bottle lingo

[Wheelah23]

Localized bottle terminology is interesting. I've always called slicks slicks, most people call them that on the forum... But when I was digging with Tom, he pulled out a slick and told me "it's just a pigger". I was like "What?" And he explained that a "pigger" is just an unembossed bottle. Lo and behold, I've heard a few other local diggers call them that. I guess in other areas, the early ones are called "puffs", which is a term I never really understood. There's other examples I don't remember, but each area seems to have its own names for things.

 

[surfaceone]

I dont see a forum or posting that lists bottle collecting terminology

Hey AMCS,

Here's a pretty comprehensive GLOSSARY, at a site that I would highly recommend to you, or anyone interested in antique glass.

 

[rockbot]

ORIGINAL: Wheelah23

Localized bottle terminology is interesting. I've always called slicks slicks, most people call them that on the forum... But when I was digging with Tom, he pulled out a slick and told me "it's just a pigger". I was like "What?" And he explained that a "pigger" is just an unembossed bottle. Lo and behold, I've heard a few other local diggers call them that. I guess in other areas, the early ones are called "puffs", which is a term I never really understood. There's other examples I don't remember, but each area seems to have its own names for things.

Yeah Wheel, we have one of them terms here. We call paper label beer blobs "canukes".[]

 

[JOETHECROW]

Localized bottle terminology is interesting. I've always called slicks slicks, most people call them that on the forum...

Canukes?? cool. I always called slicks, "Plain Janes" then sort of just started gradually referring to them as slicks, digging w/ others who did...and seeing it as the most common term here all the time, when I first used to read the term it sounded funny to me. (Slicks)

 

[CALDIGR2]

Years ago another digger and I made up a glossary of Western Bottle Digger terminology.

 

[RIBottleguy]

The first thing that came to mind was Ice Road Truckers...

 

[capsoda]

We used to call them BB targets. That just doesn't seem as funny as it did when I was young. Pigs ans slicks.

I have a buddy who, when he finds them in quantity, calls them *$@(#&%^%*s. [sm=lol.gif]

 

[Stardust]

Very funny all the names for bottles I look for all year to bury in my garden for the kids to dig up ~ [] I needed a good chuckle tonight ~ Ha ~ ; )

 

[Ratzilla]

I've always called the unembossed ones 'puffs' myself, whether or not they were pontilled, but recently we've been calling the turn of the century puffs 'turdifacts'....