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Bawlamer Additions From Our Visitors

    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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