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What's a word you haven't heard used in years? (lemmy.world)

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[-] consciouslyoblivious@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago

happy ;_;

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Heh, I use it everyday

"I wish I was happy..."

[-] time_fo_that@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

me_irl

[-] Iamdanno@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

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

[-] blacklizardplanet@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Bro isn't playing enough Fire Emblem.

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[-] yiliu@informis.land 50 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 39 points 1 year ago

Disestablishmentarianism.

[-] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wish I could say the same. But my kids say it a lot..

"Antidisestablishmentarianism"

(To be fair, they like looking up words to see who can find the biggest ones.)

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[-] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year ago

Covfefe

[-] ndr@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I say this almost daily lol

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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Affordable housing

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[-] devious@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Cowabunga and tubular!

80s were a good time!

[-] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Gnarly, dude.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Encode1307@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

Truthiness

[-] zero@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Encode1307@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Strategery

[-] JehovasThickness@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Discombobulate

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Vituperative. It's such a good word too.

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 21 points 1 year ago

Information superhighway

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[-] SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

Surplus

[-] Let_me_smell_you@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Skedaddle

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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 19 points 1 year ago

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

[-] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Fleek

Thankfully.

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[-] everythingsucks@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

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

[-] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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

rorted - being high

having a pash - intense kissing

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[-] NotSpez@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

MOIST

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[-] clucking_sliver@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Defenestrate. What a word!

[-] RavenFellBlade@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] BobDole@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Baud

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[-] bless@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Mack

"Did you mack her?"

So dumb lol

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[-] randomTingler@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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[-] Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

Schadenfreude

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[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Crunk

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Floppy (disk)

Choke (on a vehicle)

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

bitchin
wicked

[-] Fubar91@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Trill

Booyah!

Pimpin

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[-] FizzlePopBerryTwist@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Bodacious

Tubular

Take a whiz

Majorly

[-] InAbsentia@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?

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[-] loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] gloves420@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] 0xeb@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Splendid

[-] FReddit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Sozzled.

French for drunk.

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

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