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History is full of fun, fascinating old school slang terms that are well overdue for a comeback. Here are 83 words you’ll want to start using, adapted from an episode of The List Show on YouTube....
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- Wisenheimer. If you smugly thought you were just a little bit smarter than everybody else during the 1900s, you might have had this insult hurled at you—which, to our modern ears, sounds an awful lot like a hot dog brand.
- Knuckle sandwich. We're sure this '40s-era slang—an expressive way of describing a fist that's prepared to punch you right in the face—is intended to be intimidating.
- Arf'arf'an'arf. When loosely translated, this British term gives us another word for being embarrassingly intoxicated. And, when used correctly, represents the exact moment your drunk brain has had enough—and when the English language is no longer accessible.
- Ducky shincracker. Maybe we live in the wrong era, but when we think of cracking shins, the first thing that comes to mind isn't "they must be a good dancer."
- Germsville. In the '50s, when you got sick, you didn't "come down with something." You ended up on a one-way street to germsville (the doctor's office).
- Beat feet. When you have to get away fast, usually because you've done something wrong, it's time to beat feet the heck out of there. Just think of your feet like they're the hands of a jazz drummer.
- Cruisin' for a bruisin' The '50s had their own version of "a face that's just begging to be punched." Example: "That dude is so annoying, he's cruisin' for a bruisin'."
- Made in the shade. Today, being in the shade means you're avoiding sun damage to your skin. But in the '50s, being made in the shade meant things are going well for you and you don't have a care in the world.
- Afternoon Farmer
- Chuckle Head
- FOP, Foppish, Foppling, Fop-Doodle
- Gadabout
- Gentleman of Four Outs
- Go-Alonger
- Heathen Philosopher
- Spoony
- Unlicked Cub
- Theodore Roosevelt’s Insults
A laggard; a farmer who rises late and is behind in his chores; hence, anyone who loses his opportunities.
Much the same as “buffle head,” “cabbage head,” “chowder head,” “cod’s head” — all signifying stupidity and weakness of intellect; a fool.
A man of small understanding and much ostentation; a pretender; a man fond of show, dress, and flutter; an impertinent: foppery is derived from fop, and signifies the kind of folly which displays itself in dress and manners: to be foppish is to be fantastically and affectedly fine; vain; ostentatious; showy, and ridiculous: foppling is the diminuti...
A person who moves or travels restlessly or aimlessly from one social activity or place to another, seeking pleasure; a trapesing gossip; as a housewife seldom seen at home, but very often at her neighbor’s doors.
When a vulgar, blustering fellow asserts that he is a gentleman, the retort generally is, “Yes, a gentleman of four outs,” that is, without wit, without money, without credit, and without manners.
A simple, easy person, who suffers himself to be made a fool of, and is readily persuaded to any act or undertaking by his associates, who inwardly laugh at his folly.
One whose buttocks may be seen through his pocket-hole; this saying arose from the old philosophers, many of whom despised the vanity of dress to such a point as often to fall into the opposite extreme.
Foolish, half-witted, nonsensical; it is usual to call a very prating shallow fellow, a “rank spoon.”
A loutish youth who has never been taught manners; from the tradition that a bear’s cub, when brought into the world, has no shape or symmetry until its mother licks it into form with her tongue; ill-trained, uncouth, and rude.
“Being who belongs to the cult of non-virility”“Classical ignoramus”“Fragrant man swine”“Handshake like a wilted petunia”- Brett And Kate Mckay
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