outdated slang
Do people even use slang these days?
List: YOUR FAVORITES or LEAST FAVORITES
gnarly
there are 19 hits for "gnarly" when you search the cellar.
(can you call it a list if it only has one item?)
Come a cropper
bee's knees
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Twenty-three skidoo
So yesterday
orly?
neat-o
spiffy
rad
book, booking (to go fast)
psych
get bent
oh the list goes on and on...
Remember "gross me out the door"? Square Pegs circa 1982. Tracy Nelson, the Valley Girl character.
We were all like OMG before it ever became an acronym.
:)
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bamboozle
bling
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Remember "gross me out the door"? Square Pegs circa 1982. Tracy Nelson, the Valley Girl character.
We were all like OMG before it ever became an acronym.
:)
OMG! You must be my generation. :blush:
oh and lets not forget Robin Williams. What did he say?
Totally! :)
edit: nanoo nanoo?
did you lot ever use wanker?
Monster...No I don't think I was ever that sophisticated.
I remember 'have a cow' and 'for real' about age 14. :o
Lot's of Saturday Night Live impressions.
Totally! :)
edit: nanoo nanoo?
something like that !
razzle dazzle
dammit!
Had I known! Had I looked! grr
gag me with a spooooon!
I just used the term "ding a ling" with my son the other day. He thought it was hilarious!
three sheets to the wind (drunk)
take a louie (turn left)
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I just used the term "ding a ling" with my son the other day. He thought it was hilarious!
You mean it's not called "ding-a-ling" anymore? :unsure: ...hehe. I think I need to get out and socialize more because I still use some of those outdated slangs. :blush:
You go right on sayin' ding-a-ling.
Hmmm lessee... I suspect most of my slang is outdated :P This is some of what i use.
Cool
wicked,
too cool for school
smashing
brilliant
excellent
sorted (good)
reet (as in it's reet) means it's okay
job's a good un (same as above, often used together " it's reet; job's a good'un)
nicely, or nice one (approval)
wanker
pratt
sod (as in cheeky sod)
bugger (as in daft bugger)
cheeky (impertinent)
daft (silly)
in your face (if something's a bit over the top, or too obvious: also if somone's getting aggressive)
nutter, mental, mentalist
dumb (stupid) as in 'that was a dumb thing to do'
skrike (for cry)
babby or bairn (for baby)
youngling, youngster or kid (for child or anyone young) : these last two are fairly interchangeable. I may for instance refer to the young soldiers in Afghanistan as being just bairns.
Christ on a bike, or God's teeth ( exclamations)
also 'bastard sonofabitch' for the same
Sod it, or bugger it, (had enough, or good enough)
sod/bugger that for a game of soldiers (had enough, not doing this anymore)
sarnie or buttie for sandwich
chippy for fish and chip shop
fags or ciggies for cigarettes
hols for holiday/vacation
youse for you all
uni for university
tribe, or gang for family (as in Merry Christmas to you and your tribe)
gang for any close grouping (as in 'the whole gang was there')
telly or tv for television
puter or comp for computer
snarky for irritable or nasty
Sarcy for sarcastic
sos for sorry
good egg ( a good person)
Strange fish or odd bod (a strange person)
mad as a box of frogs (speaks for itself)
Bro for brother and Our kid for my own brother
mate for friend, but also used when talking to someone, known or unknown (as in hiya mate, can you tell me how to get to ....?)
hon (term of endearment used for family and friends)
love, or m'dear same as above but also used with strangers. (particularly kids: as in 'don't try and stroke him love, he's not that friendly')
Ma or Mum for Mother (very occasionally Mam, but that's quite rare. Went througha phase of calling her Chairman Ma, when she was nominal head of the family firm).
Dad or Pops for Father.
Lads = any group of young men, but also used to refer to a particular grouping: such as my bro and my ex who would be referred to as 'the lads' as 'the lads have gone for a boys night out'
Guys = plural for a group of men; but also used to any group of people of whatever gender as in "what're you guys up to?"
Gaff for house/flat etc. As in 'you could crash at my gaff.'
crash for sleep over, also for coming down off drugs abruptly.
Pot, weed, smoke for cannabis
shag, screw, fuck
preggers (pregnant)
courting, dating
*thinks* that's all I can think of right now.
The telephone rings [SIZE="1"][ding-a-ling][/SIZE] and you want someone else to answer it so you tell them:
"It's for you!"
When they ask how you know it's for them, you reply:
"It's calling you by name ... ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling."
When I was 9 or 10 there was a playground vogue of comparing someone stupid to a person with Down's Syndrome. I honestly didn't think there was anything wrong with it at the time.
So mong, mongie, mongaloid were all moaned out while pushing your tongue into your bottom lip and rolling your eyes. It was especially useful in class, because you could make a mong face without noise.
Also at this time, Joey Deacon was in the news - he had cerebral palsy, and in those days we called those people spastics. So spastic, spazz, spazzer, spac and spaccer while twitching about in your chair were also terms of abuse.
Apart from that we went through phases - I remember cuckoo, dipstick, give him/ her a golden peanut (what?), gommie...
Oh, stroking your chin to signal disbelief. I think people still do that today (I do!) but in those days you also said Jimmy Hill (a sports commentater with a big chin)
When I was working in an office with a swearbox I moved from saying fuck or fuck me to blimey and crikey. It was an affectation but they stuck with me and are now my initial response to surprising or amazing news.
I say chops for mouth and chopse for chatting.
And mush (mouche?) for mouth too.
I also say some things I've been saying for years which must be out of date now!
Mental, mental, chicken oriental
I'd risk it for a biscuit
Good plan, Batman
I've just realised they all rhyme. Probably why they got stuck in my head.
No doy! (Regionally, it was No Doy Tim Moy...Tim Moy owned a self-named chinese restaurant in town.)
Also at this time, Joey Deacon was in the news - he had cerebral palsy, and in those days we called those people spastics. So spastic, spazz, spazzer, spac and spaccer while twitching about in your chair were also terms of abuse.
Yep. Those too. Plus 'Joey' as in 'you Joey'.
Oh, stroking your chin to signal disbelief. I think people still do that today (I do!) but in those days you also said Jimmy Hill (a sports commentater with a big chin)
We used to say chinny win win. Or Chinny chin chin.
Good plan, Batman
My Mum uses that one a lot.
One we used to use in school was 'slaphead' for bald. Usually accompanied/replaced by the action of slapping one's forehead vigorously.
Fry (as in "what a fry!") for something mind blowing.
Groovy - very Greg Brady
I will admit I am going to start saying "loo" instead of "ladies room" - I want to appear upper class.
geez Dana you're so propper :P
good ones SG
I have no heard of FRY bri
I remember dino-mite pico. I read somewhere that words and phrases from movies are not really slang but I disagree if the public starts using the.
Titled under slanguage
London slang-uage. Current Tell me if it wrong. lol
Gromlus wuss
rubbers ( erasers )
gonshite
I can't post anymore of those because I don't really understand them.
oh ha I found a London Slang test.
I'd probably get a - - F fail
http://www.okcupid.com/quizzy/take
American- current
tool
props
emo
chillin
60s
greaser
grass
bogart
dig
fab
fuzz
I bet there is a bunch of good ones in Australia too.
I suspect you may mean Gobshite. And that's used in the North as well.
Rubbers aren't slang, so much as what we call erasers.
Tool is one we use as well: as in 'You tool!'
Also, 'pants' means something's shit. 'total pants' means it's really not very good at all.
Gromlus wuss has me baffled...
Gromlus wuss has me baffled...
Never heard of gromlus. Maybe they're thinking of gormless.
where the hell is slang, anyway?
ahhh gormless. yes, that's not London so much as general English.
... 'total pants' means [COLOR="SeaGreen"]it's really not very good at all[/COLOR].
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*chuckles* add a slight Bolton burr to that received pronunciation:P
Oh my gawd, like gag a maggot, gag me with a spoon, like grody to the max. No doy-ay.
Gromlus wuss has me baffled...
ya me too. I wasn't sure why he put those too together.
It's overkill to be called both.
He has a yahoo email on slanguage.com
You could email him? :headshake
Oh my gawd, like gag a maggot, gag me with a spoon, like grody to the max. No doy-ay.
Good ones. I forgot about those.
Far out man
Creme de la creme!
Gromlus is most likely supposed to be gormless.
I just checked that slanguage site. It actually says Gormless Wuss , not gromluss wuss :P
most anything in pig latin. Kids today don't quite get it.
I just checked that slanguage site. It actually says Gormless Wuss , not gromluss wuss :P
Well call me whatever that word is then. :smack:
umm...yeah. But I don;t often come across the two together. Gormless = can mean dimwitted, or daft, or can mean naive or inexperienced. Wuss means wimp or weakling. The two tend not to be used together (certainly not in my experience). You;d either be called gormless, or you'd be called a wuss.
In this case: gormless :P
But to really give you that brit flavour, I'll call you a gormless bugger.
umm...yeah. But I don;t often come across the two together. Gormless = can mean dimwitted, or daft, or can mean naive or inexperienced. Wuss means wimp or weakling. The two tend not to be used together (certainly not in my experience). You;d either be called gormless, or you'd be called a wuss.
In this case: gormless :P
Today I went out and bought mega B12 complex stress tabs.
It says right on the label.
'Helps with occasional gormliness'
*grins*
It might even help with gormlessness :P
haggis
Really? I heard that 'haggis' is still in active use. ;)
most anything in pig latin. Kids today don't quite get it.
My kids still haven't figured it out completely.
Far out man
No way, José!
how come we never brag about "store-bought" anymore? Or does this belong in the oldster moments thread?
This reminds me to lay "piker" to rest. Though I am hesitant.
Bogart.
I am also reminding myself to quit saying, Awesome!
Really? I heard that 'haggis' is still in active use. ;)
there is an anti haggis cooperative. we are few.....but proud. we will not go quietly into the night.
Are "cool" and "neat" or "neato" outdated slangs? I still use them. :p
Grandmother had a few unusual phrases she used.
'Dark as the inside of a cow.'
'That old guy's got enough money to burn two wet mules.'
They are most definitely 'outdated'.
My Nan used to say "Black as Newgate's knocker" which is definitely outdated in the way she used it (to describe skin colour). I've used it to describe dirt or darkness before. Newgate was a notorious old London prison. I guess given that it closed in 1902 even my use is pretty outdated.
Then again, she also used to say someone "Had a lick of the tar brush" if their complexion suggested mixed race somewhere in their ancestry...
Her world consisted of dirty big black men or lovely coloured ladies. She seemed to believe all black men were savage Africans, whereas black women came from the Carribbean, were hardworking and made good cleaners.
I've been mulling this over, and I think there probably are some really outdated ones i use a lot. Many of the ones I already listed are pretty outdated (cool for example). But there are some more obviously so. One I use a lot is 'shine on': an expression of surprise, frustration or exasperation. I suspect that'd a tad archaic now.
Mum and Dad used to use one when I was a kid that I misunderstood for years. I've noticed Mum still uses it with our Soph when she stays over at her house. Come bed time, the phrase 'up tha dances' meaning go up to bed. For years I thought that was 'up the dances', and assumed dances meant stairs :P Actually it's an instruction to 'dance' up the stairs to bed, and 'tha' is actually thou or thee.
Oh! here's one: Bloody Nora! That's pretty outdated. I find it slips in every so often.
On the racist stuff; I recall my gran using the term pikaninny once or twice :P
pee like a racist
that was another thread!
pee like a racist
Umm that is
pee like a racehorse racist WTF? :lol:
That reminds me of my hub telling me one time "oh you are as pure as the drift in snow" WTF? I said thats pure as the driven snow to you buddy! :lol:
Another I can think of is someone telling me Jimmy Hendrix was gay because in his song he sang "excuse me while I kiss this guy!" No that's "excuse me while I kiss the sky!"
My Grandmother used to say,"Isn't that the berries"
She was from the Midwest. I had never heard it before or since.
We had a thread about that once...
One that used to get me is a work colleague who wuold refer to knowledgable people as being 'a mind of information'. :P
As a kid, I used to love the song Don't Cry for me Argentina. But I totally misheard the lyrics. Instead of 'Don't cry for me Argentina; the truth is I never left you'....I heard 'Don't cry for me Argentina; the truth is I never loved you'.
I sometimes "outen the light". It's an old regionalism from the upstate Dutch population.
When people ask how I am I like to use "Peachy!", "Keen!" or "Fabulous!" just to throw them off.
My six year old calls her friends her "Peeps," and thinks everything cool is "Sweeeet!"
My Grandmother used to say,"Isn't that the berries"
She was from the Midwest. I had never heard it before or since.
berries, as used in 'twigs and berries' means balls.
isn't that the ballllllzzz?
Har. I use 'peeps' and 'sweeet' occasionally.
berries, as used in 'twigs and berries' means balls.
isn't that the ballllllzzz?
I just looked it up. It apparently means doesn't that just suck. lol
I don't recall that being the context in which she used it though.
She passed away at 93 years of age a long time ago. I miss her.
I have her recipe box. I don't know why I had to mention that. It's just the berries that I did though.
hehehe what a funny word.
i think we should have a thread about NEW slang. we could make shit up like the rap stars do.
Has anyone "caught their death" lately?
The new ones that bug me the most are "sick" and "ill." They probably bug me as much as "bad" and "raunchy" bothered my parents back in the day. Here are some of the ones I heard as a kid:
Awesome
Radical
Gag me with a barbie doll leg
As if
like
bad or badical
spiffy
okie dokie
my Grandma always said "for crying out loud!"
my dad use to say "aye aye aye!"
my mom use to call people she didn't like dip shit (that one still cracks me up)
Far out man
I still say far out. I leave off the maaan.
my Grandma always said "for crying out loud!"
i use that. a lot. Think about the first syllable....
Heck, a lot of these I would think are still current usage -- and I might pull them out for some particularly fraught occasions where the Navy pejoratives aren't filling the bill.
Trying to start a balky outboard motor with a pull cord: Come or bleed -- I ain't spittin' on you again!
There are a couple of new ones to me there case.
How about tootles? or toodle do
There are a couple of new ones to me there case.
How about tootles? or toodle do
Later. [said with the right inflection is very 80s]
Later. [said with the right inflection is very 80s]
Whatever
may not be outdated yet, but needs to be
"Oh Bother!" said Pooh right after hitting Reply All.
Bugger is a word I use a lot.
Phrases not words, but:
"Is that dog obedient?"
"Hell, he'd stand on his head and gargle BB's if I told him to."
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"I hope it snows so deep, ya got shit in a shotgun and shoot it out the window"
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"I hope it snows asshole-deep to a tall giraffe."
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"...made more racket than a pit bull fucking a raccoon in a sackful of aluminum cans."
Probably a little outdated but still used from time to time\:
"She's as fit as a butcher's dog!" (can mean either physically fit, or 'fit' as in sexy)
"It's the dog's bollocks" (meaning it's the best)