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 would always spell fridge as “frig”.

My late gran always called the cupboard under the stairs = glory hole.

geez isn't rare! Although when I say it it's jeez (abbreviation of jesus)

Pussy cheese 😆 was not named after a cat.

When we did something silly my dad used to call us a duck egg

My mum calls squash ‘squirt’, which sounds a bit rude frankly.

An ex of mine was flummoxed when my mum was describing to him someone driving badly so "I just gave him a dose of the horn". I have explained it to her many times since but she still says it.

Fizzog (face) used by my dad a lot too.
Also a nodger’s nig meaning something small - a nodger bring a gnat or midge and his nig being well, er, his smallest appendage

Mine call Broccoli "calabri". I've always sort of assumed it's another word for the same veg but a quick google now suggests that's not the case.

Calabrese is similar to broccoli

I wonder if the Bergoo for porridge came at all from a bastardisation of congee - a Chinese porridge dish (disconcertingly with pieces of chicken in it when I had it).

It was gumboots for wellies in our house.

Some of these are familial expressions no doubt or very local dialects but others are where language has involved. An anteroom is a room that is a passage to another room (where you could change, guests could wait etc) they were common between the main corridor and bedrooms in large country houses where (bizarrely) they received guests in bedrooms, go figure . The scullery was what we would now call a kitchen come utility, where the prep was done, the kitchen it's self was where the stove was (also heated house) where you sat and ate. Houses had more walls then!

My mum calls woodlice cheesy bugs and the toilet the throne. It always makes me smile when I hear the queen's been on the throne for x number of years.

DF used physog and lavatory. Parsons nose for the bum of a roast bird. ‘Bathroom humour’ was another phrase used to indicate bum, poo wee jokes.
Granny used to say ‘fancy’ in wonderment, as in fancy that!

My dad used to talk about his 'glory hole' too. I must look up the modern meaning...

My grandmother used to describe us as 'saucy' if we were bing a bit cheeky, and my grandfather used 'yonder' a lot, which I always loved. I haven't heard that since he died over 25 years ago.

Formica for kitchen worktop - even if it wasn’t made out of Formica

My granny always referred to Velcro as velcron.

DD told me yesterday her grandmother had asked where she could get a muff warmer. In front of DDs boyfriend.

Maybe it's an age thing but most of the words already mentioned apart from mispronounications and regional words are quite normal.

Saucy, fancy, yonder, glory hole, anteroom etc are all quite commonly said surely

My dad said lots of odd things that I just assumed were dad-isms. It wasn’t until after he died (when I was in my early 20s) that I read something online and realised he was using local dialect. Makes me so sad as now, thanks to Facebook, I realise lots of older local people use it here and there and I’d have loved to actually talk to him about it and all the words he knew

'From earholes to breakfast time' - meaning all over the place.
'Black over Will's mother's' meaning there are dark clouds over there with bad weather.
I'm sure I'll remember many more - have a lovely old-fashioned mother.

My dad always used the word ‘humping’ , for heavy lifting of stuff so ‘I need some help humping in the loft today’, or something like that. I always smirked inside my head as he was very strict and wouldn’t have allowed any rude talk!

simplysteve the problem there is with your dd not the grandmother, a muff warmer is a perfectly respectable thing

www.amazon.co.uk/hand-warmer-muff/s?k=hand+warmer+muff&tag=mumsnetforu03-21

My wee gran used to come out it's some crackers that left you scratching your head on occasions!
My favourites of hers were
Wersh: sour/bitter
Daichy: doughy

I can still see DHs face when she asked if he wanted his roll "well fired" or did he prefer "daichy"

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

I promise I'm not your mother, but I say Geez sometimes, though I usually say Geez Louise!

My dad always used to call Red Setters "earwig dogs". I think it was something to do with how slim they were and the colour.

Growing up, fingers were Dannys and toes were Joeys.

We used to play a card game called bonk when caravanning with my parents and their friends.

I've heard gazunder before but as the name for a chamber pot that goes under the bed.