# Forgotten slang from your childhood **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 12, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784 "2012-12-12T02:09:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/21 "2012-12-13T05:46:34Z")
Doggish = Mean/nasty/cold. usually used like “Man the way she broke up with him with a text from her new boyfriends phone, that shit was doggish” ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/22 "2012-12-13T07:06:24Z")
Joan= Insult, as in an insult contest like a “yo momma so fat” contest. “Oh, man, he just _joaned_ on you!” Urban Dictionary tells me it stands for: “Joked On a Nig\*\*\*.” ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/23 "2012-12-13T07:54:39Z")
“Face!” While spreading your palm in front of your face. It meant “burned,” “gotcha’,” etc. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/24 "2012-12-13T10:01:28Z")
mint = cool acdc = bi bee = I’m cooler than you ---
**Author:** ![Jimson\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@Jimson\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimson_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/25 "2012-12-13T13:05:28Z")
Hoser (Made popular by Bob and Doug McKenzie) = idiot, dweeb ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/26 "2012-12-13T13:11:27Z")
Window Licker. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/27 "2012-12-13T13:42:11Z")
“gitch” for “underwear” “dube” for “condom” ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/28 "2012-12-13T16:15:35Z")
We used to say “Dang-_ee_!” The “ee” was for extra emphasis on the “dang.” This was grade school, btw. “Psych!” (Or “Sike!” Not sure how it was spelled) ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/29 "2012-12-13T16:30:38Z")
“Chav”, which shot to prominence in the past few years to refer to, well, [these sort of people](http://21stcenturywire.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/chav23.jpg), was in common use at my school in the late 1980s but with a rather different meaning. It was basically synonymous with “pikey”, as in a non-PC word for a gypsy, or anyone a bit poor and smelly that you didn’t want to be associated with. “Chavvy” meant “cheap and poor quality”, and “chav” (chavs, chavving, chavved) was a verb meaning “to steal”, as in “Some pikey’s chavved my bike!” “Chaw” (or maybe “chor”) was a similar verb. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/30 "2012-12-13T16:58:57Z")
I’ve got some that my brother and I picked up from our stepsibs. The four of us used them, I don’t know if anyone else ever did. These perfectly cromulent words are still part of our vocabulary today. Ricker – a shitstain. We near about died when we saw that episode of Silver Spoons where little Ricky Schroeder introduced himself to some girl with, “They call me…The Ricker.” Beef – a fart, or to fart. Yes, shitstains and farts, that’s what we talked about. “Beef” was good because it came up in other people’s ordinary conversations so frequently, to our delight. We particularly enjoyed Winn Dixie’s ad, “We’re the Beef People”. Mounge – to devour. “Oh man, Sarah _mounged_ on those fucking Cheetos!” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/31 "2012-12-13T17:17:45Z")
**Douche** : the sponge on a stick device used to wash dishes. One of my nephews heard the word “douche” and asked Uncle Kayaker what the word meant. I was in the kitchen, so I picked up the sponge-on-a-stick and told him it was a douche. His older brothers were there and played along. It is now a family tradition to call that thing a douche. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/32 "2012-12-13T18:57:54Z")
> [@Nature\_s\_Call](#): > > “gitch” for “underwear” > “dube” for “condom” Are you from Western Canada? I’ll add: “skid” – the kind of guy in high school who would hang around the smoking area with long hair and a KISS jean jacket. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/33 "2012-12-13T19:33:05Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Are you from Western Canada? This was Northern Ontario, where jelly-filled donuts were called jam-busters! ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/34 "2012-12-13T19:42:14Z")
Something bad was “hogus”. A derivative of “bogus”. As in, “Stop bogarting that joint - so hogus, dude!” Something _really_ bad was “stogus”. Or even “stogatious”. As in, “while my bro was bogarting the joint, the pigs came and busted both of us. A totally stogatious situation!”. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/35 "2012-12-13T20:17:43Z")
“take the bag/take a bag” – get ripped off. From a _Firesign Theater_ routine. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/36 "2012-12-13T20:50:47Z")
In our high school (ca. 1970), juvenile delinquent types were known as “greasers”. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/37 "2012-12-13T21:34:56Z")
The only one I can remember was sped - alluding to kids in the Special Ed classes. So if you wanted to tell a friend to stop acting like an idiot, you’d say “Don’t be such a sped!” One of my sisters still says that - apart from her, I haven’t heard anyone use the term in over 40 years… ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/38 "2012-12-13T21:35:14Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > This. And if you were pointing out to a friend that he was _moded_, you would tell him to _“scratch your neck”_. > > Southern California, circa 1981. _dies laughing_ Yes! Where, oh where, did the “scratch your neck” part come from? And then if we wanted to put extras on it (that is, go for the dramatics), or if the person was especially moded, we’d tack on useless insults like, “Scratch your stupid, dirty neck!” The stupid part was optional, but the neck was most commonly referred to as dirty. We would also say “You’re moded, corroded, your booty exploded.” Oh man, kids are so freaking silly. So after having typed this, I guess the neck scratching bit comes from the dramatic affectation of looking down in embarrassment, loosening one’s collar, scratching the back of the neck, etc, when someone feels stupid. Never thought of that. In any case, good times! ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/39 "2012-12-13T22:21:03Z")
Rain pants. When someone’s pant legs were too short we would say, “Hey, you expecting a flood? You’re wearing _rain pants_” I made the mistake of saying this to my Grade 8 teacher. In front of the class. His pant cuffs were a little too high and I thought we’d all laugh. He was not amused. He must have thought there was some sexual connotation to “rain pants” (wherever would he get that idea?) and he lit into me with a tongue lashing I’ve never forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/40 "2012-12-13T22:31:11Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Oh, and “dookie” was dog shit, which then led us to call the part of our backyard where the dog did his business “dookieland”, which ever after led us to refer to the \*Movieland Wax Museum \*as “Dookieland Wax Museum”. > Is that where Green Day got their album title from? I think it is. The front cover has what looks like a giant dookie floating in the sky like a blimp. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784.md?page=3)