Terms Which Have Disappeared

[Inkstainedwretch]

Bounder! Jackanapes!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Blackguard! Mucker!

 

[skydog757]

Layabout! Sluggard!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Rogue! Upstart! Scalawag!

 

[2jakes]

Sufferin' sucatash!
Godfrey Daniels!
Namby pamby!

 

[ChiTownScion]

Rogue! Upstart! Scalawag!

Reminds me of a 1970 article in my prep school's newspaper that referred to our conduct at a football game as that of "upstart and unruly sophomores." Thus originated our game cheer:

"U-P-S-T-A-R-T!
Are we upstart? Hell, YES !!"

And every five years at class reunions, to the embarrassment of our wives, we old geezers still chant it.

 

[Stanley Doble]

Mountebank! Huckster!

 

[skydog757]

Dolt! Buffoon! Lout! (This is starting to sound a lot like Thanksgiving at my In-Laws . . .)

 

[Bertie.Wooster]

Blasphemy! is one very good classic British phrase, which I think has disappeared from literature and aural speech. I try to keep it alive by saying it in matching situations hehe.

 

[Fading Fast]

Ingenue

Bolter (a particular favorite of mine)

 

[skydog757]

Blasphemy! is one very good classic British phrase, which I think has disappeared from literature and aural speech. I try to keep it alive by saying it in matching situations hehe.

It's not a word said lightly, therefore it carries some weight and gets attention. I'm going to have to start applying it in timely moments. Thanks for reminding me.

 

[Zombie_61]

Dolt! Buffoon! Lout! (This is starting to sound a lot like Thanksgiving at my In-Laws . . .)

Along these lines, "dullard", though I'm not sure it was ever used commonly, have only heard it once or twice in movies, and I've never heard anyone use it in real life but me.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

Interestingly, the ones ending in "ard" are all pejoratives: dullard, laggard, sluggard, coward, ba***rd, and the ever-misunderstood "niggard" ( a miser or cheapskate, not what it sounds like).

 

[Stearmen]

Blasphemy! is one very good classic British phrase, which I think has disappeared from literature and aural speech. I try to keep it alive by saying it in matching situations hehe.

It is used quite often in the custom motorcycle world! If for instance, one company's engine is put into another company's frame, especially, if there was a fierce rivalry between the two company's.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Rogue! Upstart! Scalawag!

From Knight-Mare Hare (1955)

Bugs Bunny: "Whosoever art thou, in thy cast-iron (pronounced "eye-run") tuxedo?"

Knight: "I knave, am Sir O of K, Earl of Watercress, Sir Osis of the Liver, Knight of the Garter, and Baron of Wooster-cester-shister-shyster-schuster-shuster-shister-shire... shire."

Bugs: "Hey, look, pressure cooker. I bet you know a lot of my friends. Ooh! Like, uh, Duke of Ellington, Count of Basie, Earl of Hines, Cab of Calloway, Satchmo of Armstrong."

Knight: "Upstarts and rogues!"

 

[Harp]

Paddy wagon.

Still used in Chicago.

 

[skydog757]

Has anyone said "No Dice" or "Fat Chance" recently?

 

[LizzieMaine]

I called somebody of outmoded, moss-covered views a "back issue" today and raised a look of puzzlement.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

How long has it been since somebody was accused of being a "masher"?

 

[skydog757]

I called somebody of outmoded, moss-covered views a "back issue" today and raised a look of puzzlement.

That's part of the reason certain phrases have disappeared; when you have to explain to someone what the term means (and it's origin) it disrupts the flow of the conversation. I enjoy enlightening younger people and getting a spark of recognition from people of a certain age, but after a while you start to self edit.