words your grandparents used (quote, difference, stories)

[AZgarden]

My grandma always used the verb "dasn't", a contraction she made up from does and not.

[bsymom927]

I didn't read through all 64 pages, so I apologize if any of these have been said...
If my grandmother wanted us to throw something away, she said "File it."
Woman who went to bars were "floozies"
Table cloth was "Loin cloth"
Underwear were "Drawers"
Pants, of any kind, were "Britches"
Laundry room was the "Wash room"
Bathroom was the "sh$t house" (she was colorful)

[in_newengland]

I just saw an ad on Craig's List for a breakfront so it's still in use. We called it a buffet but most people called it a sideboard. We use hutch to describe the tall china cabinet.

I love this thread but I can't think of any more words right now.

[Huckleberry3911948]

scatter brain (when he was angry with me).

one i learned on my own in texas
never never tie up a guard dog

[SkiScree]

Wiping your butt was "cleaning your dupka".

Your bellybutton was your "poopycheck".

He also said "capish" a lot. I always figured it was from him growing up in Germany and moving to Chicago at an early age and picking up lingo from different cultures.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by treasurekidd

The china hutch was called a breakfront, and jeans were dungarees. The only other one I can think of was my grandfathers standard "How do?" greeting. Thanks for starting this thread, I hadn't thought of that in years.

We called them "dungarees" when I was a kid. They only became "jeans" when I was a teenager, and by then everyone was wearing jeans everywhere, even to school.

[Rob Allen]

Do people still refer to the front stoop on a house, or are they all porches now? And was there ever a back stoop, or was it always front?

I was reminded of this word when the radio played Louis Prima's song, Baciagaloop Makes Love on the Stoop.

[SkiScree]

Originally Posted by Rob Allen

Do people still refer to the front stoop on a house, or are they all porches now? And was there ever a back stoop, or was it always front?

I was reminded of this word when the radio played Louis Prima's song, Baciagaloop Makes Love on the Stoop.

Back where I was born, a stoop was a concrete block on the front of the house you could use as a porch. A porch was anything built onto the house after it was built.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by bsymom927

Table cloth was "Loin cloth"

Grandmother called it oil cloth.

[bsymom927]

Originally Posted by Gerania

Grandmother called it oil cloth.

One half of my grandmother's family was fluent in French, the other half was English...I'm thinking some things may have gotten mixed up or combined. BTW...Gram only knew a few curse words in French!!