OT: Just saw a trailer for a new movie called "The Mechanic: Resurrection"....

[pitt-girl]

Apparently a sequel. Starring Jason Statham. What caught my interest was not the movie per se but Tommy Lee Jones who called him a "jagoff" in one scene. For a second I looked around and thought - did he actually say jagoff? Cracked me up. Only a Pittsburgher would write that.

 

[Panther Parrothead]

Apparently a sequel. Starring Jason Statham. What caught my interest was not the movie per se but Tommy Lee Jones who called him a "jagoff" in one scene. For a second I looked around and thought - did he actually say jagoff? Cracked me up. Only a Pittsburgher would write that.

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I listened to it, and "jagoff" isn't what I heard. I heard the more vulgar version of it - substituting "ck" for the "g".

That term is more nationally recognized than "jagoff".

 

[Pitt-Chains]

I listened to it, and "jagoff" isn't what I heard. I heard the more vulgar version of it - substituting "ck" for the "g".

That term is more nationally recognized than "jagoff".

Jag off or jack off.. Classic.

 

[Las Panteras]

The mechanic. .....the original movie starring Charles Bronson

A Pennsylvania favorite son and 100% American bad ass.

 

[Panther Parrothead]

Jag off or jack off.. Classic.

One of the more enlightening threads?

 

[Dr. von Yinzer]

Actually, I'm hearing jog off more and more in national vernacular. For example, Will Ferrell loves to say the word "jagoff" in skits and movies.

I think it's one of those words that fits a certain personality better than any other - softer than a-hole but harsher than jerk - and people kind of caught onto it.

 

[pitt-girl]

Actually, I'm hearing jog off more and more in national vernacular. For example, Will Ferrell loves to say the word "jagoff" in skits and movies.

I think it's one of those words that fits a certain personality better than any other - softer than a-hole but harsher than jerk - and people kind of caught onto it.

Yeah - Mr. Pitt-girl and I were talking about this and he said he's heard it occasionally in other parts of the country, just not with such regularity and as an almost bizarre term of endearment. Definitely originated here though.

 

[Panther Parrothead]

Yeah - Mr. Pitt-girl and I were talking about this and he said he's heard it occasionally in other parts of the country, just not with such regularity and as an almost bizarre term of endearment. Definitely originated here though.

From the Roy Blount, Jr. book (about the 1973 Pittsburgh Steelers), "About Three Bricks Shy of a Load" (copywrite 1974):

I never heard the word "Jagov" so often in my life as I heard it in Pittsburgh. There was an iron imperative not to be accounted a Jagov. The word is "jack-off," but in Pittsburgh it sounded like a Russian name. It means a person who doesn't take care of business, who makes a lot of noise and motions but doesn't connect. "Schizophrenic" is not too much further down the road. "Are you just jagging me off, or do you mean that?" a reasonably nice young woman in Pittsburgh (young women in Pittsburgh tend to be nicer, in the sense of demivirginality, than young women in many other major league cities) might say, without any apparent awareness of the root sense of the term. "Brian's mother is a Jagov," I heard one high school--age girl say to another in a Pittsburgh grocery store. If a lady wouldn't talk to him in a bar, a Pittsburgher might walk off grumbling, with a hint of desperation, "I'm a Jagov, right?"

 

[thebadby2]

Yeah - Mr. Pitt-girl and I were talking about this and he said he's heard it occasionally in other parts of the country, just not with such regularity and as an almost bizarre term of endearment. Definitely originated here though.

My brother in law grew up in Bridgeport, the old Irish ghetto of Chicago where both Mayor Daileys hail from, and grew up using the term jagoff liberally his whole life along with his family and neighborhood friends. . He's in his late 50s now. No connections to Pittsburgh at all. Only person I can think of that I've ever personally heard use the term outsode of Pittsburgh. FWIW. I grew up with it as my dad is Pittsburgh born and raised.

Agree with DVY that it fits its own descriptive insult niche perfectly-kind of like "douchebag".

 

[pitt-girl]

My brother in law grew up in Bridgeport, the old Irish ghetto of Chicago where both Mayor Daileys hail from, and grew up using the term jagoff liberally his whole life along with his family and neighborhood friends. . He's in his late 50s now. No connections to Pittsburgh at all. Only person I can think of that I've ever personally heard use the term outsode of Pittsburgh. FWIW. I grew up with it as my dad is Pittsburgh born and raised.

Agree with DVY that it fits its own descriptive insult niche perfectly-kind of like "douchebag".

Yeah - Mr. Pitt-girl is from Chicago so that's probably where he heard it also.