What's a word you haven't heard used in years?

happy ;_;

Myrrh. I used to hear it as a kid in church. Haven't heard it in decades by now.

There was a podcast episode years back about how large quicksand loomed in popular culture for a whole generation, before vanishing as a concept almost completely.

And sure enough, I remember as a kid in the 80s worrying about stumbling into quicksand while wandering around the bushes in rural Canada.

Then I forgot about it as a concept until I heard it on that one episode, and I haven't heard it since.

Disestablishmentarianism.

Covfefe

Affordable housing

Cowabunga and tubular!

80s were a good time!

Truthiness

Vituperative. It's such a good word too.

Discombobulate

Information superhighway

Surplus

Dag. Not like Snatch “ya like dags” but like “dag, yo”.

Fleek

Thankfully.

Skedaddle

Phat! As in cool. Haven't heard that one in wellllll over a decade.

I left Australia decades back, so all my slang vocabulary is stuck from when I left.

rorted - being high

having a pash - intense kissing

MOIST

Defenestrate. What a word!

I love you too.
It's not a single word though.

Mack

"Did you mack her?"

So dumb lol

Baud

Crunk

Schadenfreude

Floppy (disk)

Choke (on a vehicle)

Bodacious

Tubular

Take a whiz

Majorly

Trill

Booyah!

Pimpin

bitchin
wicked

fag (and I mean "haven't used in years" in a very good way.)

Sisyphean I come across it like once every few years in some article.

24 days later: https://lemm.ee/post/5458899 See what I mean?

Splendid

saw someone on tiktok refer to casual sex as "tappin that", instantly knew their age

Dodecahedron

Grody

Sozzled.

French for drunk.

Only saw it on a British translation of Zola's L' Assomoir.

yolo

Flabbergasted.

sploosh

ciggie

Permanently Deleted

Spoot!

Ignoramus

Teleconference

Indubitably

Bibliobibuli

A person who reads too much

Synergy

Guffaw

As someone who grew up in the sixties, "groovy"

Renob

It was our clever and undetectable way to say boner in grade school

cowabunga

Yonder

Whatever word was used before "caveat" took it's place. A few years ago, suddenly, everyone on Youtube and elsewhere started using it.

Free

Dociousalliexpiliciousfragicalirupus.

Haven't heard it in awhile because we agreed that saying it backwards was going a bit too far.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis. It's just not a word that comes up often

Cluster Fuck

Unfuckulate

I have a passion for the word "fuck" I need to get back to. I love the word "cunt" but thats too volatile so I had to retire that word.

Ass hat

Clown Shoes

Banana Head

Yeah most of my terms are personal attacks on morons I work with.

Middle class

Cahoots

Bufty.

Heard it frequently 20 years ago and now it's dropped off the face of the planet as casual homophobia has become a bit less prevelant.

💀

Gayrod

...to your mother

I went through a dapper phase at one point...

Cyberspace

Real estate novelist.

Need to listen to this song now, urgently! :-)

Bumfuzzled

Obi Wan

sphygmomanometer

Precipitate

Dubba. Mostly cuz I haven't lived in New England for over 20 years.

The lyrics to Alouette.

Facetious and Modicum.

I remember them being heavily used everywhere by everyone like a fad, disappeared like a fad. I don't miss them though

Magnanimous

That girl's a lunchbox. Their lunchin'

Assgoblin

Apoplexy

Bingus

necrocracy

floccinaucinihilipilification

Prolly

Waddup?

I really dig using "mook" as an insult, playfully or otherwise. It's somewhat normal in my tight circles but I get looks every time I'm in other groups when I drop a "what a mook"

Cunnilingus

Dignified

I left Australia decades back, so all my slang vocabulary is stuck from when I left. rorted - being high having a pash - intense kissing

Jig jog