Daveno is not in spell check. But I have heard the term, along with Davenport. Couch was what a couch was called where I grew up.

 

If it was brown, Pops called it a Daveno, Mom bought a cream colored piece of furniture that was called a Couch. Don't get me started on Recliners!

 

I'm in your camp on this one Bill. We must be showing our age, or at least I am. Growing up we sat on a Daveno or sofa. The term couch came much later

 

Same here....heard it a lot growing up.

 

Never heard of a daveno potatoe before

 

I with you on this one too, Bill.

The Urban Dictionary says:
daveno
A sofa or couch. The term was more widely used in the 50's and 60's, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. I fell asleep on the daveno.
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I never heard it in Southern California, but sure did when we moved to Oregon in the late-70's spoken by those who lived here for years.

 

Knew the term davenport but hadn't heard daveno before. Grandmother grew up in Grants Pass and her family ran a second hand furniture store. I am certain that she is where I heard it.

 

Weird same story here including second hand store. Only difference they lived in Ashland next to the college.

 

Daveno for Davenport? I used to hear it all the time. On another note my dad used to call all cameras Kodiaks. Sound familiar?

 

My dad’s aunt, who was a welder on Liberty Ships in Vancouver during WWII, used to say “Daveno” and I did hear Davenport occasionally as well in the 60s-70s.

 

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Hey you kids, get off my lawn. And your not getting your ball back either!!

 

My grandmother had a daveno, mom had a sofa, the wife and I have a couch. Daveno was common when I was growing up, also known as a davan. Of course we also had a separator on the back porch, like most of the neighbor's.

 

We had a hassock in front of our daveno.

 

Bill, why do you have to keep reminding some of us how old we are?

 

Sorry, Bill. I won't start that thread on what it did to a kid's budget when DC raised the price of a comic book from 5 to 8 cents ...

 

I'm 30 and I knew what a daveno was before even reading this. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa. The wife had no clue.

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Yep, we called it a daveno as well. If I remember right, my Canadian cousins called it a "chesterfield."

 

Ya, and Bill what did you call those little licorice babys coated with sugar?

 

Unless my generation y memory fools me, i believe that the term your referring to also applies to those big Brazilian nuts?? Old time expressions are crazy crude sometimes. alm:

 

My mothers side came from the south, so grandma used to say "sofacou..." I always giggled when she said that. I have only rare heard the word daveno, so it must be an ond guy kinda slang. :wink:

 

Ed, I vaguely remember those, but I was a Black Twist and Lic-Ris-Ets kind of guy, and Red-Ets when I could find them ...

 

I remember growing up my Grandmother always used the term "Davenport" when referring to the sofa/couch. She also used words like trousers and fridge. Fridge was used because the only brand of refrigerator they ever purchased was a Frigidaire. They also exclusively purchased Studebakers until they were no longer manufactured.

 

Oh, those. I am ashamed for knowing whereof you speak.

 

My mom and dad called them davenos.

 

My family owned furniture stores since 1958. A daveno is like a sofa but the back of the daveno will lay completely flat. You grab the back of the devan and tip it towards you and release and it lays out flat. There was another sofa called a bedding box, you would lift the seat and pull towards you and up, it also would lay out flat "but" there was storage under the seat.

 

This solves two mysteries! Daveno is a word from my youth in western Idaho, but I was young enough to think it was just another word for couch. It's exactly the thing my Grandma J had in her living room in the '60s. Spent many nights on it.

 

I happened to refer to our sofa as a daveno today and my wife what asked on earth I was talking about. I told her that was what we always called it growing up in Oregon and Washington. She said she had never heard the word before. I found this odd, so I looked it up. Seems it is Pacific Northwest-speak for Davenport, one of the largest original manufacturers of what are now widely called sofas and couches. I'll be darned. The process of fossilization continues apace. alm:

I Love this I live in Oregon and my grandpa used to always say "well I guess I'll go take a nap stretch on the Davenport". We later shortend it to daveno but still use davenport at times when we are feeling extra jackassy.

 

Lol I love this I live in Oregon and my Grandpa used to always say "well I guess I'll go take a nap stretch on the Davenport". We later shortend it to Daveno but still use Davenport when we are feeling extra jackassy!

 

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A daveno goes in the parlor's of them folks with deep pockets, We have always called a couch just like the street.

 

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