# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/81 "2012-12-17T20:17:12Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > ???wet?? “Hot-boxing” a cigarette means (or meant) hitting it so hard that it makes the cherrry huge and the cigarette becomes “hot” acrid. I thought hot-boxing was smoking in an enclosed space with no ventilation. Came in late on this ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/82 "2012-12-18T01:52:15Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > I just remembered another one. An unintelligent person was a stunod. (Pronounced stoo-nod.) I think this might be an Italian thing. I never heard it or said it as a kid, but many years ago a friend, who is a real New York Italian type got me saying it. I still use it today every once in a while. It’s a very satisfying descriptor 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/83 "2012-12-18T02:24:12Z")
> [@followrivers](#): > > “Stogie” was a cigarette. > > “Parlayin’” for hanging out. > > “Bet” was like yes or I agree. > > “Bogart”/“Bogarting” to hog something all to one’s self and be really selfish. I feel like this was especially used in regards to weed or food. > > “Butter” something really nice. > > I actually heard someone ask someone else for a “stoge” the other day, I haven’t heard that word in over ten years. I remember all of these, but I always thought Bogart was ‘bogard’. Parlayin’, hahaa! Remember ‘lampin’'? And ‘butter’. Ah, memories. Also, ‘bad’. Not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good. I think it is interesting which slangs turn into ‘timeless classics’ for me, as opposed to 'played out, never use anymore. For instance, I would never use ‘butter’ unironically now, but I would still say, “Bet” to agree with someone. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/84 "2012-12-18T02:54:23Z")
> [@Nature\_s\_Call](#): > > Neighbour! > > I spent a couple of my early years in Thunder Bay, before we moved a couple hours west - a tiny widening of Hwy 17 called Upsala (population 500: if you didn’t live there you’ve never heard of it). After a couple years there we moved to the big town of Ignace, another hour west (population 2,500!) where I finished growing up (well, that’s debateable). > > Even in Ignace, every paycheque we would still drive to T-Bay for groceries until a descent supermarket finally opened up. Neighbour indeed. My early years were in Thunder bay, when I was 8 we moved to Longlac for a few years. (And spent every other weekend in TB because for one, my parents didn’t want to do any banking at the local bank, because they didn’t want their financial particulars broadcast around town. In Longlac I was in the one channel universe. After that we were back in Thunder Bay, but those years following we would travel west on 11 and 17 spent time in the summer with my dad camping around the western parts of the province. So I know all those areas pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/85 "2012-12-18T03:03:32Z")
“Bogue”-as in not cool, bad, not right. “That’s so _bogue_, dude. You promised me you wouldn’t wear your Pumps today.” ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/86 "2012-12-18T04:36:23Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > For us, “hot boxing” meant smoking pot in a small space, so much so that you didn’t need to actually toke on the joint to get high, at least in theory (as in, “let’s go and hot-box Joe’s basement apartment!”) That’s the way I always heard it also. Ahem…heard it that is..not that I …😃 ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/87 "2012-12-18T16:49:33Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I think this might be an Italian thing. I never heard it or said it as a kid, but many years ago a friend, who is a real New York Italian type got me saying it. I still use it today every once in a while. It’s a very satisfying descriptor 🙂 That would make sense. I grew up in Rhode Island, where about every other person is Italian, it seems. “Fongool” was another widely used term among adolescents of every ethnicity. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/88 "2012-12-18T22:17:03Z")
“Wicked Pissuh”-a term meaning great. Of South Boston origen, seems to have disappeared.:mad: ---
**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 18, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/89 "2012-12-18T23:56:04Z")
Chunky-- Fat. “Man, that girl is chunky!” ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/90 "2012-12-19T00:12:22Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > P.S. We had a Mr. Dube (pronounced “doob”) as a substitute teacher once and there was much snickering. Aside, but I gotta throw this in: one memorable junior high class, we had a nasty little troll for a substitute, the kind who comes in the door pissed off and just gets angrier. He was trying to tell us to write our names last-first on the quiz and after the third or fourth, “Chee, I don’ get it” he yelled, “It’s simple. If your name is Joe Blow, you write it…” I can testify that 30 kids CAN lift a schoolroom ceiling if they laugh hard enough. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/91 "2012-12-19T17:32:34Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > “Bogue”-as in not cool, bad, not right. “That’s so _bogue_, dude. You promised me you wouldn’t wear your Pumps today.” This would be short for Bogus, yes? ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/92 "2012-12-20T08:00:28Z")
Back in high school (L. A., late fifties) to challenge some one to a fist fight was to choose him off. Speaking of violent students, does anyone remember"penny stomps"? ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/93 "2012-12-20T09:20:01Z")
> [@antechinus](#): > > “Dead set” is completely serious. As in “She’s a dead set spunk”. I haven’t heard ‘dead set’ in decades. My contribution: ‘mighty’. “Did you see the game between St George and Souths? It was mighty.” ( Sydney, Australia late '50s/early '60s) ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/94 "2012-12-20T13:51:00Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > This would be short for Bogus, yes? I would assume so. In my day (early 80s) there were many variants - “hogus” (bad), “stogus” (worse), “stogatious” (worst). ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/95 "2012-12-20T14:29:12Z")
> [@followrivers](#): > > “Stogie” was a cigarette. > > … > > I actually heard someone ask someone else for a “stoge” the other day, I haven’t heard that word in over ten years. For me, “stogie” always refers to a cigar, although not a specific type of cigar. Apparently the term comes from the Conestoga Valley of Pennsylvania (Lancaster County and environs) > [@followrivers](#): > > … > > “Bogart”/“Bogarting” to hog something all to one’s self and be really selfish. I feel like this was especially used in regards to weed or food. > … Apparently this comes from Humphrey Bogart’s practice in movies of holding onto a cigarette for a long time without doing anything with it. ---
**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 20, 2012, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/96 "2012-12-20T16:24:25Z")
From early grade school: (warning, offensive term coming - I’m just reporting the facts) During recess a kid would sometimes tackle another kid then yell “nigger pile” as an invitation for everyone else to literally pile onto the tackled kid. When chastised about that term we changed it to “Soo pile” (phonetic spelling - could it have meant Sioux? was it “soup pile”? who decided the new term anyways?) ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/97 "2012-12-20T16:54:23Z")
^we played smear the queer ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/98 "2012-12-20T17:31:07Z")
When I was about 10 (1983) a dork was also called a “doornhopper.” I have no idea where on earth that word came from, I just remember it. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/99 "2012-12-20T20:10:15Z")
> [@Nature\_s\_Call](#): > > From early grade school: (warning, offensive term coming - I’m just reporting the facts) > > During recess a kid would sometimes tackle another kid then yell “nigger pile” as an invitation for everyone else to literally pile onto the tackled kid. When chastised about that term we changed it to “Soo pile” (phonetic spelling - could it have meant Sioux? was it “soup pile”? who decided the new term anyways?) We used “pig pile”… and not because we were PC: The original version of “eeny meeny miny mo” was still in circulation in my neighborhood back then. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/100 "2012-12-20T23:29:12Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I think this might be an Italian thing. I never heard it or said it as a kid, but many years ago a friend, who is a real New York Italian type got me saying it. I still use it today every once in a while. It’s a very satisfying descriptor 🙂 This was often accompanied by slapping the heel of your hand into the “stunad’s” forehead and saying “Ay stunad! Atzamatta you, eh!” 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784.md?page=6)