#yat

Your mother and the whole rest of the family — one mashed-up word.

Across the Mississippi from NOLA proper — Algiers, Gretna, Marrero, Harvey.

'Partner' — friendly NOLA address for an unfamiliar man.

Variant Yat spelling of 'oysters' — same word as ersters.

To boil — Yat pronunciation, as in crawfish berl.

A po-boy ordered plain — 'nothing on it.'

A resident of Chalmette in St. Bernard Parish — usually said with a smirk.

NOLA way of saying 'at my house,' calqued from French.

New Orleans-ese for 'at' or 'to' a place, usually someone's house.

Yat pronunciation of 'toilet,' straight outta New Orleans.

Yat for the kitchen sink.

Darling — the universal NOLA term of address, used on anybody.

The whole bundle of New Orleans pronunciations and grammar — 'where y'at?'

Sausage — Yat pronunciation, roughly SAH-sage.

Yat for sidewalk.

Yat pronunciation of 'oil' — cooking oil, motor oil, any oil.

Emphatic New Orleans agreement — the canonical Yat affirmation.

New Orleans for 'how you doing?' — not 'where are you'.

To stop in and visit somewhere, not just walk past it.

Oysters, in the thick Yat accent of working-class New Orleans.