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(get your) ears moved: to get a haircut.
"Yer hair's gettin too long; ya better go da barber's and get yer ears moved."
"Get yer ears moved at Jimmie Da Barber in Summit hill"
eggie bread: bread dipped in egg, then fried, and served with syrup, powdered sugar, or salt and pepper, usually at breakfast. Known to the rest of the world as "French toast".
"Do youz want dippie eggs or eggie bread before I run ya over ta Mass?"
eifta: Pronounced EYE-f-ta. commonly used as I have to do something.
"Eifta get up town to play da number before it closes."
et: past tense of "eat". very commonly used word in coal region speaking.
"Jeet yet? No, d'joo? Yeah, I et aready"
Euclid: large truck for hauling coal. Actually a brand name for this type of truck. Commonly shortened to "Yook" or "Yookie".
"My old man drives a Yookie down at da strippin'"
expecially: especially.
"Dis day is expecially important dij'nt know"
upda Eynon: to go up Route 6, almost always to Sugerman's Eynon Drug, an early mega-store.