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What's a word you haven't heard used in years?
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Dodecahedron
Sozzled.
French for drunk.
Only saw it on a British translation of Zola's L' Assomoir.
Flabbergasted.
Yonder
Dociousalliexpiliciousfragicalirupus.
Haven't heard it in awhile because we agreed that saying it backwards was going a bit too far.
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ciggie
sploosh
Cluster Fuck
Unfuckulate
I have a passion for the word "fuck" I need to get back to. I love the word "cunt" but thats too volatile so I had to retire that word.
Ass hat
Clown Shoes
Banana Head
Yeah most of my terms are personal attacks on morons I work with.
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Renob
It was our clever and undetectable way to say boner in grade school
Free
Guffaw
Spoot!
Ignoramus
Teleconference
Indubitably
cowabunga
yolo
you only YOLO once
yoYOLOo
Middle class
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis. It's just not a word that comes up often
Whatever word was used before "caveat" took it's place. A few years ago, suddenly, everyone on Youtube and elsewhere started using it.
Bufty.
Heard it frequently 20 years ago and now it's dropped off the face of the planet as casual homophobia has become a bit less prevelant.
Bibliobibuli
A person who reads too much
Cahoots
...to your mother
I went through a dapper phase at one point...
Cyberspace
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