maine colloquialisms Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/maine-colloquialisms/ Maine Local Community Blog Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:53:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://meinmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-moose-Maine-32x32.png maine colloquialisms Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/maine-colloquialisms/ 32 32 Pididdle, Skin A Cat (Elevator Tree), Chalmerize. https://meinmaine.com/2013/02/15/pididdle-skin-a-cat-elevator-tree-chalmerize/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pididdle-skin-a-cat-elevator-tree-chalmerize https://meinmaine.com/2013/02/15/pididdle-skin-a-cat-elevator-tree-chalmerize/#respond Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:49:01 +0000 http://meinmaine.com/?p=5923 Local ways of communication, expressions slung back and forth in conversations in Maine. Where everyone in your small Maine town knows exactly what you are saying. But use the word, expression unique to your area down country or out of state and whoa. Eyes get big, conversations you are in grind to a halt. And […]

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]]> https://meinmaine.com/2013/02/15/pididdle-skin-a-cat-elevator-tree-chalmerize/feed/ 0 Knitting On It, Plugging Along In Maine. https://meinmaine.com/2011/11/06/knitting-on-it-plugging-along-in-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=knitting-on-it-plugging-along-in-maine https://meinmaine.com/2011/11/06/knitting-on-it-plugging-along-in-maine/#respond Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:12:12 +0000 http://meinmaine.com/?p=3215 Expressions, colloquialisms, Maine is famous for them. Like the classic Downeast humor when asked by a tourist with a mess of a Maine map smashed against the driver’s wheel, his window rolled down. When needing directions to someplace and being told after a long drawn out pause by a crusty sea coast local “ya can’t […]

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