What does whatta ya at mean?

What does whatta ya at mean?

What are ye at?, or Wadda ya’at b’y?: How are you doing, or sometimes What are you doing?

What are some Newfie sayings?

You might enjoy some classic Newfoundland sayings….

• Do you want some taken up? – Want some supper?
• Who knit ya? – Who’s your mother/parents?
• Stay where you’re to ’till I comes where you’re at. – Stay there until I get there.
• Yes b’y.
• Mind now.
• I just dies at you!
• Oh me nerves, ye got me drove!
• Put da side back in ‘er.

What is catty in Newfoundland?

Similar to mint, when something is “catty,” it means it’s really cool or awesome. Randy uses the term often on job sites, when he and his team come up with a great idea or figure out a clever solution to a problem. Related: Newfoundland Vacation Properties We’re Dreaming About.

What is a Newfie scoff?

Fire up a scoff.” Translation: I’m hungry. Make me some food. According to the Dictionary of Newfoundland English, “scoff” has its origins in the Anglo-Manx dialect, and means food or a meal.

What does me Ducky mean?

A restaurant patron may be referred to as “me ducky” several times during a single meal, or a retail customer several times during a single transaction, occasionally interchanged with the terms, “m’ love” or “m’ darlin”.

What is a streel?

: an untidy slovenly person.

What is getting screeched?

Getting ‘screeched in’, which turns a visitor into an honorary Newfoundlander, involves doing jigs with an ugly stick, kissing a codfish and a shot or two of rum.

What is a shot of Screech?

The term screech is a colloquial term that has been used to describe almost any cheap, high alcohol spirit, including moonshine. The term is used in the brand name for this mid-priced rum to associate the brand with this tradition.

What is horsey ducky?

I’m guessing this is because adding y to something makes it more cute and more like something you would say to a child. So horsey ducky is like saying make it easy enough for a kid to understand.

What does Duckish mean in Newfoundland?

Cited Quotation. CONTEXT: IT WAS JUST GETTING DUCKISH MEANING: THAT TIME BETWEEN THE SUNSET AND DARK.

Is Streal a word?

No, streal is not in the scrabble dictionary.

Where can I kiss the cod?

LOCATION: The most popular place to be Screeched in is in a venue along the tavern- and bar-studded George Street in St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador’s capital on the far south-east of the island.

What is kissing the cod?

Kissing the cod is a symbol of bon voyage to those who were sailing to Jamaica and returning with the rum. For the ceremony, many places just use a plastic cod, or a stuffed animal, but not at the Screech Room.