Have a Seat on the Daveno

What’s that you say?

I was recently playing a word game and tried to enter ‘daveno’ – I may have spelled it wrong – and was told there was no such word.

Granted, I hadn’t heard it in a few decades, even so, we used it regularly back in the day, when we sat on it. We also sat on the davenport. Today, sofa or couch. Not my house below (from a small restaurant near the coast) but we did have an orange recliner! Probably ‘Naugahyde,’ remember that?

I wondered what happened to ‘daveno’ and found this in the Urban Dictionary: ‘a sofa or couch, widely used in the fifties and sixties, and particularly in the Pacific Northwest.’

Well, hey there! A match!

It reminded me of another word from my childhood that seemed to disappear: ‘zories’ for the ‘sandals’ below. That’s what I called them growing up, though they were no frills, not fancy like the ones I found in Hawaii. Later we called them thongs.

Now they’re called flip-flops but not by me. I don’t know what to call them.

Finally, this is a Coke, (with my name spelled correctly) though generically we called it a pop, not a soda, or soft drink.

What words do you remember from your childhood that seem to have gone missing?

~ Susanne