Myrrh. I used to hear it as a kid in church. Haven't heard it in decades by now.
Bro isn't playing enough Fire Emblem.
Ditto to frankincense
I've seen it on incense labels, but never spoken outside of a churchy setting.
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.
There's a John Mulaney joke about this
Huh...I can't find it on YouTube, but it rings a bell. Was it something like "quicksand played a much smaller role in my life than I expected"?
I wish I could say the same. But my kids say it a lot..
"Antidisestablishmentarianism"
(To be fair, they like looking up words to see who can find the biggest ones.)
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokenosis. Blow their minds.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
Believe it or not, they know this one..! It's one of the reigning chanps. They have mini competitions with each other seeing who can spell it the fastest. Lol
Lots of fun!
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious!
Covfefe
I say this almost daily lol
How?
Do you mean how I pronounce or why I say it? If the latter, just because it sounds funny to me and it kind of became a running gag.
As a software developer, I actually use "truthy" and "falsy" pretty regularly for "the computer thinks this value is true/false"
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.
because the array itself exists
More specifically it's because the array isn't empty.
Yup you’re more right than I was. An empty array is still Falsy even though it exists. I accept the correction.
Strategery
Vituperative. It's such a good word too.
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}]
Isn't that a great word? I used to read a lot of Canadian classic literature and it was often in there.
Nope. Replace dang or damn with dag and use it like that. So instead of damn, yo. It’s dag, yo.
Phat! As in cool. Haven't heard that one in wellllll over a decade.
Skedaddle
I shout this at the cat when she's underfoot
Underfoot is another word I never hear anyone using outside of books.
I use this very regularly.
Skadoodle
Cheese it
It's the fuzz!
I left Australia decades back, so all my slang vocabulary is stuck from when I left.
rorted - being high
having a pash - intense kissing
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
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.
MOIST
Lol this was such a big deal for no reason in like 2008.
I blame How I Met Your Mother
The night was moist...
Keep your starship out of my backyard.
(JN Chaney book reference)
Defenestrate. What a word!
Have you read Russian news in the past decade? Defenestration is the preferred method of retirement in the Ruzzian government.
Wait, what? There were a lot of defenestrations recently, you haven't heard?
I love you too.
It's not a single word though.
Hugs from an internet stranger.
ಠ_ಠ
Mack
"Did you mack her?"
So dumb lol
Just realized I forgot about this one lol
Baud
250k baud or 500k baud?
I write firmware, this is a daily term
I too write firmware. Once the UART lib is done I never touch it again for the duration of the whole project. If you use it daily something weird is going on.
Dubba. Mostly cuz I haven't lived in New England for over 20 years.
Never heard that one, had to look it up.
It's definitely a very narrow colloquialism you hear in New England. Honestly, I think it may be specific to the Seacoast Region of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.
It's used in the same context as "bastard", but solely as a term of endearment.
"What's up, dubba?"
Now there's a word a fella could really muckle on to...
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"
Bring it back! Fuck the normies!
It doesn't work so well when you've got someone named Mookie in your poker group
happy ;_;
Heh, I use it everyday
"I wish I was happy..."
me_irl
Myrrh. I used to hear it as a kid in church. Haven't heard it in decades by now.
Bro isn't playing enough Fire Emblem.
Ditto to frankincense
I've seen it on incense labels, but never spoken outside of a churchy setting.
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.
There's a John Mulaney joke about this
Huh...I can't find it on YouTube, but it rings a bell. Was it something like "quicksand played a much smaller role in my life than I expected"?
Found the podcast...
I'm fairly certain it's in "New In Town"
As a Canadian you should be more concerned with muskeg.
As a kid in 90s Australia I was also led to believe that quicksand was more of a threat than it turned out to be, lol
Disestablishmentarianism.
I wish I could say the same. But my kids say it a lot..
"Antidisestablishmentarianism"
(To be fair, they like looking up words to see who can find the biggest ones.)
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokenosis. Blow their minds.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
Believe it or not, they know this one..! It's one of the reigning chanps. They have mini competitions with each other seeing who can spell it the fastest. Lol
Lots of fun!
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious!
Covfefe
I say this almost daily lol
How?
Do you mean how I pronounce or why I say it? If the latter, just because it sounds funny to me and it kind of became a running gag.
I meant how do you even pronounce that.
I've always said it like "cawv-fee-fee."
I pronounce as if it were a Spanish word. lol
Affordable housing
So "affordablehousing" then? 😂
Looks German
We actually have a word for that: unauffindbar
Doesn't that mean unfindable?
You are right. It's a joke because there is absolutely no affordable housing to be found in Germany.
Ah gotcha
Seems like there's a word for everything in German!
There is. That word is "alles".
For a change the German word is shorter than the English one, and it's the English one that's smashing two existing words together.
Cowabunga and tubular!
80s were a good time!
Gnarly, dude.
Every time I see someone at work carrying tubes I can't help myself and say "totally tubular my dude!" Lol
Rad!
I say rad near daily. Be the change you want to see in the world!
So I can take back "Porch Monkey"?
https://youtu.be/7qc0akWRBQk
/s
Bodacious!
I say cowabunga all the time...
Gnarly!
Truthiness
As a software developer, I actually use "truthy" and "falsy" pretty regularly for "the computer thinks this value is true/false"
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.
More specifically it's because the array isn't empty.
Yup you’re more right than I was. An empty array is still Falsy even though it exists. I accept the correction.
Strategery
Vituperative. It's such a good word too.
Oh, that's good. A new one for me!
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.
Discombobulate
Information superhighway
Cyberspace!
The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big
truckhighway. It's a series of tubes.Tubelor.
Surplus
Fleek
Thankfully.
Dag. Not like Snatch “ya like dags” but like “dag, yo”.
Well that certainly cleared up any concussion I had about which dag you meant.
Maybe like embroidered dags?
https://www.outfit4events.com/runtime/cache/images/redesignProductFull/mna-1065x.JPG
Nope. Replace dang or damn with dag and use it like that. So instead of damn, yo. It’s dag, yo.
Phat! As in cool. Haven't heard that one in wellllll over a decade.
Skedaddle
I shout this at the cat when she's underfoot
Underfoot is another word I never hear anyone using outside of books.
I use this very regularly.
Skadoodle
Cheese it
It's the fuzz!
I left Australia decades back, so all my slang vocabulary is stuck from when I left.
rorted - being high
having a pash - intense kissing
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
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.
MOIST
Lol this was such a big deal for no reason in like 2008.
I blame How I Met Your Mother
The night was moist...
Keep your starship out of my backyard.
(JN Chaney book reference)
Defenestrate. What a word!
Have you read Russian news in the past decade? Defenestration is the preferred method of retirement in the Ruzzian government.
Wait, what? There were a lot of defenestrations recently, you haven't heard?
I love you too.
It's not a single word though.
Hugs from an internet stranger.
ಠ_ಠ
Mack
"Did you mack her?"
So dumb lol
Just realized I forgot about this one lol
Baud
250k baud or 500k baud?
I write firmware, this is a daily term
I too write firmware. Once the UART lib is done I never touch it again for the duration of the whole project. If you use it daily something weird is going on.
I will always love those old modem tones
Crunk
Schadenfreude
Pronounced scoodin’ n’froody in case anybody was wondering.
This is still my favorite pronunciation video ever. Gets me every time.
Floppy (disk)
Choke (on a vehicle)
Trill
Booyah!
Pimpin
That pimpin' Trill just Booyahed their symbiont all over the holodeck...
Lol! ^ When you download the wrong episode of Star Trek off limewire O.O
Haven't played any Splatoon lately?
"Pimpmobile" is one of my most-used terms!
Bitch I'm trill, bitch I'm so trill
Bodacious
Tubular
Take a whiz
Majorly
bitchin
wicked
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?
It's how I describe my job.
Sorry Zeus! I didn't mean it!
saw someone on tiktok refer to casual sex as "tappin that", instantly knew their age
Splendid
Grody
To the max.
Sozzled.
French for drunk.
Only saw it on a British translation of Zola's L' Assomoir.
Flabbergasted.
yolo
you only YOLO once
yoYOLOo
Dodecahedron
heard that one earlier today ...
Matt Parker or Steve Mould?
Neither, though I do watch a bit of Matt Parker on youtube, so it's a decent guess.
sploosh
ciggie
Spoot!
Ignoramus
Teleconference
Indubitably
Is the Spoot in reference to Angry Beavers?!
Put some stank on it Daggy!
Guffaw
Yonder
cowabunga
Synergy
Like a boss.
Renob
It was our clever and undetectable way to say boner in grade school
As someone who grew up in the sixties, "groovy"
I'd love it if "groovy" came back
You're everywhere!!
Lemmy is only so big I suppose!
Middle class
Whatever word was used before "caveat" took it's place. A few years ago, suddenly, everyone on Youtube and elsewhere started using it.
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.
I use "ass hat" and "clusterfuck" regularly.
FUBAR is another
I also go Ricky (I'm an American):
Worst case Ontario
What comes around is all around.
BFE. Bum fuck egypt. A place far away
I live there right now, middle of nowhere VA
Also we used to call it East Bum Fuck Egypt :)
I cannot resist labeling ridiculous things as clown shoes.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis. It's just not a word that comes up often
Dociousalliexpiliciousfragicalirupus.
Haven't heard it in awhile because we agreed that saying it backwards was going a bit too far.
Why "licious" instead of "listic?"
That darn Autocorrect!
A particularly egregious example, as neither are words!
Bibliobibuli
A person who reads too much
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.
Free
Cahoots
Gayrod
It's GayLord, thankyouverymuch...
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
Cyberspace
Obi Wan
I don't remember owning a droid.
The lyrics to Alouette.
sphygmomanometer
Real estate novelist.
Need to listen to this song now, urgently! :-)
💀
Bumfuzzled
I think this word wins.
I went through a dapper phase at one point...
...to your mother
Precipitate
Dubba. Mostly cuz I haven't lived in New England for over 20 years.
Never heard that one, had to look it up.
It's definitely a very narrow colloquialism you hear in New England. Honestly, I think it may be specific to the Seacoast Region of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.
It's used in the same context as "bastard", but solely as a term of endearment.
"What's up, dubba?"
Now there's a word a fella could really muckle on to...
floccinaucinihilipilification
That girl's a lunchbox. Their lunchin'
Assgoblin
necrocracy
I was going to say like North Korea?
Magnanimous
Apoplexy
Bingus
Prolly
Cunnilingus
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"
Bring it back! Fuck the normies!
It doesn't work so well when you've got someone named Mookie in your poker group
Waddup?
Jig jog