What are some favorite words that you have not heard spoken in years, but would like to? Will you please use them in a sentence?
Sorry to all that answered the original question. I did not get your answers. Please use your comments in sentence form to prevent this question from being considered as a poll. Sorry, I should have noted that before.
Recently, @MissAnthrope used the word “ramshackle” in a comment. I adore that word, but had completely forgotten about it. I’m sure to overuse it wildly in the coming weeks.
Have you any cherished words to share?
This isn’t about words that have changed definitions over the years. This isn’t about reviving Old English.
This is a search for words from your past that are not used very often in general conversation. Please share.
My Grandfather used to say “I’m a fixin’ ta”, “I reckon”, and “get shed of” all the time. Never hear them any more.
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What is that on your thigh? It’s pretty viscous.
I have a plethora of ideas for this question.
I’ll give that wazzack a right good scudding,the saclass mithering get.
Said by my Grandad when he had a disagreement with a colleague at work.
My kids used “limacine” (meaning “slimy”) when they were young teens. It wasn’t exactly a commonplace word that fell out of fashion.
“Wanna bone?” Lol!
“This food is hella good..”
I like saying Zimbabwe. :)
I use ‘reckon’ all the time.
I might have to shanghi some of these words for my own use.
Please, stop all of that buggery.
Yay! Some words I like are portly, rotund, zaftig, and Rubenesque to describe larger individuals (has so much of a nicer ring than ‘fat’).
Defenestrate is always a fun one, tart instead of ‘slut’, I know there’s lots more, I just can’t think of them.
Edit: Persnickety!
@MissAnthrope I like those words too, every time I say Rubenesque, no one knows what it means of course.
I always liked that my older step-dad (born in the 30’s) called the fridge the icebox and always referred to calculators as computers.
Don’t get your mind in a Jaberwocky, everything iz gunna be all Groovey, you’ll see Luv!
@MissAnthrope: Ask him about the phonograph, 33 RPM vinyl records, the black telephone, street cars, the milk man who delivered milk in glass bottles to the back door, the twice-a-day-mail delivery, and Maidenform bras.
I call shenanigans on this question.
@rebbel: Better to call “shenanigans.”
@MissAnthrope those are very cool words :) no one uses “peeky” when you are a bit off colour any more? Or pasty face (if your face is a bit pale). My mom always used to say to me “You’re as brazen as brass!” when I was being super cheeky.
I love stoic but cant think of a suitable grammatically correct sentence!
‘Multifarious’ was a word my highschool class fell in love with for some reason. We used it quite multifariously, and usually inappropriately.
Gooo Gooo
As in… Goo Gooo Gaa Gaaa.
Hey, those were words when I was 1.
@Blackberry just what I was about to say! although I prefer its usage in @Grisson ‘s ‘Stoic it to the man!’ :-)
Rapscallion
Hot potato
Red as a beet.
They look like two peas in a pod.
Toot your own horn.
Fit as a fiddle.
You look “very chick.” My maternal grandmother’s French.
Little pishers have big ears. Also my maternal grandmother’s.
Oh yeah.. @gailcalled reminded me of fun words for rapscallions. Ne’er-do-well, rogue, hooligan, rake, cad, delinquent…
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