Words your parents use..

[Run n Spread]

Half these terms I use in general rather than derogatory. Won't even mention what my parents and their generation used to use.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Not my parents but I'll forever use non gender neutral terms.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Spare change is "shrapnel". When I couldn't get a lift from school, I had to "get home under your own steam". "Your eyes are bigger than your belly" when I didn't finish dinner.

And rhyming slang, but not the complete phrase, so people that didn't know my dad wouldn't have a clue. The phone was "the dog (and bone)". A swim was "a jungle (gym)". Taking a leak was "a snake's (hiss)".

 

[the fly]

Spare change is "shrapnel". When I couldn't get a lift from school, I had to "get home under your own steam". "Your eyes are bigger than your belly" when I didn't finish dinner.

And rhyming slang, but not the complete phrase, so people that didn't know my dad wouldn't have a clue. The phone was "the dog (and bone)". A swim was "a jungle (gym)". Taking a leak was "a snake's (hiss)".

I guess that he'd have a butchers at something.

 

[ChappyUK]

My dad constantly refers to a bundle of sticks and twigs by their correct term which is no longer acceptable in modern society.

I call that kindling. Now supposedly that's something the young folk read books on.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

I guess that he'd have a butchers at something.

Or a sticky whichever way.

 

[the fly]

Or a sticky whichever way.

or maybe even a Captain

 

[Summer Nights]

My Nanna on my Dad's side and my Grandpa on my Mum's side both refer to the flu as the wog.

My mum would say "Dinkum?" or "true dinks?" very occasionally, which was cringey for me to hear even as a 12 year old.

There was an unattractive guy on the tram a few months ago who asked an attractive lady for some directions and then said "thanks doll" casually when she helped him. I found it really poor form and she just looked away from him, hiding her discomfort.

 

[Gough]

We need to see the word broads come back. Good enough for Sinatra, good enough for me.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

I've heard "tinny" a bit for "lucky". Had NFI what the bloke was on about the first time I heard it.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

There was an unattractive guy on the tram a few months ago who asked an attractive lady for some directions and then said "thanks doll" casually when she helped him. I found it really poor form and she just looked away from him, hiding her discomfort.

That's super tacky, when it's two people who don't know each other. The sort of thing the blokes do to get a laugh at a buck's day.

 

[Scotland]

There has to be an age criteria to use the word 'poppet', surely.

 

[Gough]

There has to be an age criteria to use the word 'poppet', surely.

I have an old queen mate who always calls me dear.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Och-Aye.

 

[Kram]

Skite.

Spare change is "shrapnel".

I still use that occasionally..

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

I used to own a Post Office, when some of the elderly widows would come in for their mail, they would sometimes receive an unexpected letter from someone they knew, they'd say, 'Well bugger me'.

It used to give me a chuckle. Not that I'm a spring chicken myself these days.

My older brother, when he was a late teen would often go out on a Saturday night and not return home until Sunday sometime. The old man would often comment that the, 'Wandering Jew' was home.

 

[Perth gal]

I once when out with a guy from Manchester. He used to say Milton Keynes for jeans. Dead horse for sauce etc.

 

[DroopStDanny]

We need to see the word broads come back. Good enough for Sinatra, good enough for me.

You're in luck.

 

[rank and file]

"Touch wood"
And quickly look around for a bit of wood and touch it.
They're not even superstitious,just Catholic.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Wains

 

[Mofra]

My grandfather still used "new Australians" for any Mediterranean person (awkward considering my dad married one)

 

[Gough]

My Gran had a somewhat justified hatred of the Germans, and always referred to them as The Hun.

 

[TheGhostOfJohnBelushi]

Had to look this up

I've never heard that word in anything other than it's derogatory sense

It's used quiet a bit in The Lord of the Rings books.

 

[TheGhostOfJohnBelushi]

One term I love hearing is from well seasoned ladies at checkouts is "thanking you".

It's so impersonal but I love it. Never gets old.

 

[Scotland]

Curry munchers
Pakis
Windies
Yarpies (Jaarpies)
Poms

How test opponents were referred to. I reckon Poms and Windies is probably still OK in 2017.