Slang Throughout History

56 Comments on Slang Throughout History

1. He is a wedge – the simplest tool of all!

   My dad told me that was popular in the 50’s – it is timeless

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2. Grody (1980s) = yucky

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3. ^^^^Grody to the Max is how I remember that one. But I never said it, not even once.

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4. Zozzled – drunk?

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5. correct^ correct and correct

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6. Confirmed Bachelor

   Humbug! 1750s

   Blackguard

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7. WOKE UP WITH A SEMI

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8. Abyssinia – or Abyssinian – a black person/negro?

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9. Salt and Pepper–fabric used to make suits
   Bogart–to “hog” as in “Don’t bogart that joint, my friend, pass it over to me”
   Confirm zozzled = inebriated

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10. FALSIES

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11. Stropping His Beak (1900s) — ?
    Zozzled (1920s) — Drunk
    Abyssinia (1930s) — I’ll be seein’ ya
    Salt and Pepper (1940s) — ?
    Incognitoed (1950s) — ?
    Bogart (1960s) — Holding the communal joint in your lips too long
    Confab (1970s) — meeting/conversation
    Grody (1980s) — Icky, bad
    Crunk (1990s) — ?
    Creps (2000s) — ?
    FOMO (2010s) — ?
    Yeet (2020s) — Toss, throw away

    Anyone know when these started?

    Chocolate Starfish
    Bint
    Crunt
    Garbage Truck Juice

    I remember Bint as an older Brit expression for an “easy” woman. I’m not sure about Crunt, but the other two I’ve only seen here at iOTW but couldn’t say when they first appeared.

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12. Bogart – taking a joint from me. As in, don’t bogart that joint, my friend.

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13. Bogart, keep it all for yourself. Be stingy.

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14. Stropping, or whetting, means to sharpen.

    Probably getting ready for a fight.

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15. “23 skidoo”

    “23 skidoo has been described as “perhaps the first truly national fad expression and one of the most popular fad expressions to appear in the U.S”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_skidoo_(phrase)

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16. If you want to hear a colorful collection of British slang about sports, girls, sex and idiots. Watch The InBetweeners. Hilarious!!! Not for delicate though.

    “ Those who remember the awkward years of adolescence can relive those painful days in this British comedy series, where the cringe-inducing humor arises from the ill-fated antics of its four protagonists. “

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17. This is evolving into a very cool thread.
    When I was young I heard pops say ““23 skidoo” a bunch.

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18. I was surprised to learn “salt and pepper” = weed in the 40’s. Totally different meaning in the 70’s.

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19. Can’t
    Understand
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    Thinking

    I’m sooooo fuking old.

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20. Stropping, like sharpening a knife involves a slapping motion., this might mean “pulling a Toobin” to coin a phrase. Birds also rub their beak on stuff to shorten it. The beak kinda grows like fingernails and needs to get trimmed. Slapping your meat to shorten it – I have no clue.

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21. Pete Buttigeig is bent! (not straight)

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22. Knarfle the Garthock = To have sex with a very ugly woman while drunk.

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23. Slunt

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24. Slunt… see you next tuesday

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25. Is stropping your beak the same as wetting your beak?

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26. Oll Korrect

27. I have leather strop hanging my hall for my straight knife, does a great job on any knife.. I,m getting old.

28. FOMO

    Fear of missing out…also FOLO fear of losing out.

    We need to bring back Dickweed.

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29. What a wing nut
    Homely as a brush fence

    Can’t
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    From Maine – Wicked, as in wicked cool, wicked hot, wicked nice…

    For all of us who remember “Don’t Bogart That Joint”
    https://youtu.be/EvGJvzwKqg0?si=PxzAd5nBUeq4qeMu

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30. Creamed

    1940’s/’50’s – She had sex. “Susan got creamed last night.”

    Later: Getting the bejeebers kicked out of you. “We got creamed, 101-47.”

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31. I often have the heebie jeebies.

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32. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

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33. It’s crackers to give a rozzer the dropsy in snide

    Cockney slang from the 1950s

    It’s crazy to bribe a cop with counterfeit money

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34. So, what happened to far out, groovy and bitchin, let alone cowabunga dude. And keep on truckin with Mr. Natural and the Grateful Dead.

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35. Discolexic – a person who likes music by the “Gee Bees”

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36. Uncle Al – I think Crunt comes from a little Johnny joke about Mrs. Prussy…
    “That’s Pussy with an R”

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37. I forgot about Abyssinia (1930s).
    Used to say it to a certain group of friends.
    I’m gonna start saying it again!!
    Abyssinia!

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38. bint is an english slang word from the 60s , to describe a women you would date but not take home to meet the parents

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39. CHAV , 1980s english , council house adult vermin , still used

40. 2023-4 FAFO , fuc*d around and found out

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41. Actually, grody was used in the 60’s in Britain. You hear it in the Beatles movie A Hard Days Night. George Harrison says it to some guy that is trying to pick his brain about what young people are thinking. Means grotesque.

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42. CRUNT english 70s as in you f/ing crunt go away i don`t like you another version of cu*t

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43. english , Fugly , 90s fat and ugly

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44. english ,1600s HALF COCKED , like a pistol , to do something arse up , wrong

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45. english, 1900s TWAT as in you twat , a lady part , as in you twat you are doing it wrong

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46. english 1800s , london cockney rhyming slang apples and pears , stairs , mutt and jeff , deaf , harry lime , time , cup of charlie , cup of tea , spotted dick , currant suet pudding

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47. Spotted dick to me always sounded like someone who had a social disease.

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48. Covfefe

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49. Butthurt used to be used here way too much. I’m glad it’s gone.

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50. In Cockney rhyming slang, a ginger is NOT a pale skinned redhead.

51. Stropping His Beak (1900s) Running your mouth and/or sharpened or derogatory comment

    Zozzled (1920s) Confused

    Abyssinia (1930s) ???

    Salt and Pepper (1940s) Mixed race couple

    Incognitoed (1950s) on the sly or secreting

    Bogart (1960s) selfish holding back

    Confab (1970s) conference in a social gathering

    Grody (1980s) nasty/dirty

    Crunk (1990s) ???

    Creps (2000s) Derogatory term like pedo Joe, but I’m sure that’s not it from 2000’s

    FOMO (2010s) ???

    Yeet (2020s)???

    How I do considering I don’t know anything from current time?
    Now to go back into the comments…

52. Bing is a corrupt cop. Watch more British TV.

53. Bing is bint.

54. Back about 30 some years ago we used to call our competition Rohde & Schwarz:
    Grody Shortz…

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55. While I never said “Grody” it may well have been said about me.

56. Don’t let me “Knarfle the Garthock!!” 🤣🤣🤣

    (It’s the gin talking.)