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Cumbie's

A Cumberland Farms mini-mart: "Heeya's five bucks; go downa Cumbies and gemme a pagga butts."
Douglas K. Lennan

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Comments

By shelly on Tue, 04/13/2004 - 12:56am.

Why don't you have 'butts' in the B section. Now that I live in Virginia nobody knows what I mean when I say "I need a butt!(cigarette)".

By sarah on Sun, 06/27/2004 - 11:05pm.

we call cumberland farms "cumbie's" in Little Rhody too. Not evvvvverything is strictly a Bawston thing.

By Steve on Sat, 08/21/2004 - 6:58am.

Ditto, Sarah. Also used here in Vermont

By Leia on Sun, 10/10/2004 - 6:14pm.

I work at Cumby's... We spell it with a y... Anyway I've worked their for ova a year... An add-on to this one is the Cumby's Crew, meaning everyone who works there or hangs out there all the time... Our Cumby's Crew consists of the majority of employees who are mostly college students who work there and sometimes live there and our friends who have no lives and hang there...

By Kel on Sun, 04/03/2005 - 4:31am.

Yup, use 'Cumby's' in CT too!!

By Ken on Sat, 06/11/2005 - 9:44pm.

I agree with sarah. We call those stores Cumby's down here in Connecticut too. ;-)

By Grant on Thu, 03/02/2006 - 10:07am.

actually the first time i ever heard it being called 'cumby's' was on NESN commercials. thought it was pretty funny.

By David on Wed, 03/29/2006 - 8:13pm.

I grew up in Brighton and there was a cumberland farms there and it was always so dirty we called it scumbys

By Anastasia on Wed, 06/28/2006 - 3:18pm.

I grew up in Nashua NH and went to school in Vermont. We trained everyone who came from out of New Englad to go to "Cumbie's" because nothing else was open past 9 PM!

By Ashley on Sat, 11/14/2009 - 6:55pm.

I think it's assumed that most of these words and phrases exist outside of Boston. They just don't usually reach the fringes of New England, like that gawdawful Fairfield County wasteland here in Connecticut or the wicked Canuck parts of Maine.

By the way, for the reckahd: New Haven and anything southwest of it ain't New England.

By Brendon on Sun, 11/19/2017 - 7:19pm.

In PSL Florida we call it Scumby's.