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What 1 word have you not heard in ages, 1 you want to bring back and 1 you dont like?

IvaBigWun · 2013-12-22 13:24:21

I was reading a review of Anchorman 2 and saw it was described as "terrific" Now there's a word I havent heard or seen in writing in a long time, especially from someone under the age of 25. One word Id bring back: "Diddies" As in "Hasnt she a lovely pair of diddies lads?" And one word I dont like: Nígger", there's never…

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I was reading a review of Anchorman 2 and saw it was described as "terrific" Now there's a word I havent heard or seen in writing in a long time, especially from someone under the age of 25.

One word Id bring back: "Diddies" As in "Hasnt she a lovely pair of diddies lads?"

And one word I dont like: Nígger", there's never an excuse for it (Ive just noticed its in the profanity filter on here)

What one word have you not heard in ages, one you want to bring back and one you dont like?

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#2 22-12-2013 1:30pm

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IvaBigWun wrote: »

And one word I dont like: Nígger", there's never an excuse for it

So you shouldn't have just used it?

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#3 22-12-2013 1:32pm

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Raina Disgusting Pun wrote: »

So you shouldn't have just used it?

How else am I meant to convey a word I dont like in a thread titled " What 1 word have you not heard in ages, 1 you want to bring back and 1 you dont like?"

Smoke signals?

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#5 22-12-2013 1:33pm

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Word I haven't heard in ages - standard, heard it yesterday and my brain had to figure out what it meant for a minute!!!
word I want to bring back - wholesome....
word I hate with a passion - rape

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#6 22-12-2013 1:34pm

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#7 22-12-2013 1:36pm

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Ring or Dial for making a phone call.

Societal, a word used when there is the perfectly valid social but social has too many communistic overtones for the Americans so they prefer to use societal.

Affordable, when you really mean cheap but that also has too many negative overtones.

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#8 22-12-2013 1:38pm

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IvaBigWun wrote: »

How else am I meant to convey a word I dont like in a thread titled " What 1 word have you not heard in ages, 1 you want to bring back and 1 you dont like?"

Smoke signals?

So you hate a word? See that it is in the profanity filter and then make the decision to bypass the profanity filter to use the word? You couldn't have typed Ni@@&r? Surprisingly most if not all would have known what it meant.

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#9 22-12-2013 1:39pm

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IvaBigWun wrote: »

I was reading a review of Anchorman 2 and saw it was described as "terrific" Now there's a word I havent heard or seen in writing in a long time, especially from someone under the age of 25.

One word Id bring back: "Diddies" As in "Hasnt she a lovely pair of diddies lads?"

And one word I dont like: Nígger", there's never an excuse for it (Ive just noticed its in the profanity filter on here)

What one word have you not heard in ages, one you want to bring back and one you dont like?

Word I'be bring back: Gobdaw - uniquely descriptive in a uniquely Irish way.

Word I haven't heard in ages: Elegance - love the sound of it, see too little of it.

Word I don't like: Yeast - unhappy itchy memory trigger.

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#10 22-12-2013 1:40pm

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Like: 'Blackguard'. Such a satisfying insult. Also comes in handy verb form - 'blackguardin'.

Dislike: 'chill', as an imperative. Always has the opposite effect. As for 'chillax' - let us never speak of it again.

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#11 22-12-2013 1:42pm

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Raina Disgusting Pun wrote: »

So you shouldn't have just used it?

yellow card ref?

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Amazeballs. Just go away. Now.

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#13 22-12-2013 1:43pm

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Muise... wrote: »

Like: 'Blackguard'. Such a satisfying insult. Also comes in handy verb form - 'blackguardin'.

Dislike: 'chill', as an imperative. Always has the opposite effect. As for 'chillax' - let us never speak of it again.

Chillax is a handy filter though. As soon as someone says it you can safely write them off as a total tosser.

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#14 22-12-2013 1:44pm

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"Jaypers" Heard some auld lad say it yesterday and near keeled over laughing.

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#15 22-12-2013 1:45pm

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Bring back "dogsbollix"

Hate: derp

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#16 22-12-2013 1:54pm

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Claimed.

People used to say this all the time when I was a kid.

After school, you're claimed!

Yesterday I said this to a guy who smashed his trolly into mine in Tesco.

Oi! I There's bottles of beer and eggs in this trolley you fool. Fcuking claimed!

He had no idea what I was on about so I pushed his kid over.

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#19 22-12-2013 2:22pm

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Poorley - strupid annoying word mostly used by English folk,thank god the Irish don't use it

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#20 22-12-2013 2:24pm

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IvaBigWun wrote: »

And one word I dont like: Nígger", there's never an excuse for it (Ive just noticed its in the profanity filter on here

Uses it unnecessarily...

IvaBigWun wrote: »

How else am I meant to convey a word I dont like in a thread titled " What 1 word have you not heard in ages, 1 you want to bring back and 1 you dont like?"

Smoke signals?

Then makes an excuse for it.

A word I haven't heard in ages is paradox.
One I want to bring back is irony.
A word I hate is self-contradictory. Or is that two words?

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#21 22-12-2013 2:25pm

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Word I'd love to see brought back:

Discombobulated, god I love that word, but using it can indeed cause people to become discombobulated

Word I'd love to see extinguished from the English lexicon:

Retarded. Obvious really.

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#23 22-12-2013 2:28pm

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#24 22-12-2013 2:32pm

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Word I haven't heard in ages: Malojen

Word I want to bring back: Bawdy

Word I don't like: Irregardless

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#25 22-12-2013 2:40pm

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spankysue wrote: »

Word I don't like: Irregardless

IT'S NOT A WORD! NOOOO! I don't care how many times it is spoken, it is just a spittle-flecked idiot noise.

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#26 22-12-2013 2:51pm

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#27 22-12-2013 2:53pm

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Muise... wrote: »

IT'S NOT A WORD! NOOOO! I don't care how many times it is spoken, it is just a spittle-flecked idiot noise.

Your post just reminded me of another word I haven't heard in years that I'd love to see brought back -

Your command of the English language is exemplary

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#28 22-12-2013 3:02pm

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Czarcasm wrote: »

Your post just reminded me of another word I haven't heard in years that I'd love to see brought back -

Your command of the English language is exemplary

Naaaw, thanks! I was going to write 'retard noise' instead of 'idiot noise', but I didn't want to offend you. Not at Christmas, anyway.

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#30 22-12-2013 3:06pm

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IvaBigWun wrote: »

How else am I meant to convey a word I dont like in a thread titled " What 1 word have you not heard in ages, 1 you want to bring back and 1 you dont like?"

Smoke signals?

If there's never an excuse for it, how can you excuse using it even in a thread about words you don't like?

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#31 22-12-2013 3:08pm

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I'd love to bring back the word "one".

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#32 22-12-2013 3:08pm

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Raina Disgusting Pun wrote: »

If there's never an excuse for it, how can you excuse using it even in a thread about words you don't like?

Ohh whisht will ya.

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#33 22-12-2013 3:12pm

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spankysue wrote: »

Word I haven't heard in ages: Malojen

Word I want to bring back: Bawdy

Word I don't like: Irregardless

As malojen is not even a word then you'll not hear it anywhere. Go to places like Monaghan and ask about a melodeon and your might hear that pronounced as malojen but that's all.

Irregardless is at least a proper word.

I always loved the verb to transmogrify.

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#34 22-12-2013 3:15pm

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Two astronomical ones here.
Bring back :'Moon' meaning fantastic, great.
Get rid of : 'Space' as in ' I work in the marketing space '

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#35 22-12-2013 4:15pm

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IvaBigWun wrote: »

And one word I dont like: Nígger", there's never an excuse for it (Ive just noticed its in the profanity filter on here)

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,
Catch a ****** by the toe.
If he squels, let him go,
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

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#36 22-12-2013 4:28pm

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One word I'd bring back; "Yes", as in "Yes, mammanabammana, I will have sex with you"

And one I hate; "No", as in "No, mammanabammana, I will not have sex with you"

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#37 22-12-2013 4:30pm

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Lainey Obedient Car wrote: »

Irregardless is at least a proper word.

nonononononononononono

*gnashes teeth.

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#38 22-12-2013 4:46pm

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Muise... wrote: »

nonononononononononono

*gnashes teeth.

Bad news for you.....it's in the OED!

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#39 22-12-2013 4:56pm

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Lainey Obedient Car wrote: »

Bad news for you.....it's in the OED!

From Oxford online

Irregardless means the same as regardless, but the negative prefix ir- merely duplicates the suffix -less, and is unnecessary. The word dates back to the 19th century, but is regarded as incorrect in standard English.

So it's a word, but one that's incorrect. Confusing judgement by the Oxford crowd.

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#40 22-12-2013 4:58pm

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Candie wrote: »

From Oxford online

"Irregardless means the same as regardless, but the negative prefix ir- merely duplicates the suffix -less, and is unnecessary. The word dates back to the 19th century, but is irregarded as incorrect in standard English."

So it's a word, but one that's incorrect. Confusing judgement by the Oxford crowd.

Silly OED!

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#41 22-12-2013 5:18pm

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Lainey Obedient Car wrote: »

Bad news for you.....it's in the OED!

Dictionaries record words (usually quite a while after they've been in use); they don't decide what will become a word. Irregardless has become a word - lots of people don't like it (including the OED (and me)), but lots of people use it all the same.

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Eeden wrote: »

...lots of people don't like it (including the OED (and me)), but lots of people use it all the same.

In fact, you could say that lots of people use it irregardless...

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#43 22-12-2013 5:46pm

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Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I'd love to bring back the word "one".

And Id like if we could fit more letters into thread titles but thats the way life is sometimes

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#44 22-12-2013 6:21pm

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Didn't hear the the word "plamasing " in years.

Oh and yeah diddies is a good one too.

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#45 22-12-2013 6:21pm

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IvaBigWun wrote: »

And Id like if we could fit more letters into thread titles but thats the way life is sometimes

Well then you should have abandoned the thread and gone for a nice long walk instead.

I don't hear addled as often as I'd like.

Actioned should fuck off and die.

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Word to bring back: Snollygoster. I've never heard it being used, I just discovered it by chance one day while browsing a website of words no longer in use.

Snollygoster: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snollygoster

Word not heard in ages: ---->--<---- I can't think of one right now. Recently, someone used a word in conversation that caused me to say "I haven't heard that word in a long time", but it escapes my mushy brain just now. It may return.

Word I don't like: panties. [even typing it made me shudder a little. I tried not to say it out loud in my head, but was unsuccessful]

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I haven't heard 'Fartknocker' in yonks!

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#48 22-12-2013 6:30pm

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Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

I haven't heard 'Fartknocker' in yonks!

I do believe thats my first time hearing it ever.

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Muise... wrote: »

Like: 'Blackguard'. Such a satisfying insult. Also comes in handy verb form - 'blackguardin'.

Dislike: 'chill', as an imperative. Always has the opposite effect. As for 'chillax' - let us never speak of it again.

blackguard ?

never heard that before, is it the same as blaggard which is a great word ?

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Word I haven't heard in ages: lummox
Found it in the thesaurus when looking for a synonym for idiot. I'd forgotten it existed but it's a great word.

Word I'd bring back: dross
I used this word recently and neither of my parents knew what it meant. It's a fantastically harsh-sounding word.

Word I'd get rid of: sheeple
A drossy word used solely by lummoxes. Kill it with fire. :mad:

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Loathe the word 'Portfolio'.

Haven't heard the word 'Tracker' in a while.

And 'Buffoon' should be used more as we all know plenty.

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