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OT Obsolete terms


Got me to wondering where that word came from. I've heard it over the years and always wondered why they called jeans dungarees. Found out it's a Hindi word from the dockside village of Dongri. Cheap cotton cloth somtimes colored blue.

My favorites are ones I heard growing up. Over Yonder, Up the road a Fur Piece, and knucklehead.
 
I don't know that they're obsolete as much as they just are not very often. Now knucklehead as two definitions one of which defines a motorcycle the other someone that just doesn't get it. Which the more acceptable term "knucklehead" or "dumbs**t".
 
To do away with something; get shed of it. Well, shut my mouth. I called myself a looking. Well, cut my legs off and call me shorty. Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit. Much obliged.
 
same as the blacks begin called the N word but they where from the country of Niger pretty simple to see it was not in insult that's where they were from
 
That name came from the Spanish / portuguese / latin word for black separately from how Nigeria got its name from the river Gir.
 
Some one who doesn't know. " Could you please show me how to do this?" Now a stupid fool will just go and break everything. Was helping a neighbor with a little fix it job. One of his idiot friends comes by, picks up the pliers, and promptly breaks the gizmo we were working on.
 
I still use the term dungarees*. My family gives me a hard time, but (as the kids say) "whatever". I also get grief for using the term "walloped".

* This term is useful to tell my teenage daughter what to wear to help me in the garage or pasture. "Jeans" are apparently now expensive, stretchy things things that look like they'd melt if brought too close to a welder. Dungarees means wranglers or similar, not "dress" jeans.
 
My father used to refer to the fridge or refrigerator (why does the abbreviated term have a "D"?) as the "ice box" as it was literally a box with ice that was used when he was a child.

Audy home is another one. A term for a juvenile detention facility. It might just be a Chicago area term.

I notice there are no longer orphanages, that the facilities are usually some sort of center. In fact, orphaned children are seldom referred to as orphans.

Friction tape, though often sold as friction tape is usually called athletic tape or some other term.

No one talks about 8 tracks any longer for some odd reason.

I can't remember the last time someone said don't touch that dial.

We don't seem to have Kodak moments any longer.
 

Whump Knot as in "Boy gonna give you whump knot up side the head if you don't straighten up"

Goose Egg - He fell down and done gave himself a goose egg on the head.

Tickle me Pink

Gum Band (rubber band)

Just a few that I thought of
 
That is a term I first heard down in Cumberland,MD. Oopsey daisey. Wellll illl be! A real hand brake. Lock up the binders. That is when the brake band went around the drive shaft or the Outside of the rear drums. Have worked on both.
 

Heard the toilet referred to as "the crapper" by some old-timers. Pretty sure that was a manufacturer of the things but haven't googled it.
 
in days before my time of chopping cotton and picking by hand, the field hands were taken to the field in a wagon and then leave, at the end of the day the wagon would return to pick up the hands, thus; waiting on the wagon.
 
My Dad called them dungarees too, as well as britches

Here is some more country vocabulary: (I could go on and on)
Maters = tomatoes
Taters = tomatoes
Home brew = hooch
Clod hoppers = shoes, brogans
Skedaddle = leave in a hurry

Ya'll ought to hang around me and my associates, I guarantee you will learn the proper English language
 
A good friend and neighbor had several things he would use from time to time. He would say if I can't do it, grits ain't groceries. If something was giving him trouble and he figured it out sometimes he would act surprised and say Well patch my drawers! He has been gone since 2011 and the whole community still misses him a lot. A good friend to everyone he met.
 
Hello riverslim,

Okey dokey, swell, golly, g wiz, yo nelly, Jese louise, good and tight, torqued up,

Guido.
 
dad in law used to say he had a pain across his "git worser", he had to go before it got worser. when eating a good snack he said it had a "moorish" taste, made you want more.
 
Ted ...... Thomas Crapper certainly contributed a ton of design and inventions to modern sewage systems and plumbing, but the flush toilet wasn't one of them. Lots of internet searching will confirm this. Where did I first find out about Thomas Crapper? Well, believe it or not my downstairs toilet is a Thomas Crapper brand, it's company brand logo is embedded right in the porcelain just like you might see Crane or American Standard, etc. I bought that toilet back in the 1980's on sale at a local hardware sale. Never heard of the guy till then (but often used the term "the crapper" for a toilet) but a little booklet came with the toilet and it had a bunch of stuff about Mr. Crapper and his contributions, but even that booklet clarified that someone else had invented the flush toilet and not our friend Tom. Here's a link which is quick to read, if you Google Thomas Crapper, a lot more info on his life can be found.
Thomas Crapper ....
 
" How are you?" answer " just hunky dory" . I used that this week at the "market " one of the "clerks" stated that she hadn't heard that for a long time. Also " fair to middlen" . colder than a witch North of Nome. Hotter than a fox in a forest fire. And my favorite fetch me a krosnick. joe
 
My mother was from Nova Scotia ..... she used to use the term "dear" for something that was expensive. So maybe something like "Those new cars are certainly dear" ....... not sure if I've ever heard that used for a long, long time.
 
Posted by wgm on May 09, 2018 at 14:43:13 from (216.176.152.185):
In Reply to: OT Obsolete terms posted by riverslim on May 09, 2018 at 08:29:02:
Please and thank you

Well said wgm.

And one more: Thank you for your business....
 
"...Flinstones, meet the Flinstones...blah, blah, blah, blah...a dabba doo time, a yabba doo time, they'll have a gay old time".

If Wilma and Betty only knew what Fred and Barney were really up to.

Mark
 
Now that I think about it, "blue jeans" is also not used much anymore.Mom would occasionally threaten to "jerk a knot in your tail" !
 
My dad and I would be working on something and he'd tell me to "step on the starter" to see if it would run.
 
My Dad used to say don't have a ship conniption if he thought someone was really over reacting lol
 
Guido,

Okie dokie still lives on... as does Geez Louise!, and hunky-dory.
Just ask our kids based on my text messages to them. :)
 
" Supper"...no one seems to know when it is anymore. When someone says come over for "dinner" I tell them it's already too late. LOL
 
tarvie, as in "should I stay on the gravel road or come home on the tarvie" Had an employee always called black top road tarvie.
 
Foot feed replaced by foot throttle or gas pedal.

Used to be that when you said "thank you" to someone they replied "you're welcome". Now days a lot of people say "no problem" which really irks me.
 
Turn on the light?its been a long time since they made light switches that you turn instead of flipping up.
 
"Doty", referring to a rotten or pithy place in a board or a tree. My dad, when he saw an exceptionally tall slender man, would say, "They had to split that ole boy a long ways to find a doty place to make his a**."

Old country folks always referred to their front porch as the "gallery".
 
My father used to say we need to put a quiatus on that activity. I also liked, can't never could do nothing.
 
My wife's cousin and also our neighbor would always say, "Well, I declare" when something amazed him. In the same fashion that Gomer Pyle would say "Gollee". In his later years he shortened it to, "Well, I 'claire".
 
One of the best men in our community when I was growing up when you asked him what he had been doing he would answer just goughing around he was in his early forties when his wife got pregnant with their fourth child another one of the men in the community saw him at the old country store after finding out he had another one on the way jokingly said Clifton looks like you have been goughing around again.
 
Ton of history too the word that is still developing.

I haven't read the wikipedia article but took it in french classes many years ago as theres some french words that sound very close to a slur and they had to explain the difference in origins.
 
Spade is just a type of shovel that is not used much any more as it is designed for trenching and will be longer than a standard dirt shovel and 5-6" wide straight.
 
Several friends with NO REFRIGERATOR just the ICE BOXES in the kitchen. And they cut the ice off their ponds.
 

"Suc*ing the hind teat" When a sow has more piglets than teats to feed them, the runts were said to be suc*ing hind teat. My dad used it anytime someone was left out, cheated or other wise got less than others.
 

If you use the word "drummer" today, people will understand you're talking about someone who plays drums--like me. Early part of the last century drummers were salesmen--who "drummed up" business. Could probably guess from the context what kind of drummer was being referenced.
 
They keep coming to mind: i was in basic training with those that were from up north aways and they referred to a water fountain as a "bubbler" and a bottle of cola as a "pop". Quite different for us Southern boys.
 
Schoolhouse for school

Grandma would ask us if we needed a Scottie (Kleenex) or if we wanted some rice candy (Rice crispy bars)

Thongs were flip-flops back in the day.

Dad would tell us to remind him to update his prescriptions to his magazines:)

Crying in a bucket.

Lord love a Duck.

That boy is homely (ugly).
 
One of my sons saw an "inner city" person in a fast food joint with a T -shirt that read," Head Nigerian In Charge." (So to speak) Gotta laugh.
 
(quoted from post at 13:29:06 05/09/18) same as the blacks begin called the N word but they where from the country of Niger pretty simple to see it was not in insult that's where they were from
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That's a slippery slope to claim. Most references to that term actually stem from the Latin word for "black", including the European names for places in Africa. Niger wasn't even a country yet, and period European maps dont label it as such. Regardless, to suggest that people dont use the color of someones skin or the place of their origin as an insult is pretty ignorant. You can't simply claim because something is a fact, that it isn't used in a condescending tone and as an insult. Sounds an awful lot like justification to me, and I'm about as far from a SJW snowflake as you can get..
 
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