Words you've only heard your parents use for things

[DrMadelineMaxwell]

My Mum calls the cupboard under the stairs the 'spence' and I've never heard anyone else call it that or use that word.

[TheJellyBabyMadeMeDoIt]

My mum has a custom made bookcase set back in an alcove with a comfy chair and fancy lamp to read by.

She calls this her "glory hole"

She tells everyone about her and my father's "glory hole" in the living room.

I've tried to tell her the alternative, modern, meaning. She says that we're all filthy minded and abusing the English language.

[CallmeAngelina]

I've rarely heard anyone else actually use the term 'lavatory' in real life, apart from my dad.

[LatteLove]

Lol @thejellybabymademedoit my parents have a cupboard in an alcove in the living room next to my dad’s armchair and mum calls it “his glory hole”

My mum also randomly calls people tossers and twats I think she thinks it’s just low level silly names like twit.

[TheJellyBabyMadeMeDoIt]

I'm relieved it isn't just my parents then!

[ToLiveInPeace]

My dad uses 'cock' as a term of endearment...

[Larlarleighlee]

My grannie called the kitchen the scullery and the living room the kitchen....

[inwood]

Going for 'a loady'

[ParkheadParadise]

My mum always called an ice cream cone a pokey hat.

[GameofPhones]

My Dad always said 'larum (pronounced lairum) for alarm clock. Sounds ancient!

[Cat0115]

A dressing gown is a Ciggy from my DF who would be in his 90s if still alive. I THINK this is from the 1920s of his childhood when smoking jackets were a thing.

[DrMadelineMaxwell]

I have a pantry, which I imagine most kitchens no longer have. (TINY kitchen, attached pantry - we're not minted!)

[DrMadelineMaxwell]

I remember 'glory hole' from a similar thread last year and wondered if it would appear. Makes me .

[BanningTheWordNaice]

@TheJellyBabyMadeMeDoIt I never laugh out loud at stuff online but I just actually laughed out loud at that...

[BillyAndTheSillies]

My parents have an anteroom. Never heard anyone else use the word. From what I gather it means between room.

In their house, it's the room between the hallway and the kitchen and their dining room branches off it but serves no purpose.

[gideonsmideon]

Oxter for armpit
Larum used here as it’s technically a call to arms (short for alarum) so true most mornings

[TyneTeas]

Came on to say trafficators but have just googled it and they are indeed a real thing, albeit a predecessor of the indicators they were referring to

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafficators

[PancakeAndKeith]

Anteroom is a fairly ordinary word for a lobby or hallway.

[dontticklethetoad]

Not a word, but a phrase.

When my dad used to help me get dressed for bed, he used to say "skin a rabbit" when I put my arms up and he'd pull off my top/dress.

[HarrietSchulenberg]

Tynetees, I once did a driving safety course by accident (long story) and a fellow student, in his late 80s at least, kept referring to "directicators". It irritated me all morning. He also kept putting on and taking off a pair of leather driving gloves very conspicuously, and kept asking mad questions about how to change his radio stations and heating settings safely.

My parents used to call Dairylea triangles "pussy cheese" because next door's cat loved the stuff.

[Mollypolly2610]

Definitely Oxter for armpit here. Bunker for kitchen worktop.

[DameSquashalot]

We always used to call them trafficators. (About 40 years ago)

[HeyHeyMckenzie]

dontticklethetoad my mum used to say that too!

[OpenYourEyes]

My dad had a fictional animal called a gazunder. So if you said dad what's your favourite animal he would say a gazunder. Apparently it had longer legs on one side do it could stand on a hill.