What words are gone from the past?

[Tom 86]

A couple I remember well.
Bamboozled
Skedaddle

 

[Marie5656]

thing-a-ma-jig
23-ski-doo

 

[Ken N Tx]

whactacallit

thingamabob

 

[ohioboy]

Guldurnit.

 

[WheatenLover]

Those words aren't missing. They are with me! Except for 23 skidoo - haven't worked that into a conversation yet.

 

[Fyrefox]

What’s buzzin’, Cousin?
See you later, alligator!
Sock it to me!
Here comes the judge!

 

[fmdog44]

Phone booth
Telephone
Dial
Phone Book
TV Repair

 

[hollydolly]

A couple I remember well.
Bamboozled
Skedaddle

we use them here still.. especially skedaddle and thingamajig..

..however being British we have thousands of years of words which have disappeared ...and many we've lost even just since Victorian times...What gets me is why words which are already in use , are given a different meaning .. and used to mean something else entirely..

ie..

Gay..
Sad
Sick
Karen
Queer
..and hundreds of others...You'd think there would be enough letters in the alphabet to create new words..

 

[MrPants]

Although it's not a single word, I can't remember the last time I heard anyone mention having a 'party line'.

 

[Pinky]

spazzy

 

[hollydolly]

spazzy

I don't know what that means in Canada, Pinks... but here it's used as a derogatory word for people who are disabled...

 

[Pinky]

I don't know what that means in Canada, Pinks... but here it's used as a derogatory word for people who are disabled...

We used it as teenagers, but I never knew what it meant .. what does it mean over there? I remember the Italian kids used to say "spazzola" or something like that.

My husband just told me what it means. Now I'm embarrassed

 

[CinnamonSugar]

Carbon paper or carbon copy

 

[timoc]

Clobber ...... as in clobbering someone (hitting or defeating), but in the north of England 'clobber' is clothing. ie, putting my best clobber on.

 

[Mr. Ed]

Every word spoken as in past tense.

 

[Manatee]

Goombah

 

[HoneyNut]

Phone booth
Telephone
Dial

Like this old YouTube video, if kids didn't know seven years ago, it must only be worse now...

 

[Jackie23]

Spiffy...as in..."You look spiffy today."

 

[dseag2]

we use them here still.. especially skedaddle and thingamajig..

..however being British we have thousands of years of words which have disappeared ...and many we've lost even just since Victorian times...What gets me is why words which are already in use , are given a different meaning .. and used to mean something else entirely..

ie..

Gay..
Sad
Sick
Karen
Queer
..and hundreds of others...You'd think there would be enough letters in the alphabet to create new words..

We still use those words in the US, but now they have a different meaning... especially "Karen".

 

[dseag2]

Overhead projectors, carousel projectors, cassette tapes, VCR's, console TVs, "hooligans", "n'er do-wells".

Thank god Joe Biden brought back "malarkey".

 

[Kaila]

mimeographs....

Shucks!

 

[Gaer]

Hoochi-Koochi

Hotsy- Totsy

Boogie-Woogie

Ooga-Ooga horn

"Gee, You're SWELL!"

"Oh Yeah?" "Yeah!"

linolieum
davenport

"You're so square."

 

[Murrmurr]

Fortnight.

Oh wait...no.
Forsooth.

 

[Murrmurr]

We used it as teenagers, but I never knew what it meant .. what does it mean over there? I remember the Italian kids used to say "spazzola" or something like that.

My husband just told me what it means. Now I'm embarrassed

In California, spazzy means uncoordinated. My granddaughter Ariel, for example.
Also we used it to refer to someone who's kind of all over the place. Not physically, but like, totally unfocused, can't stick to one topic, hard to follow, that sort of thing.

But, yeah, it's short for spastic; involuntary muscle movements; and it is derogatory.

 

[dobielvr]

knucklehead