Great old words.
Great old words.
You may feel yourself a juggins (bit of a twit) for not knowing the difference between a fizgig (firework or a flirty young lady) and a hobbledehoy (clumsy youth) but a list of endangered words is enough to send even the most proficient amanuensis (secretary who takes dictation) into a spin.
Having a bout of 'crapulence (a hangover) after a bout of dipsomania (a craving for alcohol)
Gadzooks people lets not be lickspittles (grovelling servants) to modernisms and let our wonderful language get mired in "lol" and "rofl" don't go down to your m8's gaff .....
Anyone got any more to share.......
Having a bout of 'crapulence (a hangover) after a bout of dipsomania (a craving for alcohol)
Gadzooks people lets not be lickspittles (grovelling servants) to modernisms and let our wonderful language get mired in "lol" and "rofl" don't go down to your m8's gaff .....
Anyone got any more to share.......
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Ultracrepidarian
Rumour has it, there's a few of these sort on here.
Rumour has it, there's a few of these sort on here.
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Snollygoster
This is a good 'un!
This is a good 'un!
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Re: Great old words.
Think you've been reading too many Charles Dickens novels and watching The Good Old days variety show.
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Monstrous carbuncle..that's two of the blithers I tell you
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Personal responsibility
Haven't heard that one for ages!
Haven't heard that one for ages!
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Re: Great old words.
Just need to read a few acts of Shakespeare to pick up a fair few words now not much used.
But, for starters....(not necessarily from Will's works)
Fopdoodle
Varlet
Strumpet
Nincompoop
Stingbum
Fandangle
rapscallion
Lucifer (to light your fag with)
tope
purfle (though purfling is still used re guitar building)
smite (Bible maybe keeping that one going but a good old word)
But, for starters....(not necessarily from Will's works)
Fopdoodle
Varlet
Strumpet
Nincompoop
Stingbum
Fandangle
rapscallion
Lucifer (to light your fag with)
tope
purfle (though purfling is still used re guitar building)
smite (Bible maybe keeping that one going but a good old word)
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Re: Great old words.
Sturmpet cropped up a lot when I was younger, it was how my dad used to describe my girlfriends, as in, 'oh another strumpet lad, when will you ever learn'.LeadBelly wrote:Just need to read a few acts of Shakespeare to pick up a fair few words now not much used.
But, for starters....(not necessarily from Will's works)
Fopdoodle
Varlet
Strumpet
Nincompoop
Stingbum
Fandangle
rapscallion
Lucifer (to light your fag with)
tope
purfle (though purfling is still used re guitar building)
smite (Bible maybe keeping that one going but a good old word)
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I was suprised very recently to discover that the word GRUNTLED is indeed a word, it means to be happy and satisfied and content and is the opposite of that famous old word DISGRUNTLED.
'How's your sex life?'
'Oh I find myself very gruntled with it.'
Doesn't that sound just great, it fits, having a very gruntled sex life.
If only it were true, he says in a very disgruntled way.
'How's your sex life?'
'Oh I find myself very gruntled with it.'
Doesn't that sound just great, it fits, having a very gruntled sex life.
If only it were true, he says in a very disgruntled way.
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That equates to ..well smart or similar as I rememberclaretonthecoast1882 wrote:kiff
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Susie Dent has just tweeted this
'Joppety-joppety' is old dialect for feverish spurts of panic and agitation"
'Joppety-joppety' is old dialect for feverish spurts of panic and agitation"
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I think that's a back formation invented, by PG Wodehouse. Disgruntled didn't originally come from gruntled, so far as I know.houseboy wrote:I was suprised very recently to discover that the word GRUNTLED is indeed a word, it means to be happy and satisfied and content and is the opposite of that famous old word DISGRUNTLED.
'How's your sex life?'
'Oh I find myself very gruntled with it.'
Doesn't that sound just great, it fits, having a very gruntled sex life.
If only it were true, he says in a very disgruntled way.
Re: Great old words.
A slug-a-bed snuggled in somnolent gloom,
When a sobersides slithered right into the room
A frightful slangwanger who banged on the bed
And harangued him and snibbed at his poor slimsy head,
Squalling:'Time you were spiffy and slippy and sprack
You slubberdegullion, you sprag, off your back!
Or forsooth, you are sick, when I must-yes-perforce,
I must skink you a spoonful of black slibber-sauce'
Now slibber-sauce, certe, is so sozzle- a skinker
Who slips you a spoonful of that, is a stinker.
'Oh snick up, O slid, 'slife not slibber-sauce- NO!
And the slug-a-bed spanged from his bed in one go,
And skelped the said skellum, (quite rightly, I'd say),
So the sobersides sloped off. He just slived away.
Bronnie Cunningham.
When a sobersides slithered right into the room
A frightful slangwanger who banged on the bed
And harangued him and snibbed at his poor slimsy head,
Squalling:'Time you were spiffy and slippy and sprack
You slubberdegullion, you sprag, off your back!
Or forsooth, you are sick, when I must-yes-perforce,
I must skink you a spoonful of black slibber-sauce'
Now slibber-sauce, certe, is so sozzle- a skinker
Who slips you a spoonful of that, is a stinker.
'Oh snick up, O slid, 'slife not slibber-sauce- NO!
And the slug-a-bed spanged from his bed in one go,
And skelped the said skellum, (quite rightly, I'd say),
So the sobersides sloped off. He just slived away.
Bronnie Cunningham.
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Re: Great old words.
PIZZLE
Re: Great old words.
Love the word “strumpet”. One of my mates uses it !!houseboy wrote:Sturmpet cropped up a lot when I was younger, it was how my dad used to describe my girlfriends, as in, 'oh another strumpet lad, when will you ever learn'.
Prannock and Wazzock were non swear words “terms of affection” when I was a nipper !
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I'm flabbergasted that no one has mentioned that they are discombobulated.
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Gobsmacked.
Fair clemmed.
Goosed.
Fair clemmed.
Goosed.
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Re: Great old words.
From holidays long ago...
Chara(banc)
Portmanteau
Chara(banc)
Portmanteau
Re: Great old words.
2 great old words that seem to be very much out of fashion these days are..
courtesy and consideration.
courtesy and consideration.
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Bobby Dazzler..Old beanDazzler wrote:2 great old words that seem to be very much out of fashion these days are..
courtesy and consideration.
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O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”South West Claret. wrote:Bobby Dazzler..Old bean
He chortled in his joy.
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Re: Great old words.
Anyone remember a little old-fashioned word called "those"?
It's one of them words we tend not to use quite as much now....
It's one of them words we tend not to use quite as much now....
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You can add `Are` and `there` to this.Sarum wrote:Anyone remember a little old-fashioned word called "those"?
It's one of them words we tend not to use quite as much now....
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Their theyre.Sarum wrote:Anyone remember a little old-fashioned word called "those"?
It's one of them words we tend not to use quite as much now....
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The use of 'of' in place of have as well
"They could of done better...."
My mum would be spinning hearing people say that.
Can hear her now watching TV correcting all and sundry on wrong usages of words and mispronounciations.
"They could of done better...."
My mum would be spinning hearing people say that.
Can hear her now watching TV correcting all and sundry on wrong usages of words and mispronounciations.
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"who" has been forgotten by many, too.Sarum wrote:Anyone remember a little old-fashioned word called "those"?
It's one of them words we tend not to use quite as much now....
There are many people now that say "that", then there are still a few people who correctly say "who".
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"them" predates "those". If you learned a very old (Book of Common Prayer) version of the Lord's Prayer, it was "forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us".Sarum wrote:Anyone remember a little old-fashioned word called "those"?
It's one of them words we tend not to use quite as much now....
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We shoot trespassers on sightdsr wrote:"them" predates "those". If you learned a very old (Book of Common Prayer) version of the Lord's Prayer, it was "forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us".
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That'll learn those!Bosscat wrote:We shoot trespassers on sight
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lol, pmsl,
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One of my favourite websites.
http://www.phrontistery.info/index.html
There you will find thousands of words and their definitions that have fallen out of use, are rarely used or are simply amusing. The site’s URL includes the word phrontistery. A word no longer used (except in a website’s name) meaning a place for thinking or contemplation. I guess most of us have a place or room which we could call our phrontistery. Mine used to be our bath. I tended to make my best decisions while wallowing in a hot bath one of which was to stop having baths and start using the shower instead. There is now a sign on to outside of our loo door; ‘The Phrontistery’.
http://www.phrontistery.info/index.html
There you will find thousands of words and their definitions that have fallen out of use, are rarely used or are simply amusing. The site’s URL includes the word phrontistery. A word no longer used (except in a website’s name) meaning a place for thinking or contemplation. I guess most of us have a place or room which we could call our phrontistery. Mine used to be our bath. I tended to make my best decisions while wallowing in a hot bath one of which was to stop having baths and start using the shower instead. There is now a sign on to outside of our loo door; ‘The Phrontistery’.
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Am off out to sample the product of "zymotechnics" this evening cheers Too old to be Grumpy m8....Too old to be grumpy wrote:One of my favourite websites.
http://www.phrontistery.info/index.html
There you will find thousands of words and their definitions that have fallen out of use, are rarely used or are simply amusing. The site’s URL includes the word phrontistery. A word no longer used (except in a website’s name) meaning a place for thinking or contemplation. I guess most of us have a place or room which we could call our phrontistery. Mine used to be our bath. I tended to make my best decisions while wallowing in a hot bath one of which was to stop having baths and start using the shower instead. There is now a sign on to outside of our loo door; ‘The Phrontistery’.
Have bookmarked this site.... I love it
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I think it may just be 'Could'ave' has turned into 'Could'of' with the integration of different folk into our society.The English language is forever evolving with every new social media platform that arises and also the number of visitors to our shores over the years have had a profound impact on how English is spoken.Bosscat wrote:The use of 'of' in place of have as well
"They could of done better...."
My mum would be spinning hearing people say that.
Can hear her now watching TV correcting all and sundry on wrong usages of words and mispronounciations.
Kiff was always Well Kiff or Fair Kiff back in the Eighties It meant something was really good or just averagely good.
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Lazy I call it......karatekid wrote:I think it may just be 'Could'ave' has turned into 'Could'of' with the integration of different folk into our society.The English language is forever evolving with every new social media platform that arises and also the number of visitors to our shores over the years have had a profound impact on how English is spoken.
Kiff was always Well Kiff or Fair Kiff back in the Eighties It meant something was really good or just averagely good.
Damned Lazy people doing this should be Flogged I tell you... Flogged... in fact Flogging is too good for the Lazy Blighters
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Use ya noggin . Well ace .down bi cut .
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An American word, used a lot by Clint Eastwood, I’ve never understood. Cockamamey. Excuse spelling, if incorrect.
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Kruckle, they used to kill.
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Socialist government
Hang on that's just old words
Opens the political door and runs
Hang on that's just old words
Opens the political door and runs
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Egate (sic) Very E. Lancs expression, sadly gone from normal conversation. Egate; as in well I saw Mary any she was egate @our Tom was ......
Kiff, good.
Kiff, good.
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I always thought that was agate. The next door neighbour used it all the time.Volvoclaret wrote:Egate (sic) Very E. Lancs expression, sadly gone from normal conversation. Egate; as in well I saw Mary any she was egate @our Tom was ......
Kiff, good.
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Could be agate, thats why I put sic, not 100% sure., but meaning the same thing.