Bawlamer Additions From Our Visitors
(How to co-moon-icate wiff the natives)


Hello Hon

Submitted by Brett Prather

  • dat - that
  • upbare - up there (as in "whats dat upbare?"

    Submitted by mark j. adams

  • I recently overheard someone order a "giraffe" of wine

    Submitted by Patricia Chandler

  • Heith-height
  • puncul-pencil
  • warter-water
  • doughg-dog

    Submitted by Kathy Kirkpatrick

  • ool (like in school) - That stuff you put in your motor to keep the insides greased up. Should be oil

    Submitted by John H

  • "Cadillac Averter" - English Translation: Catalytic Converter - As described by a part time mechanic from "Balmer". The device is necessary on automobiles for "ermissions" control.

    Submitted by Chuck Snyder

  • SEA-MINT = CEMENT
  • POH-LEESE = POLICE

    Submitted by Chuck Snyder

  • Antem - Thing that Francis Scott Key wrote.

    Submitted by Jim Krug

  • Sparis point - Sparrows point
    bull - as in to boil water

    Submitted by Gloria Bond

  • How about.."fitty"...which is halfway to "hunnert" (fifty, hundred)

    Submitted by c.saynuk

  • Have you heard??...tank-wuh-lizer for tranquelizer? Did you ever "skirt" down the yard to move the "puzzy ants"?? Then, that thing in your ear that you need to get incised and drained is a "bull"

    Submitted by Jeff Koerber

  • woodter - The stuff that comes out of the zink.

    Submitted by mkopp

  • Soappader - What you warsh close wif.

    Submitted by Robert Kilgore

  • veggimatarian - a person that only eats veggibles

    Submitted by Christine

  • hunnert-hundred

    Submitted by Mike P

  • Bawldymore -Ahr Fair City
  • downnapoint-where you worked daily- down the point(Sparrow's point)
  • Beflum Steel-Bethlehem Steel

    Submitted by J.S. Porter

  • Tarred-how one feels right before bedtime
  • stoop-front step
  • gaywin hame-going home
  • upair-up there
  • farmen-firemen
  • Challie-Charlie

    Submitted by Barb Kelly

  • pixtures-gotne pixtures of the chilren?

    Submitted by DJ

  • Wooder - water
  • tapsco rir- Potapsco River
  • Blair - Bel Air
  • liberry - Library
  • Winder - window
  • aloomnum fool - aluminum foil

    Submitted by Sarah C.

  • Tidenol = that stuff you take for a headache
  • Far hull = where they keep the fargins and amblances
  • Kewpon = things you clip to save money
  • Natty Bo = National Bohemian beer

    Submitted by Angela Choi

  • nomesane = Know what I'm saying?

    Submitted by Fred Reich

  • Sointanly...I sointanly 'gree wif you

    Submitted by John Elliott

  • BALDAMOR - Baltimore

    Submitted by Jonathan A. Jacobs, CPA

  • Haahrd: A man's first name.
  • Ool: The stuff that one puts in the engine.
  • Tar(s): The round things on a car that one puts air into.
  • Kidneygarden: The place where small children go before the 1st grade.

    Submitted by Michael Cuneo

  • Blair Road = Belair Road
  • Fed-rahl Hill = Federal Hill
  • SeminalEvan = Seven Eleven

    Submitted by James Butler

  • comments: Dug - Dog
  • Hotdug - Hot dog
  • Pockee book - Pocket book
  • Scrimps - Shrimp
  • Ersters - Oysters

    Submitted by Matt

  • Patapsaco- Refering to the river or the ave.
  • VDubya- the abbreviation for Volkswagon.

    Submitted by Justis Heger

  • Corder = quarter (a 25 cent piece)
  • Mezalean = mezanine (like at the stadium)
  • erschter = oyster (on the "shore" its said ohster)
  • CaldorS and K-MartS = somehow they grow an "s" at the end!

    Submitted by Henry J. Stinefelt

  • lem-moran-pie
  • amblance-in case of emergency
  • winder-close it when it rains
  • sore-the rain wooder has to go down somewhere
  • dubya-the letter
  • Fort Mikenry-historic monument & national shrine
  • Danny Ocean-that wonderful vacation towne
  • Lomberd-the next one up from Pratt
  • earl-for the car
  • far-wow that's hot
  • tar-hate changing them when they are flat
  • gubner-downair in napolis
  • lar-when u don't tell the truth
  • rower-skates-we wern't born with them 'cause God understood that we would get them for Christmas
  • vomic-when you are sick
  • snuff- "that's enough"
  • air-over,up,or down
  • Caflick-Hail Holy Queen
  • intendo-no pong here
  • spikit-turn it off or you may have a flood

    Submitted by Vickie Ford

  • "Quick, call an Amblance. I've fallen and can't get up".

    Submitted by Rob Wallace

  • tubafor- a common piece of dimensional lumber
  • o'here- "over here"
  • parasol - any electric powered saw ("Hey Gus, bring dat parasol o'here so's I can cut dis tubafor)

    Submitted by Andrea Weiss

  • Hollandtown - section of Eastern Avenue past Patterson Park

    Submitted by Dan Marecki

    • A
    • abenoo - Avenue
    • admarred - Admired
    • Ah - I
    • Allanic - Atlantic
    • amblanz - Ambulance
    • Aoberlee - Overlea
    • asfelt - asphalt
    • ast - ask
    • awl - oil
    • B
    • ball - Boil
    • bard - borrowed
    • Beflum - Bethlehem
    • bel'way - Beltway
    • Blair - Bel Air
    • bronical - bronchial
    • byskool - Bicycle
    • C
    • cemetree - cemetery
    • cept - except
    • chew - you
    • chimbley - chimney
    • clays - clothes
    • Clumbya - Columbia
    • commewny - community
    • cort - quart
    • corter - quarter
    • cownny - country
    • cupla - couple of
    • D
    • Darfy - Dorothy
    • Carse - Doris
    • dass - that's
    • dawfin - dolphin
    • dayon - down
    • dem - them
    • dese - these
    • Donal - Donald
    • dooer - door
    • dowwer - dollar
    • drownded - very drowned
    • dubya - W
    • duddney? - doesn't he?
    • d'yew - do you
    • E
    • Easser - Easter
    • easser, eastrin - eastern
    • eeben - even
    • eever - either
    • erf - earth
    • ersters - oysters
    • exlint - excellent
    • exter - extra
    • F
    • falzon - thousand
    • farst - forest
    • Firzdee - Thursday
    • fixin - planning
    • Forster - Foster (Street)
    • frao - throw
    • G
    • ga hed - go ahead
    • Gawd - God
    • goldie - goalie
    • H
    • Habberdy Grace - Havre de Grace
    • Harfert - Harford (Road)
    • hays - hose
    • helf - health
    • ho, ho, ho, ho - stop!
    • holasec - hold on a second
    • Hollintayon - Highlandtown
    • hunnert - hundred
    • I
    • ideer - idea
    • Igger - Eager (Street)
    • ijut - idiot
    • infantigo - impetigo
    • insparred - inspired
    • Intendo - Nintendo
    • ivory - ivy
    • J
    • jaggered - jagged
    • Janes - Jones
    • Jawn Hokkins - Johns Hopkins
    • jew? - did you?
    • Jopper - Joppa )Road)
    • K
    • Kaffy - Kathy
    • keerful - careful
    • kemcool - chemical
    • kidneygorden - kindergarten
    • kilt - killed
    • kits - kids
    • Kreer - Korea, career
    • L
    • lake - like
    • laska - Alaska
    • late - light
    • laundried - laundered
    • lectric - electric
    • leeb - leave
    • lenth - length
    • liberry - library
    • lig - league
    • Linficum - Linthicum
    • lissen at - pay attention
    • Looferville - Lutherville
    • loose - lose
    • loss - lost
    • Lumberd - Lombard (Street)
    • luminum - aluminum
    • M
    • maffmatics - mathematics
    • Maircan - American
    • Marhoff - Meyerhoff
    • maroon - moron
    • mater - tomato
    • maw - mall
    • meeyun - million
    • melhawk - hohawk
    • mercree - mercury
    • mere - mirror
    • mergency - emergency
    • mezaleen - mezzanine
    • mill - middle
    • mollage - mileage
    • Monkey Wars - Montgomery Wards
    • moobies - movies
    • moryul - memorial
    • M.R. - them are
    • mucky-muck - one of the priveleged few
    • Murlin - Maryland
    • N
    • nair - an hour
    • nashnul - national
    • Natty Boa - National Bohemian Beer
    • nebber - never
    • nuffin - nothing
    • O
    • ober - over
    • ollin - island
    • oltnao - I don't know
    • Oryuls - Orioles
    • O's - Orioles
    • Ow-bert - Albert
    • oweez - always
    • P
    • padder - powder
    • paller - parlor
    • pancake - pound cake
    • Paraplan - Power Plant
    • parasol - power saw
    • partial post - parcel post
    • Parts - Pirates
    • Patapsico - Patapsco
    • pertickler - particular
    • pitccher - picture
    • Plaski - Pulaski (Highway)
    • pleece - police (more than one officer)
    • pohleece - plice (one officer)
    • poplar - popular
    • praps - perhaps
    • prarty - priority
    • prokyul - parochial
    • prostrate - prostate
    • purdy - pretty
    • pyana - piano
    • Q
    • q-ponz - coupons
    • quairyum - aquarium
    • quat - quiet
    • R
    • rayon - round
    • reef - wreath
    • rench - rinse
    • retar - retire
    • Ricerstayon - Reisterstown
    • rollty - royalty
    • rowwerskates - rollerskates
    • rubbage - rummage
    • ruff - roof
    • rum - room
    • S
    • Sairdee - Saturday
    • sammidges - sandwiches
    • Sandy Clouse - Santa Clause
    • sarr - sour
    • sawl - soil
    • Sawsberry - Salisbury
    • scome - lets'go home
    • seccerterry - secretary
    • seed - seen, saw
    • semdy - seventy
    • share - shower
    • Shebby - Chevy
    • Shebberlay - Chevrolet
    • Shirl - Cheryl
    • shooer - shore
    • shubble - shovel
    • Sibic Senner - Civic Center
    • skewl - school
    • skorsh - squash
    • smol - smile
    • sodey pop - soft drink
    • sollence - silence
    • So-skyurty - Social Security
    • Sparris Point - Sparrows Point
    • spearmint - experiment
    • speck - expect
    • spnsive - expensive
    • speshly - especially
    • spicket - spigot
    • splane - explain
    • spoza - supposed to
    • squinch - squint
    • stoll - style
    • stooer - store
    • stoonts - students
    • sommooer - some moore
    • sumpn - something
    • Sunny - Sunday
    • sut - soot
    • suvvern - southern
    • T
    • ta - to
    • tahnny - tiny
    • Talzon - Towson
    • tamarr - tomorrow
    • tamater - tomato
    • tar arn - tire iron
    • tare - tower
    • TB - TV
    • tempcher - temperature
    • ten hunnert - one thousand
    • tewel - tool
    • thee-ater - theater
    • thurpy - therapy
    • tootpace - toothpaste
    • twenny - twenty
    • twiced - twice
    • U
    • ub - of
    • umpar - umpire or empire
    • V
    • varse - virus
    • vee-hickle - vehicle
    • veggible - vegetable
    • venchully - eventually
    • vocabberlerry - vocabulary
    • vollate - violate
    • Vollet - Violet
    • vroddy - variety
    • vydock - viaduct
    • W
    • warsh - wash
    • wennup - went up
    • Wessern Lectric - Western Electric
    • Wessminister - Wesminster
    • wevver - weather
    • whatfer - what for
    • wif - with
    • winder - window
    • winner - winter
    • woan - won't
    • wodden - wouldn't
    • wooder - water
    • wurf - worth
    • X
    • x-raided - x-rated
    • Y
    • yahoo - see ijut, maroon
    • yell - you'll
    • yeller - yellow
    • yello - yes/hello
    • yewman - human
    • yewmid - humid
    • yews - you. plural
    • Z
    • zackly - exactly
    • zeeber - zebra
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