I’ve seen and handled actualy blue-prints 9and blue-line) drawings, but in my professional career, it’s been either hand-=drawn prints or computer-generated or scanned-and-printed prints. The term “blueprint” is supposedly still used, but I inevitably hear simply “Prints”
I’m reminded of an old science fiction novel where we have fallen into a new Dark Age, and one of the monks laboriously copying the blueprints (white lines on a blue-colored background) suddenly has a revelation that the reason the drawings look that way is because they’re the result of a duplication process. After that, they can just copy them black on white.
Remember when Heath Ledger was on Regis and he said on his days off he and his buddies like to “Put on our thongs, go to the beach and grab some weiners”?
(After the hastily-applied commercial break it was explained that they liked to put on their flip-flops, go to the beach and enjoy some hot dogs.)
My Dad sometimes says “Jim Dandy” to indicate something good or helpful. As in, “Well that’s just Jim Dandy!”
I’ll say “sneaks” for sneakers, but I don’t distinguish between walking shoes, running shoes, tennis shoes or other athletic shoes. I’ve got white sneaks and black sneaks, plus the Addidas with pink stripes.
How about dungarees? That’s what my mom called blue jeans when I was a kid, when she forbade me to own any.
As a child, I heard and said it as one word. I didn’t twig to the combination of ‘go’ and ‘ahead’ until I was grown.
I also didn’t realize that the word peeohed was supposed to be initials for something that the adults didn’t want to say in front of the kids. I just knew it meant annoyed or angry. And that it was pronounced with a whole lot of extra eeee’s sometimes.
Come to think of it, I haven’t heard anyone say they were P.O.'d in a long time. Is that acronym still used?
As long as we’re talking about very strange words, does anyone know what a cabinet is? It’s something that you drink with a straw. How about kill 'em quick? It’s a condiment. Surely it was not just my grandparents who called it that.
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.
King Lear (2.2.14-24)
In the song “He’s a Tramp” in the movie Lady and the Tramp (sung by Peggy Lee!), Peg the Lhaso Apso calls Tramp a “bounder”. (You can find it easily on U-t00b.)
In the movie “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (starring Danny Kaye), the leading female character is stalked by evil-doers, whom she calls “mashers”. (In fact, they aren’t really mashers, they’re con men engaged in espionage, and she knows it.)