interjection
Street Slang
Sac au lait
· interjection · nola
Cajun exclamation of surprise — and also the local word for crappie.
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An old Cajun exclamation along the lines of 'oh man!' or 'good grief!' — literally 'sack of milk' in French, but functionally it's just a surprised noise, like 'mais, sac au lait!' when something stuns you. Pronounced roughly 'sock-ah-LAY'. Heard mostly out in Acadiana now rather than the city, but it floats into the NOLA glossary too.
“Sac au lait, you should've seen the redfish she pulled in — bigger than her arm.”
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Also the Cajun name for crappie, the freshwater panfish (aka white perch). Story is the silvery fish looks like a sack of milk being hauled through the water — though etymologists trace it back to Choctaw 'sakli' (trout), folk-reshaped into French. On any Louisiana menu or bait shop sign, 'sac-a-lait' means the fish.
“We caught a cooler of sac-a-lait off the Atchafalaya — fried 'em up with hush puppies that night.”
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Sac au lait In A Sentence
Sac au lait, you should've seen the redfish she pulled in — bigger than her arm.
We caught a cooler of sac-a-lait off the Atchafalaya — fried 'em up with hush puppies that night.
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