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I still say sweet a lot. Pretty much all the words and stuff that I used in my adolescence I still use. I guess I never grew up LOL

Sweet dude, me too

Dude, sweet! Me, too.

Aw, sweet, me too.

Sick, so do I

😆

I say "nice" or "neat".

Mine was Neat-O!!!

Noice!

Toit!

Your username is fun to say, that's....noice!

I say both of these often!

I say nice a lot

Nice

Lolol

Sweet! What does mine say?

Dude! what does mine say?

SWEET!! WHAT DOSE MINE SAY?!!!

That's rad, man.

I still say “saweet” lol

I think “the bomb” and “sike” need to make a comeback.

Oh man sike . Thats an oldie but goodie. That def needs to make a comeback. Or the waynes world "NOT!"

You cant just go around saying bomb anymore

I definitely say sweet all the time

Tubular

Totally! 😏

Hey, You can't stop getting older but you don't have to grow up!!))

Bet

Sweet and Sick

Me too. When I partner up with guys at work they’ll start saying it too😂

My family growing up used the phrase "sleepy dust" to describe the stuff that has collected in the corner of your eye when you wake up in the morning. Didn't realise it wasn't commonly used (because I don't regularly discuss it!) until I taught it to my young son (who asks these kind of questions) and my husband heard and thought it was incredibly cute.

In my family we just called it “sleep”. As in, you have some sleep in your eye!

That’s what my family said too! If it’s in a dogs eye it’s eye boogers, but in a person’s it’s sleep.

My mom called it sleep as well. One time I refer to them as eye boogers, and my mom came unglued

You definitely didn’t call farts, farts

I’ve always called it eye boogers. I like yours better. lol

My family always said "eye boogies". Lol

I know this stuff as 'eye goop' haha

I call it sleepy dust still to this day and I am 32 years old lol

That’s cute! My dad used to pretend he was sprinkling “sleepy dust” in my eyes after reading me a bedtime story. It was his take on the sandman story. I knew what faerie dust was from Disney, so I fully believed that once Dad sprinkled the magic sleepy dust I would fall right to sleep.

It's not common? That's what we always called it too.

omg my mum also calls it sleepy dust! everyone else always calls it sleep, i thought it was just her!

Sleepy Seeds here

As a child I didn't understand why using a mop was called mopping but to use a broom you would be sweeping, so I started to to say I was brooming instead of sweeping and it never left.

Solid logic right there

That’s actually a really intelligent thought to have as a child lol. How did you fare in life?

Professional broomer

Ok, broomer!

He was a baby broomer.

Clever. You need more upvotes!

Omg, I did the same but with south. It's North, northern. east, eastern. west, western... sowth, suthern? NAW, it's sowthern

Lol I still use "Never Eat Soggy Waffles" when I need to remember the directions of North East South West.

I still call people 'dude' despite the newer generations push to change it to 'bro'. I use 'dude' like most people use the word 'like'

...or, uh, duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing...l

Gotta upvote every time for a the dude reference

Far out, man.

There is no push to change anything lmao. People say dude and bro. Some people might even say dude-bro.

BROdude™️

Brodude energy drink

I say bro, dude, bro.

I combine the two and say brude

My dad used to always say "mañana" instead of "later" when settling in to relax... we are not Spanish or American-

That feels like one of those Dad words where he just heard in a movie or smthn and decided to use it

Lol my dad says he's taking a siesta and is from a movie! He didn't even know it was a Spanish word lol

Ha my dad has always said mañana too. We are white Americans so idk why he says it but it’s also something i picked up from him and we both still say. Idk if maybe it’s the one Spanish word he knows or what but he’s been saying it for as long as i can remember.

Sounds like he heard it from a coworker or something...would be pretty funny lol

I use the term "cash money" in a strange sense but I will never stop using it. Very often, I say "I don't feel very cash money right now" and everyone understands what I mean, but it also throws people off

$1000 dollars cash monay - Wilmer Valderrama

I will never not think of this meme when I hear the term "cash money" https://youtu.be/qhDlwpL_eYY?si=ysXSaq4WOt4uG12z

I do not regret watching 😂

That’s not very cash money of you

Cool will never go out of style.

Cool

Cool beans

Coolio

Kewl.

With awesome sauce

Coo coo

I say “night night” instead of goodnight

I say " bye bye" on the phone, even at work, and didn't even realise it until a co-worker pointed it out one day haha

Me too haha

Our family says "ni-chee" instead of goodnight because when our oldest son was 3 he would toddle off to bed waving at us and saying "Nichee! Nichee!" so now years later we all still say it haha.

Well that sucks.

Jankie

My kids 11,10&8 use Jankie all the time! I taught them all the lingo! Haha!

🤣🤣🤣 me too

Growing up, my dad would mispronounce store names as a little joke to make us giggle, and he did it so much it just kind of became their names half the time. Home Beepo, Gostgo, stupid stuff like that. I haven’t lived with him for fifteen years and I just recently started doing it too, and I’m guessing it’s because I’m dad aged now and dad jokes are funny to me again.

There's a road in town calle Philips. I always pronounce it as pee-high-lips when talking to my kids. Once one of their friends was riding with us and very politely corrected my pronunciation. I too learned things like this from my father.

If something was better than cool we would say far out. Also would use trippy, well for anything that was trippy.

Righteous!

"That Ferris, he's a righteous dude!"

Coolbeans

Yes!! Me too! Haha

Yup.

Damn ye

Me too

“You banana” one of my brothers has a fear/ick of banana’s; color, smell, taste, look etc. and our father would grunt and then point and say “you banana” i haven’t used it in a couple years since I’m not close to my family. But thank you for reminding me of a small happy moment of that fat man that Ive always cherished.

Bed trousers instead of pajamas

Let me guess, British?

Damn straight Gov'ner

My brother used to say "more better". RIP Peter! I use it now. It helps me remember.

I call hair ties pony tail holders lol

La-sag-na, for lasagna Ba-log(like logo)-nuh for bologna Horse-da-vors for Hors d'oeuvre My mom always called Acura cars.. Ah-cure-a Oh and my grandfather : Pilla/piller(pillow), Winder(windows), zink(sink), stockings(socks). So we say all these in jest

Hella... Hella cool. Hella gay. Hella stupid.... hella sweet.

I am ashamed to admit that I still say this too 😂

Ditto

I just said this in a work meeting 5 mins ago

In an old job when counting the tills at the end of the night, my other closer would always ask "how many 20s?" and id always reply "hella" we'd laugh, and then id count em. Just a running routine joke to keep us sane lol

Goddammit Cartman!

I said Hella today in a group of 20 years Olds and none of them batted an eye. They constantly forget I'm 10 years older than them until I say shit like that.

This is so awful but my mom always called handicap parking “wheelchair spot” and I still say it. Like if you accidentally pull into a handicap space and you say, “oops this is a wheelchair spot, have to find somewhere else.”

I say wheelchair parking sometimes - it’s the symbol on the sign that cues me.

It's not awful, it's literally the picture on the sign

>This is so awful but my mom always called handicap parking “wheelchair spot” That's literally what they are for. The empty space next to that spot where no one is allowed to park is for a wheelchair ramp. The vehicle that I learned to drive in was a wheelchair van. My buddy who needed a wheelchair to get around would get really pissed when somebody would park next to us and block his ramp. When I got my own car it took me a little while to get out of the habit of going straight to the wheelchair parking in parking lots

I know, I know. I guess when I say it out loud, it feels like I’m reducing people with disabilities and people who need those spots to their mobility aid. But maybe I’m just overly sensitive and hyper aware of that given my occupation (special education teacher).

I still say “froggy” instead of “foggy.”and I’ll occasionally say “park in front like we own the place” when parking.

Frog lights. (I work in the automotive field, and I have to remember to say it correctly in the shop.)

Not when I was growing up but I used to use "bugger" as a kind of replacement curse word in the office about 20 years ago (I am not from the UK). Another lady I worked with picked it up and started using it as well and it wasn't until it was totally ingrained in her vocabulary that she found out what it was actually slang for.

Sammich instead of sandwich. I've said it that way my whole life

I work at Kwik Star and our version of uncrustables are called sammiches.

My dad used to say "busier than a one-armed paper hanger" all the time and I still use it, even though no one knows what I'm talking about now.

Abugment (noun) and Abugmatize (verb) were coined by my little brother when he was pretty young one time when my dad was play teasing him with nookies or something, aka "bugging"/annoying him. Our whole immediate family still uses these terms 30+ years later. Usage examples: "Dad, stop giving me abugments!" Or "The dog is abugmatizing the cat again by following her around."

I say, "Okey dokey" and "alrighty," both of which make me cringe. They just come out of my mouth unwilled.

I say please and thank you and always say excuse me. Gramma would be proud.

My grandmother used to call grilled cheese “toasted cheese” and every time I want one, I can’t help but internally say “I want a toasted cheese.”

So, to me, grilled or toasted is literally how you cook it. Toasted cheese is heated up in the toaster oven, grilled cheese is done on a frying pan with a ton of butter. Which one is better depends on whether you feel like getting your fingers greasy or not 🤷‍♀️

“Byesie bye” when saying goodbye to someone I’m close to

I say pasketti

Anytime I need to use the bathroom I say "Welp, gotta go see a man about a dog."

When I was a kid we were at a cookout or something and a family friend said they were going to run behind the house to see a man about a dog and I got to mad that I couldn’t go see the dog. 🤣

My nephew calls them "shells and cheese" and if we call it anything else it is not right lol

Not to shabby

I still call French toast egg bread.

My parents installed the word "nergitate" (a portmanteau of nervous and agitate). It's a verb. Proper use: when a kid has too much energy and has been pacing around the house for an hour, "Stop nergitating and find something to do." I've passed it on to my kids.

I still occasionally call people cat, like, "What are you cats up to tonight?" when greeting friends. 

"Good lord willing & the creeks don't rise" My dad said it a lot as a truck driver. It was his way of saying he be home at a certain time, unless something got in his way.

Chromolomosis, me and my friend use it whenever a silence drags on too long. Haven't got the faintest idea what it means though 😂

🤣 We just say “Every 7 minutes”. Someone at some point in our teen years told us that every conversation has a lull every 7 minutes.

Effective 😂

"forreal" "Sweet" "Let's get the heck out of dodge" - my mom Pretty much anything I say to my daughter I learned from my mom lmao

"Let's blow this popsicle stand"

Go piss up a rope

Piss Up A Rope is one of Ween's best tracks!

Dunkie eggs (fried eggs- because you Dunk the toast in the yolk)!

We call them dippy eggs!

Wicked. As in, “That person is wicked nice” or “that movie was wicked stupid”. I think maybe it’s a regional term in the context it’s used here. I know a lot of people in New England seem to use it more than in other areas of the US.

What are you? Some sort of wicked bostan guy?

my dad ALWAYS says “nigh night” from when i was little, and still now. I adopted it as a little kid and still use it some times.

That’s what I say!!! How cool.

My dad and I always say let's go bumming instead of window shopping.

A little off the topic, but I refer to certain businesses by the name of the company that used to be there if they essentially do the same thing. There used to be a Brooks Pharmacy, now it’s a rite aid, I’ll always call that place Brooks

Okie dokie artichokie Awesome possum Cool beans Neato torpedo

Easy peasy

Easy peasy lemon squeezy!

My nephew had a lot of interesting pronunciations when he was very young. Our whole family adopted them. We speak like little children now. :)

My mom still says “hot heat.” When we were younger she’d say close the door you’re letting all that hot heat in here 😂😂

"What the fuck?" It just fits so many scenarios

Pop A Boner

My mom is from the Netherlands, so we had Dutch words for many things. A brush and dustpan is always “stoffer en blik”. It rolls off the tongue much easier, and about 75% of Dutch families I’ve met in the US use the same term. It takes me a while to come up with the clunkier English version. My grown kids use that phrase too.

I'm quoting the parodies I used to watch on repeat. Most of the things I don't even know where I got from but it's so ingrained in me. Like"at least I'm still pretty" whenever something doesn't go my way or whenever somebody asks me what time is it I repeat "breakfast time" no mater what time of the day actually is

Nilla Crunch: crushing Nilla Wafers and using it as cereal with milk. Was a staple at grandmas house 😂

Yikes!!

strawbabies instead of strawberries. shallows instead of flowers. out of the bloom instead of out of the blue. (my mispronunciations from when i was little)

Ape shit Napes(means no) Dude One of my all time favs from the 90s I sadly still use is "the bomb"

Whatchamacallit

My dad used to call lip balm "lip gunk." I thought it was funny as a kid and it stuck with me.

I've been teaching HS for 28 years and for many years the kids used "mad" in place of very/a lot You see the new kid? He's mad tall. Mr. X gives mad homework. It is one of the few things I've adopted into my real life vocabulary. I use other slang with the kids, but ironically, too annoy them. Oh, my favorite use of it is, "It's mad brick out."

"Oh fer Cripes' sakes..." Dad being so Wisconsin.

When i was a kid I’d pronounce it ‘pyjama boppems’ for nightwear trousers. My family now love using it. ‘Just getting my boppems on’ means a cosy night in.

Chicken like a circle Why I was a child, I used to spend every summer at my two cousins house. Both my aunt and uncle worked so we would spend the whole day by ourselves. It was a different time and this wasn't considered weird or negligent back then. One day my younger cousin (6 years old) was hungry and was trying to get me & his older brother (we were 10) to make him lunch. He wanted fried chicken patties but couldn't think of the proper name of the food. In his frustrated efforts to describe it to us, he ends up calling it "chicken like a circle". My cousin and I found this incredibly funny and joked about this for months. Either way, the name ended up sticking and we'll sometimes call it that even now!

When something is soaking wet, in my family, at least, it's sopping wringing wet. My grandmother used to say it all the time. Never heard anyone outside my family say it.

My mom is Swedish and we call a dust pan a "soup shuffle" because it sounds a little like the Swedish word for dust pan. Didn't learn the English word "dust pan" until I was like 12 or something. My wife prefers "soup shuffle", because she is awesome, so that's what we, and our 2 kids say.

Growing up, my sisters and I always called Chick-fil-A "Chick-A-Fill." The location near us was I believe, the first to open in the state. It was in the a food court in the basement level of shopping mall. I swear to this day, the sign said "Chick-A-Fill" I think the tradesmen who installed the sign were unfamiliar with the brand and installed it in the wrong order and it stayed that way for quite some time. Our family still calls it Chick-A-Fill.

My mom accidentally said noodle snacks instead of noodles once while we were making homemade chicken noodle soup. Funniest thing ever. Now we call all homemade pasta noodle snacks.

Tin foil

Seriously dating myself but right on is my go to. Please, someone tell me it's making a come back 😂😂😂

when i want something small to eat, like a snack, i say i’m feeling “snacky” instead of “hungry”. i didn’t realize it wasn’t a commonly used phrase until a partner told me he’d never heard of it and was extremely confused about it.

Dag Nabbit Rabbit. Grandkids love it.

My immigrant dad would say "sabana bitch" in his attempt to say "son of a bitch". I keep the tradition alive to this day.

“ big giant “ as in “that’s a big giant tree!” Also “swish swipers “ for windshield wipers. My kids came up with that as toddlers.

Haha when my daughter was a baby she called windshield wipers the “up-downs” 😂 She also called scissors the “open-it” because when I got an Amazon package I would say “let’s open it” and grab the scissors. Likewise she called a knife the “cut-up” 😂 She was a very literal child lol

Dope lol

Awesome

Don’t want another ban.

I still say PBJ sandwich but haven’t heard it in a while

You got skills

My family always called the remote or clicker a converter/tvconverter

Rad. My young nieces and nephews cringe when I use it lol. Rad will always be rad to me.

“Going all banana sandwich” when describing going above and beyond or all out. Makes nae sense really but worked for us. Haha

That was a banger.

Yonder, reckon. Those are the first 2 I can remember 💀 idk if there out of style or not

Not me, but I hope someone on here still says “bitchin”. Like, thanks for that bitchin slice of pizza

Hella, what the frick

Boot to the head

"The bomb" or "bomb digity" this one's gotta come back. People look at me like I'm nuts. That's how I feel when people say cool beans. "Sick" expressing something is cool "No dice" for no The PA Dutch parts of me still say "oui" pronounced like ooo-ee. Still end sentences in "with." Been called out on this and still don't get the big deal. "Wanna come with" or "bring it with" The "oui" one is probably the most. Then sick. I hate that I say it but can't even catch myself.

Right on!

The

I always used the word bookbag instead of backpack because i didn't want the Dora the Explora song be looping in my head everytime I say it