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.

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

Mine too. Whether before or after she called the ice cream man a twat or a tosser is unclear

My gran used to call the dining room the dinette

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

I have to admit ... I didn't know there was an alternative, modern meaning. I don't think I want to know what it is!

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

On the other hand, I do know what a gazunder is - a chamber pot (because it 'goes under' the bed)

If she thought someone was being silly, my mum used to say that he or she "needed putting in a bag and shaking up".

Oxters and poke are commonly used in NI.
DH used to say loady too..

My dad calls the remote the button push.

Me and Dh call the remote the 'puter box

Crying at Harriet's parents' pussy cheese!

Yes to...
oxster for armpit
Bunker for kitchen worktop
Syboe(sighbee) for a springonion

My parents have always called the remote control “the Didgeridoo“. Of was quite old before I found out that a Didgeridoo is a musical instrument.

A snicket! Which is like a little alley or cut-through

My grandma calls vaginas Ooojacapiffys 🤦🏼‍♀️

There are loads of quirky name injokes that me and dh enjoy (some of which are so rooted and lost in mists of time we would probably struggle to recall the origins), that we would be if DC in years to come thought we meant them TBF!

Pokey hat, oxters, scullery all commonly used in Scotland. I’m surprised anyone thinks they’re unusual.

In my family we all call the remote control for the tv the 'tv box' I thought everyone called it that to a few years ago

My grandad always talks about trumpery lying around... I've just googled this one and it is an actual word to describe 'articles of little value or use'

My mum will say 'op he's as odd as dick's hatband' 😳 or 'she's as thin as a lat'
And of course it's always black over Polly's mothers

@dontticklethetoad my mum used to say that to me, and I have said it to all of mine and do every night to my youngest still.

No one else I know says "geez" in real life other than my mother.

My grandmother used to say "like the dickens". For example, when explaining how to make a certain cake batter she would say to "beat it like the dickens"

My Dad used to say 'fizzog' (or phizzog?) For face and 'puddies' for hands (short u as in umbrella).

@dontticklethetoad my mum and my partners parents say that too

@Time40 when I was little a ‘gazunder’ was what we called a trundle bed

My mum will say 'op he's as odd as dick's hatband' 😳 or 'she's as thin as a lat'
And of course it's always black over Polly's mothers

"Thin as a lat" is one of my mum's sayings too, however here it's, "black over Bill's mothers'!"

I've heard, 'skin a rabbit' a few rimes, I think I may have even seen it on TV.

My mum called the remote the 'flat controller'and a corkscrew was always a screwdriver. Perridge was 'bergoo'

My dad refers to any food he thinks has had too much messing around as 'pag mag'.

Leet geen - for a flirtatious person, I think that's Yorkshire dialect so I suspect itis not just him.

My mother always used to say “empt that into the sink” instead of empty. Just the verb; she would say that the cupboard was empty.

My grandma (Welsh) used to tell us to brush our tussiepegs (teeth) and go for a widdle (wee) before bed. Male and female genitalia were tiddlers.

She also referred to most folk as either Mr, or Mrs Whasnim (what’s his name).

My mum used to call farts ‘poots’; she’d also threaten to ‘bonk’ us if we were cheeky.

A shaakeydoon for a makeshift bed.