# Reviving Old Slang **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 22, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872 "2003-05-22T19:43:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/1 "2003-05-22T19:43:24Z")
I love slang. I particularly like the old stuff people don’t use anymore. “Everything’s Jake!” “He fell on his keester.” “I’ll kick ya in the slats!” “Pour me a cuppa Joe.” Got any more? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/2 "2003-05-22T19:44:57Z")
I regularly use “aw, _nerts!_” and “ba-nanner oil!” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/3 "2003-05-22T20:02:08Z")
You guys are the cat’s meow, by cracky! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/4 "2003-05-22T20:22:05Z")
I forgot about the Cat’s Pajamas and the Bee’s Knees! By cracky. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/5 "2003-05-22T20:25:56Z")
Sca-rew Haj ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/6 "2003-05-22T20:26:24Z")
I love “boffo.” I use it at least once or twice a week. I like to imagine all those youngters scurrying off to find a dictionary. (In reality, they probably skip right over it, muttering “nutsy old fart and his goofball old words that nobody remembers.”) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/7 "2003-05-22T20:34:46Z")
I’ve been calling people “puds” lately. My kid got me started on that one again. Heh. Ya pud. ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/8 "2003-05-22T20:39:34Z")
Yee Gods! I’ll be over yonder if you need me. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/9 "2003-05-22T20:57:21Z")
My hubby and I say _cat_ a lot. As in ‘Get a load of that cat!’ or ‘What’s that cat’s problem?’. We’re not talking about felines, either. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/10 "2003-05-22T21:16:32Z")
Oh, my stars 'n little hoppy toads! Waall, I swan, that’s a humdinger! Pour me something to cut the phlem. (fast driver) He was modockin’. Quit nammyjackin’ around and do something. You young whippersnapper, I oughta tan your hide. He’s too big for his britches. She’s got moxie, I’ll give her that. (nerve) (after a bad hand of cards) I didn’t even get a smell. She’s still wet behind the ears. Everythang is everythang. We drove 'round Robin Hood’s barn, and we finally found it a stone’s throw from where we started. It’ll take me a month of Sundays to get all that fixed. He gave him a klop in the kloop. (blow to the head) ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/11 "2003-05-22T21:36:20Z")
Isn’t it a tad early to claim that ‘You young whippersnapper: I oughta tan your hide: He’s too big for his britches: She’s still wet behind the ears: and the Bee’s Knees!’ are old slang needing revival? They never stopped being used by the people I know. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/12 "2003-05-22T21:47:29Z")
Dinglewhompas - I just love that word. ---
**Author:** ![Tezmac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Tezmac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tezmac)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/13 "2003-05-22T21:54:17Z")
Skylarking - another good classic. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/14 "2003-05-22T22:44:42Z")
do what?! be’ave! you all think you’re 'ard do ya? with ya “Dinglewhompas” and “cats”? well don’t you adam an’ eve it! i mean, jesus h, you’re avin’ a bubble ain’t ya?! you’re a buncha big girls blouses - shut ya cake 'oles the lotta ya! I’m in London me old chinas - its the dogs when it comes to slang innit! BRING IT ON 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MaryEFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MaryEFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaryEFoo)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/15 "2003-05-22T22:45:35Z")
Take it on the heel and toe. Keister Keister-stash it (rude) ---
**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:** [May 22, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/16 "2003-05-22T22:48:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bippy the Beardless \* > \*\*Isn’t it a tad early to claim that > ‘You young whippersnapper: I oughta tan your hide: He’s too big for his britches: She’s still wet behind the ears: and the Bee’s Knees!’ are old slang needing revival? They never stopped being used by the people I know. \*\* Maybe they’re current where you come from, brother **Bippy,** but they were quaint when I was a kid. I’m 53 now. Nobody I know says “whippersnapper” without putting on a Grampa Simpson-like voice. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/17 "2003-05-22T22:53:56Z")
My dad has some classics like, “Go piss up a rope” or “go shit in your hat!” I also like to use words that were in when I was a kid, like “rad” and “gnarly,” which are no longer used. Also, “groovy” has a vintage feel to it these days, though Austin Powers has helped keep such words alive. I used “when Hector was a pup” and “queer as old Dad’s hatband” a few times and NO ONE knew what the hell I meant, so those must be out of date. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/18 "2003-05-22T23:24:44Z")
My old boss had a good one … “when God was a corporal.” ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/19 "2003-05-22T23:47:30Z")
“brazen hussy”: My college buddies and I would jokingly call each other that. I also like “living in sin.” Makes it sounds ever so much more exciting. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872/20 "2003-05-23T00:18:49Z")
I use “hepcat” a lot, but mostly for sarcastic purposes, poking fun of someone who thinks he’s cool or hip. I once called a nemesis at work “a slicked-up hep daddy”, it had the proper ego deflating effect. He didn’t expect something like that so much younger than him. I call people “Daddy-o” way too much for my own good. “Don’t know him from Adam’s housecat,” and variations. I still say “in like Flynn” rather than “in like Flint”, although even those Derrick Flint movies were mostly forgotten until Austin Powers came along. I refer to myself and others as “squares.” I use “rough row to hoe”, because I’ve done it. “Shuck and jive.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-old-slang/176872.md?page=2)