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[–] consciouslyoblivious@lemmy.world 67 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Heh, I use it everyday

"I wish I was happy..."

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[–] yiliu@informis.land 50 points 2 years ago (6 children)

There was a podcast episode years back about how large quicksand loomed in popular culture for a whole generation, before vanishing as a concept almost completely.

And sure enough, I remember as a kid in the 80s worrying about stumbling into quicksand while wandering around the bushes in rural Canada.

Then I forgot about it as a concept until I heard it on that one episode, and I haven't heard it since.

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[–] Iamdanno@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Myrrh. I used to hear it as a kid in church. Haven't heard it in decades by now.

[–] blacklizardplanet@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Bro isn't playing enough Fire Emblem.

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[–] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I wish I could say the same. But my kids say it a lot..

"Antidisestablishmentarianism"

(To be fair, they like looking up words to see who can find the biggest ones.)

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[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ndr@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I say this almost daily lol

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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (9 children)
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[–] devious@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Cowabunga and tubular!

80s were a good time!

[–] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

Gnarly, dude.

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[–] Encode1307@lemm.ee 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] zero@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As a software developer, I actually use "truthy" and "falsy" pretty regularly for "the computer thinks this value is true/false"

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[–] Encode1307@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago
[–] JehovasThickness@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Discombobulate

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Vituperative. It's such a good word too.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, that's good. A new one for me!

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  vituperative
      adj 1: marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing
             remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative
             railing" [syn: {scathing}, {vituperative}]
[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isn't that a great word? I used to read a lot of Canadian classic literature and it was often in there.

Also garrolous is a good word.

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years ago

Cyberspace!

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big ~~truck~~ highway. It's a series of tubes.

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[–] SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 years ago
[–] Let_me_smell_you@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (6 children)
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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 19 points 2 years ago

Phat! As in cool. Haven't heard that one in wellllll over a decade.

[–] everythingsucks@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Dag. Not like Snatch “ya like dags” but like “dag, yo”.

Well that certainly cleared up any concussion I had about which dag you meant.

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[–] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I left Australia decades back, so all my slang vocabulary is stuck from when I left.

rorted - being high

having a pash - intense kissing

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[–] NotSpez@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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[–] clucking_sliver@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Defenestrate. What a word!

[–] RavenFellBlade@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Have you read Russian news in the past decade? Defenestration is the preferred method of retirement in the Ruzzian government.

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[–] BobDole@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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[–] bless@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mack

"Did you mack her?"

So dumb lol

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[–] randomTingler@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I love you too.
It's not a single word though.

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[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago
[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Floppy (disk)

Choke (on a vehicle)

[–] Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] Fubar91@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)
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[–] FizzlePopBerryTwist@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Bodacious

Tubular

Take a whiz

Majorly

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

bitchin
wicked

[–] InAbsentia@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Sisyphean I come across it like once every few years in some article.

24 days later: https://lemm.ee/post/5458899 See what I mean?

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[–] loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

fag (and I mean "haven't used in years" in a very good way.)

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[–] gloves420@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

saw someone on tiktok refer to casual sex as "tappin that", instantly knew their age

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[–] 0xeb@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago
[–] FReddit@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Sozzled.

French for drunk.

Only saw it on a British translation of Zola's L' Assomoir.

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