Bloomfield Residents: Tips On Speaking ‘New Jersey-ese’

BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Garden State can have a lingo – and a zeitgeist – all its own. And there are some things only a fellow New Jersey resident will get, it seems.

We recently asked our readers in Bloomfield: “What’s something you say that only someone from New Jersey would understand?” They weren’t shy about offering their own examples. Here are some of the best.

Read more replies at the Patch Bloomfield Facebook page.

• Stunod .... understood in NYC
• Fill it up. Jersey girls don't pump gas, lol
• Fuggedaboudit
• I’ll take two pies
• Benny or Shoeby
• Taylor ham on a hard roll
• Your welcome!!! (when you hold the door for someone and they don't say thank you)
• One slice please
• Goosey night
• jughandle
• disco fries
• What's your exit?
• Going down the shore NOT "to the beach"
• Light and sweet (my coffee)
• im-gunna (I'm going to)
• Twenty...regular...cash

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