What's a word you haven't heard used in years?

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consciouslyoblivious@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 3y (2 replies)
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Dagnet@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y

Heh, I use it everyday

"I wish I was happy..."

time_fo_that@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y

me_irl

Iamdanno@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Myrrh. I used to hear it as a kid in church. Haven't heard it in decades by now.

blacklizardplanet@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y

Bro isn't playing enough Fire Emblem.

Belgdore@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Ditto to frankincense

Case@unilem.org · 2 pts · 3y

I've seen it on incense labels, but never spoken outside of a churchy setting.

yiliu@informis.land · 50 pts · 3y (6 replies)

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.

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 3y (2 replies)

There's a John Mulaney joke about this

yiliu@informis.land · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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"?

Found the podcast...

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3y

I'm fairly certain it's in "New In Town"

CrunchyBoy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

As a Canadian you should be more concerned with muskeg.

Massada42@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
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FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y

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

Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev · 39 pts · 3y (5 replies)

Disestablishmentarianism.

indigomirage@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 3y (4 replies)
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CthuluVoIP@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokenosis. Blow their minds.

Silviecat44@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 3y

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

indigomirage@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3y
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samus12345@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious!

HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works · 38 pts · 3y (8 replies)

Covfefe

ndr@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y (7 replies)

I say this almost daily lol

rikudou@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 3y (6 replies)

How?

ndr@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
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ndr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
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ndr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (3 replies)

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.

rikudou@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I meant how do you even pronounce that.

samus12345@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

I've always said it like "cawv-fee-fee."

ndr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

I pronounce as if it were a Spanish word. lol

paddirn@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 3y (9 replies)

Affordable housing

cyberpunk007@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (8 replies)

So "affordablehousing" then? 😂

Louisoix@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 3y (7 replies)

Looks German

Super_Stone@feddit.de · 9 pts · 3y (6 replies)

We actually have a word for that: unauffindbar

kenbw2@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Doesn't that mean unfindable?

Konlanx@feddit.de · 12 pts · 3y (1 reply)

You are right. It's a joke because there is absolutely no affordable housing to be found in Germany.

kenbw2@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Ah gotcha

Louisoix@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Seems like there's a word for everything in German!

Cliffjumper@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y (1 reply)

There is. That word is "alles".

samus12345@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

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.

devious@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 3y (8 replies)

Cowabunga and tubular!

80s were a good time!

lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 3y

Gnarly, dude.

Asafum@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 3y

Every time I see someone at work carrying tubes I can't help myself and say "totally tubular my dude!" Lol

TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Rad!

RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I say rad near daily. Be the change you want to see in the world!

TIEPilot@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 3y

So I can take back "Porch Monkey"?

https://youtu.be/7qc0akWRBQk

/s

turtlepower@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y
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Apeman42@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Bodacious!

Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Gnarly!

Encode1307@lemm.ee · 29 pts · 3y (5 replies)

Truthiness

zero@lemm.ee · 25 pts · 3y (3 replies)

As a software developer, I actually use "truthy" and "falsy" pretty regularly for "the computer thinks this value is true/false"

model_tar_gz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (2 replies)

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.

Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

because the array itself exists

More specifically it's because the array isn't empty.

model_tar_gz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Yup you’re more right than I was. An empty array is still Falsy even though it exists. I accept the correction.

Encode1307@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 3y

Strategery

BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 3y (4 replies)

Vituperative. It's such a good word too.

sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 20 pts · 3y (3 replies)

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}]
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y (2 replies)

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.

wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)
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BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Actually I spelled it wrong, it's garrulous. My bad!

JehovasThickness@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 3y

Discombobulate

jet@hackertalks.com · 21 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Information superhighway

Deconceptualist@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 3y (1 reply)

The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck highway. It's a series of tubes.

jet@hackertalks.com · 1 pts · 3y

Tubelor.

uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 3y

Cyberspace!

SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 3y

Surplus

everythingsucks@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Dag. Not like Snatch “ya like dags” but like “dag, yo”.

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 17 pts · 3y

Well that certainly cleared up any concussion I had about which dag you meant.

BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)
everythingsucks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Nope. Replace dang or damn with dag and use it like that. So instead of damn, yo. It’s dag, yo.

EndOfLine@lemm.ee · 19 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Fleek

Thankfully.

EhList@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
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Let_me_smell_you@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3y (6 replies)

Skedaddle

Thulcander@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I shout this at the cat when she's underfoot

Let_me_smell_you@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

Underfoot is another word I never hear anyone using outside of books.

Chefdano3@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y

I use this very regularly.

svncake@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Skadoodle

dudinax@programming.dev · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Cheese it

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

It's the fuzz!

Asafum@feddit.nl · 19 pts · 3y

Phat! As in cool. Haven't heard that one in wellllll over a decade.

TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I left Australia decades back, so all my slang vocabulary is stuck from when I left.

rorted - being high

having a pash - intense kissing

Sunstream@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

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

feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

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.

NotSpez@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 3y (4 replies)

MOIST

dicksinabag@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Lol this was such a big deal for no reason in like 2008.

strawberrysocial@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

I blame How I Met Your Mother

TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

The night was moist...

Canopyflyer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Keep your starship out of my backyard.

(JN Chaney book reference)

clucking_sliver@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Defenestrate. What a word!

RavenFellBlade@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y

Have you read Russian news in the past decade? Defenestration is the preferred method of retirement in the Ruzzian government.

ErwinLottemann@feddit.de · 3 pts · 3y

Wait, what? There were a lot of defenestrations recently, you haven't heard?

bless@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Mack

"Did you mack her?"

So dumb lol

Raptor_007@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Just realized I forgot about this one lol

randomTingler@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I love you too.
It's not a single word though.

Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Hugs from an internet stranger.

geogle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

ಠ_ಠ

BobDole@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y (4 replies)

Baud

gingernate@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y

250k baud or 500k baud?

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I write firmware, this is a daily term

rifk@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y

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.

Salamendacious@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

I will always love those old modem tones

son_named_bort@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y

Crunk

Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Schadenfreude

theherk@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Pronounced scoodin’ n’froody in case anybody was wondering.

dan1101@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y

Floppy (disk)

Choke (on a vehicle)

Underwaterbob@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 3y

bitchin
wicked

FizzlePopBerryTwist@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y

Bodacious

Tubular

Take a whiz

Majorly

Fubar91@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y (5 replies)

Trill

Booyah!

Pimpin

JungleJim@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

That pimpin' Trill just Booyahed their symbiont all over the holodeck...

Fubar91@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

Lol! ^ When you download the wrong episode of Star Trek off limewire O.O

soupspoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Bitch I'm trill, bitch I'm so trill

Empricorn@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 3y

"Pimpmobile" is one of my most-used terms!

TvanBuuren@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Haven't played any Splatoon lately?

loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com · 10 pts · 3y (3 replies)

fag (and I mean "haven't used in years" in a very good way.)

EzekielJK@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

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.

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Your lungs thank you.

EzekielJK@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

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.

InAbsentia@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Sisyphean I come across it like once every few years in some article.

24 days later: https://lemm.ee/post/5458899 See what I mean?

Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 3y

It's how I describe my job.

Sorry Zeus! I didn't mean it!

gloves420@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y (1 reply)

saw someone on tiktok refer to casual sex as "tappin that", instantly knew their age

0xeb@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y

Splendid

SharkEatingBreakfast@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Grody

niktemadur@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

To the max.

FReddit@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y

Sozzled.

French for drunk.

Only saw it on a British translation of Zola's L' Assomoir.

littlecolt@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Dodecahedron

efrique@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)

heard that one earlier today ...

ErwinLottemann@feddit.de · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Matt Parker or Steve Mould?

efrique@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y

Neither, though I do watch a bit of Matt Parker on youtube, so it's a decent guess.

Lammy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
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GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

sploosh

banana_meccanica@feddit.it · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

yolo

KreekyBonez@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 3y

you only YOLO once

yoYOLOo

Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

ciggie

Feidhlim@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

Yonder

maporita@unilem.org · 6 pts · 3y (3 replies)

As someone who grew up in the sixties, "groovy"

dingus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I'd love it if "groovy" came back

Sea_pop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

You're everywhere!!

dingus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Lemmy is only so big I suppose!

BilboBargains@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

Bibliobibuli

A person who reads too much

mojo@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 3y

cowabunga

confetti_8tVST5@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (2 replies)
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GooglyBear@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

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! ;)

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Sounds right.

FizzlePopBerryTwist@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Spoot!

Ignoramus

Teleconference

Indubitably

GooglyBear@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Is the Spoot in reference to Angry Beavers?!

FizzlePopBerryTwist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Put some stank on it Daggy!

ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 3y

Guffaw

Saneless@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

Renob

It was our clever and undetectable way to say boner in grade school

staceybassoon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Synergy

Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Like a boss.

MajorHavoc@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Dociousalliexpiliciousfragicalirupus.

Haven't heard it in awhile because we agreed that saying it backwards was going a bit too far.

samus12345@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Why "licious" instead of "listic?"

MajorHavoc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

That darn Autocorrect!

samus12345@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

A particularly egregious example, as neither are words!

atticus88th@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Free

Lazerbeams2@ttrpg.network · 5 pts · 3y

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis. It's just not a word that comes up often

GRENADE_MAGNET@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Cahoots

Urbanfox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

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.

foggianism@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Whatever word was used before "caveat" took it's place. A few years ago, suddenly, everyone on Youtube and elsewhere started using it.

Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Middle class

TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y (5 replies)

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.

Cableferret@lemmy.tf · 6 pts · 3y (3 replies)

I use "ass hat" and "clusterfuck" regularly.

TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y (2 replies)

FUBAR is another

I also go Ricky (I'm an American):

Worst case Ontario

What comes around is all around.

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

BFE. Bum fuck egypt. A place far away

TIEPilot@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 3y

I live there right now, middle of nowhere VA

Also we used to call it East Bum Fuck Egypt :)

dirtySourdough@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

I cannot resist labeling ridiculous things as clown shoes.

Alwaysfallingupyup@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Gayrod

Empricorn@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 3y

It's GayLord, thankyouverymuch...

RavenFellBlade@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Dubba. Mostly cuz I haven't lived in New England for over 20 years.

BodePlotHole@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Now there's a word a fella could really muckle on to...

samus12345@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Never heard that one, had to look it up.

RavenFellBlade@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

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?"

FatTony@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

Precipitate

GoodGrief_HowDareYou@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

I went through a dapper phase at one point...

octoperson@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 3y

Cyberspace

Deez@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Obi Wan

MajorHavoc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

I don't remember owning a droid.

over_clox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)
FizzlePopBerryTwist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

I think this word wins.

Kinyutaka@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

The lyrics to Alouette.

Dawkinsisgod@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

...to your mother

NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

Real estate novelist.

Need to listen to this song now, urgently! :-)

Bianca_0089@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

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

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

sphygmomanometer

cedarmesa@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

💀

ganksy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

That girl's a lunchbox. Their lunchin'

PotentialProblem@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y

Assgoblin

jeena@jemmy.jeena.net · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 3y

I was going to say like North Korea?

medvedev@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Bingus

ji88aja88a@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Apoplexy

Default_Defect@midwest.social · 3 pts · 3y

floccinaucinihilipilification

ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Magnanimous

dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Cunnilingus

wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
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kamenlady@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Waddup?

SirLukeJon@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)

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"

ratboy@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Bring it back! Fuck the normies!

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

It doesn't work so well when you've got someone named Mookie in your poker group

the16bitgamer@programming.dev · 2 pts · 3y

Prolly

SmolderingSauna@midwest.social · 1 pts · 3y
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TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
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floral_toxicity@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y

Jig jog