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@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • 2 years ago

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

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

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  • @[email protected]
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    9•2 years ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      4•2 years ago

  • @[email protected]
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    21•2 years ago

    Information superhighway

    • Deconceptualist
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      8•2 years ago

      The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck highway. It’s a series of tubes.

      • @[email protected]
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        1•2 years ago

        Tubelor.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      8•2 years ago

      Cyberspace!

  • @[email protected]
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    18•2 years ago

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

    rorted - being high

    having a pash - intense kissing

    • Sunstream
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      6•2 years ago

      Too right. Someone in my household reminded us that we used to use munted all the time, so we’re bringing it back into our vocab, haha

      Munted - mutated, fucked up, borken

    • @[email protected]
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      2•2 years ago

      We used to use rorted to mean… well it would be past tense for hitting a bong, “to rort” being the verb. I am in the UK and have no idea where that slang came from.

  • @[email protected]
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    50•2 years ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      5•2 years ago

      Ditto to frankincense

      • @[email protected]
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        2•2 years ago

        I’ve seen it on incense labels, but never spoken outside of a churchy setting.

    • @[email protected]
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      12•2 years ago

      Bro isn’t playing enough Fire Emblem.

  • Grammaton Cleric
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    7•2 years ago

    sploosh

  • @[email protected]
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    22•2 years ago

    Vituperative. It’s such a good word too.

    • @[email protected]
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      20•2 years ago

      Oh, that’s good. A new one for me!

      From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
      
        vituperative
            adj 1: marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing
                   remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative
                   railing" [syn: {scathing}, {vituperative}]
      
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        9•2 years ago

        Isn’t that a great word? I used to read a lot of Canadian classic literature and it was often in there.

        Also garrolous is a good word.

        • @[email protected]
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          1•2 years ago

          deleted by creator

          • @[email protected]
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            3•2 years ago

            Actually I spelled it wrong, it’s garrulous. My bad!

  • Jeena
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    4•2 years ago

    necrocracy

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      1•2 years ago

      I was going to say like North Korea?

  • @[email protected]
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    20•2 years ago

    Surplus

  • @[email protected]
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    71•2 years ago

    happy ;_;

    • @[email protected]
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      10•2 years ago

      me_irl

    • @[email protected]
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      17•2 years ago

      Heh, I use it everyday

      “I wish I was happy…”

  • @[email protected]
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    29•2 years ago

    Truthiness

    • @[email protected]
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      25•2 years ago

      As a software developer, I actually use “truthy” and “falsy” pretty regularly for “the computer thinks this value is true/false”

      • @[email protected]
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        4•2 years ago

        Just remember that even though None is Falsy, an array of Nones is Truthy. Gets me every time. I fucking understand it logically (because the array itself exists) but damnit if I can make my lizard brain comprehend it while coding it.

        • @[email protected]
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          4•2 years ago

          because the array itself exists

          More specifically it’s because the array isn’t empty.

          • @[email protected]
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            2•2 years ago

            Yup you’re more right than I was. An empty array is still Falsy even though it exists. I accept the correction.

    • @[email protected]
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      11•2 years ago

      Strategery

  • @[email protected]
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    1•2 years ago

    deleted by creator

  • @[email protected]
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    2 years ago

    💀

  • Dawkinsisgod
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    4•2 years ago

    …to your mother

  • @[email protected]
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    6•2 years ago

    Guffaw

  • @[email protected]
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    3•2 years ago

    Assgoblin

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