Words that you don't hear anymore.

[golfgal]

Supper? Like the last meal of the day? It's used very much in my family household in Arkansas. It confuses my poor husband because he uses the word dinner for the last meal of the day but at home dinner is lunch. We just ring a bell so he knows it's time to eat

In farming circles it is breakfast, dinner, supper but us city folk say breakfast, lunch, dinner

Console would refer to a specific furniture piece... Here's a pic from a Google search:

Flat top table, usually with two doors, maybe a couple of drawers, but usually a half-moon/rounded shape with at least 4 legs. Oh, and figure when I said it, I was pointing at the thing!

Around here that is a sideboard or buffet.


How about record as in "you sound like a broken record". My kids have NO idea what I mean when I say that. Broken CD's just don't do the same thing, the same thing, the same thing, the same thing....

 

[Sinderelli]

One of my favorite words- I actually taught it to my 1st graders the other day and some of them are using it correctly - is discombobulated. I that word!

My mom used to always say someone "split his drawers with me"....meaning they really ticked her off and she's writing them off- at 5'0 and 94 lbs sopping wet she is still scary when ticked off!!!

 

[alizesmom]

Well, back thenadays, when I was apprenticed to the Master of the Rolls, I would gormandise myself on donuts.

One day the Master referred to me as being nothing but a whilt and offered to tell my old lady. Of course, it made me woad as the dickens. I acted like I did not care a jot, but I was worried what the apple of my eye would think. She would think me feckless.

Well, in thrice the time it takes me to tell it, I was bookin’ for the home 20 in my crop duster, hoping to land before the fink told my chick and so cause a gnarly situation. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the Master was scarfing the rest of the donuts and being all skuzzy. Turns out the old lady didn’t go all ape on me because skuzz never called. I should have figured he was all show and no go, and so by and by she and I got blitzed and everything was copasetic.

I realize a mix of different decades, but then, I have lived through five decades and working on my sixth.

Now I'm scared, you made sense. Karen

 

[Kathi OD]

Patronage, you don't hear a lot of patronage anymore.

Evidently you don't live in New Jersey. Almost everyone here has a patronage job.

 

[lucyanna girl]

My Grandmother once told me that any woman who wore red shoes was a hussy.

Another word I never hear is persnickety.

Penny

 

[Thats_for_Shore]

Around here that is a sideboard or buffet.

We call that a sideboard.

As for the poster that brought up "hiney" -- we use that word ALL the time. I use it, my kids use it, heck, we even had a bar with that name for a number of years!! And no, "Hiney's" was not a strip club.

 

[lovemygoofy]

My Grandmother once told me that any woman who wore red shoes was a hussy.

Another word I never hear is persnickety.

Penny

One of the cheese companies use persnickety in their commercials something good cheese persnickety people.


Do people still use the word bethrothed? beau? harlot?

 

[mantysk8coach]

My MIL and SIL say "drip" all the time...as in, "You are such a drip." That word just reeks of the 70's to me for some reason!

 

[piglet too]

Don't hear ornery too much anymore. My MIL uses it for the kids when they are being stubborn and bull-headed.

 

[NHdisneylover]

One of my favorite words- I actually taught it to my 1st graders the other day and some of them are using it correctly - is discombobulated. I that word!

My mom used to always say someone "split his drawers with me"....meaning they really ticked her off and she's writing them off- at 5'0 and 94 lbs sopping wet she is still scary when ticked off!!!

That is great word. I use it pretty often as I unfortunately do feel discombobulated more and more often as I age The kdis use that one too

 

[englishteacha]

I use the word Tush with my students. It sounds so much more civilized, "Johnny, your tush belongs in your chair!"

I refer to the principal as the head mugwump.

I also say "spiffy" a lot. "Nifty" has worked its way into my vocabulary lately. I guess when you're an English teacher, you get tired of the same old adjectives all the time!

 

[lovemygoofy]

Don't hear ornery too much anymore. My MIL uses it for the kids when they are being stubborn and bull-headed.

Obviously you don't come to my house lol I probably use ornery everyday and someone calls me ornery at least 1x a week.

 

[piglet too]

Obviously you don't come to my house lol I probably use ornery everyday and someone calls me ornery at least 1x a week.

I know when I first heard it, I was but now I like it, just never hear it around where I live.

 

[slo]

I love using the word "SWELL" because no one says that anymore - it's a great word!!!!

Other words I use that you never hear anymore are......
Skidaddle
dreamy
coolbeans

 

[Philagoofy]

Words I don't hear anymore:


Can I see some ID?

You need to put on some weight.

How do you keep this house so clean?

I never hear these words anymore either. Come to think of it, I never heard them much to begin with.

 

[daninalismama]

Growing up, my dad always referred to the burners on the stove as the eyes. I remember always correcting him. He is from WV, and apparently that is common there, but not here in IN.

 

[Frye7127]

Words of my grandma and great uncle...

poke - paper bag
nowords (sp?) - in other words.

I would love to hear those words come out of their mouths just one more time.

 

[Todd&Copper]

I love using the word "SWELL" because no one says that anymore - it's a great word!!!!

Other words I use that you never hear anymore are......
Skidaddle
dreamy
coolbeans

Regarding the "other" words you listed:

I remember the food court at my Target a few years back (before it changed to Pizza Hut and Starbucks) was called Skiddadles [and after shopping, DH and I would joke about skiddadling without stopping for a snack].

Grey's Anatomy has Doctor McDreamy [and McSteamy]

And there is a posted on the DIS named Coolbeans, right?
[I thought that was just dopey slang from the early 90's and used it occasionally then but not really any more]

 

[mickeysgal]

My DH is probably the only person left on the planet that refers to a bra as a brassiere.

You also don't hear the word cad anymore - as in, "He's such a cad".

 

[Tink_Or_Belle]

whoever said they don;t hear Hot Diggedy does NOT have a toddler I'd guess?? Mickey Mouse Clubhouse has the Hot Dog Hot Dog Hot Diggety Dog song..and I hear it WAY more than a person should

and with the names for meals all the "old farmers" in our area have
Breakfast , Lunch, Dinner and Supper
Lunch being a 10 Am snack that I guess the wives would bring out to the workers in the field? I know whenever the older church women are at the church during snack at morning preschool at least one always refers to it as "having a little lunch" and confuses the kids