Words "inherited" from your Mum and Dad or

[Cranky]

My 5 year old spent a long time asking me the difference between jets and planes with 'repellers'. I can remember my sister talking about esgetti (Spaghetti). My daughter really liked the cock porn at the movies when she was about 4 !!!

We have a name for spaghetti, too, adopted from our daughter as a nipper. So now it's 'bagsgetti'. Others we still use from the same source are 'in daados' (in the garage), and 'Wazuki' (Suzuki).

One of my dear dad's more eccentric phrases, which I occasionally trot out, was 'steady the buffs'. My mum used to refer to any child/young adult, whose first name she wasn't sure of, as 'Boy/Girl' + surname, eg. 'Boy Smith', 'Girl Jones', and I still do this at times, usually tongue-in-cheek. Another of Mum's was to refer to having a haircut as having it 'shaped' (projected loudly in a broad cockney accent) and we still use this one quite regularly, too.

I'm sure there are others I can't think of at the moment (you may have already gathered that we do this a lot, chez Cranky).

 

[swee'pea99]

In our house, Digestives are 'Daddy biscuits'. My youngest, at about 5 or 6, asked for them as such at a friend's house - confusion all round.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Kids; tetchuma = a slight fever. Menellyum = a period of 1000 years

My Dad; mebbees = perhaps. Alawaande = I expect. and about 1000 other Pitmatic words and phrases

Her Mum & Dad; Biggs (as in Mr Biggs) = Number Twos.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

My brother's young lad, who is two, refers to Stella Artois as "Daddy Water" and diet Coke as "Mummy Water".

 

[mr_hippo]

"Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs!"

That was also popular in our house. Also
"Go and play with Robertses kids." No family named Roberts close by and why would I want to play with their kids?
"It's noisier than Carney's lodging house in here." Who was Caney and where was his lodging house? We never found out!
Mum - "I'll take my hand off your face." meaning "I am about to slap your face." I remember saying to Mum once and only once "Well don't put it on in the first place!" and ...
Mum - "It's not rocket surgery!"
Grandma, a prim and proper Victorian lady - 'Blue pencil!" meaning "expletive deleted"; from WWI & WWII when mail was censored with a blue pencil.
Two from Mrs Hippo -
'Buscat mus'. When I worked in Sur, Oman, we used to drive to Muscat (about 300kms away) every fortnight on a big shopping trip. We used to leave Sur about one hour after the daily bus to Muscat and on one trip, Mrs Hippo pointed at the bus in front and said "That must be the Buscat mus!" and that's the way it stayed.
'Catfood' - a French supermarket chain. I'm deaf in one ear and I thought I heard Mrs Hippo say "Do you want to get some catfood?" We don't have a cat so why do we want catfood? What she said was "Do you want to go to Carrefour?" - recently opened a branch up about 2 kms from home. So, now, in our house if you hear 'catfood', we mean 'Carrefour'!

 

[wafflycat]

Kids; tetchuma = a slight fever. Menellyum = a period of 1000 years

My Dad; mebbees = perhaps. Alawaande = I expect. and about 1000 other Pitmatic words and phrases

Her Mum & Dad; Biggs (as in Mr Biggs) = Number Twos.

Did you manage to pick up forkytail, bonnie laad? Or even netty, blacklock, proggiemat? Have you ever cowped yor creels? Have you ever been bad wi' the bile?

 

[beanzontoast]

We have a name for spaghetti, too, adopted from our daughter as a nipper. So now it's 'bagsgetti'.

In our house, this is 'pasgetti' for the same reason.

 

[XmisterIS]

"Buggeration!" - a general exclamation of irritation, picked up from my Mother.

 

[longers]

I can't think of any from immediate family but my cousin called it a michaelwave and that's used by most of the family now.

 

[Plax]

"Isn't life monotonous" and "shoot bananas" from my nain who regularly used to say both.

 

[sheddy]

Our youngest proudly announced that he supported 'Tottland' after a few days at school

 

[bobg]

Did you manage to pick up forkytail, bonnie laad? Or even netty, blacklock, proggiemat? Have you ever cowped yor creels? Have you ever been bad wi' the bile?

Translations please Waffly ....... I just love all this stuff and its reassuring to know you're all a bit looney too ....

 

[Kirstie]

From my dad:
Put th' wood int th'oil! = shut the door
Ist alreet seree? = are you alright?
Nincompoop = a stupid person
Wazzock = as above

My friend says 'chimleys' instead of 'chimneys'

 

[Paulus]

From my Dad, The word frit, as in he frit the life out of me, instead of frightened.

 

[Apeman]

Cowped her over the body means a car crashed----scallions instead of salad onions.My mum onced said that her cousin got a new car. When asked what type she replied " ONE OF THOSE NEW RED ONES!!!"