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

happy ;_;

Heh, I use it everyday
"I wish I was happy..."
me_irl

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

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"?
  Found the podcast...
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

Disestablishmentarianism.

- Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokenosis. Blow their minds.

Covfefe

I say this almost daily lol
- How?

Cowabunga and tubular!

80s were a good time!

Gnarly, dude.
Rad!
- I say rad near daily. Be the change you want to see in the world!
Every time I see someone at work carrying tubes I can't help myself and say "totally tubular my dude!" Lol
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.
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.

Surplus

Discombobulate

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

Skedaddle

I shout this at the cat when she's underfoot
- Underfoot is another word I never hear anyone using outside of books.
Skadoodle
- Cheese it

Fleek

Thankfully.

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.

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

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?

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)

Mack

"Did you mack her?"

So dumb lol

Just realized I forgot about this one lol

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.

Floppy (disk)

Choke (on a vehicle)

Crunk

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!
Bitch I'm trill, bitch I'm so trill
Haven't played any Splatoon lately?

Bodacious

Tubular

Take a whiz

Majorly

Schadenfreude

Pronounced scoodin’ n’froody in case anybody was wondering.
- This is still my favorite pronunciation video ever. Gets me every time.

bitchin
wicked

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?

It's how I describe my job.
Sorry Zeus! I didn't mean it!

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

Splendid

Grody

To the max.

Dodecahedron

heard that one earlier today ...
- Matt Parker or Steve Mould?

Sozzled.

French for drunk.

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

Flabbergasted.

sploosh

ciggie

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!

Yonder

Synergy

Like a boss.

Free

cowabunga

Spoot!

Ignoramus

Teleconference

Indubitably

Is the Spoot in reference to Angry Beavers?!
- Put some stank on it Daggy!

Guffaw

Renob

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

yolo

you only YOLO once
yoYOLOo

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

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.

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.
I cannot resist labeling ridiculous things as clown shoes.

Middle class

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.

Bibliobibuli

A person who reads too much

Cahoots

It's GayLord, thankyouverymuch...

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

Obi Wan

I don't remember owning a droid.

floccinaucinihilipilification

...to your mother

necrocracy

I was going to say like North Korea?

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

sphygmomanometer

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

The lyrics to Alouette.

💀

Cyberspace

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

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

I think this word wins.

Magnanimous

That girl's a lunchbox. Their lunchin'

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"