• Beater—(Flatland) The car you drive to work. (Vermont) The car you drive.
  • B-ton or Borington – Largest city in Vermont
  • Beer—More than just another breakfast food
  • By The Jesus! – Boy am I impressed!
  • Chainsaw—A basic tool of survival. Converts sunlight into fuel.
  • Cant Dog/Cant Hook—Accessory to the above
  • Downstreet—Where the stores are
  • The Flats—A rare, long, straight stretch of road. Often with a town constable waiting at the end
  • Flatlander—Anyone not related by blood to someone who settled in Vermont by the late 1700s. Anyone “Not from ‘round chere”
  • Holler (Hollows)—a mythical place located between the valleys and the peaks of rural Vermont where rugged individualists cling to the edge of civilization.
  • Plural of Holler—The plural of Holler is more Holler (not Hollers or Hollows)
  • Liberal—A Conservative Vermonter (by national standards)
  • Live and Let Live –Vermont State Motto
  • Feed the World Garden— What happens when your neighbors leave zucchini in your unlocked car
  • Farmer’s Market—Where you go to get good local food when your car is locked
  • Foreign Plates—A visitor from the Flatlands
  • Huntin’ Season—Three weeks out of the year when you can’t find a plumber, carpenter, or mechanic.
  • Jeezum Crow—Famous Vermont Cuisine and State Bird
  • Leaf Peeper Season—Time of year when suicidal color seekers stop unexpectedly in the middle of traffic and take pictures
  • Liberal Media—Everyone except Rush
  • Liberal Vermont Democrat Independent Progressive—Most Vermonters’ political persuasion.
  • Montpeculiar—Capital of Vemont peopled by a strange race of Liberal Do Gooders
  • Moonlight in Vermont (or die)—Unofficial State Motto
  • Mud Season—What you get between snow and daisies
  • Nelson—Feared Superconstable with 3 x the tickets written of any other cop in Vermont
  • Roadkill—Another famous Vermont Cuisine
  • Rutvegas – 4th largest city in Vermont
  • Sugarin’ Season—Characterized by farmers who haven’t slept in a week and steam coming from big outhouses with funny roofs.
  • The Mountain—Where skiers go
  • Town—Where skiers seldom go
  • Transplant—A refugee from urban/suburban USA who goes native. Children of transplants are still transplants.
  • Vermont Rock—Unique singer/songwriter rock/folk/jamband music style
  • Work Clothes—(Flatland) The clothes you wear to work. (Vermont) The clothes you wear.
  • Woodchuck – A real redneck Vermonter. Lives on beer in aluminum cans, pizza and convenience store sandwiches. Drives a large pick up truck or a Neon with an airfoil. Shy and pragmatic by nature, they are suspicious of anyone they didn’t go to High School with, and of people who read for pleasure. They are also some of the most honest and hard working people on the planet. Able to fix anything that’s broke, and shoot anything that’s beyond fixing.