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Formed from "terra" (earth), the term is meant to invoke the ignorance and lack of "class" implied by American English terms like "yokel," "hayseed," "hillbilly," etc. Tico (Central America) A person from Costa Rica. Tripeiro (Portugal) A person from the city of Porto. Derives from the legend that the people from the city offered all its food ...
Cajun English, or Cajun Vernacular English, is a dialect of American English derived from Cajuns living in Southern Louisiana. Cajun English is significantly influenced by Louisiana French , the historical language of the Cajun people, themselves descended from the French-speaking Acadian people .
Patois (/ ˈ p æ t w ɑː /, pl. same or / ˈ p æ t w ɑː z /) [1] is speech or language that is considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics.As such, patois can refer to pidgins, creoles, dialects or vernaculars, but not commonly to jargon or slang, which are vocabulary-based forms of cant.
Getty Images Like any port city, New Orleans is a confluence of cultures. With deep-south and Cajun roots, those many cultures combine to produce a set of dialects so distinctive that even native ...
Coming from the Spanish word "juzgado" which means court of justice, hoosegow was a term used around the turn of the last century to describe a place where drunks in the old west spent a lot of ...
Historically, a number of everyday words and expressions used to be characteristic of different dialect areas of the United States, especially the North, the Midland, and the South; many of these terms spread from their area of origin and came to be used throughout the nation. Today many people use these different words for the same object ...
Maskot/Getty Images. 6. Delulu. Short for ‘delusional,’ this word is all about living in a world of pure imagination (and only slightly detached from reality).
(Ireland) Hiberno-Irish slang: a male organ or a disagreeable or stupid person; word originating in County Cork, Ireland, and used there and in the wider province of Munster; a term of contempt rather than hatred; may derive from the langur, a type of monkey encountered by the Munster Fusiliers during their British Army service in India in the ...