words your grandparents used (meaning, quote)

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by Tia 914

Good gravy, much of that list reminds me of Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary...

It's a wonder that I can form a proper sentence from time to time. Heyna?

[Seagrape Grove]

"cold wave" perm - back when there was a choice between a pure chemical perm that didn't need heat and and one that required attaching those hot clamps to the rollers to "set"" the perm.

[rodentraiser]

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

I have honestly never heard the term "reddup." Interesting.

In "The Egg and I", Betty MacDonald says Mrs, Kettle was going to "redd up the dishes". That's where I first heard it.

I heard a new word today that's maybe an old word: licklog. As in, you're coming to the licklog, meaning coming down to the last second.

[DewDropInn]

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

I have honestly never heard the term "reddup." Interesting.

I'd never heard it until a few years ago. It was a clue on a "Law and Order - Criminal Intent" episode. A character used the term "reddup" and Det. Goren used it to help track the origins of the evil-doer.

[Seagrape Grove]

"counterpane" - a bedspread

[Seagrape Grove]

"old-timey" - really old-fashioned.

[MacInTx]

Not a word, but a phrase...
My father-in-law, who attended my college 50 years before me, called exaggerated items "as rich as six feet up a bull's behind."

He's been buried for twenty years, but I still laugh aloud when I recall this phrase.

[gentlearts]

My grandparents lived in the middle floor of a three family house with a porch on the back. My grandmother called it a piazza.
Such a grand, romantic sounding name for a porch with a wringer washer and a clothesline attached to it.

[Fox Terrier]

Oh, fiddlesticks!

[Copanut]

Last night while waiting at the barbershop a young boy who just got his cut walked by and I said: Hey, you're looking sharp! Guess I'm getting old, haven't heard or used that in a long time. And I keep saying alrightey.