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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."

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I used the phrase "tilting at windmills" when discussing current politics and got looked at like an insane person.

No one reads anymore, apparently.

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Aww I loved that book when we read it in school

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To use the word cozy as a verb. To coze or to be cozed.

[–] jve@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Cozy is already a verb

verb

INFORMAL

  1. give (someone) a feeling of comfort or complacency.

    "she cozied him, pretending to find him irresistibly attractive"

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Sure but that’s not coze or cozed.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

That's shits tubular, yo!

[–] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Last week a coworker described a restaurant as being "kitty-corner" from our office. Took me forever to figure out what they meant

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I occasionally hear "catty-corner" too.

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was always under the impression that was a similar expression to 'dog-eared', i.e. a bit beaten up. But maybe I'm conflating it with another phrase

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dog-eared means that a corner got folded down (making a diagonal) on a page as a bookmark. A dog-eared book isn't necessarily beat-up beyond the damage to the corners of pages. Catty-cornered or kitty-cornered is adjacent to something on the diagonal, i.e. not orthogonally next to it like up, down, left, or right. So there is an argument to be made for a loose (coincidental) connection between those ideas, but I don't think they come from the same roots.

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

I'm my area it's said "caddy corner", or you might hear the random old euphemistic "caddy-wampus" which means either "diagonal to reference position" or "all fucked up!"

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I used rigamarole in an email to a colleague today. And I regularly use kerfuffle.

[–] kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't personally think it's wierd, but my partner told me I sounded like an old for using the word "flummoxed"

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Kayday@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Today you may be a youth, but you will be an old someday.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I only recently realized that I am doomed to become that which I loathe: an old white man.

[–] Taniwha420@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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."

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

apoplectic

Legitimately one of my favourite words.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Taniwha420@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fossicking and skerrig are related to mining activities, so may be more localized to areas were the gold rush was big. I confirmed they're actual words.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

TIL there was an Australian gold rush.

[–] Taniwha420@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, in between the gold rush in San Fransisco, and the gold rush in British Columbia.

[–] aimizo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

My kids and I use dunny now because of Bluey.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] JesusSon@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

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

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You know my steez

True indeed

Say it loud

Black and proud

Ain't no time to hesitate at the gate

Do it now!

[–] JesusSon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you the raw sugar cane, nutrasweet, never equal? If you were in Binzito or your mother's Buick Regal would you get up like Chino shouting power to the people?

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Yes, the first cut should be the deepest
To penetrate beyond the muscle wall's inner regions

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I think it does still mean that, but, not in a good way.

The 90s celebrated Steez (which I personally never heard of back then) then it's definition today is essentially "The 90s called and they want their style back."

Definitely explains why he had to borrow some of my clothes for it. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[–] JesusSon@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Ha, isn't that how it always goes? Like dope, if my dad called me a dope it was because I was being stupid. If I called you dope it was because you were cool.

[–] superkret 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I’ll be here all night folks.

In your bed, snoring, right?

PunchlineBecause you are old

[–] JesusSon@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Nothing good happens after 8pm anyways

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

I've heard steeze in snowboard / Park rat culture. Though it's a bit dated it means like, style/vibe/look

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 3 days ago

'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.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Peripatetic = walking person. By "use" i mean read and looked it up im dictionary

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

No fair if you're a nurse

[–] compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

One of my new favorites when trying to decide if something is worth doing - “Is the juice worth the squeeze?”

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

That’s gotta be very old

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

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".

[–] Stomata@buddyverse.one 4 points 4 days ago

Shit of a beast

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 4 days ago

jimmanuel centennial carter