JustJess

I'm bringing back TWAT. I fucking love that word.

TWAT TWAT TWAT

Twat did you say? Twatterific!
Twatty twatterstein.


Twat.

That is all. Twat.

What word do you want to bring back?

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LoganSnake

Back? I've been using it since forever. Twat waffle is my favorite name calling expression. It's still very much in use around here.

Weird.

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Ourcrazymodern?

Language evolves.

I don't understand.

Queeb?

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Jetée

Please regard what you are referring to.

Like so: Jumblies - the breastesses of a well-endowed woman.

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dirtyrascal7

I hearby move that we bring back the word "forthwith"... forthwith!

forthwith - immediately; without delay.

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Ourcrazymodern?

Jumblies forthwith?

Groovy!

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Jetée

Groovy = Radical = Tubular = I Can Dig It!

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Fly

Prink.


that's right...........prick + dink = Prink.

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uncle phil

zipper...

(hehe...)

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World's King

Broad.


Referring to a female.

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Jetée

Well, because I've lived in Queens and Brooklyn, Broad never left my vocabulary.

But I would like to use it more often without hearing, "What the hell is a broad?!"

Other words we ought to bring back:

Gormless - stupid

Fandango - Tomfoolery - nonsense

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Laugh-O-Matic

I'd like to get "Golly" back. It's an expression like "OMG!" or words to that effect.

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JustJess

I'd like to add "thusly" to the national lexicon... even tho it's not technically a word, screw all that - it makes sense! Thusly, it's in.

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vermin

From the 60s: Spade
If I were black, I think it would sound cooler to use "spade" instead of "african-american" or "brother".

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noodle

I think moreover needs to come back... it's wonderfully literary, but no one seems to use it anymore.

My SO and I used to have the Word Of the Day. By far, my favorite was splendid... my cell VM still ends with "have a splendid day" and you wouldn't believe the messages I get from people who forget what they were going to say, those who get all perky and crap, and those who say that it made their day. It cracks me up. I got two of my coworkers to compulsively use "splendid" and I burst out laughing every time one of them uses it.

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dirtyrascal7

I have one friend that refers to condoms as prophylactics... that always amused me for some reason, so I'd like to see it used more.

Speaking of sex, I was watching The Big Lebowski the other day and it occured to me that "sex" is just far overused... there are so many synonyms for it, we really should try and vary our terminology. My two favorites are coitus and copulate.

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"Tie yourself to your limitless potential, rather than your limiting past."

"Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him."

Charlatan

Right-o. I use this to conclude phone conversations. Right-o, speak to you soon.

Gormless is a word I use with relative frequency.

As for twat... I fully agree. It's a perfect word.

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Ourcrazymodern?

Broadly prinking:

Zoned.

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Fremen

Can we make "irregardless" a word?
You have to say it with a Mexican accent, though.

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uncle phil

"quite right, slick..."

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- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

hagatha

Jackass.
Its not a word, but a classic phrase, "keep on truckin'"
I have never said "Fandango", I would love to use that word.

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Lucifer

Hep.

It's like hip, but since it dates from the late 50's, it's infinitely cooler. As the late great Hunter Thompson observed in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas": The Circus-Circus is what the whole HEP world would be doing on a Saturday night, if the Nazi's had won the war."

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Redlemon

Mumpsimus is my favorite. Full story behind the link, but it is an adjective describing someone who sticks obstinately to their old ways, in spite of the clearest evidence that they are wrong.

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biznatch

This thread reminds me of Clerks II. One of the characters wants to bring back "Porch Monkey" as a non racist term.

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telekinetic

Ahoyhoy A greeting, particularly when answering the phone.

Alexander Graham Bell was reportedly very dissapointed that this, his intended greeting on his newly invented device, was displaced by 'Hello'. I'm trying to bring it back.

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twisted no more

uncle phil

i hope he's not from alabama...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

vermin

"Keen" instead of cool or awesome, as in "Fuckin' A, that shit's keen!"

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Charlatan

decent

as in... How are you? Decent.

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biznatch

That'd be freakin'...awesome!
BTW, let's bring back "awesome!"

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hagatha

Jim Dandy. Great-- as in "that's just Jim Dandy".
Also a blast from the '80's...wicked. Meaning excellent, cool.

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ngdawg

I actually heard a kid, about 14-15, say yesterday, "I'm in a pickle". Not sure I want to bring that one back....
If 'irregardless' ever becomes a real word, I'm moving to a cave!

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Redlemon

Come to New England, "wicked" has never gone away. Except that we also use it as an adverb, not just an adjective.

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uncle phil

nifty...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

squeeeb

oddsbodkins.

it's great to yell it out in anger.

also, dickweed

as in..."oddsbodkins, you are such a dickweed!"

and "save" instead of "except" like "everyone save bill came over"

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Ourcrazymodern?

I live in a cave. Haven't you read about it?
Irregardless: "twinked".

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Amaras

What about (well, aboot, as I am Canadian) Gay meaning HAPPY?

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Luciian

Twat and Keen so far take the cake for me in this thread

I'd like to see some more Mate usage as in referring to a friend: Hey mate!

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"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind dont matter, and those who matter dont mind." -Dr Seuss

mr_alleycat

Sorry it's been replaced by Stat. Hey blame "medical center"

BS, around the 1600s it got quite out of vogue, at least if you were on the hanging end

Estevez

I'd have to go with harlot. Whore and slut are far too overused.

Oh, and when I answer the phone, I always say, "Yellow!" No one does that anymore. One of my friends always responds, "Green." Another says, "Banana."