Old-Fashioned Words and Phrases
 

They don't make 'em like they used to! What are some of your favorites?



fisticuffs - combat with the fists

* The participants could not resolve their differences and the debate ended in fisticuffs.











(old fashioned – [noun] a cocktail made with whiskey, bitters, water, and sugar, and garnished with citrus-fruit slices and a cherry.)

"Patch me through"


:D :D :D

courting...

caddywhompus - crooked, broken, bent, sideways, damaged

* I sat on my glasses and now they are all caddywhompus.

:rolleyes:
 

my mother's favorite to just about anything my sister would do; "you're slower than molasses in January" :rolleyes:

Trousers

*as in, pants

OR (better yet):

the phrase, "All talk and no trousers" - Blustering and boastful, showing off without having the qualities to justify it.
(I must credit Sparkle with bringing this use of trousers into my daily lexicon)

Twit.

My Mother must have called me that a million times!

"Trip the light fantastic" means to dance really well...

twitterpated


1)to be completely enamored with someone/something.
2) the flighty exciting feeling you get when you think about/see the object of your affection.
3) romantically excited (i.e.: aroused)
4) the ever increasing acceleration of heartbeat and body temperature as a result of being engulfed amidst the exhilaration and joy of being/having a romantic entity in someone's life.

When he smiled at her, the rush of warm, fuzzy, excited sensations that filled her made her realize she was completely twitterpated with this man.

press = closet

redd out = clean up

redd up = clear the table

smearcase = cottage cheese


uh, unless nobody else ever heard those.....

He was all over that "like white on rice."

I don't know where the hell that came from, but I run into it once in a while here in Maine.

In like Flynn

Faster then a herd of turtles or Off like a herd of turtles.
Gone done it.

Please...and thank you

The best thing since sliced bread....(what was the best thing before sliced bread?)

Golly Gee Willikers that's neat!

from my other mama, just the other day... "Amanda are you still 'pining'?"

A friend of mine asked me the other day if I was "settin' my cap" for someone....

Setting your cap is to fall in lurve and start flirting with them so they know you're into them. :sunglass:

My parents had me later in life and were older than the average,so I use to hear these old slang words regularly in the house:
Take a powder-Leave
Beat it. Leave
He's a good egg.
Bohunk- A derogatory name for an Eastern Europeon immigrant
Bootlegger-Dealer in illegal liquor
She was a tough old bird.
Knocked up.-To make pregnant
He wants to make her.- To make love/sex.
Dang my onery hide.
Mooch
Sap-Fool
Take a snort.-A drink
Up the road a piece
Floozy-Promiscuous woman
High brow- Geek
Blue nose-Snob

It must have been The Wheel. Before that? Fire.
At least that is my take.

"Going steady."

D'awww.

Caliginous [kuh-lij-uh-nuhs] - misty; dim; dark

*The long abandoned house had a caliginous aura.


I first heard this word as a child in the film The Wizard of Oz when the wizard refers to the Tin Man as a "clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk". I asked my mom what it meant and she told me to look it up (apparently she did not know either). I remember deciding that it didn't really fit in that sentence and was only put there for the alliteration. That has always bothered me.

"Lady friend"

term used by:
1) people who are in their 80's
2) betenoire :|

Gentleman caller

"It's time to blow this pop stand".

My mother's way of saying she is ready to leave a location.

haha yes... and the ever (no longer) popular kittywampus

personal fave
 

so descriptive
 

expressions I use in class quite frequently