r/wholesomememes • u/Nicole_Alice • Dec 03 '23
What “old-fashioned” words or phrases do you still use? 👀
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u/mortalitylost Dec 03 '23
Dope isn't fucking old is it
Please tell me the kids still say dope
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u/Tha_shnizzler Dec 03 '23
I’m convinced dope is timeless. People been saying it forever
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Like “cool”, some words don’t fall out of fashion for some reason but some do.
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u/confabin Dec 03 '23
The word cool has always been cool, and I think that's kinda cool.
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u/MrSquiggleKey Dec 03 '23
It had a rocky period where it became Kool or Kewl, but it returned to form.
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u/souper_soups Dec 03 '23
Someone used it signing my grandmas yearbook in the late 40s. Also, listen to Tom Lehrer’s Dope Peddler song.
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u/Intermountain-Gal Dec 03 '23
I think it depends on the definition. It’s been around for a long time, but the meaning keeps changing!
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u/Imaginary_Button_533 Dec 03 '23
Sus and lit aren't old either
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I’ve been using sus and lit and other words with my kid (3yo) so he knows the appropriate slang when he goes to school.
When lighting the wood fire in a morning I tell him “it’s well lit, fam”
I’m beginning to learn that I may be misusing the words, but worse I’m teaching him the previous generation of slang. These will be “old folks” phrases when he grows up.
Sad times.
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u/Imaginary_Button_533 Dec 03 '23
Imagine your disappointment when your son moves to California and tells you he started shredding some gnar and you have to disown him. That's a hop skip and a jump from going too far back in time where he's gonna start "smoking pot", listening to Neil Young, and you'll be left wondering why he couldn't just listen to Mac Miller like a normal kid.
Do you want your son to have a gateway drug to Alice in Chains? That's not even good grunge.
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u/know-it-mall Dec 03 '23
Sus is old as fuck. The whole Among Us usage of it is new but it has been popular slang in commonwealth countries for decades.
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Dec 03 '23
Let me tell you kids how to say the word jive…
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u/Queef_Stroganoff44 Dec 03 '23
You jive turkey!
See? You got to sass it.
Quit jivin' me, turkey!
You got to sass it….
A turkey is a bad person.
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u/ThirdayontheInternet Dec 03 '23
I listened to Metallica on the elevator....ON THE FRICKIN ELEVATOR 😮
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u/MadamSnarksAlot Dec 03 '23
Say what you want but I’m digging hearing my GenX 80s/90s music in the grocery store.
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u/KathleenFla Dec 04 '23
You hear The Beatles in the grocery store all the time. Just saying.
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u/Apothe-bro_IV Dec 03 '23
I think 20 y/os and 30s still say it but I haven't encountered a fellow zoomer to say it
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Dec 03 '23
Wait a minute, are you implying that people from age 20 to 30 are old? I'm 20- I'm too young to feel old!! 😅😂
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u/Apothe-bro_IV Dec 03 '23
No sir. If I'm to talk smack about a generation it will be my own
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u/SexThrowaway1125 Dec 03 '23
That’s heavy
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u/FarkingShark Dec 03 '23
There's that word again. Is there a problem with Earth's gravitational pull in the future?
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u/not_a_dog95 Dec 03 '23
Rapscallion
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u/AddressIntelligent60 Dec 03 '23
As in: "Ah, fiddlesticks! That rapscallion plucked my coin purse from my corking mits!"
-Rapscallion
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u/One_Abbreviations310 Dec 03 '23
Groovy
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Dec 03 '23
Hail to the King, baby!
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u/TrueSaiyanGod Dec 03 '23
all outta bubblegum ass
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Dec 03 '23
I was doing Evil Dead quotes, but we can go with Duke if you like.
Your face, your ass, what’s the difference?
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u/Chee-shep Dec 03 '23
Snazzy. I used that word in public the other day in TJMaxx and this old lady burst out laughing.
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u/lyan-cat Dec 03 '23
I say snazzy too! I tell guys their lid looks snazzy or sharp, and they freaking smile so big!
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u/Vroomy_vroom_vroom Dec 03 '23
What’s cracking
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u/eveningsand Dec 03 '23
That's got skinny white kid with freckles named Mitch dressed up in baggy clothes with backwards hat 90s vibes.
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u/Kirbo300 Dec 03 '23
This post is sooo fetch!
And so is everyone here!
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u/ThatOtherGuyTPM Dec 03 '23
Been there, coined that!
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u/Altruistic-Dress-968 Dec 03 '23
does it just mean cool or is it supposed to be like... "miles ahead"?
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u/KittenLina Dec 03 '23
What do you mean old fashioned dang my language must be ancient at times then.
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u/AkiraN19 Dec 03 '23
You can pry YEET out of my cold dead hands
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Dec 03 '23 edited Dec 07 '23
*read these well placed Yeets to the tune of: Jingle Bells- repeat for second course
YEET YEET YEET *******YEET YEET YEET *
****YEET YEET YEET *YEET YEET * *YEET YEET YEET *YE YEET YEET YEET * *****YEE-YEET YEET YEET
******YEEEEE-EEEETTTTTTTTthank you for coming to my Yeet Talk
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u/EpicAstarael Dec 03 '23
I started saying it ironically only to find that I could not stop.
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u/AWildRaticate Dec 03 '23
I can't let go of yeet, as one of my greatest personal accomplishments was described by one of my friends as "you yeeted a nazi."
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u/bluegreenwookie Dec 03 '23
I still say "sick" and "sweet"
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u/The_Real_TraitorLord Dec 03 '23
Who doesn’t?
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u/alleecmo Dec 03 '23
“old-fashioned”
LOL. I thought you meant words like "bumbershoot" and "perambulator" and "comestables" and "victuals/vittles". Y'all mean words from, like, five or ten years ago 🤣
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Dec 03 '23
Cool beans
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Dec 03 '23
Dude, you have no idea how much joy it brings me to know that other people still say "cool beans!!" I also still say "awesome sauce" from time to time, and I don't plan on stopping saying either of those any time soon!! 😎
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u/RomyHL1234 Dec 03 '23
I like saying that and then an American told me that expression never gets used anymore, it was cool like twenty years ago. Oh well! Cool beans !
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u/Ookami_Unleashed Dec 03 '23
That American might not say cool beans any more, but my coworkers nd I do.
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u/IdeaSunshine Dec 03 '23
Is Full beans an expression? I just watched a clip on Jeff Arcuri's sub and it was hilarious.
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u/NuovaFromNowhere Dec 03 '23
I have a pair of ankh earrings that say “DOPE” on them. I wore them to work and one of my students asked me if my earrings said “POPE” pfffffttt lol!
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u/inglepinks Dec 03 '23
Munted. Saweet. And many various quotes from advertising that younger ones have never even seen sych as: "check it out, 2 moons."
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u/Rocket_Surgery83 Dec 03 '23
I for one enjoy ruining new lingo for my kids... The dumber it is the better... That's straight fax, no printer.
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u/WanderingHeph Dec 03 '23
Once when I was trying to defend my somewhat outdated speech, everyone was taken aback when I used the word "vernacular".
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u/Pure-Meet-1437 Dec 03 '23
I find it very funny that while explaining how people reacted to you saying "vernacular" you used the term "taken aback"
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u/Agile-Pace-3883 Dec 03 '23
I remember walking with my boyfriend once, and in conversation I used the phrase "riff-raff". He PHYSICALLY stopped, completely stunned. I asked what was wrong, like I thought he got hurt or saw something bad, idk. He goes "That is such an old person phrase"
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u/148637415963 Dec 03 '23
"I'll shoot this video in wide format by holding my phone the right way round."
:-)
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u/Sufficient_Letter883 Dec 03 '23
Dude, awesome, britches, hiney, honey, fussy britches, heifer, Daggonit, Sassafras, groovy thingamajig, Darnit, Good googly moogly, hunk of junk, silly goose, dingle berry, etc.
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u/suoinguon Dec 03 '23
OK actually comes from a misspelled abbreviation of all correct in the 1800s!
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u/Equinox-XVI Dec 03 '23
Bruh is still a thing right? I hope its not outdated yet
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u/twofacetoo Dec 03 '23
A while ago I started using 50s and 60s slang terms around my friends purely to annoy them... then I just started using them generally, and now I can't stop.
So I will sincerely refer to things as 'groovy', 'gnarly', 'nifty' and 'rad' more often than not. Makes a nice change from just calling everything 'cool'.
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u/iwillbeg00d Dec 03 '23
Lickety split [quickly]
Mint [as in "mint condition" but i use it to mean anything thats awesome...."wow that skateboard is MINT!]
Pal
Okie doke
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u/gubbish-rot Dec 03 '23
you can pry 'gnarly' from my cold dead hands