Haha Rosco I love that! We have lots of words like that in my family as well, some of them quite rude! One my dad uses a lot is "dumf", which would be the same as your dad's "buffo".Urban dictionary has a definition that is waaay ruder but I think since my dad has been using this word since long before UD's existence it wouldn't even occur to him that he could be saying "dumb f*ck"

My father would call me and my brothers a "boobus" while growing up. Never given a definition. But now I use it when someone in the family does something dumb. Like when I tried making bread and forget the yeast =I'm a boobus. Or like when I had to come back and edit all my mistakes for this post

Haha oh dear, Grace! I have to say though, I had no idea dawdle was outdated...

Hi Erica! I *am* the older person who got a strange look from a younger classmate once. (And if memory serves, I was only in my thirties when this happened.)

I was attending classes at a local community college for personal interest. The classmate and I were between classes, standing on the sidewalk between classrooms, having a conversation. Suddenly I realized we had been there a while, and I said "Oh, if we don't want to be late for class, we better not dawdle."

The younger classmate looked at me and, very, very quietly, under her breath, laughed and said "Daaaw-dle." But not quietly enough. I was only in my thirties and my hearing was still pretty good.

My father grew up in South Fork, Pennsylvania, which was where the dam broke that caused the Johnstown flood. (That was before his time.) If someone were to ask him how far away something is, he would say something like "It's about three miles from here as the crow flies." (i.e. in a straight line)