Words from your childhood that are not used anymore......

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  • zcb94
    zcb94 Posts: 3,678 Member
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    Sinistrous wrote: »
    "I trust you"
    in that specific order.

    This
  • lsgibbs83
    lsgibbs83 Posts: 254 Member
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    My paternal Grandmother always said "Egad!" Cracked my daughter up every time. Since Grandma passed away last year my daughter lovingly tries to use it whenever appropriate.

    My maternal Grandfather called the sofa a davenport. I haven't heard that since he passed away 24 years ago. He also pronounced "sink" with a z, like Zink. Never understood that one.
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
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    I was going to say Dungarees (not even sure how that's spelled because we didn't have spelling way back in the olden days)

    Pocket book

    No-suh
  • lborsato1
    lborsato1 Posts: 1,011 Member
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    My mom calls a sofa a chesterfield.
    I remember saying things were "Ace"
  • yourradimradletshug
    yourradimradletshug Posts: 964 Member
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    As If!
    You da bomb!
    Grody
    Coolio
    Jiggy
    Cool Beans
    Booyah
    Whazaaaaaaaapppp (from that friggin commercial)
  • EveFlowergirl
    EveFlowergirl Posts: 1,491 Member
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    "I'm totally buggin!"
  • Luke_I_am_your_spotter
    Luke_I_am_your_spotter Posts: 4,179 Member
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    gag me with a spoon. nope, nobody says that anymore. lol
  • EddieHaskell97
    EddieHaskell97 Posts: 2,227 Member
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    Grody
  • Newnameishardtofind
    Newnameishardtofind Posts: 867 Member
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    to the max
  • EveFlowergirl
    EveFlowergirl Posts: 1,491 Member
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    Jersey__Devil wrote: »
    gag me with a spoon. nope, nobody says that anymore. lol

    I say it. and "gag me with a ski pole"
  • SteampunkSongbird
    SteampunkSongbird Posts: 826 Member
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    ktekc wrote: »
    "cool beans" was one i heard often as a child.

    I say that, even though nobody else I know does or ever has, not sure where I picked it up.
    Glynn20 wrote: »
    groovy

    This is also a much-loved regular in my vocab.
  • rsjohnb
    rsjohnb Posts: 215 Member
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    furioushummingbird wrote: »
    Coolio or coolskie.

    Get jiggy with it.

    Raise the roof.

    You da bomb.

    As if!

    Psyche!!!



    BAHAHAHA I still use all of these daily! not in the same conversation tho:)
  • CooperSprings
    CooperSprings Posts: 754 Member
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    Farsee.
    It's a unit of measurement.
    "At the end of the farsee you turn right."
    [As far as your eye can see]
  • Tomm88
    Tomm88 Posts: 733 Member
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    well i grew in Glasgow so for me it's phrases like " aye you ya wee fanny" or " git oot the road baw jaws"
  • JackKopCh
    JackKopCh Posts: 8,042 Member
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    Ripped, Biffed and Chipped.... I think they meant like.... proven someone wrong who was certain they were right... like "Haha ripped!"
  • Slateofamuse
    Slateofamuse Posts: 125 Member
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    dillydally, when I would waste time avoiding something my mother asked me to do
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
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    Foxy & Cool :stuck_out_tongue:
  • jenglish712
    jenglish712 Posts: 497 Member
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    Cheesing
    Clowning (both meant kidding or joking)


    Also retch... growing up in the riverbottoms this was the past tense of reach... as in "I retch down and grabbed the possom."
  • nayduch2001
    nayduch2001 Posts: 25
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    In twenty years, this will be TWERK. Did you hear they put that in the dictionary? It sucks!
  • mykaylis
    mykaylis Posts: 320 Member
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    "chesterfield", sofa, and davenport were all names for a couch.

    jarred - originally meant dumbfounded, morphed to suggest stupidity.

    'tard - the R word. said as an insult. i so regret this one.

    psych - surprised, shocked, "psyched out".

    "all that and a bag of chips" - an exceptionally hot young woman. never quite got how that's supposed to be a compliment.

    and there's this thing that people of a certain culture do in town. there's not really a spelling to it, but it's a tongue click followed by one's tongue being stuck out and something like "mwaaaaaaa". i haven't been around people who do that since i was a kid, i guess most of us grew up. heard it the other day though and i was like, are we back to the 80s?? in any case, it means "just kidding" or "fooled you".

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