Words our parents said....

[Ghostrider 67]

What words did YOUR parents use that sound weird today? What did those words mean?

Here's some mine used..

Warsh = wash
Scads = many
Scillions = a great many
Skidaddle = get the hell out
malk = milk
youns = all of you
cattywhompus = crooked

 

[flypaper]

get a job = ask for public assistance

 

[68gtxman]

bat tree = battery

 

[coronet68mx]

¡¡¡Mira cabron!!!
Something like" look you goat" or "watch out you:...something, one of those phrases that have no translation, my dad say that when he was mad at me, pretty much all the time.

 

[FJ6AAR]

I’ll give you something to cry about!

 

[BigCountryMopar]

Hose pipe- water hose. Which is now what I call it too...

 

[beanhead]

Hose pipe- water hose. Which is now what I call it too...

Oh you gotta be from the south! I never heard that until I lived in Kentucky. Thanks I forgot about that one.

 

[conv67bdere]

Usually . . . It was just wait till your father gets home . . .

And

Back-asswards - backwards
Kitty corner - 180 degree opposite side

 

[1967coronet]

nit pick, getting oiled , three sheets, rest the dogs, batty , ugly stick.

 

[66383]

What words did YOUR parents use that sound weird today? What did those words mean?

Here's some mine used..

Warsh = wash
Scads = many
Scillions = a great many
Skidaddle = get the hell out
malk = milk
youns = all of you
cattywhompus = crooked

We must’ve had the same parents!!

 

[BigCountryMopar]

Oh you gotta be from the south! I never heard that until I lived in Kentucky. Thanks I forgot about that one.[/QUOTE
Yes sir, South Mississippi. But my dad is from Tennessee.

 

[DeltaV]

idjit: Idiot

 

[MarPar]

@69a100 knows this one...

Over-by-dere

 

[Dibbons]

"Son of a Buck" when Dad was really mad about something.

"Shyster" anytime Dad referred to an attorney.

 

[eldubb440]

jimminy crickets!

"goin' like the hammers of Hell!"

 

[Budnicks]

my dad says 'give me a bee-back',
mostly to people of his age, in his RV SIR's (seniors in retirement) group
it's like saying 'give me a call back when you get a chance'

I never did get that one

'whoops stepped on a frog', when he farts
or 'pull my finger'

us kids were called 'dorkasorous's' growing up

that's my nickname for my dog Elvis now,
when he acts weird or goofy
'pure bred dorkasorous'

'pucker-up buttercup' he'd say to the kids
or my sisters when we were young, when he wanted a kiss good by

'Warshington' or 'Warsh' the cloths too
it must be a born pre-war or mispronounced deal,
we don't really have accents in Calif., to speak of

also he'd say 'he was raised in Bezerkeley' (for Berkeley/Albany area)

 

[69a100]

@69a100 knows this one...

Over-by-dere

I'm not fimilar with that one, I always do the Cheesehead slang, yah-hey-dere.
Dad used to always substitute "oh shaw" for crap or $h!t.
"Children should be seen and not heard", that always pissed me off!

 

[65 3 times]

Swell

 

[themechanic]

Get me a switch.

P.S. Didn't we just see a thread like this?

 

[eldubb440]

Ward, aren't you being a little hard on the beaver?

Jeepers Dad, You don't want the beaver to get sore.