What's that you say? You've never heard of the phrases in the above video? Here's what they mean.
- Tough tomatoes: “tough luck.”
- Hotdish: a Hotdish is what someone in Minnesota might call a casserole.
- Schnookered: drunk
- Pasties: In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, they are delicious meat pies.
- Pop: fizzy drink.
- Bubbler: water fountain.
- Duck, duck, gray duck: duck, duck, goose in Minnesota.
- Uff da: a way of expressing sensory overload.
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live in Minnesota, heard of all of them
ReplyDelete"Uff da" is a Norwegian expression meaning "oh, no", "how sad" or similar when you want to express dismay or sympathy with something. The expression was probably brought to America by immigrants to the Upper Midwestern states. It's often used in a mildly ironic way in modern Norwegian, and we secretly snigger at the American adoption of it (but we're a tad proud too).
ReplyDeleteThese mostly apply to the upper Midwest, Wisconsin, Minnesota, upper peninsula of Michigan and North Dakota
ReplyDeleteI think most must be Minnesota, only heard bubbler when I lived in Wisconsin, pop is called soda there.
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