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Old fashioned words
Do you ever catch yourself using an old fashioned or out of date word in an average conversation?
Then people give you that look. You know that look, maybe with one raised eyebrow? Anyway. My grandma always calls her couch a davenport (totally spelling it wrong, but i know how to say it) and it will randomly come out of my mouth when im talking about mine or someone elses couch. Im like, oh:? |
I said "dingbat" the other night on webcam, and my girlfriend nearly wet herself she was laughing so hard because apparently it's something that was used WAY before we were born. (19 and 20 respectively). My parents use it a lot, so I just use it. XD
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I say "trousers" instead of pants and "Butt me" when I'm bumming a cigarette.
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I say a lot of old words, sure I can't remember any of them now but I do say them!
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Well, some of the words my dad uses kind of show his age though. Like calling someone a nincumpoop (I don't know how to spell it) or askign if I have the sniffles (stuffy nose/cold). |
Whenever I say something is "nifty" or "swell", people look at me funny.
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Me, I may be 16, but I swear I'm stuck in the '70s. The music, the clothing, and the words! "Dig it", "psychedelic", "groovy", etc.
I love it. <3 I also say "snazzy" and "nifty". |
the only one i can remember at the moment...i still say cool things are "the bomb"
people who dance "get jiggy with it" i can't remember anything else though! i know people have asked me "who says that anymore?" a lot of times. :sweat: |
heh I am always sayin epic fail to people or callin em noobs. IT might not be old timey but it sure is odd.
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calling a stranger, "buster"
saying "da bomb" "phat" "motormouth" if someone rambles on and on "sniffles" I say "awesome" alot, I've been told no one says it anymore "foxy" "sizzling" when someone is sexy. "shush" to quiet someone I also use words that people don't use in sentences anymore. Like, "fantastic", "nevertheless", "nonetheless", "familial", "dreary", "abhorish", "livid". etc. |
We used to say "narly" in elementary school.
And we brought back "DUDE". Sayings are like clothes...they go in and out of style every few decades. |
"Haberdashery", "loquacious", "shindig", and "bruhaha" are some words that I've used in the past week that got me odd stares. I'm constantly using "out of date" words and phrases, only because they fit what I am trying to say better.
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xD My friend is everytime I get asked out calls me a "floozy", which I don't remember being "cool" since the early 50's. xD I found it very entertaining. |
Yes, that happens to me all the time.
I constantly find myself using archaic words or phrases that I picked up from my eccentric upper-middle-class grandmother when I was a child. It's a habit I've never been able to break. I suppose the most prominent one would be saying "How do you do?" when I meet people and offering my hand. :sweat: |
If I've been reading a lot recently I find myself using bigger words than I normally would and sometimes if I'm reading a piece of classical literature I'll pick up the phrasing within it.
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I remember back in elementary school when my teacher first told us what an ornothopter was (flying mechanical bird) I tried to use it as much as I could. xD It was awful for the people around me. Now I read books and I attempt to understand and use the bigger vocabulary, but not so much as to make the people around me think any differently. (People are ishs cared of those with the bigger words~) |
I say 'awesome' alot but nobody really says it much where I live (Ireland) so they're like 'Okayy..?'
My brother named his band 'Huzzah' so I then started using that alot as well as 'Hurrah'. I'm also starting to say 'Shall I...?' quite a bit now.. As in 'Shall I wait for you after school?' I'm very easily influenced into out of the ordinary things. :D |
Yesterday, I just learned the word Queue means 'in line' lol XD
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Haha I've found myself saying 'Jig' like I said, I'll do a jig.... haha but also dingbat and swell, but I really only say them because they are funny, it's not like it slips out of my mouth or anything and I'm like, oops.
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Blouse is another one I picked up from my grandma. Its always shirt this shirt that but as soon as someone is around I blurt out blouse. ???
Or, I never hear people saying "It drives me up the wall" My mom used to say it a lot, so now i say that instead of "It drives me crazy" (I dont know if thats technically considered out of date or old fashioned though) |
This site is my favorite for 20s slang, I'll occasionally toss around these words.
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I have to refrain myself from saying " Ice Box ". My mom still calls the refrigerator an " Ice Box" and I got funny looks up until I was in middle school before people told me that " Ice Box" is not a correct term for a fridge anymore. I felt Soooooooo stupid. |
my friends and i have a game where we call each other whores by different outdated words "trollup" "tramp", all those good things.
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I like to say words like Huzzah, Gosh Darn, Oh my, or Gee Willicurs! (sp?) But that's just how I was raised, you know watching Andy Griffith fr a majority of my life will do that to a person.
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The only time I use old words is more as a joke, I don't think I just normally say some older word. Unless I just don't realize it. o__O But I'll say like Cool Beans or Snazzy or other stupid words...
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