Words going out of fashion

@Very-Rusty
One word I used to hear my daughter say when she was going to Berklee in Boston;
WICKED HARD or WICKED COOL.
I thought that one went out with horse whip but I just heard Lawrence O'donnell use that term ( 'Last Word' on MSNBC), of course he is something like 60 years old so it stands to reason it would still be in his vocabulary.

chop-chop (hurry up)
Have not heard this for yonks.
My dad used it all the time.

Actually I haven't heard "yonks" for yonks either.

@wolfgang59 said
chop-chop (hurry up)
Have not heard this for yonks.
My dad used it all the time.

Actually I haven't heard "yonks" for yonks either.

Chop-chop comes from Chinese. It's quickly going out of style, along with "pronto" and "on the double."

@wolfgang59 said

what words do you like that are disappearing from usage?

frumious bandersnatch



i just wrote the snottiest poem and then deleted it...
yer welcome...

have-a-nice-day
which itself replaced see-you-later

now it's enjoy-the-rest-of-your-day

ugh ...

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Flibbertigibbet.

Well that’s embarrassing I’ve been calling people
Flibberdigibbert’s for years. You might have mentioned this earlier.

@kevcvs57 said
Well that’s embarrassing I’ve been calling people
Flibberdigibbert’s for years. You might have mentioned this earlier.

Sir, I have been dropping hints to you about this for quite some time and on one occasion even materialized into your fridge to carve it into your butter.

(As an aside, Jam is best-left outside of the fridge).

Methinks "slubberdegullion" is an under-used and under-appreciated word of late. Certainly, there are enough of them about to deserve being so designated.

@kewpie said
have-a-nice-day
which itself replaced see-you-later

now it's enjoy-the-rest-of-your-day

ugh ...

I still say have a nice day also enjoy the rest of your day depending the time of day I meet the person I have known for years. New people I will say very nice meeting you and have had a nice day.

-VR

@very-rusty said
I still say have a nice day also enjoy the rest of your day depending the time of day I meet the person I have known for years.

And you say all that without punctuation.

Here's another I like, though it hardly rolls off the tongue...curmudgeon.

@great-big-stees said
Here's another I like, though it hardly rolls off the tongue...curmudgeon.

Moonbus has recently revealed himself as a 'dermatitis vegetarian.'

Are these words going out of fashion or words that should never have been 'in' fashion?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
And you say all that without punctuation.

Thankfully it is not needed when talking in person goad! 😉

-VR

@great-big-stees said
Here's another I like, though it hardly rolls off the tongue...curmudgeon.

Yup...Sure is an oldie, something someone may or may not call Andy! 😉

-VR

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