When I was little, dad used to jokingly threaten spankings by saying, ‘I’ll paddle your canoe!’ For the longest time, I thought ‘canoe’ was slang for your backside. (NB: I only recall one spanking, and that was preceded by ‘You’re going to get a spaking,’ or something like that. My parents used the ‘I’m disappointed in you’ tactic instead of spankings.)
Speaking of bums, Somehow Can Can popped up now and again. ♫ Ta-ra-ra BOOM-de-yay! Ta-ra-ra BOOM-de-yay! ♫ ‘Boom-de-yay’ (‘boomdier’?) came to mean your bottom too, as in ‘He fell on his boom-de-yay’.
Apparently, too long ago for me to remember it, my toilet seat was shaped like a duck. ‘Duck-duck’ came to mean ‘urinate’.
This isn’t slang, but when I was about four or five, the greatest insult I could sling at someone was ‘You’re ugly.’
As kids in the 1960’s, my siblings and I watched a big black-and-white television when we weren’t busy doing other stuff. We went through several, which I’m sure Pops bought used to save money. They all had one thing in common. They were cantankerous as all get out. You’d be peacefully watching when the horizontal (or vertical) hold would go out and the picture would be reduced to a bunch of squiggly lines.
At these times we’d holler for a parent, usually Pops, to fix it, proclaiming that the TV’s flubby. I’ve often wondered where we got that word. Flubby. I don’t know if one of us made it up or perhaps my older brother heard it from one of his friends. Maybe it was a fairly common term in our locality (Seattle) or our previous one (Detroit.) If anyone can enlighten me on that, I’d be grateful to hear it. It could be short for the TV’s flubbed up. I don’t know.
But anyway, that’s the childhood word that always sticks in my mind.
I don’t know if this one’s peculiar to our family, but I sure as hell never heard it anywhere else. Lady parts were referred to as doofunnies. It was not uncommon for Grandma to holler through the bathroom door, “Don’t forget to wash your doofunny!” And why were they called that? “Because they do funny things.” :dubious:
Boy parts also had some dumb nickname, but it was a more common one, like willy or tallywhacker.
My dad’s threat to my brother (never me) was “I’m gonna crack you”. We both laugh about that now.
My best friend, who came up with weird sayings and could make anything sound funny once said a ball hit her in the Evonne Goolagong, i.e. crotch. We used that one for quite awhile and today I sometimes refer to a guy’s balls as goolagongs.
To urinate was “to go sissie”