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1940's slang.

goodolddays:

Ducky shincracker- A good dancer

Active duty- Sexually promiscuous boy.

Share crop- Sexually promiscuous girl.

Greeby- Terrible

Drooly- A cute guy

An Able-Grable/Blackout girl/Dilly- A cute girl

Some of Hitler’s Work/Void coupon- An unattractive girl

Khaki wacky- Boy crazy

Doll dizzy- Girl crazy

Dead hoofer- A bad dancer

Gammin’- Showing off

Hen fruit- Eggs

Hi sugar, are you rationed?- Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?

Motorized freckles- Insects

Snap your cap- To get angry

What’s buzzin’, cousin?- How’s it going?

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I didn’t know there was a word “ruly.”

There was an story on the news about a riot
stuffmygirlfriendsays:
“Nobody ever talks about the ruly mobs.”
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We are flying a discount airline

stuffmygirlfriendsays:

“In preparation for your flight today, please ensure your gunt is stuffed fully into your trackpants and your jaw is in the down and slack position.”

Haha, I had to look up what gunt meant - that’s hilarious I love that word…

Bulging area found on large older women between the waist and the genital area. Not quite a gut, not quite a c*nt… The Gunt. via urbandictionary.com
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Why "different than" is grammatically incorrect

Than is used with words like “more” or “less” where there are degrees and gradations. That’s why you should say “different from.” Only if there’s a more or less, can you say something like  “more different than.”

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Mr. Green said that, when he was a hippie in England in the 1960s, “the language that we were using was in fact the language of 1930s black America, though very few of us were aware of this.” Back then, “it took 20, 30 years to cross the Atlantic,“ he said. “The difference now is it takes 20 to 30 hours.

From Hip to Lame in All of 20 Seconds - NYTimes.com

From an article about how slang travels faster now because of the internet. It mentions urbandictionary.com which I’m a huge fan of, and how it’s getting 1000 new words a day.

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Where the phrase “blow smoke up one’s ass” came from.

Where the phrase “blow smoke up one’s ass” came from.

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borborygmus

noun • noises that the stomach makes (ex: growling, rumbling); bowel sounds.

via wordjournal

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orexis

noun (plural orexes) The affective and conative character of mental activity as contrasted with its cognitive aspect; the appetitive aspect of an act; desire, appetite.

1974: A sweet orexis rising in his cock, a blush of fever mixing tickles in his balls, Adriaan slid his briefs off and began to lay out the makings for supper. — Guy Davenport, Tatlin!

via http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orexis

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Some Fun, Interesting and Funny Words

babblative - adjective • /ˈbæ.blə.tɪv/ • given to babbling, prattling, prating, loquacious.

bathykolpian - adjective • deep-bosomed

cacoepy - noun • /kæˈkəʊɪpɪ/ • incorrect pronunciation

cacology - noun • /kəˈkɑlədʒi/ • bad choice of words

cacopygian-adjective • having badly shaped or ugly buttocks.
callipygian, having well-shaped buttocks, and dasypygal, having hairy buttocks.

coup de foudre
noun • /ku.də.ˈfu.drə/ • 1) a thunderbolt. 2) a sudden overwhelming feeling of love for somebody; love at first sight.

illeism-noun • the act of referring to oneself in the third person

jizz
noun • [ornithology] the characteristics of a specific type of bird that enables it to be immediately identified by a birder.
As in: “When I first saw the bird’s jizz, I knew it was a swallow.”

mamihlapinatapai - noun • a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.
The word is from the Yaghan language, and its morphological structure is as follows: mam- (reflexive/passive morph.) + -ihlapi- ‘to be at a loss as to what to do next’ + -n- (stative aspect affix) + -ata- (achievement affix) + -apai (dual, here reciprocal, marker). [via snee, Wikipedia]

quatopygia-noun • the shaking of the buttocks while walking. applied especially to an erotic feminine walk

rhinotillexis-noun • nose-picking.

ruelle
noun • /roo-ell/
1. the space between the bed and the wall.
2. a chamber, especially in France, in which ladies of distinction held their literary gatherings.

sciolism-noun • a superficial show of learning.

sprunny-noun • (archaic) a sweetheart

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pathic

noun • /’pæθɪk/ • the passive male partner in anal intercourse

From Latin pathicus, from Ancient Greek παθικός (pathikos), from the same source as πάθος (pathos), “suffering, feeling”, related to πάσχω (paskhō), “suffer” and πένθος (penthos) “grief”.

via wordjournal

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