A thread for what to older generations called things.

[DockShootinJack]

Slang for everyday items

The elderly neighbor woman I grew up next to ...

Said she got a pack of step-ins every year for her grandchildren. ( Underwear)

Old timers called jeans dungarees.

They called crappie Papermouths

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Peanuts were and still are called goober peas

Bacon renderings, flour and coffee = Red Eyed Gravy or what we call Soaky

[DockShootinJack]

Called matches lucifers

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Any body of water = water or waterin hole

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Outhouse at my grandparents was called privy.

Newspaper, magazine, catalogs were wipin paper.

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Groundhogs were call whistle pigs.

[DockShootinJack]

Pants were called britches

Living room was called a parlor

Couches were called Davenports

Cigarettes were called squares

Cigars stogies

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Welch was called a timepiece.

[DockShootinJack]

They used to call remotes clickers
Before that they called the kids to change the channel

[CrappiePappy]

I remember my Grandma calling the couch a "devonette".
The table in the kitchen/dining room was always called the "Dinner Table" (never Lunch/Breakfast table), but was sometimes referred to as the "Supper Table".
I've heard chest of drawers and even a freestanding closet called a "wardrobe".
Rainboots were called "Rubbers" or "Galoshes".
Young troublemakers were "Hoodlums", "Hoods", "Hooligans".