Avoiding a hijack of a very serious thread.
What other words and phrases do you wish were used more widely.
ETA: To clarify it was “higgedly piggedly” that was being referred to here.
For the record, the word that was being kudos-ed in that thread was “higgledy-piggledy.”
ninja’d!
My contribution is, “cattywampus”.
Askew, awry, or kitty-corner.
“The post office is cattywampus from Starbucks.”
I’m flummoxed!
Not enough people get called “knuckleheads.”
More folks need to get called “whippersnappers” and “smartypants”.
Whatever happened to dunces? Lord knows we still have too many of them.
“I know you are a nincompoop, and I strongly suspect you of being a scalawag.”
William Powell, in Life With Father.
Though I am glad that the actual people no longer exist, I still wish that we could still use “highwayman”. “Brigand” and “cad” should still be in popular use as well
Avast me bucko’s! Shiver me timbers!
Interesting. I know cattywampus only as askew or damaged / screwed up. “After the crash, his fender was all cattywampus.”
I have never heard it used to mean near, adjacent, or kitty-corner / cater-corner / cat-a-corner or any of the other variations on that idiom meaning “diagonally opposite.”
Moist panties.
Or getting your panties in a wad.
On that theme there’s a barrel load of words that could handily see more service. Trolleys, undercrackers…
I turned off autocorrect. It’s so much better.
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Hors piste. This is a French term that means “off ski-run” and has an element of maverick/hotdogging to it.
I use it a lot and I don’t think people understand what I am saying. (Maybe that’s good.)
In case anyone thinks I’m just being a perv…
Detritus. And impunity. More people should use the word “detritus” with impunity.
I love “detritus”, the word, that is, not the stuff 
“Slake”. It’s one thing to have your thirst satisfied or to be sated. But to have it slaked sounds so much spiffier.
I like how British people, call people they don’t like, ‘rubbish human being!’ I mean, it’s mean, yet somehow not quite as foul as calling someone trash.
From my Asian friends I like calling the local variety store the generic ‘Mama shop’, everyone knows it’s the store your Mama always sends you to fetch things.
I also like, ‘Can!’, and ‘Also can! ‘ as full sentences.
As in, “Can we stop at the ATM on the way…”, response; “Can!” If they add, “…and maybe the deli too.”, “ Also Can!” (Or, equally good, “Can also.”)
I was not a big fan of the M.A.S.H. TV series. Saw it now and again, nothing wrong with it, but nothing special about it either. I’ve always been aloof about TV in general and this was general TV as far as I could see.
There is a line in one episode I happened to see where Radar O’Reilly is talked embarrassedly (or was it enthusiastically?) to one of the main doctor characters about some novels he had gotten in the mail (or from the library or something?).
Anyhow, in his clueless wide eyed nerdly way he said something about like “These stories have ‘slaking’ in them!” with an embarrassed shiver of delight.
So ever since, “slaking” has been code at my house for shagging. Which makes all the other more innocent non-O’Reilly uses of the term much more interesting. 
But yeah, count me in for more slaking.