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.

Fizzog a corruption of the french 'visage' maybe?

My grandad used to call snails hodneydods @HazzleMcDazzle
I've heard them called Dodmen before. A Dodman used to plot paths using two sticks and i think its a hangover from that - the two antennae looking like his sticks (think long man of wilmington).

My grandad always called Woodlice 'Pigs'

Oh and it's not Gatwick Airport it's Gatport Airwick and I actually heard a train announcer call it that once.

And water was 'frog's wine'

StillInTheMazeOfZagor
Woodlice are Chuckey

Chucky pigs!

Sorry, toddler grabbed the phone and made it post too soon. To clarify, we call woodlice ‘Chucky Pigs’ where I’m from (Gloucestershire but not sure the exact area the name is used in) so presumably calling them ‘pigs’ comes from that

Water was corporation pop where I'm from. Woodlice/ cockroaches were 'wiggies'.

Cool. He was from Leicestershire.

Togs - yes my Dad says this.

And 'flicks' for cinema

"Will you go an errand for me?" Mum always said if she wanted me to nip to the shops.

Buggerlugs - naughty child
Tranklements - bits and bobs
Dip n bread - bread fried in lard🤮
Chuckie eggs - eggs

I still say buggerlugs! My gran used to call my brother Joe Soap

Woodlice were always slaters & earwigs were clipshears when we were young

Scullery, bunker & oxter I still use but my kids use kitchen & worktop... they also use underarm instead of oxter or armpit I just walk away & pretend they're not mine

Buggerlugs, Chucky eggs, dannys for hands. Tushypegs for teeth was my Mum.
Dad said 'Gan Yam' for going home, Dicky dancers for stairs. Miss hearing these...

My Gran was Scots & lots of the words she & my mum used I thought were unique were in fact Scots phrases. My favourite is "so & so was up to hi-doh" for an irritated or angry person. I knew what it meant, the correct usage, but it took me years to work out the actual meaning...

"ventilator" - dad's word for window. No idea why.

ChinookPilotsGoVertical
Hear that phrase all the time
😂😂

We didn't have knotted or tangled hair we had Cots in them.

To be in a mood was to Have A Bag On.

Woodlice were chiselbobs to my Dorset mum.

Fizzog a corruption of the french 'visage' maybe?

Think it's more likely to be related to Irish féasóg pronounced 'face - ogue' and meaning beard.

I'm sure fissog/physog is a corruption of physiognomy.

My mum says "up the Molly dancers" for upstairs.

My Mam says "up the dancers!" For up the stairs!!

Cock/cocker is a common term of endearment in the NW. (They all call each other Butt/Butty in South Wales )

And the 'hardest' kid in school was 'cock of the school',