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 , mush = face
What-dya-calll-it , thingimabob , oogamaflip all used for a rhing or persin that we have forgotten the name of.
I still use buggerlugs = playful way of calling someone a pest.
Toothypegs = teeth
Mard/ mardy pants = some one who gets scared easy.

To PP the animal that has two legs shorter on on side than the other so it can run around hills is a Haggis

@dadcan
Yes I'm from the NW I was a very common term when I was growing up ( 4??? Ish years ago )

My dad says fotty, which is the smell you get when a cloth or a mop or something has been left damp for too long without drying properly. Never heard it anywhere else.

Most of these are quite common colloquialisms

My parents always called a cash point 'the hole in the wall'

We go to the hole in the wall for cash too.

My dad called packed lunch 'snappin'.

Tappleade is water here (from a friends mum when I was a kid).

My MIL said 'if you hold a guinea pig up by its tail it's eyes drop out' yesterday to my eldest DS and he just looked confused. So did I tbf. Had never heard it before then.

My mum says 'tussiepegs' which I just thought was an endearing word she'd made up.

I've also heard 'jasper' for wasp as slang before in Gloucestershire where I grew up. I now live in Herefordshire and they don't seem to have as many regional words for things. When I was a kid I heard people saying 'yud' for head and you'd be called 'nesh' if you complained of being cold and they thought you were wimpy.

My dad used to say 'flup' if he was full (as in full-up) and would say 'an ounce of wind and a fried snowball' meaning nothing. As in - you'll get an ounce of wind and a fried snowball / you'll get nothing.

Mardy means overly whiny where i'm from

Tabs for ears
Bobo for horse
Mush for face

Someone on another thread just wrote this and it reminded me - my mum would always say something was 'infra dig' meaning not at all the done thing. I've never seen or heard anyone else ever use it apart from just now.

@saveallyourkisses- is your mum Welsh?

Going to stainsbury for the shopping after my Nan and the great day Sainsbury’s opened in Worksop ❤️

My Nan used to swear by saying "bloody sands and beaches"

Something not likely to happen for ages - "Aye, maybe next Preston Guild...." Lancashire expression I never hear now!

@Clawdy someone actually said that to me a few weeks ago!

Oh, wow!

tickling stick for remote control.
snackette for a small little nibble of some food

My lovely dear departed Nana used to pronounce broccoli 'brock-o-lye'. I have started using her pronunciation as a memorial to her.

Mardy is being soft and skriking is crying (NW)

My nan told me if I put my hands above my head while pregnant I would hang the baby

She also said if you stand them up on their legs when they were young their legs would go bandy. Or if you made them look up they would be cross eyed.

She also has a vibrating footplate for circulation and we have had to tell her to stop telling people she's got to turn her vibrator off when answering the phone. She has no idea why people seem so shocked.

Here you go @cheesewitheverything:

www.dictionary.com/browse/infra-dig

infra dig
[ in-fruh dig ]
First recorded in 1815–25, infra dig is from the Latin word infrā dignitātem
adjective
beneath one's dignity.

@YesQueen- my mum used to say ‘blood and sand’.

A doofer for a tv remote 😅

Dhs grandparents had a whole bunch of them
Babars - said to small children - means that's naughty ,dont touch.
Pap pap - car
Tutoos/Tuffies - sweets
tatas - going for a walk . So ..."We wont go in the pap pap to get some tutoos - we'll go tatas instead".
Chincuff . "Youll get a chincuff from sitting on a cold step." I think this means whooping cough.

My DH has said the word 'loused' meaning finished something like finished work, I've never heard it