Words to Reintroduce to our Vocabulary

[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.

[nikos1121]

Good ones.

Hootenanny, shindig

[nikos1121]

Yes, the most powerful word in the English language

[rightwingintelligentsia]

The phrase “work ethic”.

[KarlInOhio]

Zounds! You took my original word.

[nikos1121]

Skidaddle

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I have a ponytail-pulling Mule. I try to never turn my back to him. He’s just playing, but he can easily yank me off my feet when he wants to. ;)

[nikos1121]

Fly this coup

[MortMan]

1. No
2. Responsible
3. Lie
3.a. Liar
4. Fact (=truth)

The most dangerous thing about communication is the illusion it occurred.

[CodeJockey]

wazoo

[notdownwidems]

I like this one courtesy of president TRUMP: schlonged... as in “Camel toe Harris got schlonged by woolly Willie.”

[Governor Dinwiddie]

bee's knees

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Shocking! Worse than that, some posters don’t even know the difference between “it’s” and “its”!

[ronniesgal]

i say NO very easily but believe me, most people don’t find it attractive.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I also like, “Hit the bricks!”

Meaning: Get out of here! Go away! Go look for a job or something to do!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

A lot of problems would be solved if people would start using it rather then wimping out with a weak "Well... I guess..."

Heavens to Murgatroyd, we would not want to UPSET anyone.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

i say NO very easily but believe me, most people don't find it attractive.

The second word to learn is "So?"

I wish to keep my soul as intact as possible. Their soul is their own outlook.

[Dr. Thorne]

Grammatically correct conjugations of the verb “to be” instead of the current “I be”, “You be”, “He be”, “She be”, etc.

[Sans-Culotte]

Reminds me of a line in the Marx Bros. movie “Monkey Business” when the gangster guy asks Groucho and Harpo “where are your gats?” and Groucho replies “we had to drown the gats but we saved you a little black gitten”.

[mcatch22]

nice thread.

hunky dori idea you had.

I am flabbergasted by some of the responses.

whoopsiedaisy, I hope that was not insensitive.

now I'm sounding wishywashy. what a topsyturvy world.

[DaiHuy]

I believe the slang for gun was “gat” not “git”.