noun
Street Slang
Ersters
· noun · nola
Oysters, in the thick Yat accent of working-class New Orleans.
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Definitions
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Oysters. Spelled the way a real Yat says it — that flat, almost-Brooklyn 'er' standing in for 'oy'. You hear it at po-boy shops, oyster bars, and anywhere uptown your grandma is ordering lunch.
“Get me a dozen ersters on the half shell, dawlin'.”
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Ersters In A Sentence
Get me a dozen ersters on the half shell, dawlin'.
Origin & Usage
Yat dialect — the New Orleans working-class accent that famously sounds closer to Brooklyn than the Deep South. The 'oy' diphthong flattens to 'er', same mechanism that turns 'toilet' into 'terlet'.
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