including the driveway and parking area proximal to the house Italian (sandwich) – (Maine) submarine sandwich logan (also pokelogan) – a shallow, swampy lake or pond (from Algonquian) muckle – to grasp, hold-fast, or tear into mud season – early spring Mid-Atlantic breezeway – the space between two groups of rowhouses in the middle of a city block down the shore – shore areas and beaches of Southern New Jersey hoagie – submarine sandwich jawn – pronoun used for any person, place, or thing jimmies – sprinkles (ice cream topping) see also New England, above parlor – living room pavement – sidewalk shoobie – A visitor to the beach (typically the South Jersey shore) for the day (as contrasted with an overnight visitor) water ice – Italian ice yo! – Hello; also used to grab someone's attention youze – plural form of "you people" Greater New York City bodega – small corner grocery store, from the Spanish word for closet catty corner – on an angle to a corner dungarees (older) – jeans egg cream – a mixture of cold milk, flavored syrup, and seltzer have a catch – play catch hero – submarine sandwich kill – a small river or strait, in the name of specific watercourses; e.g. Beaver Kill, Fresh Kills, Kill Van Kull, Arthur Kill (from Dutch) on line – waiting or standing in a line potsy – hopscotch punchball and stickball – street variants of baseball, suitable for smaller urban areas, in which a fist or stick substitutes for the bat and a "Spaldeen" is the ball scallion – spring onion stoop – a small porch or steps in front of a building, originally from Dutch Midland barn-burner (now widespread) – an exciting, often high-scoring game, esp. a basketball game hoosier (esp. Indiana) – someone from Indiana; (outside of Indiana, esp. in the St. Louis, Missouri area) a person from a rural area, comparable to redneck mango – green bell pepper, sometimes also various chili peppers outer road – a frontage road or other service road A soft drink is generally known in the American Midland as pop, except for being soda around Greater St. Louis in Missouri and Illinois, and coke in central Indiana and central and western Oklahoma South alligator pear – avocado banquette (southern Louisiana) – sidewalk, foot-path billfold (widespread, but infrequent Northeast, Pacific Northwest) – a man's wallet cap (also Midlands) –