# I need some new outdated slang **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 16, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631 "2003-08-16T19:37:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/1 "2003-08-16T19:37:21Z")
I’ve always been fond of using slang people don’t use anymore. Popping out a “groovy” or “right on brother” at just the right time is great fun. I just added a few rat pack era terms to my list. “Kookoo chicks” and “clambake” have been good to throw people off. But i’m running dry on new slang terms. I’m looking for a few that are really the cat’s meow. They can be anything. I ain’t no wet blanket. I’ll use um all. So pipe up and help a fella out and everything will be Jake. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/2 "2003-08-16T19:58:41Z")
Boss Swell Slick Foxy Gnarly Bodacious Heavy Tough Hep Neato Gonzo Smokin ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/3 "2003-08-16T19:59:45Z")
Hunky-dory. Grouse. The Bees-Knees. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/4 "2003-08-16T20:13:00Z")
Tubular and Gnarly are pretty out. More recently, Waaaaaaaaaazzup is pretty much done with too. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/5 "2003-08-16T20:13:16Z")
You might find something here. [http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wrader/slang/](http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wrader/slang/) ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/6 "2003-08-16T20:25:05Z")
Pipe [this joint](http://sginc31.narod.ru/humor/slang.htm), it’s lousy with slang of the trouble boys in the 20s and 30s. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/7 "2003-08-16T20:33:47Z")
As always, the Simpsons comes to the rescue: Spud : “Use anything to reel in the customers. Tricks, bribes, slang from the 30s that no one uses anymore…” Bart : “Like rube?” Spud : “_Now_ you’re on the trolley” ---
**Author:** ![Tortuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@Tortuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tortuga)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/8 "2003-08-16T20:34:25Z")
In Stephen Fry’s _The Liar_, the protagonist decides to take up the slang of the roaring twenties–think PG Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster: “Absolutely spiffing, old chum!” “What! What!” Just use “jolly” in place of “very” or “really,” as in “jolly odd, that!” “No rotting!” is a way of saying, “no kidding?!” Slang of that era in practice could be very dense and incomprehensible, crazy kids… Or, you could be a bit more current: “Excuse me stewardess, I speak jive.” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/9 "2003-08-16T22:30:30Z")
I’ve always liked the '50s vibe of “dreamy.” ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/10 "2003-08-16T22:39:08Z")
“Rad” or “radical!” Mind you, “that’s _so_ last season” is also, well, so last season too. ---
**Author:** ![peterW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bb73d2/32.png) [@peterW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peterW)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/11 "2003-08-16T22:48:00Z")
\ Solid \ ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/12 "2003-08-17T00:02:50Z")
A long time ago, a friend of mine had an LP record of a southern US comic called Brother Dave. He said, “I’m gonna hit you so hard, you gon’ hum like a ten-penny finishin’ nail, been hit by a greasy ball peen hammer!” ---
**Author:** ![fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fish_in_the_sky)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/13 "2003-08-17T00:33:55Z")
Here’s a really darb link that ain’t no bushwa. [http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm](http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/14 "2003-08-17T01:59:46Z")
Ya got moxie, kid. I’ll give ya that much…but all the gazebos will think yer just some mook from the rhubarbs if ya just pop off wit’ the cornball lingo all of a sudden. (Slang courtesy of “American Slang: 2nd Edition.” I regret to report that I was unable to work in “his nibs” or “quux” into the above paragraph) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/15 "2003-08-17T02:26:00Z")
the most (As in, “Oh, George Clooney is so dreamy-he’s the absolute MOST!”) hep cat jive far out ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/16 "2003-08-17T02:34:14Z")
ginchy, baby. ---
**Author:** ![Skwerl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Skwerl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skwerl)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/17 "2003-08-17T03:19:05Z")
“I’ll catch you cats on the flip side” is one I like…also to say something’s L7 or square. ---
**Author:** ![LucysLogic101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19b73/32.png) [@LucysLogic101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LucysLogic101)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/18 "2003-08-17T05:00:52Z")
i’ve been using “marvy” (short for marvelous…duh) lately, don’t know where i got it from…too many BBC sitcoms perhaps… …then again, i don’t think you’d be too keen on integrating ‘marvy’ into your vernacular groady…i started using that one again after i caught _Valley Girl_ on VH1 a few weeks ago…it works so WELL. the cats pajamas square (as in uncool) stellar cheeky peachy yes, these all lack a certain masculinity to them but…what do you want from me? the more aggressive slang i use requires F\_ck, and a certain son of God…it lacks creativity… (Hungarians - now THEY know how to swear!..ah…exchange students) ---
**Author:** ![Petrichor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@Petrichor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrichor)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/19 "2003-08-17T06:37:10Z")
If you’re looking for a bone list of slang used by Dragsmen and Shivering Jemmy’s try: http://www.tlucretius.net/Sophie/Castle/victorian\_slang.html. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631/20 "2003-08-17T06:37:45Z")
The bee’s knees Peachy Keen Swell bitchen far out whipper snapper to name a few [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-new-outdated-slang/195631.md?page=2)