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I am asking about words or terms that your grandparents said that aren't used any more. I'm not talking about pre-1950s slang, just generic words.
I am 50 years old, so my grandparents and their siblings were born in the 1890s. My father's mother always used the word "grip" for "luggage" and my mother's mother always used the term "filling station" for "gas station." What words do you remember your family's older generations saying that you don't hear any more?
Yankee dime - a kiss "Come over here and give me a Yankee dime!"
Wal Mark, K Mark, EZ Mark instead of "mart"
Larrapin' - as in "Yum, them red beans and rice are LARRAPIN'!"
Caterwaulin' - as in crying. "Quit all that caterwaulin!"
Catamount - another word for panther. By the way, did you guys realize that the word "panther" has more words to describe the same thing than any other word in the English language? There are over fifty words for the same thing.
Sasquatch - Bigfoot. "If you kids don't git to sleep in there, Sasquatch is going to break in the window and grab you."
Meat - muscles. "I worked in the yard so hard yesterday, my meat hurts." (That one always grossed me out!)
My Father was born in East Garafraxia Township, in Ontario , Canada, in 1898. It was pretty rural. He lived to be 83.
A few of his expressions......I'll have another slather of gravy. A shot of alcohol was a "bit of all right ". It could also be called " Old porch climber ".
He had a way of pronouncing some words, such as elm tree, or motion picture film, that made it sound like there were about four E's in the word.
He all ways wore a hat, which he called a "fedora " and he also wore "braces " to hold up his pants. He liked big cars, like Buicks and Cadillacs, and he called them `Bootlegger specials `because of their huge trunks.
During the Depression, he worked in Detroit, installing metal ceilings in stores, and he was chased out of town, because he wouldn`t pay `protection `to the Mob. He went back to Canada, and never again entered the States `as he called it.
My grandmother always used to sing "I love you a bushel and a peck" when I was little. She also had a cute little way of saying goodbye without saying goodbye - "See you in the funny papers."
My grandmother always used to sing "I love you a bushel and a peck" when I was little.
That was a hit song in the autumn of 1950. It came from the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls, although it isn't in the movie version. Before the play even opened there were three competing records on the charts, one by Perry Como and Betty Hutton, one by Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely, and one by Doris Day.
"Goody two shoes" for a girl who never did anything that would risk the anger of her parents or teachers.
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