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Words to Reintroduce to our Vocabulary

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.


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KEYWORDS: bumfuzzled; caddywompuss; cattywampus; collywobbles; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; oldwords
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

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.
;>)


141 posted on 05/14/2021 4:13:41 AM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: nikos1121

Biden gives me the heebie-jeebies!


142 posted on 05/14/2021 7:10:09 AM PDT by Kiss7
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To: Kiss7

Good one.


143 posted on 05/14/2021 7:36:36 AM PDT by nikos1121
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Thanks. There's plenty more too. Many of these odd words seem to have a British origin.

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.

144 posted on 05/14/2021 7:38:57 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Covenantor

Tik tock, tik tock....cuckoo....cuckoo...bing bang boom!!!


145 posted on 05/14/2021 7:43:16 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: HotHunt

Yes, and many are Yiddish.


146 posted on 05/14/2021 7:43:35 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Perzactly!
not Poe but it will do.

;>)


147 posted on 05/14/2021 8:38:58 AM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

Ive got to skedaddle


148 posted on 05/14/2021 8:51:53 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

“Jesus, Mary, and Joseph”

In honor of my late father’s favorite exclamation of frustration.


149 posted on 05/14/2021 9:18:06 AM PDT by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
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To: nikos1121

Interesting. Thanks.


150 posted on 05/14/2021 9:34:03 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: doorgunner69

I have a nurse here that uses that phrase every day.


151 posted on 05/14/2021 11:12:06 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Nopanic
A little dab’ll do ya.

Oh, I could do some cruisin' too!

152 posted on 05/14/2021 11:14:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nikos1121

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


153 posted on 05/14/2021 12:20:51 PM PDT by o-n-money (Not my president: WRONG Not the president: RIGHT)
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To: .44 Special

“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.


154 posted on 05/14/2021 12:31:36 PM PDT by HandyDandy
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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.


155 posted on 05/14/2021 1:04:13 PM PDT by HandyDandy
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156 posted on 05/14/2021 1:05:14 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Probably a truncated, “by golly”.


157 posted on 05/14/2021 1:07:03 PM PDT by HandyDandy
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To: dfwgator

More like Golly Jee


158 posted on 05/14/2021 1:07:19 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

How’s about: golly gee willikers!


159 posted on 05/14/2021 1:11:52 PM PDT by HandyDandy
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To: nikos1121

Eegads!


160 posted on 05/14/2021 1:13:02 PM PDT by HandyDandy
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