Words that were once common, now gone extinct

[theophile]

Jitterbug.

 

[theophile]

Cosmonaut.

 

[theophile]

That was a popular song.

Even just the sound of it is something quite atrocious.

 

[spicer]

Even just the sound of it is something quite atrocious.

I agree and think that had something to do with it's popularity. It is atrocious sounding. Always thought so but didn't put it into words, just hung in the recesses as a feeling.

 

[theophile]

Umbrage

 

[theophile]

I agree and think that had something to do with it's popularity. It is atrocious sounding. Always thought so but didn't put it into words, just hung in the recesses as a feeling.

That was one of the lyrics of the song......

Mary Poppins - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Lyrics & Meaning

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious by Mary Poppins. This playful song celebrates the transformative power of an invented word that turns a shy…

www.songlyrics.com

 

[theophile]

I'm wishing now that last post ^ said

"If you say it loud enough you almost sound precocious"

 

[Shominy]

Cosmonaut.

Huh? They are still called that.

 

[theophile]

I know naut not.

 

[Hyperion]

Huh? They are still called that.

But it sounds 'old' - so that's cool, and - you can still visit the Baikonur Cosmodrome (in Kazakhstan), from where they were launched.

 

[highvoltage_]

Dumb as a box of hammers

About as sharp as a bowling ball.

 

[Lord Patrick]

Starting handle.

 

[Hyperion]

About young badly behaved children - 'Little Perishers'

 

[egellings]

When I was a kid they were bullets;
When I was in US Army they were rounds;
WHen I was back among the civies they were bullets (while I still used rounds);
Somewhere along the way - 90s ? -- they became ammo and I think that's where they still are.

They can still kill, whatever they're called. When you perforate a living thing with them, it usually dies.

 

[spicer]

That was one of the lyrics of the song......

Mary Poppins - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Lyrics & Meaning

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious by Mary Poppins. This playful song celebrates the transformative power of an invented word that turns a shy…

www.songlyrics.com

I never read the lyrics just heard the word. No wonder I didn't like it, the whole song is atrocious. Ahh... Hollywood shite, nothing more nothing less. It is atrocious. Totally bohemian.

 

[spicer]

I'm wishing now that last post ^ said

"If you say it loud enough you almost sound precocious"

Yeah, almost. It's an act.

 

[DeeCee]

Even Brian has his issues…

 

[ernieb1536]

The cat's meow.

No my cat meows every day !

 

[Shominy]

"PDQ"

 

[Quadman2]

S

Dumb as a box of hammers

Sounds like a guy I once knew who walked around with fixed upward hunched shoulders, and a sloped forehead.

If you asked him a simple question he'd reply, "Gee I don't know?" And when you gave him the answer, he's slap his head and say, "I should have known that!"

A lame joke. I know. Another old descriptor not used much these days.


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