# Words or phrases you used as a young person **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 22, 2007, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925 "2007-01-22T04:23:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/1 "2007-01-22T04:23:02Z")
What words or phrases were in your youthful lexicon? Awesome – Very good Bitchin – Very good Bite the big cookie – Die Boff – Have sex with Chuck you, Farley – A general dismissal Cream – 1. To beat soundly (‘We creamed you guys!’); 2. to wipe out spectacularly ('Oh, man; he got creamed!) Cremated – Cream 2. Destroyed – Very drunk Give him a cookie (and maybe he’ll go away) – Third-person dismissal Oh, Emma! – Oh, wow! Outrageous – Fantastic Pissed as a parrot – Very drunk Polluted – Very drunk or high Rad, Radical – Very good Righteous – Very good Sucks big green donkey dicks – Very bad Take some Soma – A recommendation to relax Tart – Girl we’d like to boff (Much amusement at the Winchell’s commercial: ‘Look at that tart! It’s indecent!’) Too stiff to care – Too horny to care what she looks like (Adapted from a KLOS DJ who said ‘I’m too rich to think.’ – And yes, I know it’s offensive. We were teenagers.) Toss (off) – Masturbate Wank – Masturbate Wanker – Jerk ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/2 "2007-01-22T05:11:47Z")
Cool - I still say this Marnus - A verb, meaning to make someone in authority look like a fool Munted - completely wrecked (an object) Radical (took me ages to lose that verbal habit) Spunk - attractive guy ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/3 "2007-01-22T05:42:42Z")
Boss! (circa 1983) Ex! (short for excellent I suppose) Narly (cool in an unusual way) Rad (circa 1989, during the whole skater era) I was in my pre-teens when I threw these around, and I still can’t believe I thought I sounded cool saying them. Then again, I still say dood, awesome, cool, hip, sweet, etc… ---
**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/4 "2007-01-22T11:31:06Z")
“Party Hearty” (late 70’s reference) “She’s a Fox” (desirable female) ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/5 "2007-01-22T12:01:32Z")
Far out — roughly equivalent to a stoner saying, “dude!” ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/6 "2007-01-22T12:13:10Z")
“C’mon, Full House is on!” ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/7 "2007-01-22T12:23:22Z")
Groovy (I still say this) Far out (Still say this too.) Cool [hold out the index finger, as if touching another person, make a hissing sound] sssssssssss (Means you have been totally bested. Defeated beyond embarrassment) Uhhhhhhhhhhhh . . no. (you have to hold the uhhhh for a long time, as if really thinking about it, then the no has to have an entirely final, and uninterested tone of voice.) Ya think? . . . and Senators from the state where the ranch was where they raised the horse you rode in here on. And his whole family! Tris ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/8 "2007-01-22T13:27:48Z")
[QUOTE=Triskadecamus] Groovy (I still say this) [/QUOTE] My sister was a hippie, so I picked it up when I was little. In the mid-to-late-80s I started saying it again. I liked the reactions. Right on – I emphatically agree. (This is a popular current expression in NoWA.) > [@cmyk](#): > > Narly (cool in an unusual way) I used to say this too. I mentally spelled it ‘gnarly’ though. Insteal of ‘cool’, we used it to describe some sort of misfortune. ‘Man, that was a gnarly wreck!’ ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/9 "2007-01-22T13:59:17Z")
“Yeah, man”. “Cool, man”. “What’s up, man”, “Man” was attached to many comments. “Fuckin’ A”, or “Fuckin’ A, dittybag”, picked up in boot camp by me and thousands of others. I remember, when I was a kid, Jack Paar hosted the Tonight Show. His tag line was, “I kid you not.” (later the title of his biography) and it was quite popular, mostly w/ adults. I’m sure there were many more from that era, but I can’t recall any right now. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/10 "2007-01-22T14:10:37Z")
The only one that stands out in my mind was the use of the word Peck for someone we didn’t like. _He is such a peck._ I am relatively sure it had its origins in _Peckerhead_, but I didn’t coin the phrase so I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/11 "2007-01-22T14:12:57Z")
After such things as “far out” and “out of sight” had pretty well run their course, let’s say mid-70’s or so, there was a tendency to rework them into less hippie-oriented expressions. These were aimed at parodying the hippie parlance while acknowledging the relative usefulness of the ideas involved. Examples: Farm out Out of shape Out of sequence Right arm Gravy Long before “dude” became ubiquitous and more-or-less flattering, it was used by the gang I ran with to indicate somebody who was the equivalent of a nerd or geek. Definitely not the desirable or hip type. Fuckin’ A and Fuckin’ A Toochie were the height of acceptable, desirable or approving. Terms I don’t hear so often but were so useful at the time were: Shithook Turdknocker And a word I never heard outside my high school may have been invented there and died there. “Flobbing” referred to elbowing a girl’s bosom as you passed her in the hall. You would “flob some tits.” It was a sport where number of encounters mattered, especially with the more well-endowed subjects. Comparing notes in as descriptive a manner as possible made for pre-bell chatter amongst the gang. Those were the days. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/12 "2007-01-22T14:39:28Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] After such things as “far out” and “out of sight” had pretty well run their course, let’s say mid-70’s or so, there was a tendency to rework them into less hippie-oriented expressions. These were aimed at parodying the hippie parlance while acknowledging the relative usefulness of the ideas involved. [/QUOTE] When I was young, “groovy” was used as a mildly derogatory description. It mainly just qualified something, along the lines of “a hippie would call this groovy.” It was used: “Nah, that was a little groovy for me.” I’m surprised no one has mentioned “wicked,” the wickedest expression from the early 70s. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/13 "2007-01-22T15:55:24Z")
I’m glad that everything’s copacetic here. Everyone’s mellowed out. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/14 "2007-01-23T01:51:27Z")
Oh, here’s one I just remembered: Dai-jobe?: All right? (From _daijobu desu ka?_. We lived in Japan for a bit.) ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/15 "2007-01-23T02:13:10Z")
I still say “far out” and “man” sometimes (rarely together, though). I’m pretty sure we picked it up from Tommy Chong. Being a bit of an absurdist, I liked to say “farm out and gravy” as well. I probably also still say “right on” or “right arm” - but I can’t think of when I last did. I don’t think I’ve ever called anyone a “dude”, except in imitating Yosemite Sam from the cartoon in which he said to Bugs Bunny, “ya durn dude!” ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/16 "2007-01-23T02:40:23Z")
Peachy keen Good egg ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/17 "2007-01-23T03:09:05Z")
Let’s see, things that haven’t been mentioned yet from the late 80s: Heinous, uncool, gross, skanky barney, kook, eddie (perhaps limited to CA and HI?) burn (piss take) ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/18 "2007-01-23T03:26:40Z")
Choice - good Cheeoice - very good Cheeeeeeeoiiiiice - fucking good Deadly - good Wuss - this is an interesting one. As a kid, a wuss was a spiteful person (sometimes also called a ‘cat’). Then I stopped hearing it for fifteen or twenty years until it reappeared as a ‘weak person’. At school, you weren’t a wuss if you ran from a fight, but you were one if you hit a small kid or went home with your bat and ball, etc. Ace - excellent All the others are still in use (cool, etc) ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/19 "2007-01-23T04:01:29Z")
[QUOTE=capybara] Let’s see, things that haven’t been mentioned yet from the late 80s: Heinous, uncool, gross, skanky barney, kook, eddie (perhaps limited to CA and HI?) burn (piss take) [/QUOTE] Burn (I have no idea what a 'piss take is and I’m a bit scared to know \) was something from back in my early grade school days. Burn (at 9 years old) was pretty rough. Someone insulted you. Someone else went “ooooh! Burn!!!” But the idea of ‘dis’ or ‘snap’ is the same idea. (I think when a car commercial has some very faux german blond Dieter going “ohhhh, snapppp yoooo!”? I no longer know the current phrase for this phenomena.) Nor did I ever. I said “cool beans” once while chaperoning a slumber party of my younger sisters and was laughed almost out of the house. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925/20 "2022-07-03T01:19:49Z")
I just thought of ‘Dai jobe?’ again. I want to say it sometimes, but I don’t know if anyone would understand. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-you-used-as-a-young-person/388925.md?page=2)