What's the weirdest word or turn of phrase you've used recently?
Inspired by something I said last night when complaining about an achievement at work and the only way I could think to describe it was "pure frippery."
Last week a coworker described a restaurant as being "kitty-corner" from our office. Took me forever to figure out what they meant
I used the phrase "tilting at windmills" when discussing current politics and got looked at like an insane person.
No one reads anymore, apparently.
Aww I loved that book when we read it in school
Heh. Back in my youth in the 1990s I used dated slang ironically and now it is part of my daily vocabulary. Neither myself or anybody else can tell if it is ironic or not. Now I'm just a middle aged man speaking in a weird capitol city dialect in the second largest city, which by the locals is a crime on its own.
That's shits tubular, yo!
Yesterday I learned the word Steez from my son in high school.
Still not completely sure what it means, but I believe it's something between a dork and a douche.
So back in the 90s "steez" was your overall style. Like "this dude's steez is off the chain." But it's not just style but also hutzpha, so "check this steez yo, fresh shells smoking a blunt on the street"
Idk what it means today but this old head used to have steez but then I got old and now I just sneeze rimshot I'll be here all night folks.
Long post just to ask, is that still what it means?
Edit: forgot a part
I've heard steeze in snowboard / Park rat culture. Though it's a bit dated it means like, style/vibe/look
My parents emigrated from Aus/NZ just before I was born, so I inherited a bunch of weird down-under, outdated vocabulary.
"What are you fossicking around in the pantry for?" "Did you find a few skerrigs of chocolate?" "I need to use the dunny." "That guy in car dealership was apoplectic."
Lots of other turns of phrase, but - with the possible exception of "dunny" are legit words.
EDIT: OK. A few others, I still use 'blasted' as an adjective. If my kids do something ridiculous, "Jesus wept, child," sometimes comes out of my mouth. Then a bunch of, "running around like a sprayed blowfly," or, "wandering around like a lost soul."
I'm a cultural Kiwi and don't recognize half of these.
In the case of dunny, I was trained on calling it the loo.
apoplectic
Legitimately one of my favourite words.
I used rigamarole in an email to a colleague today. And I regularly use kerfuffle.
Peripatetic = walking person. By "use" i mean read and looked it up im dictionary
No fair if you're a nurse
One of my new favorites when trying to decide if something is worth doing - “Is the juice worth the squeeze?”
That’s gotta be very old
I use the phrase "wide-awake nightmare" kind of a lot.
At least I know where I picked it up from, the Screaming Skull episode of MST3k.
Shit of a beast
To use the word cozy as a verb. To coze or to be cozed.
Cozy is already a verb
verb
INFORMAL
Sure but that’s not coze or cozed.
Dropped a Tom Swifty on my wife... the other day.
"They want me to check in at the hospital..."
"She said admittedly."
I got "the look".
'Spasmodic'. A boy walked in the sidewalk and he showed signs of having cerebral palsy.. Somehow that word popped up and it surprised me how topical that word was and that I don't realize how I know the word.
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