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ozleicester

Words we don't hear often enough

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Inspired by the "Horrid" towns thread.

 

There are some words that have fallen out of regular usage that i would like to see come back....

 

For example...

 

Horrid

Chortle

Scurrilous

Anorak

 

what are yours?

 

Posted

Not heard enough:                                              Heard too much:

 

Shenanigans/mischief

Skein/gaggle (of geese)

Cuckold                                                               Romp

Lout                                                                     Chav

Saucy

Feisty

Earthy

Fop/dandy

Stoat/weasel

Meadow

Hitching                                                               First Class

Upset                                                                   Gutted

Your friend's on the phone                                  Text me

What are you having?

Fvck right off!                                                      Whatever!

Swaggering

Bullish

I believe                                                              Robust/transparent/consumer

                                                                           Squeezed middle

                                                                           Hardworking families

Fun/adventure                                                    Mortgage/career/car/pension

Reason                                                               Faith

Loyalty                                                                I'm entitled

Elegiac

Change for the better                                         Benefit fraud/Immigrants/tax avoidance

Moaning minnies

Disrupt the established order

Henceforth and hereafter

A murder of crows                                               Murderer/paedophile

Posted

Titivate

 

Rumbustious

 

Fop/Dandy

 

Blart (cry)

 

Dog-eared

 

Fourpenny one/Hooter: (If you were threatening to punch someone on the nose, "I'll give a you a fourpenny one up the 'ooter")

 

Spangle

 

Wimple

 

2 Stroke

 

Leaded or unleaded, sir?

 

Clippie

 

Wainscoting

 

And my favourite: Dingleberry

 

And slightly off topic but I miss some of the things my mum used to say when i was a kid, her being from The Border counties. For example if I was doing something ill-advised or wrong: "That'll be the rock you'll perish on". Or a threat of a slap: "I'll take ma hand off your face"

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Numpty

Posted

Meander

Mooch

(Although I use both of these alot)

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