verb Street Slang

Berl

· verb · nola

To boil — Yat pronunciation, as in crawfish berl.

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Definitions

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To boil. Used about water, crawfish, shrimp, crabs — anything getting dropped in a pot with cayenne and corn. The noun works too: a crawfish berl is a whole afternoon, not just a meal.

“We berlin' fifty pounds a' mudbugs Saturday — come thru.”
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Berl In A Sentence

We berlin' fifty pounds a' mudbugs Saturday — come thru.

Origin & Usage

Classic Yat vowel flip — the 'oi' in boil collapses to 'er', same way 'oil' becomes 'erl'. Lives on at crawfish boils every spring.

Variants berledberlin'

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