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05-15-2009, 07:53 PM | #1 |
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Archaic words
I'm reading "End of the Century", part of which is set in Victorian England.
I came across the term "tribadist", which is an archaic word for lesbian. I was pretty sure from the context, but I still tried to look it up on Webster. I ended up having to do a general Google search because the word is either too archaic or the Webster people are prudes. Some other archaic words you don't hear much: gadfly malarkey hullabaloo
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05-15-2009, 07:57 PM | #2 | |
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Malarkey is in common currency in the uk. certainly in the north. I use that word quite a lot in conversation.
hullabaloo is sometimes used but not much.
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05-15-2009, 08:58 PM | #3 |
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What about "Gadzooks?"
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05-15-2009, 09:09 PM | #4 |
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In sooth, such verbiage oft falls from my lips.
I have students who think of a Chinese word, put it through a translating dictionary, and ignore the bit where it says "obs.". So I get essays with words like vainglorious, nidering, etc. These are kids who sometimes don't know words like collapse, circular, etc. P.S. Tribadism: two women, legs interwoven, each rubbing their thigh against the other's crotch (and vice versa, presumably). FYI. TMI?
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05-15-2009, 09:13 PM | #5 |
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Scissoring! I learned about that from South Park.
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05-15-2009, 10:46 PM | #6 |
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hortatory
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05-18-2009, 08:27 AM | #7 |
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One of my favorites is "beeves" -- plural for "beef."
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05-18-2009, 08:53 AM | #8 | |
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I used to have a hardcopy of Thrawn Janet by R L Stevenson. It is deliberately written in the voice of an old Scotsman of the latter 1700s. You want archaic words?
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05-18-2009, 08:55 AM | #9 |
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"Neo-conservative".
Haven't heard that in a while, have you?
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05-18-2009, 10:30 AM | #10 | |
We have to go back, Kate!
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Bray, as in to hit.
Brayin' on the door to get in tret: past tense of treat sen: self all of those sound really archaic to me, but they're used a lot by people around here.
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