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.

@gettofuckthrees are you my sister? I thought it was just my dad who has control of the doofer

*@myidentitymycrisis

@Lompopo
we used to say 'handsome' in Essex*

I believe the 'h' is silent.

"Raunging about" means wriggling restlessly in our family.

My dad uses all kinds of words.

Poopsnaggled- tired
Bumblerats- an expression of dismay
Bumswizzlers- see above
Mitzy Gruber - don’t touch

So many more but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

DM also has a glory hole, this has teen DS simultaneously helpless with laughter or mortified depending on the situation in which it comes up.

She also steadfastly refers to Kenya as Keeen-ya, as though she's some old colonial rather than a granny from the seaside.

To the poster who asked where the phrase 'I'm-a-gooin' for I'm going comes from - this is Black Country.

My DH says 'fizzog' for face, and lots of people use the word 'doofer' for TV remote- and other things they can't remember the word for.

I do love all these people with glory holes. :)

Not a funny but funny pronunciation, my late mother used to say mowcaseings ( moccasins) and refused to listen anyone who tried to correct her.

Fay nights is an old term for truce. Spend a penny from the days when that’s what it cost to use a public loo. ( old money and yes I remember it)!
We called insects grooblies, never heard anyone else use it.

My gran said "greensward' for the bit of grass at the edges of a lane. " keep to the greensward! A car might come along"

My mum used Wiggie for hair tie and Whizzpop (from the BFG) for fart. Now I have kids I don't know what to call things. I had terrible trouble in school if I ever wanted to borrow a hair tie!

@Ilikesweetpeas weirdly enough there were letters in the Guardian yesterday (or possibly the day before) about the expression 'black over Bill's mother's' - strange coincidence!

Lurgy comes from the Goon Show ‘The Dreaded Lurgy where there was a mysterious disease doing the rounds.

@Dockray I think ‘attention’ must be what she meant - I’ve never thought to write it down before but that makes perfect sense!

@Bouledeneige if we wanted a break we’d say ‘skinchies’

@Stravapalava my granny used to say someone was “having a fit of the screaming when they were in a furious temper.

Does anyone still use the word fettle for sort out and tidy up, in a “I’m going to fettle out that glory hole tomorrow, it’s a mess” ?

• fit of the screaming abdabs! Damn it, I don’t know where that half of my post went

Ditdo- the remote

We had "bobby" for poo, and "a dinner" for an evening meal involving meat (such as a roast, chops or a casserole) served with veg, potato, gravy, etc.

Bobby for a poo reminds me, my friend's family call a cold sore a Simon! 🤣