What's a word you haven't heard used in years?
2y 10mon ago by lemmy.world/u/RealWrastling in asklemmy
Heh, I use it everyday
"I wish I was happy..."
me_irl
There was a podcast episode years back about how large quicksand loomed in popular culture for a whole generation, before vanishing as a concept almost completely.
And sure enough, I remember as a kid in the 80s worrying about stumbling into quicksand while wandering around the bushes in rural Canada.
Then I forgot about it as a concept until I heard it on that one episode, and I haven't heard it since.
There's a John Mulaney joke about this
Huh...I can't find it on YouTube, but it rings a bell. Was it something like "quicksand played a much smaller role in my life than I expected"?
I'm fairly certain it's in "New In Town"
As a Canadian you should be more concerned with muskeg.
As a kid in 90s Australia I was also led to believe that quicksand was more of a threat than it turned out to be, lol
Myrrh. I used to hear it as a kid in church. Haven't heard it in decades by now.
Bro isn't playing enough Fire Emblem.
Ditto to frankincense
I've seen it on incense labels, but never spoken outside of a churchy setting.
Disestablishmentarianism.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokenosis. Blow their minds.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious!
Affordable housing
So "affordablehousing" then? 😂
Looks German
We actually have a word for that: unauffindbar
Doesn't that mean unfindable?
You are right. It's a joke because there is absolutely no affordable housing to be found in Germany.
Ah gotcha
Seems like there's a word for everything in German!
There is. That word is "alles".
For a change the German word is shorter than the English one, and it's the English one that's smashing two existing words together.
Covfefe
I say this almost daily lol
How?
Do you mean how I pronounce or why I say it? If the latter, just because it sounds funny to me and it kind of became a running gag.
I meant how do you even pronounce that.
I've always said it like "cawv-fee-fee."
I pronounce as if it were a Spanish word. lol
Cowabunga and tubular!
80s were a good time!
Gnarly, dude.
Every time I see someone at work carrying tubes I can't help myself and say "totally tubular my dude!" Lol
Rad!
I say rad near daily. Be the change you want to see in the world!
Bodacious!
Gnarly!
Truthiness
As a software developer, I actually use "truthy" and "falsy" pretty regularly for "the computer thinks this value is true/false"
Just remember that even though None is Falsy, an array of Nones is Truthy. Gets me every time. I fucking understand it logically (because the array itself exists) but damnit if I can make my lizard brain comprehend it while coding it.
because the array itself exists
More specifically it's because the array isn't empty.
Yup you’re more right than I was. An empty array is still Falsy even though it exists. I accept the correction.
Strategery
Vituperative. It's such a good word too.
Oh, that's good. A new one for me!
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vituperative
adj 1: marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing
remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative
railing" [syn: {scathing}, {vituperative}]
Isn't that a great word? I used to read a lot of Canadian classic literature and it was often in there.
Also garrolous is a good word.
Actually I spelled it wrong, it's garrulous. My bad!
Discombobulate
Information superhighway
The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck highway. It's a series of tubes.
Tubelor.
Cyberspace!
Surplus
Dag. Not like Snatch “ya like dags” but like “dag, yo”.
Well that certainly cleared up any concussion I had about which dag you meant.
Maybe like embroidered dags?
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Nope. Replace dang or damn with dag and use it like that. So instead of damn, yo. It’s dag, yo.
Phat! As in cool. Haven't heard that one in wellllll over a decade.
Skedaddle
I shout this at the cat when she's underfoot
Underfoot is another word I never hear anyone using outside of books.
I use this very regularly.
Skadoodle
Cheese it
It's the fuzz!
Fleek
Thankfully.
I left Australia decades back, so all my slang vocabulary is stuck from when I left.
rorted - being high
having a pash - intense kissing
Too right. Someone in my household reminded us that we used to use munted all the time, so we're bringing it back into our vocab, haha
Munted - mutated, fucked up, borken
We used to use rorted to mean... well it would be past tense for hitting a bong, "to rort" being the verb. I am in the UK and have no idea where that slang came from.
MOIST
Lol this was such a big deal for no reason in like 2008.
I blame How I Met Your Mother
The night was moist...
Keep your starship out of my backyard.
(JN Chaney book reference)
Defenestrate. What a word!
Have you read Russian news in the past decade? Defenestration is the preferred method of retirement in the Ruzzian government.
Wait, what? There were a lot of defenestrations recently, you haven't heard?
Baud
250k baud or 500k baud?
I write firmware, this is a daily term
I too write firmware. Once the UART lib is done I never touch it again for the duration of the whole project. If you use it daily something weird is going on.
I will always love those old modem tones
I love you too.
It's not a single word though.
Hugs from an internet stranger.
ಠ_ಠ
Mack
"Did you mack her?"
So dumb lol
Just realized I forgot about this one lol
Crunk
Floppy (disk)
Choke (on a vehicle)
Schadenfreude
Pronounced scoodin’ n’froody in case anybody was wondering.
This is still my favorite pronunciation video ever. Gets me every time.
bitchin
wicked
Bodacious
Tubular
Take a whiz
Majorly
Trill
Booyah!
Pimpin
That pimpin' Trill just Booyahed their symbiont all over the holodeck...
Lol! ^ When you download the wrong episode of Star Trek off limewire O.O
"Pimpmobile" is one of my most-used terms!
Haven't played any Splatoon lately?
Bitch I'm trill, bitch I'm so trill
Sisyphean I come across it like once every few years in some article.
24 days later: https://lemm.ee/post/5458899See what I mean?
It's how I describe my job.
Sorry Zeus! I didn't mean it!
fag (and I mean "haven't used in years" in a very good way.)
I've watched the Irish YouTuber Jacksepticeye since I was a teenager and I remember in his earlier years he played a game about bumming cigarettes from people so naturally, he used the word "fag" a lot since it's super common slang in not-American countries. IIRC the response towards him after the fact pushed him to make a very serious but very informative apology later on.
Your lungs thank you.
I've watched the Irish YouTuber Jacksepticeye since I was a teenager and I remember in his earlier years he played a game about bumming cigarettes from people so naturally, he used the word "fag" a lot since it's super common slang in not-American countries. IIRC the response towards him after the fact pushed him to make a very serious but very informative apology later on.
Splendid
saw someone on tiktok refer to casual sex as "tappin that", instantly knew their age
Dodecahedron
heard that one earlier today ...
Matt Parker or Steve Mould?
Neither, though I do watch a bit of Matt Parker on youtube, so it's a decent guess.
Sozzled.
French for drunk.
Only saw it on a British translation of Zola's L' Assomoir.
Grody
To the max.
ciggie
sploosh
yolo
you only YOLO once
yoYOLOo
Synergy
Like a boss.
As someone who grew up in the sixties, "groovy"
I'd love it if "groovy" came back
You're everywhere!!
Lemmy is only so big I suppose!
Yonder
OMG, helping my kid through home schooling during lockdown and I found out what this word meant.... Made my brain go flumph just trying to pronounce it correctly! ;)
Sounds right.
Guffaw
Spoot!
Ignoramus
Teleconference
Indubitably
Is the Spoot in reference to Angry Beavers?!
Put some stank on it Daggy!
Renob
It was our clever and undetectable way to say boner in grade school
Bibliobibuli
A person who reads too much
cowabunga
Middle class
Cahoots
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis. It's just not a word that comes up often
Bufty.
Heard it frequently 20 years ago and now it's dropped off the face of the planet as casual homophobia has become a bit less prevelant.
Free
Cluster Fuck
Unfuckulate
I have a passion for the word "fuck" I need to get back to. I love the word "cunt" but thats too volatile so I had to retire that word.
Ass hat
Clown Shoes
Banana Head
Yeah most of my terms are personal attacks on morons I work with.
I use "ass hat" and "clusterfuck" regularly.
FUBAR is another
I also go Ricky (I'm an American):
Worst case Ontario
What comes around is all around.
BFE. Bum fuck egypt. A place far away
I live there right now, middle of nowhere VA
Also we used to call it East Bum Fuck Egypt :)
I cannot resist labeling ridiculous things as clown shoes.
Whatever word was used before "caveat" took it's place. A few years ago, suddenly, everyone on Youtube and elsewhere started using it.
Dociousalliexpiliciousfragicalirupus.
Haven't heard it in awhile because we agreed that saying it backwards was going a bit too far.
Why "licious" instead of "listic?"
That darn Autocorrect!
A particularly egregious example, as neither are words!
...to your mother
💀
Cyberspace
I went through a dapper phase at one point...
Real estate novelist.
Need to listen to this song now, urgently! :-)
I think this word wins.
Obi Wan
I don't remember owning a droid.
sphygmomanometer
Gayrod
It's GayLord, thankyouverymuch...
The lyrics to Alouette.
Dubba. Mostly cuz I haven't lived in New England for over 20 years.
Now there's a word a fella could really muckle on to...
Never heard that one, had to look it up.
It's definitely a very narrow colloquialism you hear in New England. Honestly, I think it may be specific to the Seacoast Region of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.
It's used in the same context as "bastard", but solely as a term of endearment.
"What's up, dubba?"
Precipitate
Facetious and Modicum.
I remember them being heavily used everywhere by everyone like a fad, disappeared like a fad. I don't miss them though
That girl's a lunchbox. Their lunchin'
Apoplexy
Assgoblin
Magnanimous
Bingus
floccinaucinihilipilification
I was going to say like North Korea?
Cunnilingus
Waddup?
Prolly
I really dig using "mook" as an insult, playfully or otherwise. It's somewhat normal in my tight circles but I get looks every time I'm in other groups when I drop a "what a mook"
Bring it back! Fuck the normies!
It doesn't work so well when you've got someone named Mookie in your poker group
Jig jog