C-D

1. Green Line train: "Take the next cah to Nawth Station; get off at Haymahket."

Waiting for the Leech-meah cah at Pahk Street:

2. An auto. By itself, not surprising, given the pronunciation, except that it leads to a joke that only a Boston kid would get, as Christine Leccese explains: "When we were kids (in Burlington), we played on the street a lot. When a car would come, someone would scream 'Cah!' and we'd all run onto the grass. Well, when two cars would come 'cah cah' would send us all into hysterics (cahcah=caca)!"

Can get. An example of the negative positive in Boston English: "Let's go see if we can't get yoah cah fixed."
Kathie Young

Massachusetts has two capes - Ann and Cod - but only the latter is The Cape.

Where two streets meet; sometimes, a small neighborhood. "My dad always tells me ta stay away from the bahs on Field's Cawna."
Joseph Hegarty

The sclerotic north-south highway that once separated the North End and the waterfront from the rest of the city. Now replaced by the Big Dig and the Rose Kennedy Greenway.

The Curt Schilling Memorial Girder by Quincy Market is one of the few reminders of the old Central Artery:

Where you bring your clothes to be Mahtinized. You'll never actually hear anybody say the word, but there are still any number of dry cleaners named "Such and such Cleansers" in the Boston area.

The city's "adult entertainment district," located between Downtown Crossing and Chinatown, more or less. The porno places are now entirely gone, and the "combat" these days are mostly between developers and Chinatown residents who don't want to be displaced by expensive condos planned for the area's rundown buildings.

There are now just two strip clubs left, both huddled together on the mostly-an-alley Lagrange Street.

Chris Gassler

Obnoxious, rude and generally not wanted person (especially at a kegga), at least in Acton: "Who invited the cool kid?"
Joe Angers

A stretch of toll plazas, liquor stores and fireworks stands on the way to Maine. Also known as New Hampster.

Island south of Florida; capital is Havanner.

Lame-ass taunt formerly hurled by Yankees fans at the Red Sox whenever they played in New York. One word: 2004.

It was the alleged reason for why the Red Sox haven't won a World Series since 1918 - the year before they sold Babe Ruth's contract to the Yankees (so then Sox owner Harry Frazee could finance the play "No, No Nanette" on Broadway). It could have been worse: We could have had an even stupider curse like the billy-goat thing and the Cubs.

But curse? What curse? What are you talking about?

Dressed nicely.
Matt Melillo and Chuck Luongo

A fall: "He slipped and took a digga."

What you use to signal that you're about to make a turn - or to signal to the guy behind you that you've just cut him off and you want to rub it in. "No one out here in Arizona knows what I'm talking about with that one," reports Mark Badolato. "They only know from 'blinker' or 'turn signal'."

Crazy person, at least in Newton's Nonantum neighborhood.
Steven Liberace

Where somebody is, for example: "They're down the Cape today." Sometimes prounounced "downna," as in "Wanna go downna Boston with me?"

Alicia from Meffid recalls: "When I worked in Boston City Hall, I was in room 601, which is the City Clerk's office. My friend Galen and I used to fall out laughing when people said, 'Oh, you work up the Clerk's?' And to make matters worse, the City Council was on the fifth floor, so in the course of a day you might hear THIS gem, 'Oh, you work up the Clerk's? My cousin works down the Council. He works down Dappa's. You musta seenim? Kid widda Ahmy-like haiya do? He's a gootlookin' kid.'"

In December, 2023, an obituary for lifelong Everett resident Phyllis Harper noted "She was born on February 4, 1940 down the Village, and lived there until her passing."

The part of the house under the first floor: "Go down cella and get me some b'daydas."

Piece of bedroom furniture used for storing clothes. Jawdan's sells 'em.

Jonathan Lynch recalls: ''When I worked in my dad's store in Lawrence in the 40's, we sold 'dungjareens' not dungarees or jeans. If you wanted Levi's you asked for 'Levi dunjareens.' If you were a carpenter or painter, you would buy 'overhauls' - - not 'overalls.' ''

TV remote.

An adjective referring to something or somebody from Dorchester (see Dot. Ave., OFD and rat).

It is NOT a synonym for "Dorchester," however. As OFDer Jim Sullivan notes:

People from Southie were the ones who called Dorchester "Dot". The only acceptable use of "Dot" was when speaking about the street "Dot Ave" or the public space "Dot Park". Everyone knew you were an outsider if you referred to the actual town by saying "Dot".