Words that are Seldom Used Today!

[Mike]

There weren't many "ess", words to begin with,
Conductress and Murderess come to mind.

Mike.

 

[ohioboy]

Lot of them:
Duchess
Baroness
Lioness
Tigress
Ingress
Egress

 

[StarSong]

freak out

oh what a drag

we use the words freak out all the time here. lol!

Here, too. Also, it's a drag or what a drag.

 

[StarSong]

Lot of them:
Duchess
Baroness
Lioness
Tigress
Ingress
Egress

More feminized words via "ess" suffixes that come to mind:
goddess
priestess
enchantress
princess

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[StarSong]

My crowd must be throwbacks. We use "splurge" a lot. Well, we did before the pandemic. Not so much splurging going on these days...

 

[Aunt Bea]

When I was a kid people used to use the term sawbuck and double sawbuck as slang for a $10.00 or a $20.00 dollar bill but you don't hear it much these days.

 

[StarSong]

When I was a kid people used to use the term sawbuck and double sawbuck as slang for a $10.00 or a $20.00 dollar bill but you don't hear it much these days.

I used to hear that a lot, too. Also two bits for 25¢. I think the expressions were more common in the northeast, though they've fallen out of favor now.

Do you remember hearing "fin" for $5?

 

[charry]

Whippersnapper

 

[Pinky]

"Copper" for our extinct penny.
Scallywag
Conniption

 

[StarSong]

Whippersnapper

I use whippersnapper as a joke with my grandkids. If one of them beats me at a game I'll say something like, "I'll get you next time, Whippersnapper!"

 

[Judycat]

Washstand and chamber pot.

 

[Chet]

How do you do? They said that a lot when meeting someone in a western I watched from the 1930's. Now its hello, hi or what's up?

 

[OneEyedDiva]

Please
Thank You

Don't know where you're from but I'm still hearing these words fairly frequently.

@Mike and @StarSong I don't like the use of actor when denoting an actress. I don't think I'll ever get used to it.

 

[MrPants]

Don't know where you're from but I'm still hearing these words fairly frequently.

The place I reside in is stated under my profile pic. See to the right of location.
My profile pic is sort of a clue as to where that might be (and no, it's not Alaska lol).

 

[OneEyedDiva]

The place I reside in is stated under my profile pic. See to the right of location.
My profile pic is sort of a clue as to where that might be (and no, it's not Alaska lol).

Well see..going by your profile pic, Alaska may have been my first pick. LOL I have no idea where Iqaluit is! Never heard of it. Oh wait...I just "Googled" it. You mean people in Canada are not as polite as we Americans??!! And I live in the inner city too.

 

[Mike]

@Mike and @StarSong I don't like the use of actor when denoting an actress. I don't think I'll ever get used to it.

I don't either, in fact I don't like the dropping of all
the differentiating words that I grew up with.

Mike.

 

[Mike]

"Common Law", husband or wife.

Mike.

 

[Mike]

"Excuse Me", is dying here, today people say "Sorry",
then still push past/through you.

Mike.

 

[Lara]

"That's so Rad"

 

[RadishRose]

How do you do? They said that a lot when meeting someone in a western I watched from the 1930's. Now its hello, hi or what's up?

How do you do in old movies. Never made any sense to me. How do you do...what? What is the reply? I do very well?

Then I guess it got to be howdy-do, or just howdy, LOL.

 

[ohioboy]

"Common Law", husband or wife.

Mike.

In the U.S. most states have done away with common law shack up recognition.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

Like @StarSong I still hear, read & say splurge quite a bit.

 

[RadishRose]

Made in the shade
Cruisin' for a bruisin'
Heavy
Shindig
Hootnanny

 

[StarSong]

Made in the shade
Cruisin' for a bruisin'
Heavy
Shindig
Hootnanny

I use a lot of those words and phrases as intentional throwbacks.