A.G.O. Slang

What words and/or phrases do you remember ?

"strictly" pertaining to A.G.O.

21 Money

Allowance Book

A.G.O. Jail

Bathroom Case

Beanies

Big Kid

Blue Jackets

Bug Juice

Campused

Chucked your Pants

Common Sunday

The Crow

Dibbs

Doilies

Dutters

Flopper

Forlop

Fr. Mac

Fr. Nemo

Fruit

Gigs

Home for Good

Grub

Gush

Holy Hour

Jake/John

Jays

Jigs-it / Jigzit / Jiggers

Jug

Junk Case

Ladie's of Itcha my Belly

Little Kid

Mibs

Middlewinkie

Mop Stick

Oh Bunk

Playing Possum

Peanut

Perries / Puries

Premium

Red Buttons

Red Zero

Ringy

Rot

School Clothes

Schroeder Grip

Scrubbrushes

Scullery

Sem's

Shine Rags

Slop

Slop Dress

Slophouse

Spikers

Steelies

Stir / Sir

Study Hour

Sunday Clothes

Visiting Sunday

Woolies

Yard

Yard Clothes

Yard Shoes

Yellow Line

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If there was any allowance left over?

Weekly allowance depending on points earned - click here to see Sample "Pass / Allowance Book"

Write me a letter, send it by mail, send it in care of A.G.O. Jail

Cases in the bathroom to store our daily cloths

What the grammar school girls wore on their heads for mass.

An older kid in charge of a younger kid to look after (ex. 6, 7 & 8th Graders)

Seminarians

Kool Aid - AGO Style

Grounded, for demerit slip, no visiting, no movies

Pooped pants 

Opposite Visiting Sunday - we did not go home, but watched a movie in the auditorium

The Nuns

I call first on this....

What High School Girls wore on their heads for mass

Eggs

Snitcher

Cutting ahead in line

Fr. McCarthy

Fr. Niemeyer

Weird Kid ???

Cart that delivered the food to the dining rooms

Leaving A.G.O. for good

Food

Candy

Sunday Benediction

Toilet

What the Freshmen where called when they entered High School

Oh oh, here comes the Nun

Detention Center - located in Cotttage 32's porch, for the boys. If, while we were playing in the yard and you went out of bounds, were caught throwing rocks, going on the girl's side, going into the Cottages, fighting, your were subject to detention, in Jug. Whether or not, you went to Jug, was determined by the yard Sister, at the time, if you got caught breaking some rule!!

Place to store our Junk in the Rec Room

Ladies of Isabella - Donated gifts at Christmas Time.

A younger kid in grammar school cottage (ex. 1st grade to 4th or 5th)

Marbles

Boogyman, in babyhouse

2 sticks put together (like a "T")  only used to pickup soapy water "after" scrubbing the floors on our hands and knees

Oh oh, we're caught in a lie!   

When the Nun would pretend to be sleeping, but watching & listening to us all along.

Nun's Pet

See through Marbles

Slave Wages, .40/wk)  same as "allowance" - - see  above!

Msgt. Diebold

On our demerit (comportment) cards, a zero was the worst number you could get, but if you got a "Red Zero" (0) you were really in trouble!!!

When a kid came down with ringworm and had to wear a sock on his head with salve smeared on his "BALDY" shaved head.

Expression of disagreement

Cloths only worn for school

Fr. Schroeder would grab you right between the shoulder & neck with his thumb & forefinger and pinch hard.

Rockies

Kitchen

Seminarians

Rags we put on our feet to buff the floors

Food

Uniform like dresses that the girls had to wear!  YUK!!!

Dining Room

The tops Sr. Joseph used to hand out in the yard for the boys to play with, they had a point on them like a nail and you would try and chip a piece of wood off of a spinning top from another kid.

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Sister / Nun

Time set aside to do homework

Clothes only worn on Visiting Sundays, Holidays or Special Occasions

The Sunday we were allowed to go home for the day

The knick-a-bocker bottoms - horrible itchy home made pants they gave to the boys

Playground

Clothes worn for play

Shoes worn for play

Dividing line (fence) to separate the girls yard from the boys yard