Words You Haven't Heard Spoken Since You Were A Kid

[Yeshuasdaughter]

This is a game where you post words that aren't in use anymore, but when you think of them, it gives great nostalgia.


I'll start.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Naugahyde

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Wind Wing

 

[AuAL]

Zac (Australian sixpence)

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Collect Call

 

[Mary Terry]

Telephone party line

 

[Forest Cat]

"Telefonkiosk"

It means phone booth. I kinda miss those things.

Spoiler

 

[Mary Terry]

Far out!

 

[Neonatal RRT]

Groovy

 

[Neonatal RRT]

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Dually

 

[RemyZee]

Fox--someone good looking

 

[Outdated]

Spar Dangler

Someone who gossips to cause distrust, sedition and insurrection in close community groups. From the days of sailing ships when they hung people that caused that sort of trouble onboard a ship.

 

[AuAL]

So many derogatory terms for indigenous Australians.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Cutlass Supreme

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Wooden Nickel

 

[Shevek]

Copecetic

Gzocstahagen

"Wheel" meaning a whole bicycle.

"Uke" for ukulele.

FUBAR

"Can't fall - nothing's holding it."

 

[AuAL]

Shanghai (for a child’s, generally a boy’s, weapon.)

 

[AuAL]

FUBAR

Some of us still use the term, but fewer people understand us. But that’s just SNAFU.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Water man

Propane Man

Knock on the water tank