Words that are Seldom Used Today!

[Mike]

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

Hoot'nanny is the name of a music programme
on BBC TV with Jools Holland.

I have heard the others, except "Made in the Shade".

Mike.

 

[dobielvr]

handle it...

Can you handle it?

 

[StarSong]

handle it...

Can you handle it?

You don't hear this expression anymore? Interesting... I hear it frequently.

 

[dobielvr]

You don't hear this expression anymore? Interesting... I hear it frequently.

No, i really don't...unless i say it...lol

 

[Pinky]

Flabbergasted

Took the wind out of my sails

 

[SetWave]

You don't hear this expression anymore? Interesting... I hear it frequently.

My dad's favorite expression, "Handle it. Handle it. Handle it."

 

[Capt Lightning]

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

People used to use the term 'common law', though I don't think it ever had legal recognition. In Scotland, there was an 'irregular' form of marriage by 'habit and repute'.

 

[ohioboy]

People used to use the term 'common law', though I don't think it ever had legal recognition. In Scotland, there was an 'irregular' form of marriage by 'habit and repute'.

Ohio abrogated common law marriage in 1991, see: (B) (1). Exceptions apply. Common law simply means made law by judicial or court rulings, not statute.

https://law.justia.com/codes/ohio/2006/orc/jd_310512-a38f.html.

 

[Aunt Bea]

My grandmother used the word muss quite often but I don't hear it in conversation these days.

verb - make (someone's hair or clothes) untidy or messy.
"she sat down carefully so she wouldn't muss her clothes"

noun - a state of disorder.
"no fuss, no muss—nothing left behind except a few little specks of dust"

 

[RubyK]

Dowager - Stolen from Word Of The Day Forum.
I've seen it in novels but never actually heard anyone say it.

 

[StarSong]

I've seen it in novels but never actually heard anyone say it

Same here.

 

[Mike]

Dowager is used by the press here RubyK, usually when
referring to a widow of a member of the "Gentry", another
word, which less used today.

Mike.

 

[mrstime]

Some years ago I worked in a convenience store, I caught a little boy of about 12 trying to steal something. My very young boss asked what had happened. I told her I caught the kid trying to filch something, whereupon she asked what filch meant.

 

[RubyK]

I'm sure I have never heard anyone use the word Filch. What an interesting word.

 

[mrstime]

I'm sure I have never heard anyone use the word Filch. What an interesting word.

Well am 81 and I was raised by my grandparents So I probably learned it at their knee.

 

[Ruthanne]

Far out

Don't have a cow

Begeebers

 

[ohioboy]

Your mama wears combat boots

 

[Ruthanne]

Ragamuffin

 

[horseless carriage]

Did you ever hear the word: "Blowse?" Not to be confused with the garment: "Blouse." If you’re constantly running out of the house with your hair all askew, leaving your phone forgotten on the kitchen table, and forgetting your keys, you might be a blowse. In Ye Olde England a blowse actually referred almost solely to an unkempt woman, but I think in our modern times we can apply it to almost anyone!

 

[Mike]

I'm sure I have never heard anyone use the word Filch. What an interesting word.

Well am 81 and I was raised by my grandparents So I probably learned it at their knee.

Filch is often used here when referring to petty theft, such
as office things like a pen or pencil etc.

Mike.

 

[StarSong]

Filch is often used here when referring to petty theft, such
as office things like a pen or pencil etc.

Mike.

I have read "filch" many times and certainly knew its meaning, but it's not part of the broadly used US popular spoken language.

Never heard "blowse."

 

[Mike]

Forlorn is another one, usually only used in books.

Mike.

 

[Aunt Bea]

pine - to feel very sad because one wants (something) or because one is not with (someone).

 

[mrstime]

Did you ever hear the word: "Blowse?" Not to be confused with the garment: "Blouse." If you’re constantly running out of the house with your hair all askew, leaving your phone forgotten on the kitchen table, and forgetting your keys, you might be a blowse. In Ye Olde England a blowse actually referred almost solely to an unkempt woman, but I think in our modern times we can apply it to almost anyone!

I have used blowsey when describing a certain type of woman.

It seems to me that I am very very old fashioned in my speech.

 

[horseless carriage]

Some think that blowse and brass are similar. It's probably more regional to London, an old brass was a vulgar expression to describe a woman of loose morals. Blowsey is more of a scatterbrain.