Made up words of your youth

[Accy cyclist]

While just mind wandering a few seconds ago the word "kench' came into my mind. Not just kench, but 'spov' as well. At school in the 1970's Kench meant trendy, likable...I think, while spov meant very good. Again, I think.🤔 Come to think about it, such words didn't really mean anything. I think we said them just because everybody else in school seemed to say them! What made up words of your youth do you remember?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Boufin' or Houfin' meant dirty, smelly, stinking, as did Mingin', Clarty or that you were a 'Mink'.

"That's pure Houfin' Mister!"

Baltic meant cold... There were loads of them, most long forgot

 

[Alex321]

Boufin' or Houfin' meant dirty, smelly, stinking, as did Mingin', Clarty or that you were a 'Mink'.

"That's pure Houfin' Mr!"

Baltic meant cold... There were loads of them, most long forgot

Minging and Baltic are both commonly used words for those meanings, not words made up by your group.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Minging and Baltic are both commonly used words for those meanings, not words made up by your group.

I have to concede, the ones I remember were relatively tame.

One I remember from a group of teens I ended up with as part of something, a few years back, was if something was really good, then it was "The Bomb!"

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

"Are you pure Dotey or something?"

Dotey, stupid, slow.

Not 'Dotty', by the way, it was pronounced like 'Dote'.
'Dotey' was usually said with the glottal stop.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Minging and Baltic are both commonly used words for those meanings, not words made up by your group.

I am led to believe that 'Mingin' or 'Minging' means (or meant) something else down south though, like if you were a 'Minger'.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

'Boak' is another, which although not made up by us, means to be sick, or to encounter something that makes you want to be.

"That pure gives me the boak so it does!"

Notice the word 'pure' cropping up again and again.

 

[raleighnut]

None of my friends made words up they all spoke the Queens English just like wot I did.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

None of my friends made words up they all spoke the Queens English just like wot I did.

Oh, get you! 🤣

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I seem to remember my cousins on my Mum's side, calling ... Well, taking a number 2... A 'Grunty'.

This then extended to the name of what... Emerged. 💩
They also had dogs, who did 'Grunties'.

Such an expressive term actually in hindsight! 🤣


We just called them
'Diddles', then 'Jobbies', but where the 'Diddle' name came from, I don't know.