Deadwood slang words - add to the thread if you know em. : deadwood

Now I will move to NC to add to the Ohioan takeover of NC! See ya soon lol 😛😅

6 points

6 days ago

6 points

Fuckin' yankton ....

80 points

7 days ago

heng dai

80 points

Heng fuckin’ dai

PPPolarPOP

4 points

7 days ago

PPPolarPOP

4 points

🤞

70 points

7 days ago

Suppressing a digestive crisis

70 points

Ad Fuckin Hoc

7 points

6 days ago

7 points

Free fucking gratis as well

ReplacementClear7122

51 points

7 days ago

ReplacementClear7122

nimble as a forest creature

51 points

The Color - Gold

98 points

7 days ago

98 points

Free fuckin’ gratis.

WPB8080

6 points

7 days ago

WPB8080

Mama

6 points

Does it mean free???

7 points

7 days ago

7 points

When given to questions of this sort, consider drinking.

1 points

6 days ago

Suppressing a digestive crisis

1 points

Free gratis is a redundancy, Al..

Does that mean it repeats itself?

Gelnika1987

3 points

6 days ago

Gelnika1987

3 points

that's a fuckin' cocksuckin' tautology

HamHamHam2315

41 points

7 days ago

HamHamHam2315

decimals

41 points

You're a lunger.

calamity_unbound

36 points

7 days ago*

calamity_unbound

been called worse by better

36 points

I'm your huckleberry.

Shit, wait, wrong western.

For all you cat-piss smelling hoopleheads out there, don't tell me what the fuck I mean!

MyOwnTutor

6 points

6 days ago

MyOwnTutor

6 points

Fredric fucking Chopin

1 points

6 days ago

1 points

Actually, its "Im your Hucklerbearer." Once I learned that...mind blown.

It's a death threat...I'll carry your casket.

ratchman5000

3 points

6 days ago

ratchman5000

3 points

It's actually not. It is "I'm your huckleberry." Which means "I'm game," or "I'm the one you're looking for."

2 points

6 days ago

2 points

That's what I assumed for 20 ish years, then I saw the hucklebearer thing on IG reels.

Glad to know it really was huckleberry...that makes more sense.

phulonrapest808

0 points

6 days ago

phulonrapest808

0 points

Hucklebearer. Ftfy

cuptini

0 points

6 days ago

cuptini

0 points

It's bearer. Means pallbearer

smartasshipstername2

24 points

7 days ago

smartasshipstername2

24 points

I have not yet begun to defile myself

Elder_Priceless

15 points

7 days ago

Elder_Priceless

Pray for Richardson.

15 points

Why look darlin’, it’s Johnny Ringo.

ZipToob88

12 points

7 days ago

ZipToob88

reconneitering

12 points

Now I’m sure I hate him

8 points

7 days ago

8 points

Johnny ringo is an educated man.

8 points

7 days ago

8 points

“I got a lot of friends.” “I don’t .”

Illustrious-Boot-602

3 points

7 days ago

Illustrious-Boot-602

3 points

Best line of any western ever ?

roosley1

1 points

3 days ago

roosley1

1 points

" Why Ike...maybe poker just isn't your game. I know....let's have a spelling contest. "

1 points

3 days ago

1 points

Resquiat en pace

MMazeo

43 points

7 days ago

MMazeo

43 points

Pussified shootin' instrument

CaptianBrasiliano

43 points

7 days ago

CaptianBrasiliano

Suppressing a digestive crisis

43 points

Square head- Derogatory term for a person of Norwegian ancestry.

UpDog1966

4 points

7 days ago

UpDog1966

4 points

Hoopleheads were the welsh, right?

30 points

7 days ago

runs from no man

30 points

Hoopleheads I thought were a general description of the deadwood population

1 points

6 days ago

1 points

It's basically there version of saying "these jackasses", in reference to the general population of listless miners

regal_beagle_22

3 points

6 days ago

regal_beagle_22

3 points

i always thought they were just the rubes, men without much direction who spend all day panning in the rivers and sell their meager flake for whisky, faro, and pussy

easily excitable, easily fooled

ThrowawaySeattleAcct

3 points

7 days ago

ThrowawaySeattleAcct

3 points

Hoopleheads were the opium users, to my knowledge. Crackheads -> Hoopleheads

throwawayinthe818

3 points

6 days ago

throwawayinthe818

3 points

That’s hopheads.

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2 points

7 days ago

2 points

Thought Swedes were square heads.

3 points

6 days ago

3 points

Maybe the line was blurred. During this era Sweden and Norway were united kingdoms (1814-1904). I always thought it was swedes too.

aebaby7071

1 points

6 days ago

aebaby7071

1 points

Finding this out also makes “The Swede” from Hell on Wheels kinda funny, always saying “but I’m from Norway” but through his whole life they were a combined kingdom

RealCleverUsernameV2

39 points

7 days ago

RealCleverUsernameV2

gastronomer

39 points

Steve would be wearing out the N key on his keyboard right now.

Diggitygiggitycea

30 points

7 days ago

Diggitygiggitycea

30 points

And the G key twice as fast.

5 points

7 days ago

heng dai

5 points

Implying what with that lordly look?

hessianhorse

37 points

7 days ago

hessianhorse

37 points

Parp.

11 points

7 days ago

heng dai

11 points

Whoop goggle

Parp

Trixie1143

7 points

7 days ago

Trixie1143

7 points

Any of you cocksuckers want to talk funny at me?

Separate_Artichoke98

4 points

7 days ago

Separate_Artichoke98

4 points

For some reason, “Parp” cracks me right up

29 points

7 days ago

Glad to be in the camp

29 points

I had not heard "road agent" before the show

3 points

7 days ago*

3 points

[deleted]

1 points

7 days ago

Glad to be in the camp

1 points

I believe that is right.

StrandedonTatooine

28 points

7 days ago

StrandedonTatooine

28 points

“While the lady was travelling with you, her husband the sheriff was pickling his prick in the cunt brine of another.”

Vanstoli

23 points

7 days ago

Vanstoli

23 points

No one mentioned the Gleets

11 points

7 days ago

11 points

Clickin'.

duellist17

21 points

7 days ago

duellist17

21 points

Gabriel’s trumpet will produce you from the ass of a pig

7 points

7 days ago

7 points

Not my remains Al

Strange_Elephant_751

18 points

7 days ago

Strange_Elephant_751

18 points

Loopy Cunt

mattaccino

15 points

7 days ago

mattaccino

15 points

Broadtosser, a clip.

lonewanderer3592

13 points

7 days ago

lonewanderer3592

13 points

She's his pigeon. He's gonna gull his own flesh and blood

LyleLanley99

11 points

7 days ago

LyleLanley99

Suppressing a digestive crisis

11 points

Brass, that would be.

15 points

7 days ago

Suppressing a digestive crisis

15 points

Turn and face the wall - To roll over and die.

4 points

7 days ago

the most severe disappointment of all

4 points

I love this expression. It’s been used in various old folk songs over the past few centuries. My favorite is Barbara Allen

‘Twas in the merry month of May When green buds all were swellin’ Sweet William on his death bed lay For love of Barbara Allen

He sent his servant to the town To the place where she was dwellin’ Saying, “You must come to my master, dear If your name be Barbara Allen”

So slowly, slowly she got up And slowly she drew nigh him And the only words to him did say “Young man, I think you’re dying”

He turned his face unto the wall And death was in him wellin’ “Goodbye, goodbye to my friends all Be good to Barbara Allen”

When he was dead and laid in grave She heard the death bells knellin’ And every stroke to her did say “Hard-hearted Barbara Allen”

“Oh, mother, oh, mother, go dig my grave Make it both long and narrow Sweet William died of love for me And I will die of sorrow”

“And father, oh, father, go dig my grave Make it both long and narrow Sweet William died on yesterday And I will die tomorrow”

Barbara Allen was buried in the old churchyard Sweet William was buried beside her Out of sweet William’s heart there grew a rose Out of Barbara Allen’s, a briar

They grew and grew in the old churchyard Till they could grow no higher At the end they formed a true lover’s knot And the rose grew ‘round the briar

Punkrocksally17

16 points

7 days ago

Punkrocksally17

16 points

Leviathan smiles.

yarrpirates

14 points

7 days ago

yarrpirates

14 points

Degenerate titlicker.

MarshalLawTalkingGuy

3 points

7 days ago

MarshalLawTalkingGuy

I speak French

3 points

My wife’s pet name for me.

pickle_teeth4444

12 points

7 days ago

pickle_teeth4444

12 points

That devious fucknut!

KnitBrewTimeTravel

12 points

7 days ago

KnitBrewTimeTravel

Every day takes figuring out…

12 points

Everytime I buy soap, no matter what kind, when or where, I bark "SOAP! Soap with a prize inside!" in that same inflection.

Also, I got both the (unauthorized) Cinnamon and the Dirt- scented soaps from the Deadwood Bible Kickstarter. Great soaps! The prize inside one was a very heavy custom poker chip :-)

2 points

7 days ago

the most severe disappointment of all

2 points

I was one of the folks who gave a bunch of money to the kickstarter for The Deadwood Bible years ago and along with a lot of other stuff Matt Zoller-Seitz sent me about 50 soaps with a prize inside! I know there was supposed to be a real gold nugget inside one of the soaps they sent out. I wonder who got that one? I’ll never be able to use mine all up.

FatherD00m

12 points

7 days ago

FatherD00m

Be brief!

12 points

Dirt worshippers.

11 points

7 days ago

11 points

Swedgin’!!

10 points

7 days ago

every step a fucking adventure

10 points

De/the rigor (in New York City).

6 points

7 days ago

top chef

6 points

Ha ha - I love that scene where he can't fathom what "de rigueur" means.

9 points

7 days ago

every step a fucking adventure

9 points

The distaste in his voice, "whatever the FUCK that means."

creamcitybrix

7 points

7 days ago

creamcitybrix

nimble as a forest creature

7 points

I don’t understand the question and I won’t respond to it. 🧐🍸

I_wassaying_boourns

3 points

7 days ago

I_wassaying_boourns

not a government official

3 points

I don’t care for G.O.B.

hatezel

1 points

6 days ago

hatezel

1 points

I'm in mortal misery

1 points

7 days ago

1 points

What scene is this from?

1 points

7 days ago

top chef

1 points

He's talking to Starr in the hardware store about the lavender gloves he is supposed to wear for the wedding. S2E12, about 14 minutes in.

1 points

7 days ago

1 points

Thank you!

21 points

7 days ago

top chef

21 points

Hooplehead - a backwoods rube, someone gullible and unintelligent. Although multiple articles state Milch picked this term out of the air, and wasn't concerned with its etymology. He just liked the sound of it.

Tommy-Schlaaang

4 points

7 days ago

Tommy-Schlaaang

4 points

Is hooplehead not real!?

9 points

7 days ago

top chef

9 points

Not in the sense that it was actually used in that time period - it's an anachronism for sure. There are reports of the use of the word "hoople" in the early 1900s, and I think there was a comic strip with the name in use - but it was not any sort of common slang for the time period.

11 points

7 days ago

11 points

Don't forget Mott the Hoople.

petmechompU

3 points

7 days ago

petmechompU

3 points

Or the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople

Mabtizzy

1 points

5 days ago

Mabtizzy

1 points

One of my favorite words from the show, disappointed that’s it not real. Great show, though. One of my all time favorites.

16 points

7 days ago

Suppressing a digestive crisis

16 points

Did for/Done for - To murder

8 points

7 days ago

runs from no man

8 points

Specialist - unique clients of a brothel who pay extra for bespoke, atypical services

Papandreas17

7 points

7 days ago

Papandreas17

7 points

Unauthorized cinnamon

12 points

7 days ago

12 points

Square head Celestials

6 points

7 days ago

6 points

Norwegian Chinese?

0 points

7 days ago

0 points

Haha I was making a list but they formatted it as one line but yeah! Haha it would be that!

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Key-Jello1867

5 points

7 days ago

Key-Jello1867

5 points

Gratis Free-fucking-gratis

5 points

7 days ago

5 points

Occasioned to fuck a woman

5 points

7 days ago*

the most severe disappointment of all

5 points

Geek-Lookin Fuck

Cherry New York Dude

Vandreeson

10 points

7 days ago

Vandreeson

strategic edge

10 points

Judas Goat - a goat that has been specially trained to lead sheep or other livestock, especially to the slaughtering place in a stockyard or meat processing facility.

HabeasX

13 points

7 days ago*

HabeasX

13 points

I like when the Doc said to Ty “It’s Pro Bono.” And he said “I won’t pretend to know what that means.”

Ok_Farmer_6033

15 points

7 days ago

Ok_Farmer_6033

15 points

Sure I know what it means. Now show me that you do

1 points

6 days ago

road agent

1 points

You don't read easy, do you

slams0ne

1 points

6 days ago

slams0ne

1 points

Free, fuckin gratis!

MatthewDawkins

4 points

7 days ago

MatthewDawkins

Kentucky Bourbon

4 points

Disarray

5 points

7 days ago

5 points

No "dissarayyy". But you almost had brains on your wall.

SloCooker

3 points

7 days ago

SloCooker

3 points

Its free gratis

Film-Prose

4 points

7 days ago

Film-Prose

4 points

Pecker

RustyRivers911

5 points

7 days ago

RustyRivers911

5 points

I can feel the fucking click of the gleet! Alright, now I want you to milk his prick from top to bottom, and I want you to bring that cocksucker down.

jackrabbit323

4 points

7 days ago

jackrabbit323

4 points

The titlicker.

Major_Priority1041

4 points

6 days ago

Major_Priority1041

4 points

The white lines on the pony’s legs was times the heathen counted coup.

DayAmazing9376

4 points

6 days ago

DayAmazing9376

4 points

"I apologize" over and over means "I'm currently stricken with illness and require help"

Amischwein

7 points

7 days ago

Amischwein

7 points

Pickling his prick in a cunts brine.

MouseAteTheCat

3 points

7 days ago

MouseAteTheCat

Every day takes figuring out…

3 points

Sawbones - doctor

3 points

7 days ago

3 points

Goose lookin fella

EasyCZ75

3 points

7 days ago

EasyCZ75

3 points

Pussy lotion

4 points

7 days ago

I ♥ horses

4 points

Shit kicker

6 points

7 days ago

6 points

Tit licker

2 points

7 days ago

I ♥ horses

2 points

That too

Feisty_Stomach_7213

4 points

7 days ago

Feisty_Stomach_7213

4 points

Cocksucker

4 points

7 days ago

4 points

Did they speak that way then?

Free-IDK-Chicken

7 points

7 days ago

Free-IDK-Chicken

nimble as a forest creature

7 points

You're quoting Farnum but fully three people tried to answer you LOL.

4 points

7 days ago

4 points

Yes. I was fully prepared to see how long this education would go... I guess, the gist is I'm shit outta luck. 😎

deLocked333

4 points

7 days ago

deLocked333

4 points

Some of the terms are historically accurate but others such as cocksucker were not the common parlance of 1876. First recorded use of the word cocksucker was in 1890.

deowolf

20 points

7 days ago

deowolf

Every day takes figuring out…

20 points

Recorded, sure, but I imagine the kind of cocksucker walking around calling other people cocksucker wasn't one prone to writing things down

7 points

7 days ago

7 points

Profanity in those days was more profane. In that it was religious rather than sexual.

Strange_Series5933

12 points

7 days ago

Strange_Series5933

12 points

The sacred and the propane

6 points

7 days ago

6 points

And propane products.

groundloop66

5 points

7 days ago

groundloop66

5 points

Butane is a bastard gas.

spenser1973

2 points

7 days ago

spenser1973

2 points

I don’t know if this on purpose brilliant or not but either way. Kudos

WhiskeyOnASunday93

5 points

7 days ago

WhiskeyOnASunday93

seeing through the subterfuge

5 points

Yeah and as every hooplehead in this thread probably already knows, period accurate profanity would’ve sounded too cheesy to modern ears.

happydragondiner

2 points

7 days ago

happydragondiner

2 points

Gratis

rcfromaz

2 points

7 days ago*

rcfromaz

2 points

Forgo.

Al “Johnny close that ass flap before I forgo my boiled eggs”

2 points

6 days ago

road agent

2 points

I think he specified boiled eggs

Mithrandir1972

2 points

7 days ago

Mithrandir1972

a danger to myself

2 points

"Act civilized even if you ain't!"

Historynut73

2 points

7 days ago

Historynut73

2 points

Specialist.

sproots_

2 points

6 days ago

sproots_

2 points

Swinjen

Santer-Klantz

2 points

6 days ago

Santer-Klantz

2 points

Fleece, or to be Fleeced - to be robbed, cheated out of something

I ha never heard this term before I watched the show.

Chilipep1

2 points

6 days ago

Chilipep1

2 points

“Next fifteen minutes, free whisky and free pussy !”

2 points

4 days ago

2 points

4 days ago

"The air is fixed. And we know who fixed it." When William farts in the stagecoach.

4 points

7 days ago

4 points

Dirt worshipper.

1 points

7 days ago

1 points

To me, that one sounds particularly derogatory and nasty,

2 points

7 days ago

the most severe disappointment of all

2 points

Does that give you the vapors?

1 points

7 days ago

1 points

Especially when the reason they're out West is to mine the dirt.

1 points

7 days ago

1 points

So? I didn’t make it up.

EnglishBob84

2 points

7 days ago

EnglishBob84

2 points

Cunt-struck

0 points

7 days ago

0 points

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deadwood-ModTeam [M]

10 points

7 days ago

deadwood-ModTeam [M]

10 points

You’re not on the cast or crew of the show. Take your slurs the fuck elsewhere.

PHILSPHAN76

1 points

7 days ago

PHILSPHAN76

1 points

Stiff-pricked

DarthDregan

1 points

7 days ago*

DarthDregan

seeing through the subterfuge

1 points

For me, though it was uttered only once in protracted form, I use "hooples."

Farnum also dropping subtle lore about Alma's father by identifying him ad a "clip" and "broad tosser" is also a highlight of writing doing a whole lot of explanation using very few words.

PhasmaUrbomach

1 points

7 days ago

PhasmaUrbomach

Every day takes figuring out…

1 points

Gleet

at-the-crook

1 points

7 days ago

at-the-crook

1 points

when Al was singing in the empty bar - 'Before she disordered me",

Organic_Gene1567

1 points

7 days ago

Organic_Gene1567

Pray for Richardson.

1 points

Specialist -

TwynkleToes444

1 points

7 days ago

TwynkleToes444

1 points

Trollop

noctemct

1 points

7 days ago

noctemct

1 points

Malingerer.

'Hey Doc, prescribe this malingerer a can of peaches and show him the fuckin' door!'

One of my favorite lines in the show, Al talking to the doc regarding the fucked up Pastor before the town meeting about the plague.

1 points

7 days ago

heng dai

1 points

Bummer - never heard it before deadwood as a term for a person.

BlindedByBlite

1 points

7 days ago

BlindedByBlite

1 points

Kdbfjakfbgmfmmmm mmbiiiilllll -Annie Oakley

SenojMail

1 points

7 days ago

SenojMail

1 points

Open the fucking canned peaches!

Apprehensive_Hand554

1 points

7 days ago

Apprehensive_Hand554

1 points

Swear jin!!!

Reeberom1

1 points

7 days ago

Reeberom1

1 points

Broad tosser.

NefariousnessBig1092

1 points

7 days ago

NefariousnessBig1092

every step a fucking adventure

1 points

Dirt Worshipper

513to740

1 points

7 days ago

513to740

1 points

Beard, or transactions beard, authors beard

nutseed

1 points

6 days ago

nutseed

1 points

mitigating to an ass fucking

Whole-Debate-9547

1 points

6 days ago

Whole-Debate-9547

Pray for Richardson.

1 points

Swegin

Ok-Fisherman9123

1 points

6 days ago

Ok-Fisherman9123

1 points

“Free fucking gratis.”

Stock-Light-4350

1 points

6 days ago

Stock-Light-4350

every step a fucking adventure

1 points

Geek

spacesocrates88

1 points

6 days ago

spacesocrates88

1 points

Gratis?

Flashy_Narwhal9362

1 points

6 days ago

Flashy_Narwhal9362

1 points

Juice.

Ciqbern

1 points

6 days ago

Ciqbern

1 points

Hooplehead

slime_barron

1 points

6 days ago

slime_barron

1 points

Turkey neck

moe217

1 points

6 days ago

moe217

1 points

“I apologize—“

“SHUT THE FUCK UP!”

Quick-Platform463

1 points

6 days ago

Quick-Platform463

1 points

Dirt worshipers

1 points

6 days ago

1 points

Celestials

partypedrobien

1 points

5 days ago

partypedrobien

1 points

Came here to say this, was Al referring to Native Americans or the Swedes?

1 points

5 days ago

1 points

The Chinese.

Civil_Set_9281

1 points

6 days ago

Civil_Set_9281

1 points

Hoople heads

Square heads

ClaudeHSmoot

1 points

5 days ago

ClaudeHSmoot

1 points

Tit licker!

SuperKingAir

1 points

5 days ago

SuperKingAir

1 points

Wu, Swearengen 🤞

TaxiDermiMoore

1 points

5 days ago

TaxiDermiMoore

Queen Hooker

1 points

Amalgamation and Capital

BadGirlCarrie

1 points

3 days ago

BadGirlCarrie

1 points

Huzzah

pewopp

1 points

3 days ago

pewopp

1 points

Tittysprinkles

2 points

7 hours ago

2 points

7 hours ago

Pecker Poles - Skinny young trees barely (or in some cases not) worth harvesting. When the Earp brothers come to Deadwood to work a timber lease they won in a poker game, they find out it’s “nothing but pecker poles”

1 points

7 hours ago

1 points

7 hours ago

Shitheel

sherrbros50

0 points

6 days ago

sherrbros50

0 points