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Olde words, that should make a comeback
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With the youth of today making words up, I think we should resurrect some of the great words from the last few hundred years of the English Language.
I want to see "bounder" come back
As in "you sir, are a cad and bounder" |
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In the 1800, “ejaculate" was a synonym for “exclaim", and found in a few Sherlock Holmes short stories.
"So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of shag which I had seen upon the previous night." |
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By *un_JuiceCouple
over a year ago
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"'Woo' as in, to romantically engage a woman is a very old fashioned word, but one I like to use frequently, it just sounds nice."
Agree and use it ourselves, not enough wooing although some do prefer a more brash, clinical, smutty approach.
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"I think the word Tiffin should be used more, I love a bit of tiffin "
I make lots of tiffin ! Lovely stuff ,
( not to be confused with refrigerator cake which is almost identical apart from one ingredient ).
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
Slattern - for a woman who is 'sloppy' around the house or in her personal habits (I first read this in Jane Eyre).
Coilons - from Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale - 'I wish I hadde thyn coilons in myn hond!" It means testicles! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I think the word Tiffin should be used more, I love a bit of tiffin
I make lots of tiffin ! Lovely stuff ,
( not to be confused with refrigerator cake which is almost identical apart from one ingredient ).
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Tiffin isn't a foodstuff, per se, it is a light snack. It is an Indian word. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"'Woo' as in, to romantically engage a woman is a very old fashioned word, but one I like to use frequently, it just sounds nice."
I would like woo to come back. My husband use to woo me, then we got married  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Debacle
Fracas
Cogitate
Shambolic
Blitzed
Copasetic
Daddy-O
Kibosh
Dork
Stand On Me
Nifty
Top Notch
Bona Fide
Stand On Me????"
yeah, thought i'd chuck a phrase in thats not used any more  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Stand On Me
Nifty
Top Notch
Bona Fide
Stand On Me????
yeah, thought i'd chuck a phrase in thats not used any more
Except by the people who like that sort of thing."
haha wot you like...
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"I think the word Tiffin should be used more, I love a bit of tiffin
I make lots of tiffin ! Lovely stuff ,
( not to be confused with refrigerator cake which is almost identical apart from one ingredient ).
Tiffin isn't a foodstuff, per se, it is a light snack. It is an Indian word."
When working in the Civil Service an elderly HEO of Indian origin used this word when taking his lunch break. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Anything with extra e's on.
Ye olde porke pie shope
Mostly cuz i can't spell and you'd properly wouldn't notice if i suck an e on everything.
Best not 'suck an e' "
ok its not like I've ever done that before.  |
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"Anything with extra e's on.
Ye olde porke pie shope
Mostly cuz i can't spell and you'd properly wouldn't notice if i suck an e on everything.
Best not 'suck an e'
ok its not like I've ever done that before. "
I believe you....many wouldn't  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"'Woo' as in, to romantically engage a woman is a very old fashioned word, but one I like to use frequently, it just sounds nice.
I would like woo to come back. My husband use to woo me, then we got married "
You can be a wooed as you like with me dear! (copyright K.Williams!) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When I was little and my mum had her friend around and was gossiping, she would be talking about some woman having a 'fancy man'. I never knew what it meant.
I wish people would refer to these men as fancy men again.  |
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