Words you don’t hear much these days
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@Daniel said in Words you don’t hear much these days:
Salad days.
Learned in HS and never heard used IRL.
I always thought “salad days” was the weirdest term, and like Daniel, I don’t know that I’ve heard it used in IRL. So I just googled it now, and I have to confess, if I ever knew that it comes from Shakespeare, I had forgotten.
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Flivver
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Knockers
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I’ll start:
Davenport
@Steve-Miller and also, Chesterfield
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I’ll see your Chesterfield and raise you a divan!
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Oh! I like swank!
Andy will wonder but we don’t use it much here -Posh!
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Posh very commonly used here (often together with the ubiquitous Becks). Chesterfield and divan are standard words in shops.
London rhyming slang and many localised words are less used and vanishing it seems. Probably due to the Internet and globalisation.
Rapscallion
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Posh very commonly used here (often together with the ubiquitous Becks). Chesterfield and divan are standard words in shops.
London rhyming slang and many localised words are less used and vanishing it seems. Probably due to the Internet and globalisation.
Rapscallion
@AndyD said in Words you don’t hear much these days:
London rhyming slang and many localised words are less used and vanishing it seems.
Oh no! That would be unfortunate!
I used to use the word “swank,” well more often “swanky,” rather frequently…. Like maybe when I was a college student?? These days it’s more like to be “fancy.”
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@AndyD - That's a word I use at least once a year, on the first Saturday in May.
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Muddle is actually the correct term for mashing and mixing. It’s standard barkeeper’s usage.
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Chiapet? Is that even a word?
I've been known to use salad days, but I never knew it was from Shakespeare.
I'd never heard the term "bespoke" in the US, but it seems to be slowly working it's way into everyday speech here.Another word I recently used in a text was "addlepated " I just think those kinds of terms are fun!
