Bradford County
Dictionary
Here's a start. Any corrections or additions?
- Adam's Ale
- An early name used for H2O - plain drinking water
- ALUNIUM
- aluminum
- Ames's
- The local way to pronounce the discount store Ames - as in "I got it at Ames's"
- Berm / Burm
- The gravel edge of the road. Everyone else calls it the shoulder.
- Bimmintin
- Binghamton: as in " I hafta go to Bimmintin later on this week"
- Blacktop
- any road that is not dirt, "I live on the blacktop from Gillett to Bentley Creek"
- boughten
- Bought in a store, not homemade
- Brang
- Synonym of brought
- Buck Day
- That other holiday at the end of November, most celebrate it more than Christmas
- Calling hours
- the viewing or wake prior to a funeral
- Chimley
- chimney
- The Clinic
- you know, the Guthrie Clinic, over to the Packer
- connamire beer
- Also known as Pabst Blue Ribbon
- 'Coon
- Raccoon
- 'Coon huntin'
- done at night with a light and usually happens after the consumption of alcohol
- Couple of three
- two or three, not six
- Crick
- creek ( but 'Bentley Creek' is pronounced as "creak")
- The Daily
- (as in Review, local newspaper)
- Dinner
- lunch
- Dinnerpail
- lunchbox
- Dooryard
- lawn area surrounding the house
- Drawel
- drawer
- Dug road
- an old abandoned dirt road that is narrow with high banks
- Eavestrough
- rain gutters on a building
- Flatlander
- anyone not born and raised in Bradford Co.
- Flats
- land that is located along a "crick," also specific flats like Watson Flats or Snedekerville Flats
- FRESHEN
- give birth to a calf, as in I had a cow freshen
- Garbage
- any kind of trash or debris, not just food wastes
- Gently rolling
- description in real estate ads for Bradford Co. meaning steep
- Gooms
- Spelled "gums", as in the tissue near your teeth
- hard road
- Also known as a "Blacktop" road
- Hedgerow
- a row of hedges, usually along the edge of a cornfield
- the IR
- Ingersoll-Rand
- Knoll
- a spot in the road a little higher than the rest of the road
- LAMBIN'
- The time of year when sheep give birth, as in The sheep are lambin'.
- Light bill
- electric utility bill
- Montrose
- Pronounced: Mont`rose
- Mother's Oats
- oatmeal of any kind
- the Mountain
- Armenia Mountain
- Munro-in
- Monroeton
- Old Folks
- ancestors, elders of the community, probably even the ones who died at least 35 years ago.
- the old folks always used to tell me . . .
- The old folks used to say . . .
- The Old Shoe
- Coveted prize of the annual Troy Canton football game
- Orta
- over to, Most often followed by Towanda, as in "We went orta Towanda yesterday.
- Narrows
- really skinny parts of the road, usually next to the river and on the side of a mountain, as in Sheshequin narrows, Wysox narrows, and Ulster narrows
- the Other day
- any day in that person's lifetime from yesterday to 50 years ago
- Peepers
- little frogs that forecast spring, "the peepers have to freeze three times before spring is official"; the peepers don't actually freeze, the temperature is below freezing
- Pocketbook
- a man's wallet
- Pocketbook
- a woman's purse
- Poolie
- A native to this area, at one time on the edge of extinction, but now making a strong come back
- Par'bly
- probably
- Rasslin'
- Meaning: wrestling, usually found in the sentence "I was rasslin' with my old lady last night"
- the Red light
- Otherwise known as the traffic light (usually the only one in town, although sometimes there's two)
- Ridge Beef
- Deer meat
- Ruff
- roof
- Sale barn
- any of the livestock auctions: Valley Stockyards, Troy or Wyalusing
- Seen
- past tense of see, as in I seen her up to ames's
- Set-on
- A meal of leftovers is a set-on meal. The leftovers just get set on the table.
- So don't I
- I do or I agree
- Speedies
- cubes of venison cut that cook up fast in a pan or as shis-ka-bob
- Spotlightin'
- Also done at night with a light, usually with a car full of guys on a dirt road, during September, October and November. They say they're looking for deer, but they'll be wearing camo and carring guns
- Store-bought
- Bought in a store, not homemade
- Stuckfast
- Securely afixed to a surface -- usage: "That there leaf is 'stuckfast' to the window sill"
- Sugarbush
- maple woods where sap is collected and processed for syrup
- Susquehanna
- (Pronounced: Susk`Anna)
- Supper
- dinner
- Tit Dip
- Is the liquid used to sanitize a cow's teats, although you will hardly ever hear them called teats around here.
- Upta
- Meaning: I was anywhere in the world other than where I am standing right now
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- Ups truck
- pronounced as the opposite of 'downs', U.P.S. (United Parcel Service)
- the Valley
- the Sayre-Athens area, not any of the other thousands of valleys in Bradford Co.
- Wallmart
- Also Known as Wally World
- Wersher
- The machine that cleans your clothes
- Woodchuck, chuck
- Groundhog
- Yous guys
- Northern version of "y'all" - used to refer to more than
one, even though "you" is both singular and plural.
Agricultural Definitions
- Bag
- a cow's udder
- Cake
- edema of the udder
- Cast her withers
- prolapsed uterus ( really strange since a cows withers are in the area of her shoulders)
- Drag
- a harrow, usually a spring toothed harrow
- Drop
- the gutter behind a cow stall to collect the manure
- Gutter cleaner
- a mechanical device to clean the 'drop'
- Mou hay away
- to stack hay in a hayloft
List started by Lynn and added to by others (Jenny, John, Denise, Erin, and others)
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