California Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Associated with or special to California or Californian people, places, or things. You can also see entries assigned to this category.

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boulevard stop n. We almost became friends, me, the day laborers and the Surf Sacrifice. I always had to make a boulevard stop at their intersection. I’d roll up to the stop and they would cheer and wave and call good morning. [California English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2007)

boulevard stop n. Many people don’t understand that a signal can be good…in a way that moves traffic through better than a boulevard stop. [California English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2007)

bucky n. The “Boontling” Knox refers to is a sort of argot or private language valley locals developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries using the syntax of English but substituting parts for wholes or referring to things by their uses or their most famous users. For example, a pay telephone rendered in Boontling is a “bucky walter” because a man named Walter Levi owned the first telephone in Anderson Valley and a call on early pay phones cost a nickel, which in those days was the buffalo nickel, nicknamed a “bucky.” Phone booths on the streets of Boont (Boonville) still bear signs identifying each of them as a bucky walter, such as the one outside the Horn of Zeese Cafe (the name is Boontling for cup of coffee), where a bright- lighter (city slicker) can score some bahl gorms (good food) unless he/she wants to drive the extra six miles to Poleeko (Philo). [English United States California] [full cite] (Jul. 8, 2004)

bucky walter n. The “Boontling” Knox refers to is a sort of argot or private language valley locals developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries using the syntax of English but substituting parts for wholes or referring to things by their uses or their most famous users. For example, a pay telephone rendered in Boontling is a “bucky walter” because a man named Walter Levi owned the first telephone in Anderson Valley and a call on early pay phones cost a nickel, which in those days was the buffalo nickel, nicknamed a “bucky.” Phone booths on the streets of Boont (Boonville) still bear signs identifying each of them as a bucky walter, such as the one outside the Horn of Zeese Cafe (the name is Boontling for cup of coffee), where a bright- lighter (city slicker) can score some bahl gorms (good food) unless he/she wants to drive the extra six miles to Poleeko (Philo). [English United States California] [full cite] (Jul. 8, 2004)

Califunny n. I voted once for a governor, with Boucher’s help, when I was living in Califunny. Alas, Arnold won. [California English] [full cite] (Jan. 20, 2005)

Califunny n. I have known of three sets of siblings who had sex with one another (no, I don’t peek in windows and ask leading questions). Two, some time ago back in redneckland and one in sometime free and easy Marin county Califunny. [English United States California] [full cite] (Feb. 10, 2005)

Califunny n. Does he use a bed_of_nails keyboard so it REALLY feels good when he’s replying? Well, no surprise really. He _is_ after all, posting from Southern Califunny. All that smog, for all those years. [English United States California] [full cite] (Feb. 10, 2005)

Caliscrewya n. It’s regular citizens of Northern Caliscrewya that ain’t to pleased about pimps running with our swagger [California English Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 24, 2006)

cap v. cap v. synonymous with bag. “She capped him back after school.” [California English Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 3, 2005)

chewy adj. chewy adj. uncool. “BMXs are chewy bikes.” “School lunches are really chewy.” [California English Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 3, 2005)

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