up in Centre Co and they were hoagies and we went to the shore. Snow Cones.

 

[gogolion]

None of these terms are used where I live now, in Chicagoland. We used the term Jimmies where I grew up in Massachusetts. Otherwise, I've only heard them in the mid-atlantic area.

 

[psuro]

Oh, and on the golf course.....2 under par on a par 4 or par 5 is...an....IGGLE.

 

[Ranger Dan]

Shoobies - those people who go to the Shore but are not from the Shore. Applies mostly to people from west of the Delaware River.

I find it interesting that people who love where they live are upset when others want to visit or move there.

 

[psuro]

I find it interesting that people who love where they live are upset when others want to visit or move there.

Shoobies are not people who move in and stay. They are people who come in for the summer months/weekend or week rental and then leave by Labor Day.

 

[STPGopherfan]

or are they local to where I live, the Delaware Valley? I think most of them are, but wanted to make sure....

Jimmies- those little candy items that you put on top of soft ice cream. Called sprinkles in most other places.
...
My morning's work is done.

Well I've heard of Jimmies in the Twin Cities, but that usually references prophylactics.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jimmy condom
"Don't "front" on the Jimmy"...

 

[AWS1022]

Shoobies are not people who move in and stay. They are people who come in for the summer months/weekend or week rental and then leave by Labor Day.

You mean the people that provide the money for those areas to stay viable?

 

[Connorpozlee]

Pet peeve....
Misuse of the term "hoagie".
A hoagie is a specific type of sub with specific meats, cheese and bread. A hoagie roll is harder than a traditional sub roll.
It is NOT just a regional term for sub, hero, grinder, etc but the word has been bastardized over the years to be interchangeable with sub.
There is NO SUCH THING as a roast beef hoagie, or a Turkey hoagie.
Now get off my lawn.

Ahhhhh....... interesting. Can you elaborate? What specific meats and cheeses are required for a hoagie?

 

[psuro]

You mean the people that provide the money for those areas to stay viable?

That is what their response usually is.

Hey, I am not arguing - I am telling you how it's defined locally.

 

[PSU87]

Ahhhhh....... interesting. Can you elaborate? What specific meats and cheeses are required for a hoagie?

Ham, salami, capicola... Provolone or American cheese.
What some places would call an "Italian"