What Old-Fashioned Words do you Rarely Hear Anymore?

[korzmom]

i called it a chiffonrobe..same thing learned from granny. and instead of tonic or soda we say pop. another one i thought of was PSYCH or more recently but still old is NOT (its when your joking,kidding,joshing.)

 

[Jennasis]

How about Credenza?

 

[Tinkermommy]

I have been reading a lot of Jane Austen lately and love how they talked during that period. I am campaigning to get some of these words to get back into our everyday vocabulary.

Here are a few:

Vexed - "I was completely vexed when saw those people pool hopping!"
Agreeable - "He was a most agreeable gentleman."
Diverting - "That thread on the DIS was quite diverting."

I especially love vexed. You sound mad just saying it!

 

[JessicaR]

A few more:

persnickety
dwadle
Crestfallen
Galoshes
strumpet (love that one!)

 

[ChicagoFitnessClub]

Pleased to make your acquaintance.

 

[mickeysgal]

"stop Mickey Mousing around"

parlor or front room for living room

"you have as much stuff as Carter's has liver pills"

put on a tape (dvd)

he's a cad

DH still calls our youngest (DS15) "squirt"

Oh my Stars!

Bobbsey Twins...and I still have the books! Along with my full set of Nancy Drews (not sure what to do with them!)

card catalog

Tongs for flip flops

Good Grief Charlie Brown!

TV Dinners

writing something in "long hand" instead of the word cursive

 

[redlight]

How about Credenza?

I always think of The Cat in the Hat when I see credenza.

 

[mickeysgal]

nerd

sneakers

bobby sox

onesies...fitness/workout clothes worn when working out in the 80's.

slips (can you even find these anymore?)

 

[A_Princess'_Daddy]

Growing up our home had a "porte cochere", which is a kind of front porch that is covered. Our current home has one, as well, but when I called it that I was told not to make up words.

I refer to my tall dresser as a highboy.

I say Heavens to Betsy.

Hooverville (a shantytown populated by the indigent)

Apparently women no longer call it "rouge", as my DW laughed at me for that one.

If you don't call them galoshes, what on earth do you call them? I've heard them called rubbers, but really don't care for that one!

 

[ibouncetoo]

The fiance and I are determined to get the word "bully" back in to circulation.

Instead of saying "awesome" or "cool", we try to say "bully!" LOL

Teddy Roosevelt would be so proud!


I still use so many of these, but my grandparents were born at the turn of the last century, so my Mom and Aunts used many old fashioned terms and words all their lives.

My great neices still love to hear and learn some the 100 year old silly songs we were taught as kids.

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[LuluLovesDisney]

Teddy Roosevelt would be so proud!


I still use so many of these, but my grandparents were born at the turn of the last century, so my Mom and Aunts used many old fashioned terms and words all their lives.

My great neices still love to hear and learn some the 100 year old silly songs we were taught as kids.

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I would love to hear some of the silly songs, too.

I remember a few from Girl Scouts and a few from my aunt that are probably old. There was one that started with "I went to the bakery for something to eat 'cause I was so hungry from my head to my feet" lol.

 

[Magic Mom]

A few more:

persnickety
dwadle
Crestfallen
Galoshes

I use all of those.

 

[Jennasis]

nerd

sneakers

bobby sox

onesies...fitness/workout clothes worn when working out in the 80's.

slips (can you even find these anymore?)

I call my 37 year old sister a NERD every time I talk to her. Term of endearment!

Umm...what else would you call sneakers??? That's what they are (unless you live in England, and then they are trainers, or in the south where they are tennis shoes, even if you wouldn't know a tennis racket if it bit you on the tush).

 

[ENSOCK]

We are going to the "show" - the movies
Sit on the sofa - couch
Let's meet for dinner & supper - Lunch and dinner

 

[ibouncetoo]

I would love to hear some of the silly songs, too.

I remember a few from Girl Scouts and a few from my aunt that are probably old. There was one that started with "I went to the bakery for something to eat 'cause I was so hungry from my head to my feet" lol.

I just googled the one I was thinking about and after a couple misdirections, found it...and it's actually a little longer than what my aunt taught us. It's the "Icky" lollypop song. Part of it is:

I'd rather suck on a lemon drop
Than to try my luck with a lollipop
'cause I always drop my lollipop
and it gets all over...ickey!

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Don't think anyone wear 'boaters' any more...except for my friends who wore them at their wedding two years ago! Or anyone who sings in a barber shop quartet!

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[LBIJim]

Physics----not a branch of science, but used by my grandmother and also an ancient nun in 2nd grade Catholic school---it meant "laxative"

spigot (or spicket)----kitchen faucet

pavement--- the concrete sidewalks running along the streets

fire plug---hydrant

UHF TV----channels 14 and above in the pre-cable days

Jim

 

[redlight]

I've heard of the others, but not that use of "physics"!

 

[Becky2005]

Umm...what else would you call sneakers??? That's what they are (unless you live in England, and then they are trainers, or in the south where they are tennis shoes, even if you wouldn't know a tennis racket if it bit you on the tush).

We just call them tennis shoes but with a slurred version so it comes out "tennashoes" -- it took me forever once when I was trying to write it because writing it the way we say it I knew that wasn't right but I had no idea how to write it either because I would never think "tennis" for "tenna" or the other version is gym shoes.

 

[tvguy]

UHF TV----channels 14 and above in the pre-cable days
Jim

I have to disagree with this one, given that most TV stations last year moved to the UHF band last year with the digital conversion. The industry spend hundred of millions of dollars on educating the public on the switch, including the need for a converter box, and an UHF antenna to get most (but not all) the digital TV signals.
We may have to commission a study to find out how you didn't get bombarded with those ads!!

 

[IDoDis]

How about the word "swell."

Here's a scan of my FIL's yearbook from 1952. Almost everyone wrote "To a swell guy!" It's a little hard to read so I circled the the "swell" words.