Posted on 05/13/2021 10:50:17 AM PDT by nikos1121
Here are a list of words that we need to reintroduce into the daily conversation before they leave us completely.
Try some of them with your grand-kids.
And by all means please add your own to the list.
LOL !
That’s been in my vocabulary box gathering dust from disuse since jr. High English class on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells”.
Been itching to use it in conversation for 60 years or so but never ever had an opening.
;>)
Biden gives me the heebie-jeebies!
Good one.
I watch live streaming mystery programs from Britain and pick up words their culture uses.
Bullocks is a vulgarity that is commonly used in the dialogues. Means testicles, balls, nuts.
Tik tock, tik tock....cuckoo....cuckoo...bing bang boom!!!
Yes, and many are Yiddish.
Perzactly!
not Poe but it will do.
;>)
Ive got to skedaddle
“Jesus, Mary, and Joseph”
In honor of my late father’s favorite exclamation of frustration.
Interesting. Thanks.
I have a nurse here that uses that phrase every day.
Oh, I could do some cruisin' too!
Cockwomble is 1) a noun used to describe a person, usually male, prone to making outrageously stupid statements and/or inappropriate behaviour while generally having a very high opinion of his own wisdom and importance. 2) Joe Biden
“Doozy” was derived from Deusenberg. As in, “It’s a deuzy!” The Deusenberg was a high end luxury American auto from about one hundred years ago.
The deuce you say!
Rapscallion.
Scofflaw.
Omedhon.
He/she could charm the apples off of a tree.
Well I’ll be gall darned!
Who’s the dame?
I’ll be a son of a gun!
There but for the Grace of God go you or I.
The Gift ‘o Blarney.
Probably a truncated, “by golly”.
More like Golly Jee
How’s about: golly gee willikers!
Eegads!
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