Words you don’t hear much these days

[Piano*Dad]

niggardly

[AdagioM]

Does anyone use “kerfuffle?” Mr. AM once wrote that on my sheet music at a particularly perilous passage.

[wtg]

@AdagioM said in Words you don’t hear much these days:

Does anyone use “kerfuffle?” Mr. AM once wrote that on my sheet music at a particularly perilous passage.

[RealPlayer]

I see (and hear) kerfuffle often in the media.

[Axtremus]

Malarkey

[AndyD]

Yes to kerfuffle (occasionally)
and also brouhaha when things are more disruptive

[ShiroKuro]

Kerfuffle, brouhaha and malarkey are all great words!!

[Steve Miller]

Tommyrot!

[wtg]

Balderdash!

[ShiroKuro]

These are both great!

[Steve Miller]

Twaddle!

[wtg]

Phooey. Or, if you're Nero Wolfe, pfui.

[ShiroKuro]

I actually use phooey a fair amount.

[jon-nyc]

@Axtremus said in Words you don’t hear much these days:

Malarkey

But for Biden it would have been decades since I heard it.

[jon-nyc]

Defenestrate

Fastidious

Overmorrow

Garrulous.

[jon-nyc]

Another interesting thing are words, usually adjectives, that you only ever hear used with one particular noun.

It actually can a little funny to hear them used with another.

Examples, copious notes. Unbridled capitalism. (Or unfettered)

[AdagioM]

Defenestrate seems to be more in the news in Russia than anywhere else.

[Mik]

@Mik said in Words you don’t hear much these days:

Chiapet

Speak of the devil. Saw the first commercial today.

[AndyD]

@AdagioM said in Words you don’t hear much these days:

Defenestrate seems to be more in the news in Russia than anywhere else.

And transfenestrate

[dolmansaxlil]

@jon-nyc said in Words you don’t hear much these days:

Another interesting thing are words, usually adjectives, that you only ever hear used with one particular noun.

It actually can a little funny to hear them used with another.

Examples, copious notes. Unbridled capitalism. (Or unfettered)

I use both of these but with other word pairings. Copious quantities of… and Unbridled optimism or Unbridled joy. Though I’m not sure I use unbridled in any other way.