outdated slang
 

Do people even use slang these days?


List: YOUR FAVORITES or LEAST FAVORITES


gnarly

there are 19 hits for "gnarly" when you search the cellar.

(can you call it a list if it only has one item?)

Yo

wanker

Bum Fuck Egypt

Come a cropper

bee's knees

ooh bee's knees. I've not heard that for awhile.



Twenty-three skidoo

So yesterday

orly?
neat-o
spiffy
rad
book, booking (to go fast)
psych
get bent
oh the list goes on and on...

Remember "gross me out the door"? Square Pegs circa 1982. Tracy Nelson, the Valley Girl character.

We were all like OMG before it ever became an acronym.

:)

groovy

far out

OMG! You must be my generation. :blush:

oh and lets not forget Robin Williams. What did he say?

Totally! :)

edit: nanoo nanoo?

did you lot ever use wanker?

Monster...No I don't think I was ever that sophisticated.

I remember 'have a cow' and 'for real' about age 14. :o

Lot's of Saturday Night Live impressions.


something like that !

dammit!


Had I known! Had I looked! grr

cool beans

cat's pajamas

gag me with a spooooon!

I just used the term "ding a ling" with my son the other day. He thought it was hilarious!

three sheets to the wind (drunk)

take a louie (turn left)

:unsure:You mean it's not called "ding-a-ling" anymore? :unsure: ...hehe. I think I need to get out and socialize more because I still use some of those outdated slangs. :blush:

You go right on sayin' ding-a-ling.

Hmmm lessee... I suspect most of my slang is outdated :P This is some of what i use.

Cool
wicked,
too cool for school
smashing
brilliant
excellent

sorted (good)
reet (as in it's reet) means it's okay
job's a good un (same as above, often used together " it's reet; job's a good'un)
nicely, or nice one (approval)

wanker
pratt
sod (as in cheeky sod)
bugger (as in daft bugger)
cheeky (impertinent)
daft (silly)
in your face (if something's a bit over the top, or too obvious: also if somone's getting aggressive)
nutter, mental, mentalist
dumb (stupid) as in 'that was a dumb thing to do'

skrike (for cry)
babby or bairn (for baby)
youngling, youngster or kid (for child or anyone young) : these last two are fairly interchangeable. I may for instance refer to the young soldiers in Afghanistan as being just bairns.

Christ on a bike, or God's teeth ( exclamations)
also 'bastard sonofabitch' for the same
Sod it, or bugger it, (had enough, or good enough)
sod/bugger that for a game of soldiers (had enough, not doing this anymore)

sarnie or buttie for sandwich
chippy for fish and chip shop
fags or ciggies for cigarettes
hols for holiday/vacation
youse for you all
uni for university

tribe, or gang for family (as in Merry Christmas to you and your tribe)
gang for any close grouping (as in 'the whole gang was there')

telly or tv for television
puter or comp for computer
snarky for irritable or nasty
Sarcy for sarcastic
sos for sorry
good egg ( a good person)
Strange fish or odd bod (a strange person)
mad as a box of frogs (speaks for itself)

Bro for brother and Our kid for my own brother

mate for friend, but also used when talking to someone, known or unknown (as in hiya mate, can you tell me how to get to ....?)

hon (term of endearment used for family and friends)

love, or m'dear same as above but also used with strangers. (particularly kids: as in 'don't try and stroke him love, he's not that friendly')

Ma or Mum for Mother (very occasionally Mam, but that's quite rare. Went througha phase of calling her Chairman Ma, when she was nominal head of the family firm).

Dad or Pops for Father.

Lads = any group of young men, but also used to refer to a particular grouping: such as my bro and my ex who would be referred to as 'the lads' as 'the lads have gone for a boys night out'

Guys = plural for a group of men; but also used to any group of people of whatever gender as in "what're you guys up to?"

Gaff for house/flat etc. As in 'you could crash at my gaff.'
crash for sleep over, also for coming down off drugs abruptly.

Pot, weed, smoke for cannabis

shag, screw, fuck

preggers (pregnant)

courting, dating


*thinks* that's all I can think of right now.

Old Ding-A-Ling Joke
 

The telephone rings [ding-a-ling] and you want someone else to answer it so you tell them:
"It's for you!"

When they ask how you know it's for them, you reply:
"It's calling you by name ... ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling."

dynoMITE

When I was 9 or 10 there was a playground vogue of comparing someone stupid to a person with Down's Syndrome. I honestly didn't think there was anything wrong with it at the time.

So mong, mongie, mongaloid were all moaned out while pushing your tongue into your bottom lip and rolling your eyes. It was especially useful in class, because you could make a mong face without noise.

Also at this time, Joey Deacon was in the news - he had cerebral palsy, and in those days we called those people spastics. So spastic, spazz, spazzer, spac and spaccer while twitching about in your chair were also terms of abuse.

Apart from that we went through phases - I remember cuckoo, dipstick, give him/ her a golden peanut (what?), gommie...

Oh, stroking your chin to signal disbelief. I think people still do that today (I do!) but in those days you also said Jimmy Hill (a sports commentater with a big chin)

When I was working in an office with a swearbox I moved from saying fuck or fuck me to blimey and crikey. It was an affectation but they stuck with me and are now my initial response to surprising or amazing news.

I say chops for mouth and chopse for chatting.
And mush (mouche?) for mouth too.

I also say some things I've been saying for years which must be out of date now!
Mental, mental, chicken oriental
I'd risk it for a biscuit
Good plan, Batman

I've just realised they all rhyme. Probably why they got stuck in my head.

No doy! (Regionally, it was No Doy Tim Moy...Tim Moy owned a self-named chinese restaurant in town.)

Yep. Those too. Plus 'Joey' as in 'you Joey'.

We used to say chinny win win. Or Chinny chin chin.


My Mum uses that one a lot.

One we used to use in school was 'slaphead' for bald. Usually accompanied/replaced by the action of slapping one's forehead vigorously.

Fry (as in "what a fry!") for something mind blowing.

Groovy - very Greg Brady

I will admit I am going to start saying "loo" instead of "ladies room" - I want to appear upper class.

geez Dana you're so propper :P

good ones SG

I have no heard of FRY bri

I remember dino-mite pico. I read somewhere that words and phrases from movies are not really slang but I disagree if the public starts using the.

Titled under slanguage

London slang-uage. Current Tell me if it wrong. lol

Gromlus wuss
rubbers ( erasers )
gonshite

I can't post anymore of those because I don't really understand them.


oh ha I found a London Slang test.
I'd probably get a - - F fail
http://www.okcupid.com/quizzy/take


American- current

tool
props
emo
chillin


60s

greaser
grass
bogart
dig
fab
fuzz

I bet there is a bunch of good ones in Australia too.

I suspect you may mean Gobshite. And that's used in the North as well.

Rubbers aren't slang, so much as what we call erasers.

Tool is one we use as well: as in 'You tool!'

Also, 'pants' means something's shit. 'total pants' means it's really not very good at all.

Gromlus wuss has me baffled...

ert

Don't Be Such A 'spaz'!

Never heard of gromlus. Maybe they're thinking of gormless.

where the hell is slang, anyway?

ahhh gormless. yes, that's not London so much as general English.

I heard this bit in a cutglass received pronunciation accent!

*chuckles* add a slight Bolton burr to that received pronunciation:P

gro-dee po-dee

Oh my gawd, like gag a maggot, gag me with a spoon, like grody to the max. No doy-ay.

Far out man

ya me too. I wasn't sure why he put those too together.
It's overkill to be called both.

He has a yahoo email on slanguage.com

You could email him? :headshake


Good ones. I forgot about those.

Creme de la creme!

Gromlus is most likely supposed to be gormless.

haggis

I just checked that slanguage site. It actually says Gormless Wuss , not gromluss wuss :P

most anything in pig latin. Kids today don't quite get it.

Well call me whatever that word is then. :smack:

umm...yeah. But I don;t often come across the two together. Gormless = can mean dimwitted, or daft, or can mean naive or inexperienced. Wuss means wimp or weakling. The two tend not to be used together (certainly not in my experience). You;d either be called gormless, or you'd be called a wuss.

In this case: gormless :P

But to really give you that brit flavour, I'll call you a gormless bugger.

Today I went out and bought mega B12 complex stress tabs.
It says right on the label.
'Helps with occasional gormliness'

*grins*

It might even help with gormlessness :P

Really? I heard that 'haggis' is still in active use. ;)

My kids still haven't figured it out completely.

No way, José!

Holy cannoli!

how come we never brag about "store-bought" anymore? Or does this belong in the oldster moments thread?

This reminds me to lay "piker" to rest. Though I am hesitant.

Bogart.

I am also reminding myself to quit saying, Awesome!

there is an anti haggis cooperative. we are few.....but proud. we will not go quietly into the night.

no fake!

Are "cool" and "neat" or "neato" outdated slangs? I still use them. :p

Grandmother had a few unusual phrases she used.

'Dark as the inside of a cow.'

'That old guy's got enough money to burn two wet mules.'

They are most definitely 'outdated'.