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.

Thanks @Octothorpe

ParkheadParadise I live in Australia- my MIL will sometimes ask if I’d like “any messages”. I took me a while to work out what she meant - her mother was English though.

We had a maiden, Pieceofpurplesky

And I still say 'gubbins', it's a very useful term!

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

Is this really the case? In Australia, it’s generally standard for houses to have ‘pantries’. Or, at least, that’s our name for the ‘larger cupboard/small ante-room designated for kitchen and food supplies.’

Df used to call the remote control the flirteroh and headlice were dicks. Exh used to call fried eggs feebs something the dc do as well.

In Hull we say 'I'm mafting' if we are hot and 'I'm nithered' if we are cold.

My dad is the only person I know who uses the word ‘handsome’ to describe a plate of food.

My granny's hall cupboard is the "glory hole", always has been

'I'm nithered' if we are cold

I'm from Edinburgh and my mum says she's "nithered to the bone" when she's cold.

@MemorialBeach - fair douze is an expression derived from the the French for 12 (douze), referring to a dozen. So fair douze means you got a fair/true dozen rather than being cheated with a short order.

Oooh and

Buttons - tv remote control

I thought it was 'fair do's' 😮

Used to hear it a lot on Aussie soaps

A lot of these were used in my house when I was growing up. Like
Lurgy, peely wally, hujamaflip, what the Dickins, hells bells.
Also,
Keep your eyes peeled
Any old Tom, Dick or Harry

The biggest regional variation I noticed was in children's games. My kids would same time out when they needed a break in a playground game. I said Veinites but when I changed school they said Pax.

Bottom Draw.
Courier (for holiday reps - I was one 😳).

@Lompopo
we used to say 'handsome' in Essex

My mum calls chewing gum “chungy”, tangled hair is “chuggy” and my gran also calls the kitchen the “scullery”.

We used to say 'spuggy ' for chewing gum.

Goatrider would you be thinking of “fair go”? I haven’t heard the expression “fair do”. (“Fair go” is a colloquial expression meaning equal treatment and yes, you would have heard it frequently in Australian soaps.)

My Irish mum used to call me a “wee scut” when she was telling me off or etc. Have passed this tradition down to my kids.

I was brought up in Nottingham, which has an entire dictionary of strange local words, eg

Twitchell - alleyway
Bobbo - Horse
Sucker - ice lolly
Cob - bread roll
Siling it down - raining heavily
Croggy - the act of giving a child a lift on the handlebars of a bicycle.

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.

My dad said this too!

theclaws actually I might be getting it mixed up with fair dinkum 😆

But I have had heard 'fair do's' and thought it was spelled like that.

Is this a glory hole?!

@31RueCambon75001
No thats a book case , a glory hole is somewhere that you put stuff you want to be kept out of sight , like the vac , DCs toys , old coats ironing board etc,
( imo ) I think most glory holes are under the stairs , the unused box room , in the cellar

Not things, but my late Mum had a couple of expressions that I haven't heard anyone else use:

'How many ?' was her usual vacant response to something she hadn't heard clearly, usually several seconds after the original utterance.

'Spend a penny' was her euphemism for going to the bog. I now use that expression, or 'off t' bog', depending on the company.

I'm nesh because I feel the cold.

Mardy here means moody.

Mithered is used frequently.